[hiredhand]

Now THAT is a very good point! Whenever I hear the talk show host "plugging" for a mattress, or some health suppliment, I can only think of ONE thing (whether I'm correct or not!).

...and that one thing is -

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Credibility is extremely valuable, and should be more closely guarded by those who claim to be the "voice of liberty".

Unfortunately, for the most part this doesn't seem to be the case!

[middie]

Thanks. Credibility is the keystone of their critical assertions regarding right verus left, conservative verus liberal, and so on throught their litany of subjects each day. Unfortunately, others who have read the same do not share your understanding and keen sense of perspective.

If I spend 20 minutes detailing how ''A'' is innocent and how we know the prosecuting attorney is driven by some specific sinister motive or, one category of everyday society (like the press) is engaged in a conspiracy, and then seemlessly move into a two minute assurance that product ''B'' will grow hair on Terry Bradshaw, when we know the latter to be untrue, how do we rationalize the fervent belief in the assurances about the first things while rejecting the Bradshaw promise?

This issue wouldn't exist except for the unambiguous guarantee these purveyors of the truth offer to the public. They purport to know the unadulterrated facts and implore you and me to believe and act on the strength of what they tell us. As astounding as it sounds, we've all heard callers tell these gurus that they've stopped watching tv news and don't read the newspaper, except those hawked on the air, and get the ''news and the truth'' from the talking head. To a not insignificant degree some people who actually have a vote really do get their news in that manner.

Scream! What have devolved to?