Via MAL Contends - Several years ago I interviewed Noam Chomsky on his book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media prior to his speaking engagement in Madison, Wisconsin.

It was the easiest interview that I have done. I asked two questions, one of which was “for example,” and received extensive and instructive responses.

“Thanks Noam,” I said at the end. All I really needed were a few quotes for a daily newspaper piece, but it was an engaging interview.

Marquette Prof. John McAdams, taking a brief respite from defending policies that lock up 10 times as many black people, per capita, as white, has taken offense at my recent post about Charlie Sykes's bullying of former we energies exec Dick Abdoo.

I'll have to thank Illusory Tenant for pointing that out.  Can't say I'm a regular reader of McAdams's drivel. (If you're attacked and don't know it, does it make a sound?)

He was so taken with the comment of one Sykes fan who responded to my post on this blog that he reprinted it in its entirety.  He didn't however, bother to reprint my responses, so I'll do that here:

There's a name for what Sykes did.

It's called bullying.

It is one thing to disagree with someone. It's quite another to try to silence them.

That's what Sykes did.

Faced with the prospect of answering to Milwaukee citizens, those running for city-wide office should be offering creative and proactive ideas to address critical City issues.

Forget your turf wars, and the politicians’ it’s-not-my-job excuses, get off your ass and do something. Right?

Make coalitions with city-wide officials, make inaction a dirty word. Do something to be part of the solution.

At least all agree with that, right? Wrong.

From a Wisconsin wingnut blog:

Kathleen Willey: Clintons stole my manuscript

Kathleen Willey, the woman who says Bill Clinton groped her in the Oval Office, claims she was the target of an unusual house burglary over the weekend that nabbed a manuscript for her upcoming book, which promises explosive revelations that could damage Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

Why isn't this in the news? Because it doesn't fit the liberal media template. And because Bill rapped (sic) and molested so many women, the media just claims that they are all liars.

That Bill, not only a sax player, but a rapper, too. But let's look at the story and see why it doesn't get a big media ride:

ALL THE EX-PRESIDENT'S SCANDALS

Kathleen Willey: Clintons stole my manuscript

House burglary over weekend targeted copy of book days after details leaked to press

Another Evangelical Mouth silenced.

The most influential Evangelical neocon, 'you've never heard of' is dead.

D. James Kennedy, the founder and leader of the Coral Ridge Ministry, whose biblical TV sermons often took a second seat to his political agenda, was a close ally to the neocons of Washington DC. Born of an alcoholic, and a teenaged indulger of 'every sin imaginable ( his own quote), he was a teacher at an Arthur Murray Dance Studio when God' indoctrinated him via a radio preacher.