This is a classic example of the way talk radio "opinion managers" such as disney corporation employee shann nix deal with dissenters.

Listen. The clip begins with her insultingly ignorant abuse of the caller preceding me as he makes his ONLY point: This bombing is illegal and has made matters exponentially worse in terms of human suffering.

She lies, twists, and incessantly mischaracterizes the dissenters position and constantly interrupts, interrupts, interrupts as a quite simple, coherent argument is being made. He clearly does not support doing nothing. He is against hypocrisy and objects to making matters worse.

In fact, this is a "talk show host 101" tactic and frequently indicates that a good argument is being made.

Finally, having tired of simplistic mischaracterization of the dissent she hangs up on him and goes on to try and marginalize what he was attempting to say. She pronounces the dissenters logic incoherent and goes on to mock him and further lie, twist and mischaracterize his statements.

She moves on to me.

The call speaks for itself. Check the clock and see how how long I go between interruptions.

She is, at best, an idiot with an appalling disrespect for the 1st amendment and no comprehension of america's historic foreign policy deeds and objectives.

At worst she is a goebblesque opinion manager.

She knows that for many people, the last thing SHE says about a dissenters point will distill the ENTIRE point in the minds of the her appallingly pliant listeners. She has three hours to mischaracterize U.S. motivation. Supported by the logical underpinnings and undisputed facts for the conclusions I put forth, I had 8 minutes to lay out the obvious motivation for this tragedy.

When I could manage to get a word in edgewise.

In the end all she can do is hang up on me and talk about "the grassy knoll" and internet conspiracy theories (a failed reductio ad absurdum*) to characterize my motivation.

Since the facts she admits she cannot dispute do not support her position and she can't argue against the facts, she can only hang up on me and engage in a despicable ad hominem attack.

Bottom line, Shann Nix is a dishonest fucking half witted opinion manager that couldn't argue her way out of a paper bag without a disconnect/mute button. Why do I bother? Nature abhors a vacuum. Silence is complicity.

This is trap door radio at it's finest.

I get sick of being right all the time. <G>

*a measure of the importance of the threat a coherent dissenter poses.