Poor Ed. He lives hundreds of miles away from any Pacifica signal area but apparently feels he can intuit what's on the air. OK if he and anyone else wants to believe it. At this moment, when we have to deal with the big issues like the Middle East, Afghanistan (and Venezuela), that Ed can ramble on like this about an innocuous and ambiguous piece on Pacifica in The Nation reveals much about his obsessive sectarianism.
I haven't the time nor the desire to rebut this crud which is wildly inaccurate. BUT... strictly as an instructive entree into the unreliable reporting of Herman, I hereby PUBLICALLY CHALLENGE HERMAN OR ANYONE else to produce a single piece of evidence that I supported thw war in Kosovo. That's just not true. By the way, I dont think that if I did or if anyone else has, it disqualifies their opinions on other matters to be heard.
But in this case, Herman's assertion about my position on Kosovo is central to his entire thesis i.e. that the dispute over Pacifica is a right/left ideological issue. Herman is wrong about a thousand things. He is dead wrong about me and Kosovo. It's no coincidence. I will pay a $500 reward to the first person who will post any evidence to back up Herman's lie about ym support of Kosovo. For the record, I helped edit the Nation magazine cover piece condemnign the war and calling for an end to NATO, I did a similar piece arguing against Harold Meyerson in the L.A. Weekly. And.. most importantly, I did at least 50-75 radio segments critical of the US/NATO position on my afternoon KPFK show. That's the most damning indictment of Herman's incoherent ramble. he supposedly knows ALL about Pacifica and my role, but has no knowledge of dozens of prime time shows I did on Kosova expressing the exact opposite view he attributes to me. If Herman were a journalist, he'd be fired immediately for such an egregious violation of basic reporting principles.
Further, Herman has my email and phone number and I told him years ago he is free to call me at any posint and check of his assertions. But facts would only get in the way of a crude propagandist like Herman. The real world would clash with the constructed world he keeps in his addled head. Too bad that Herman, who once had something to say, has become a mumbling sectarian reduced to publishing on z-net and Lynn Gery's website.