Just Plain Nuts

Another Stupid Unfounded Generalization

Liberal radio talk show hosts are nearly as extinct as the T. Rex, but I remember Boston's legendary Jerry Williams saying long ago, "By their words shall you know them."   He was talking about the fringe element callers who made for lively if crazy conversation.   Now, right wing talk hosts facing their own aging and declining audiences justify their own existence by routinely embracing the fact-check challenged ditto-heads.   From time to time, that strategy blows up in their faces the way their love of government-subsidized deadbeat rancher Cliven Bundy turned into a disaster with Mr. Bundy's publicly professed nostalgia for the good old days of African American slavery.    

We don't have to go to Nevada to get stupid comments from people with narrow political agendas.   Just yesterday, I heard a caller to a local radio station mention the fatal Milford school stabbing and reach for the ridiculous reaction of, "This may not sound nice, but now they're gonna want to ban all knives."   The host applauded her comment.   First of all, can the caller and host at least take a breath to express sadness over this tragedy before going off on interpreting the only constitutional amendment they seem to care about?    Let's be clear.   Nobody realistically expects to confiscate all guns, even in a state hit by the killing of 26 people in one school on one day.   The Milford stabbing had nothing to do with gun control.   Nothing.   It's not even about you.   Then again, what can a listener expect when another talk host often says thousands of dollars are wasted sending kids to colleges controlled by liberal professors that "brainwash" students?   That generalization is almost as crazy as denying global warming because we had a cold winter.