Today has been a flurry of activity surrounding the 2000th soldier death. Tom has been contacted by all sorts of media. One person called him from ABC news in Washington DC and told Tom he would be interviewing him and would appear on the Salt Lake Affiliate, KSL (a Mormon-owned broadcast company). At first Tom had reservations because of the conservative nature of this station, but figured an interview would be o.k.
It turns out that the person who interviewed Tom was Lars Larsen of the Lars Larsen Show from Portland, Oregon. He is like a Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly. (blech!)
He really laid into Tom about being unpatriotic, etc. He interrupted Tom in mid-sentence in every sentence and attacked him and defended the reasons for going to war in Iraq.Tom chose not to continue the converstation when he was put on hold during the break.
It was highly deceiving to tell someone they were being interviewed for a news program only to be criticized and ostricized by a talk show host. Very dishonest.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 