Just need to get something off my chest this morning. I happen to work with some opinionated folks. For those who listen to 97.3 The Eagle, you know that one of them is Jimmy Ray on the Eagle morning show. Very opinionated, yes......nasty? No! He's all about hearing the other side. He may disagree with you but he encorages discussion from you. It has become hard for me to understand the venom that comes from some folks who disagree with him or anyone else with an opposing opinion.
Mark McKay, our Eagle afternoon personality, usually keeps his opinions and personal thoughts to himself. One day, on the air, he mentioned that he was keeping an eye on the Ft. Hood tragedy with MSNBC. Don't you know someone called him and berated him for watching that "liberal" channel and said they would never listen to him again! Amazing!!!!
Since when have opinions and various media preferences been off limits? Last I checked, we lived in one of the few free countries in the world where you can say what you want, when you want, how you want. We all support our troops who are deployed to protect us but do we realize what they are protecting? Of course, our basic right to be free. Without that, we lose everything for which we live. So, the next time you hear an opinion that you disagree with, by all means, disagree but respect that person's right to disagree with you and express his or her opinion. If we have no respect for our fellow Americans, we might as well be a Third World country.
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