I have read every one of the letters regarding this. ACCCK!

Personally, I think we have only seen the tip of the iceberg regarding the hate that has been flung around by O'Reilly and Limbaugh. I have a feeling something really horrific is about to happen.

I think the purpose of this article is to try to get everyone to notice what is happening here... we should care about this. The NYT also has a similar article asking "Does Hate crime cause violence" in yesterday's paper.

Recently, I had construction done to my house, and unfortunately the contractor I hired was a big fan of Rush and O'Reilly. For 8 months I had to listen to their blabbing away and was astounded by the pure hate and lies that came from them. Anyone who defends these two either hasn't listened to their shows, or never actually researches or questions anything they say and fundamentally has a hate filled heart. How can ANY decent person defend them? Honestly?

I DO have psychiatric training, and I have read the entire letters section. I can honestly say that 'something stinks' exhibits the disordered thought and grandiose claims usually associated with a schizophrenic. Having never met the person personally, I can't say that stinky is. Sure comes off as one, especially one that needs a meds check.

I mean, Zoltan Newberry and Juan are two of the most ridiculous people I have read in this whole thread. They keep skipping around, blasting their RushO'Reilly propaganda like it is the truth, and calling people names like "turd" and "pervert". If they aren't poster children for what is wrong with the Republican party I don't know what is. Amazing that they don't even realize how stupid and vitriolic they come off.

The only good thing is that when this thread is closed their comments will be wiped off this, just like mine right now will be.

Fantastic Article, by the way.

You really had to be there. Bill Ayer's Weather Underground was only a tiny tiny part of all the protesting. As time went on, protesting got more and more violent, because the government was not paying any attention for a long time.

When parents kept losing their sons to that horrible war, they too joined in the protests. I had several friends of mine lose limbs and had no real effective care through the VA when they came back. Some protesters were mowed down with bullets on campus (Kent State, etal.)and many were arrested, even when peacefully protesting.

About our withdrawal from Vietnam and Cambodia .. first of all, we weren't even supposed to be in Cambodia, and that was a tragedy. Richard Nixon, a Republican, was the one who did the immediate withdrawal of all troops, leaving the South Vietnamese to fend for themselves. I thought we had learned an important lesson from Vietnam, until of course Iraq. We need to get out of Iraq before any more Americans and others lose their lives and limbs.

About McCain and his honor? Really? Yeah, him and his good friend G. Gordon Liddy. G Gordon Liddy made plans to bomb the Brookings Institute, kidnap congressmen, and also went to jail for the buglary of the DNC headquarters at the Watergate. McCain was also part of the Keating 5, and took illegal trips and money for favors from Charles Keating. Also McCain, while he was a prisoner in Vietnam was known as the "songbird" because he gave real information to the enemy, and made propaganda films for them.When my husband and father were in Vietnam, they actually saw these films. It is no myth.

This weak link to Bill Ayers is just that. What do you mean, we can't take their word for it? Why not? Whose word would you take for it? Someone who didn't know either of them, John McCain and Sarah Palin???

This is a very interesting interview, Thanks! ... having been a teenager at the time, I remember the news reports about the Weather Underground. I also remember all the protesting by everyone else I knew, including myself, as I watched my fellow male students being sent to Vietnam involuntarily. It was a terrible terrible time.

I was shocked and disturbed by McCain and Palin dragging Ayers tenuous relationship with Obama into the election, like it was some "evil" secret conspiracy that the two of them had. I personally think that McCain and Palin need to apologize to Ayers, Obama, and the American public about this misrepresentation and slander. What distresses me, is that Palin STILL is talking about Obama "palin' around with the terrorist Ayers" ... like it is somehow true that Obama has the same opinions as everyone he has ever met, and that Ayers is some out of control Domestic Terrorist and not a university professor.

..... with anyone who conciders Sarah Palin intelligent. Mercilously ambitious and narcissistic, yes. But intelligent? Try reading a transcript of anything she has talked about, and that includes the debate, and it is just a maze of incomplete sentences framing nothing of substance. I do say she is very good at not saying anything. I'll give her that. At every turn I have tried to give her the benefit of the doubt and tried to see what her fans see in her, but I just end up scratching my head.