Weekly Commentary by David Feldman...

Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity do not have college degrees and they never worked as journalists. It's one thing to get your information from somebody who never got a journalism degree. It's another to get your information from somebody who never went to college and never worked as a journalist.

Before Nixon put him on the court, Louis Powell, in 1971, devised plans for class warfare to destroy the middle class as well as free enterprise. Powell suggested corporations purchase intellectuals by funneling money into college campuses, think tanks, and magazines.

A right-wing infrastructure was born consisting of eggheads-for-hire spewing statistical analysis disproving global warming, championing supply-side economics, and extolling Iraq's thirst for democracy. Lies were rebranded as "The other side of the story." Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh were more than willing to tell it.

What is billed as an arm of free enterprise is actually a wealth-transfer machine operated by and for the very wealthy. In a real free market, just as Powell's propaganda machine would be decimated. The Weekly Standard, the American Enterprise Institute, and Rush Limbaugh would perish without wealthy benefactors rigging the system on their behalf as well as their own.

Listeners to KPFK understand that 91% of radio is Conservative because when three corporations control our airwaves, there is no room for the free marketplace of ideas. Normally, war's first casualty is the truth. But in 1971, Justice Louis Powell declared war on truth and America's first casualty was America.

Americans are barraged with daily panagyrics, the free market, over airwaves that are anything but free markets.

We can defeat this war on truth as well as the war on the bottom 99% of Americans by supporting radio that allows pompous blowhards to say "panagyric." When you make your check out to KPFK Pacifica Radio, you help support the brave troops out there on class warfare's front lines.

Mark said, "History repeats itself. First as tragedy; then, as farce." In the run up to war, Bush lied and two million Iraqis died tragically.

Now, in the run up to war over healthcare, the same people are lying. It would nothing short of farce if they convince us to murder ourselves.