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778 The Nation.EXCHANGE.Pumping Up the VolumeJune 5, 1995as Cooper suggests, but a well-documentedreality.Cooper, however, has me seeing the worldas controlled by a Jewish financial conspiracy,so he fabricates the following quotation:“But ths is why If you go to Wall Street you’llsee it’s all Greenbergs, Shembergs and so on.”I did not say that and Cooper knows it. Cooper’spiece contains many other factual errors.Ken Adams was on for sixty minutes, notninety, and Bo Gritz was given equal time withall other candidates registered wlth the FederalElection Commlssion during the 1992presidential race. These convenient omisslonsspeak volumes.Radical Cooper suggests in a roundaboutfashion that if I had consulted researcher fickEaton at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Iwould have learned of their claim against theone lone author. Swell! Does that mean thatnow each talk host on thousands of radiostations has to contact each special-interestgroup to see if their proposed guest is “politicallycorrect”? Go look at the masswe Encycbpedra of Associatrons in your llbrary and it’sobvious that it’s impossible. Cooper will eventuallyfind out that the most careful talk-showhost occasionally gets snookered. It comeswith the territory. If one of our thousands ofguests was indeed an anti-Semite, then Cooperknows in his heart that our broadcastinghim was an honest mistake. Why didn’t he saythat? SPECIAL AGENDA?It’s also an outrage that what Cooper agreedwas good about us was also left In his wastebasket.The Natron knew prlor to press tlmethat the co-founder of our corporation andnetwork is a Jew actively involved In Jewlshreligious affairs. Three of seven For TheF‘eoplestaff network hosts are Jewish. For sometime we devoted one of our regular programsto Jewlsh Issues. Rabbi Marvm Hier of theSimon Wiesenthal Center did a speclal onehourprogram about the Holocaust and wehave aired it often on the full network. Dozensof Jewish authors and public officials havebeen guests on my show. Thousands of ourregular listeners are Jewlsh and many calledIn wlth support after they saw the Nation article.Finally, I have been attacked in the LibertyLobby’s newspaper, The Spotlight, as atool of Jewish and Israel1 interests. These aremaJor omlsslons known to The Natlon prlorto press time.Cooper assumes a hoher-than-thou attitudeand holds my feet to the fire subject to hisimagined standards of responnblhty. At thesame time, his article 1s accompanled by adsfor Anarchwt Cookbook (did the terroristswho bombed the World Trade Center have thatbook?), a newsletter called “CounterPunch”(exposing the Chase Manhattan Bank), anotherad screaming “Scholarly Booklet ProvesJesus Never Existed!” while another ad promotesGood Vibrations sex toys, to name afew. On the followmg page 1s an appeal for(Continued on Page 808)