Last week, a more modern propaganda technique also reared its ugly head. These things spread voter disinformation in the guise of leading questions. If you were queried about your knowledge of the awesome generosity of the gambling industry toward Nevada and its great unwashed, you were pushed toward a certain point of view. As animosity replaces civility, sophistry supplants accuracy, aggressiveness crowds out progressiveness. Hard working Sun Valley people get dissed on hate radio with Susan Severt unfairly labeled and ridiculed as somehow opposing freedom of speech and the first amendment.
Patriotism remains the last refuge of scoundrels.
In a rebuttal printed in the Tribune, the shock jock further accused Ms. Severt of libeling him. Based on his statement, he apparently wouldn't know a libel suit from a leisure suit. Untruth hurts and sometimes explodes. I apparently hurt this radio artist's feelings. Because of what I wrote in my column, he decided to punish both his listeners and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Joe Neal by disinviting the North Las Vegas state senator from the airwaves of his station.