Ed Buggs blatantly lying on the air in BR again (yawn)

[Chomskyite]

Sometimes people probably should be reminded what a shameless sleazebag this guy is. He gets four hours a day, five days a week to talk up George W. Bush, and he has nothing but contempt for his listeners.

Yesterday he brought out his animus against Fahrenheit 911, a movie he said he won't go see. He said Denzel Washington, while on the Today show promoting The Manchurian Candidate, said f911 was nothing but trash and that Denzel was a dyed-in-the-wool Republican. Here's the transcript of what was really said in that interview:

Washington: "You know, I haven't seen ‘Fahrenheit 9/11,’ because I live in America. I grew up here. I'm an ex-slave. I'm a result of what this country can do. So it's nothing knew to me. I'm not surprised at all. It's just business as usual. What I want to talk about is, what are we doing right now, today, for these young kids that are coming home? Are we embracing them? I don't hear about them being lifted up. I mean, I'm not just talking about a parade but—"

Couric: "Are they getting the support they need."

Washington: "Are they getting the support and love they need from us? And maybe that story's being told, but I sure haven't seen it that much in the news. Yeah, they're pointing fingers about who was right and whose wrong and who started what and where the weapons of mass destruction. But these kids are coming home."

Streep: "Uh-huh."

Washington: "You know, I have a son, 19, 19-year-olds are coming home completely different."

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5489846/

And then Ed went on to say the Army is subjecting troops to teaching sessions that rebut Moore's movie. He had on a guest who said she was a marksman, but seemed unable to really describe what the program was let alone what was in Moore's film. She'd either lied to Buggs, or she was some ringer Buggs had ill-prepared for the program.

It's really incredible this sort of thing is allowed on the air even by Republican station-owners. Sometimes I think the guy actually does his idol the boy Bush more harm than good.