Reply #23: Mid-2001

[Kickin_Donkey]

It was a roundabout way, one step at a time.

A few days after the Supreme Court selected Dubya, in December 2000, I was so outraged and despondent -- really reeling -- that I had to seek out some release, at least by hearing other people similarly outraged.

One night I was absently fumbling around with a radio and I decided to see if Ray Taliferro was still on KGO (810 AM) out of San Francisco. I hadn't listened to him in nearly 20 years (I'd been out of the country for a lengthy period). To my surprise, Taliaferro was on -- and he was in fine form just whaling on the Supreme Court decision and the Stolen Election. All the callers were similarly outraged.

I began listening to Taliaferro every night. After a couple of months, I started tuning in to Bernie Ward, another firebrand liberal, who comes on just before Taliaferro on the same station.

Bernie Ward would occasionally mention mediawhoresonline.com, and when I finally got access to a computer (parents bought one), I went to MWO. MWO linked me to DU. This was sometime in the middle of 2001. It was one step at a time.

This is sort of embarassing, but I lurked at DU for two and a half years, before finally registering a few days ago.

Mike