Stop professional hate-mongers

By Evan Derkacz
Posted on July 17, 2006, Printed on December 18, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers//39083/

Media Matters has launched a campaign because "right-wing pundits -- who have called for the execution of public officials and others -- are given a platform in the major media," which they call "unprecedented."

They're referring to "conservative hate merchants like 'The Tall Blonde Woman in the Short Skirt With the Big Mouth' [whose column was recently dropped from the Cedar Rapids Gazette in Iowa], Glenn Beck, and Melanie Morgan," whose work is promoted by Universal Press Syndicate, CNN, and Disney, respectively.

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Evan Derkacz is a New York-based writer and contributor to AlterNet.

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