YESTERDAY'S "THANK YOU" QUOTE

"Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, and Ann Coulter are the pop culture equivalent of necrotic carrion beetles, crawling with insectile determination from one infected open wound in the American psyche to another. The wounds include fear of race, fear of foreigners, fear of sexuality, fear of difference, hysterical religious fundamentalism, violent nationalism, and paranoia. They lay their eggs in the infected abrasion, then scuttle away. When the eggs hatch, disgorging rage and discontent, they start counting money. When challenged on the inherently destructive nature of their enterprise, they invariably claim that their First Amendment right to free speech is being abrogated. Or, like Ann Coulter defensively does in those instances, they cite their place on the New York Times bestseller list. Or the ratings. In other words, since people buy it, watch it, or listen to it in huge numbers, it must have merit, and it must be right."
Michael Rowe (from his piece "DEATH AT THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND THE DEGRADATION OF THE AMERICAN DIALOGUE")