Pentagon to re-unbalance Armed Forces Radio

Or, 'one step forward and two steps back.' Not too long ago, there was a dust-up that went all the way to Congress over the lack of balance in the radio our troops hear overseas. Namely, they were treated to Rush Limbaugh without any representative non-reactionary voice. The protests became so loud that the Pentagon decided to carry the Ed Schultz show. Then the day it was set to make its AFR debut, it was abruptly pulled from the lineup.

That didn't sit too well on Capitol Hill, and the Pentagon relented, saying that it would carry Schultz's show after all. Someday. We're still waiting to find out when that will be.

Now, a story appears claiming that the Pentagon wants to further indoctrinate our military by carrying Sean Hannity's radio show.

Well, that didn't take long. It took forever for the Pentagon to finally accept having Ed Schultz's liberal radio show on the Armed Forces Radio as a counter to conservative Rush Limbaugh (and, from what I've heard, they still haven't started airing Schultz). Yet now, as soon as the Armed Forces Radio is finally approaching being fair and balanced, one openly-conservative show to one openly-liberal, they go off and try to sign Sean Hannity's ABC radio show to un-even the score.

(And let me make clear, by saying it's one to one, I'm being generous. Armed Forces Radio carries Limbaugh, "Dr." Laura, and religious right freak James Dobson as well. I didn't see any obvious lefties on their entire line-up.)

That's about as right-wing a lineup as you could have. What is the Pentagon so afraid of?