Summerfest Reinstates A Less-Violent Shooting Game; Talk Radio Throws A Tantrum

Talk radio is not used to losing, or accepting a compromise, and today, it's in full squawk mode.

Why?

Peace activists and others complained that family-friendly Summerfest was an inappropriate venue for a US Army's Humvee simulator that permitted young people to fire machine guns at virtual people on a screen.

So Summerfest and the Army pulled the game in favor of a modified version that kept the guns, but swapped inanimate targets for the humans.

So is everybody happy with a compromise that keeps killing images out of the festival?

Are you kidding?

Charlie Sykes is in full rant this morning, accusing Summerfest of capitulating to "moonbats."

You know these righty talkers are dealing with a little losing, as they see it, when they lapse into their programmed name-calling.

A few years ago, the right had an echo-chamber that controlled the airwaves and the Internet around here.

It's still an uneven playing field, given the incessant righty radio on both leading AM stations,WTMJ and WISN, day and night, but the other side has a few blogs and networks that can get a few results, too.

Charlie attacked Bill Christofferson for posting Summerfest's phone number and then Charlie read off the number, twice. As he had done yesterday, too to gin up calls to Summerfest in support of the killing game.

A double-standard?

And he questioned who these Veterans for Peace really were, as apparently that group had complained to Summerfest,as did Peace Action Wisconsin.

I don't know if Bill is a member of either Peace Action Wisconsin or Veterans for Peace, but I do know he served two tours during the Vietnam War as a US Marine, and I don't think any of the local righty talkers can match that.

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