Spocko, Glenn Beck, and ABC

By Eric Boehlert
Created Jan 17 2007 - 9:25am

President George W. Bush's popularity has fallen to new lows, Democrats have
been swept into office, and a strong majority of Americans now opposes the
war in Iraq, but ABC has decided the time is right to beef up with more
conservative pundits on staff and to strike out against a liberal online
critic who raised questions about the network's policy of broadcasting hate
radio.

Last week spotlighted ABC and its unfortunate trend toward irresponsibility,
as the broadcasting giant hired Glenn Beck -- a high-profile war cheerleader
[0] known for grade-school level name-calling of Democrats -- to comment on
the day's events for Good Morning America. ABC last week was also dealing
with the messy fallout from its wrongheaded decision to fire off a
cease-and-desist letter to a little-known blogger named Spocko who had been
posting audio clips from KSFO in San Francisco, an ABC-owned talk station
where hosts have advocated violence against, progressives, Muslims, and
Democratic members of Congress.