RADIO TIDBITS

Today I caught the tail end of the Hugh Hewitt Show, guest hosted by Peter Robinson and Carol Plat Liebau. They were attempting to push the line that Cindy Sheehan is being used by the Evil Left and to prove it, they played a clip of a conference call Cindy had with Evil leftie bloggers and a Democratic House member from Illinois. On the clip, Cindy remarks that it was remarkable how her story took off in the blogosphere and she was thankful for that. There was no evidence presented by either Liebau or Robinson that the DNC, MoveOn, Howard Dean or anyone else who is prominent in the Democratic Party is manipulating Cindy for political gain.

One caller brought up the point that the Republicans tried to use Terri Schiavo for political gain but both hosts denied it. For those of you who don't recall, Sen. Mel Martinez (R- FLA) mistakenly handed Sen. Tom Harkin (D - IA) a memo containing the GOP talking points about Schiavo. Two of them were explicitly political: "This is a great political issue, because Senator Nelson of Florida has already refused to become a cosponsor and this is a tough issue for Democrats. " and "This is an important moral issue and the pro-life base will be excited that the Senate is debating this important issue. " (For more on this story, check out this entry at MediaMatters)