On his blog, Cash Peters is taking a stand against “the nutjobs and loons”.
He has responded to my post about him yesterday by comparing it to “Opposition arsonists who spread fear, irrational and baseless rumors, and a raft of lies about Obama in the hope of destabilizing his power to govern and discredit him and his administration.” Gosh! And armed only with his trusty raw vegetable and a healing crystal, Cash is mad as hell and he’s not going to take it any more.
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Of course, he refutes the claim that he is in any way biased:
For a start, I can’t remember when I have ever spat venom on the BBC… Second of all, I genuinely don’t have any political axe to grind in my slot… And lastly, I honestly don’t remember – and trust me, my memory extends back years – the last time the host and I discussed politics in relation to TV at all.
I’m not a regular listener but I’ve caught the Cash Peters segment enough times over the years to know this is rubbish. Sarah Palin in particular has been a target for his abuse, and he’s never slow to air his hatred of Fox News. There isn’t an Up All Night archive to which I can refer, but I do have a transcript of Peters talking to regular Up All Night host Rhod Sharp the week after Obama’s election victory:
CP: It was absolutely huge, and I know it was worldwide huge, but when you live in America and basically everybody’s waiting for a certain nincompoop to get out the office and they’re just praying, everybody’s on bended knee waiting for this idiot to get out the office and suddenly he is and he’s gone, he’s gonna be gone, it’s just the best. In fact you know Oprah was terribly partisan in all this..
RS: Almost as partisan as you, in fact…
So even the host has noticed.
And a bit later:
CP: [Still talking about Oprah] And now she’s said to Sarah – she banned Sarah Palin from her show because she was not going to be political (unheard word) – and now she’s said to Sarah Palin ‘You’re welcome to come on’. But who wants to give that woman any more publicity than she’s already had? That would be crazy talk.
RS: I think quite a lot of people do.
CP: Well she was on the Today Show this morning again. Matt Lauer went up to her home in Wasilla in Alaska in her home eating food and it’s like STOP IT! If you give her any… if you feed this monster, if you give her any more er, oxygen, she’s gonna be in, like, the Senate before you know it. It’s ludicrous.
RS: There you go being impartial again.
CP: No, I love all human life but she’s A MONSTER!
No political axe to grind? No venom? I beg to differ.
In his blog response Peters doesn’t really help his case by describing Christine O’Donell as “Tea Party neo-loon”.
He goes on to say:
“People are tired of fighting. Tired of untruths. Tired of the crazies getting air-time. And downright annoyed that the media affords them even a grain of credibility by discussing their nonsense views.”
And there we get to the heart of the matter. The media should be there to represent only those views acceptable to the likes of Cash Peters. Fortunately for him, Radio Five Live seems to share his opinion of what is and isn’t acceptable.
One more thing – given some of the New Age wacko nonsense he’s into, Peters should perhaps think twice before throwing around words like “nutjob” and “loon”. Some might say that he himself is one of the “crazies getting air-time”.
