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Friday, September 28, 2007
Mike Gallagher :: Townhall.com Columnist
Shuster's stunt backfires
by Mike Gallagher
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I’ll bet David Shuster isn’t giggling now.

It’s important to consider this incident when watching NBC, CBS, ABC or any of the other mainstream news media outlets. Talk radio hosts like me and a cable network like Fox News Channel are constantly criticized for what liberals claim is a “right-wing bias.”

None of us who host talk shows on radio or TV pretend to be objective journalists. We are paid to express our opinions and delve into political and social issues with our listeners and viewers.

But a guy like David Shuster is supposed to a newsman. A journalist. A reporter. And these are the kind of clowns who inject their prejudices into their newscasts and newspaper articles every single day.

Next time you see Shuster’s smirk on TV, remember the reprehensible smear tactics he used this week.

Now that David Shuster’s TV career has taken such an ugly turn, perhaps he could land a job with Moveon.org.

Sitting in his basement blogging in his bathrobe is exactly where he belongs.

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Mike Gallagher is a nationally syndicated radio host, Fox News Channel contributor and guest host and author of Surrounded by Idiots: Fighting Liberal Lunacy in America.

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Reply # 1
Date: Oct 2, 2007 - 10:03 PM EST
Robert
Perhaps you would rather continue the discussion about the APQ-13 here.

My experience is with the equipment as a weather radar and it did quite well, but had limitations. Its operation frequency (I am basing these on memory from over 40 years ago) of about 9300 megahertz gave a wave length that was very good for light to medium precipitation (rain or snow) but with heavy precipitation or very large storm systems would not show the back side of the system. The result could be a big blob in the middle of the screen.

The APQ-13 could not indicate cloud heights which is an important piece of information for forecasters. The reason it could not was because, certainly in the weather version, there was no provision for a vertical scan of the antenna. Also because of the antenna shape, its transmissions were narrowly focused as a beam and if that same antenna were used, would limit its capabilities in navigation and bombing accuracy.

On the KC-135, the radar system had a dual antenna system, one that transmitted a narrow beam and another which essentially transmitted a horizontally narrow and wide vertical band. The second one was used in navigation and was much more effective than the beam transmissions which were used primarily during air refueling rendezvous operations.

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Reply # 2
Date: Oct 1, 2007 - 1:07 PM EST
Sidetracks and tangents
All of this obscures the fact that Petraeus is a criminal and a liar with no honor and no credibility who disgraces the uniform he wears and has no business sitting in front of Congress when he should be sitting in a prison cell. Why don't we talk about that?
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