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Before becoming a newspaper columnist I was a broadcast news reporter for local TV stations and occasionally appeared on the NBC radio and television networks. I have some experience at being on the receiving end of hostilities directed at the media. At a pro-Nixon, pro-Vietnam war rally I covered in the early '70s, a demonstrator looked at the NBC logo on my microphone and called me a "communist." We had never met. He knew nothing about my politics or the quality of my reporting. He assumed that because I was covering the event for NBC I must be a left-wing...

Today I got in my car, turned on XM 124 since it was after 3PM. Usually I catch Hannity at that time, because on the XM, all there is is him and Dr. Laura and of course some great music.. but I digress... Let me preface this by saying for the week, week and half, Hannity has been all over DNC and their winter meetings where they had an IMAM open the session with a prayer... This imam's prayer is all over you tube so I won't get into the content, except to say it was very anti-American, anti-Sematic....