Just Something that CNN Failed to Mention

From cnn.com:

The company that syndicates Rush Limbaugh's radio program defended the talk-show host Wednesday over his controversial "phony soldiers" remark, saying it's "unfair" to assume the comment was directed at combat troops opposing the Iraq war.

Mark Mays, CEO of Clear Channel Communications Inc., wrote a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, saying, "Over the years Mr. Limbaugh has repeatedly praised the dedication and valor of our brave men and women in uniform.

"Given Mr. Limbaugh's history of support for our soldiers, it would be unfair for me to assume his statements were intended to personally indict combat soldiers simply because they didn't share his own beliefs regarding the war in Iraq."

What they failed to mention, something I have yet to forget from a 2004 Rolling Stone article on Clear Channel's near omnipresence, was the relationship Mark's father Lowry had with our current president:

Critics say the company also has a political agenda, given Clear Channel executives' close ties to George W. Bush...

Clear Channel communications resides in a green-glassed sprawling office complex in San Antonio. Company founder Lowry Mays is an ex-Air Force officer and a Texas Republican whom George W. Bush appointed to a state technology council when he was governor.


And the son continues to suckle from the right-wing teat...or wait, is my metaphor mixed up? Is he the corporate teat nursing the right-wing idealogues?

Either way, Mark Mays, CEO of one of the worst corporations in America, is hardly an objective man.

And on another note, why would a man interested only in making money for his shareholders have any interest in slamming one of his biggest moneymakers, no matter how despicably and sensationally he gains those ratings?