DISMEMBER MS. MAINES! The Dixie Chicks troubled poor Diane Sawyer. But where was this scribe in the past?

SAWYER’S MILL: Diane Sawyer’s performance on Thursday’s Primetime painted the portrait of a corrupt age. As you know, Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines had recently criticized the president of the United States. Maines had said this, on a London stage: “Just so you know, we’re ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas.” Result? For a good solid hour on Thursday’s show, the troubled Sawyer pursued a retraction. Sawyer’s clucking, mother-hen performance has been critiqued by Jim Lewis at Slate.

Sawyer was troubled by Maines’ vexing comment. But where was Sawyer a few years ago, when a much more influential public figure was saying much rougher things about the president? That person, of course, was Jerry Falwell. Falwell, a well-known “religious” figure, regularly peddled a tape on his Old Time Gospel Hour which—among many other things—accused the president of the United States of murder.
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