The Right To Remain Silent
May 31st, 2007 at 7:35 am by SmantixThere are all sorts of rights to free speech. But the right to remain silent is a telling one indeed:
A verbal scuffle between two media personalities on the WKRN Channel 2 payroll erupted into controversy on the radio airwaves and the local blogosphere Wednesday — the same day the station’s new newsroom management reported for work.
WKRN blogger Adam Kleinheider posted a blog entry on his Volunteer Voters web site referring to U.S. soldiers as “button men” and “pawns.” Kleinheider’s post was also linked to and seconded by fellow WKRN blogger Brittney Gilbert on her Nashville Is Talking blog.
That post prompted conservative talk radio show host Steve Gill, a contributing WKRN news analyst, to lambaste Kleinheider and Gilbert live on statewide airwaves Wednesday morning, telling listeners to call the station if they were offended.
No harm, no foul as I see it. Everyone’s exercising their rights. No one’s mentioned that the reason why Klanheider did not make his post calling US soldiers “hitmen” on Memorial Day was because he was off that day – enjoying the holiday that the hitmen provided so that he could snipe them when he was in the clear. But here’s the funny part:
Neither Zelkind nor Gwen Kinsey, WKRN’s new general manager, could be reached despite repeated phone calls. Gilbert and Kleinheider were reached by The City Paper in WKRN’s offices but declined to comment for this story.
Ferchrissakes, how do people who run a news station and two websites where they blather all day long not having have anything to say?
Courage peeps. Go on Gill’s radio show and give your side. Maybe he can even follow up with ACK on how he thinks the Israelis kidnapped their own soldier so that they could invade Lebanon and that the Jews knew about 9/11 and let it happen to further the neocon agenda.
These sort of brave opinions need a wider audience than Volunteer Voters can provide. Go forth, Horatio Klanheider.
May 31st, 2007 at 8:32 am
I was thinking about hitting this but it wouldn’t have been nearly as enjoyable as yours. Muchas Crotchias.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:55 am
Smantix…forgive me for not knowing your ‘hood…but is that the same Brittney who is world famous for shoe blogging?
That website tracked back…and boy am I tempted to go over their and smak down that little bitch boy Adam. But I don’t want to give that site the traffic.
#9 (if you are still hanging around) that wouldn’t be the same a-hole who posted that video yesterday, would it?
I’d love to see those twerps try that garbage in a military down like San Diego. We have our share of moonbats here, but if anyone in our “media” dissed our troops like that, they likely would have found themselves beaten and tied to a Tijuana donkey.
(For some reason, I think Brittney would enjoy that)
May 31st, 2007 at 1:56 pm
#9 (if you are still hanging around) that wouldn’t be the same a-hole who posted that video yesterday, would it?
Adam, aka Carter, aka ACK, runs Volunteer Voters. He is the one that posted the video. Give him some traffic.
Brittney does love her shoes.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Billy – 3 major interstates collide in Nashville to join the 8 states touching Tennessee.
But what really brings people here are the gaping assholes that constitute our trafficwhores.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Careful Billy. What you said about Brittney and the donkey would constitute animal cruelty to the donkey.