Air America Ugliness: Bush family, including Laura (!), are "killers"

Newsbusters.org ^ | 5 September | InfoGuy

[infoguy]

        Pardon my naiveté, but I was unaware that the venom, nastiness, and malice spewed so rampantly and callously on Air America.

        On Air America's Mike Malloy show on Friday night, September 2, 2005 (link to entire show audio (3 hrs.)), Malloy said this about our First Lady, Laura Bush (audiotape on file) (emphasis mine):

"A murderer herself. Somebody getting killed, one of her former boyfriends, in a drunken stupor, being behind the wheel of a car ... So here's Laura Bush, another killer. This Bush family. In order to get in the Bush family, it's like the way it used to be in order to get into certain gangs in Chicago. You had to kill somebody. And once you killed somebody, you're part of the gang. Well, Laura, Laura Bush is apparently that way. She murdered somebody in a car wreck, so she's in the gang. She's part of the gang."

        In 1973, Laura Bush was in fact involved in a horrible accident in which the car she was driving caused the death of a friend. But there is zero evidence that any alcohol was involved. This snopes.com piece and this USA Today article are about the incident.

        Malloy's remarks are just plain awful. But it should come as no surprise considering what he had said earlier in the show about the Bush family and the Bush administration:

"Thousands of examples of human suffering and tragedy [in the aftermath of Katrina] ... It was deliberate. I swear to Christ, it was deliberate ..."

"This Bush crime family is about theft and greed and fraud and lies and war and death and posturing. They are beyond evil."

[podkane]

I used to listen to him in Chicago..

There you go... that's usually all that station managers require..

He is a very credible loony tune, nut-case kook. Completely out of his mind, delusional, paranoid, has plenty of liberal anger. He can be entertaining on rare occasions.

That's the schtick - and that's radio... I did hear his one rant about Rummy on acid - and it was quite funny. But one doesn't succeed in radio by being "reasonable", "balanced", "sane", etc..

[podkane]

The only thing more ridiculous than an ENTERTAINER taking himself too seriously (Bill O'Reilly, for example), are listener who loose their footing as well, and take fiction as fact.

AMEN!

[Right Cal Gal]

Gracious. That sums her up. I watched DC 9/11 on Showtime again this weekend. The actress who played her was so like the First Lady it was eerie. Gracious, steadfast, solid.

We have Laura Bush. They have that mad cow known as Hiliary.