Montel Williams loses show after criticizing war cover-up

With the media run by McCarthyist Nazis, it was only a matter of time before another celebrity was embargoed for dissenting from the Bush thugocracy. Not content with banishing the Dixie Chicks from the nation's airwaves for their views, Bush's thought police appears to be doing the same to Montel Williams.

This past Saturday, the longtime TV talk show host was a guest on Fox News Channel's 'Fox & Friends'. He ripped into the media for spending too much time covering Heath Ledger's death and not enough time on the deaths of the 28 American troops in Iraq who had already been killed this month. Williams wasn't criticizing Ledger and expressed condolences for the actor's family. His criticism was directed at the media for its lack of appreciation for the men and women in uniform who fight a war the media clearly supports.

Montel Williams made a great point. I hadn't heard anything about even one troop death all month until he mentioned the 28 casualties the media has swept under the rug. The month wasn't even over, but this was already an increase over the number of deaths in December. (This dashes to smithereens the wingnuts' lies that the war is going good.) For 3 minutes, Williams had the 'Fox & Friends' hosts utterly owned. Then the show suddenly cut to a commercial break, and Williams was nowhere in sight when the show came back.

The Bush thought police's punishment of Williams for defending the troops seemed to be swift, certain, and severe. Fox-owned stations that carried his talk show dropped the show. As a result, after 17 years on the air, Williams's show is now being canceled altogether.

This is how Fox treats a former Navy lieutenant commander for discussing a war issue?

And to think that a few years ago I was actually angered that several markets lost their Fox over-the-air affiliate because some right-wing hate group complained about 'The Simpsons'. These days, 'The Simpsons' is one of very few things on any Fox network or channel that's even worth saving. (In fact it's one of very few things on any network that's worth saving.)

(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/31/23326/1083/699/446791;
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117979859.html)