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Medved has a past that I’m sure many of his listeners would find surprising given the way that he presents himself.

He started out political life by giving aid and comfort to the enemy when our GIs were being killed in the Vietnam War. He was a leader and organizer in the biggest anti-war demonstrations of 1969.

Medved isn’t stupid so he surely knew how immensely useful this propaganda effort was to Hanoi’s war effort. He likes to downplay what he was doing, claiming that he was a moderate compared to his comrades like Bill Ayres.

He then went on to be a Congressional aide, and his choice of a good politician to work for was Ron Dellums. Red Ron Dellums, a Democrat In Name Only because in reality he was a Castro supporting communist.

Sometimes Medved says that working for Ron Dellums is what made him a ‘conservative’, although it’s apparent that his ‘conservatism’ is really just 1960s Cold War liberalism. His ‘move to the Right’ simply took him out of the Communist fellow traveler camp over into what used to be the Thomas Kuchel, Nelson Rockefeller wing of the GOP. The wing that hated conservatives, but at least unlike Medved didn’t falsely advertise themselves as being one.

So in a way Micheal Medved is being true to his roots. In leading the antiwar mobs Medved was a traitor to the Americans who were fighting the war- you know, the soldiers he gushes over on his program as if he is a big patriot. And now he is a traitor to conservatives, by taking their name as he continuously advocates policies that are anathema to most of us. Some things never change. But you have to give him credit for creating a career out of fooling people into thinking he is a conservative and a patriot.