THE COMING RISE OF LIBERAL TALK RADIO.
Talking Back
by Jason Zengerle

Post date 02.05.04 | Issue date 02.16.04
Every weekday, from three in the afternoon until seven in the evening,
Randi Rhodes delivers her brief against George W. Bush. Much of it is
standard anti-Bush fa He stole the 2000 election, he wrecked the
economy, he led the nation into a disastrous war under dishonest
pretenses. But sometimes Rhodes takes her critique into less familiar
territory. Citing a book titled George Bush: The Unauthorized
Biography, Rhodes alleges that in the 1940s Prescott Bush, the
president's grandfather, sold raw materials to the Third Reich. And
then there are the Bushes' business ties to the bin Ladens, which,
Rhodes says, go back decades and even involve the president himself,
who as a young oilman in Texas was partners with Salem bin Laden,
Osama's older brother. Indeed, Rhodes contends that it is the Bush-bin
Laden relationship--not an anti-American jihad--that accounts for the
September 11 attacks. According to Rhodes, Osama bin Laden, disgusted
with the corruption of his own family and the Saudi royals, decided to
seek revenge against their most prominent American partners: the
Bushes. Bin Laden, in other words, doesn't want to destroy the United
States; he just wants to destroy Bush....