The Weekly Standard’s Michael Goldfarb writes: It used to be that I got to listen to BBC World Service as I rode into work every morning. No more. BBC has been displaced on WETA-FM by On Point, a show hosted by Tom Ashbrook with a pronounced tilt to the left even by NPR standards. The other morning, listeners had the pleasure of listening to Phyllis Bennis, a long-time anti-Israel activist and author of Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the U.N. Defy U.S. Power. Bennis:
You see, it was the Jews, the neocons in the Bush administration. But Bennis has always believed in an American conspiracy to subjugate Muslims and prop up Israel. The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs reported in June 1997 that, on the thirtieth anniversary of the June War, aka the Six Day War, Bennis “charged that the U.S. is establishing a Middle Eastern empire with Israel at its center.” David Corn, Washington Editor of the Nation, of course immediately agreed that we had gone to war based on these lies. Leaving our host to ask the question, why then was George W. Bush reelected by the American people: Tom Ashbrook: “But when you say it’s “kindergarten clear” David Corn, is that disdainful of the American people? Is that saying that they knew and they voted stupidly?” Corn: “Well some people, I think, did not care. I think some people didn’t, you know, listen Tom, not everybody listens to your show and reads the Nation or Op-Ed pages.”
