Air America's Inanities

Inanity #1

Al Franken's guest today was giving a laundry list of "strategic errors" the US had made during the War in Iraq. One of the listed ones was "keeping the UN out of Iraq".

Excuse me?

I distinctly remember that, after major combat operations with Saddam's government ended, the US immediately asked the UN to come in. I also remember that the UN was resistant at coming in until the terrorism died down.

Maybe that was a "strategic error" but you can hardly blame the US for it...

...unless you work for Air(head) America.



Inanity #2

On Saturday evening, I caught about 5 minutes of the show on Air America (I think it was a guest host in for Laura Flanders). He reported that, in the next hour, he was going to have a guest. He said that this guest was going to explain why immigration reform was NOT going to have an effect on discrimination against African Americans.

Excuse me?

Who said it would? Why on earth would anyone think that immigration (or the reform thereof) would have anything to do with a group of American citizens?