Mr. Masters,

I’m writing to inform you that despite being a long time supporter/donor of KPFK, I will NEVER EVER give another dime to KPFK or listen to your show on my drive home again as I have for years.

I can no longer countenance your journalistic malpractice. I can no longer support your irresponsible fomenting of US government propaganda and the politics of fear.

I’m no fan of Donald Trump but instead of focusing on the the socioeconomic conditions that allowed for his ascendancy, you’ve chosen to allow your strings to be pulled by the same cabal of bloodthirsty, warmongering oligarchs you’ve opposed since I first happened upon you.

On my drive home tonight, I heard you LIE, live on the air. You LIED by insisting that the sentencing memo authored by Robert Mueller and released last Friday, 12/7/18, was somehow proof of “collusion”, because you insisted a meeting had taken place between Cohen and Dimitri Peskov. It DIDN’T happen. You LIED. The memo itself is explicit and specific in that NO such meeting EVER took place.

From The NYT: “After conferring with Mr. Trump, Mr. Cohen said, he reached out “to gauge Russia’s interest in such a meeting. It ultimately did not take place.

Two months later, Mr. Cohen said, he was approached by a Russian claiming to be a “‘trusted person’ in the Russian Federation.” The individual, who was not named, offered “synergy on a government level” with the Trump campaign. He pushed for a meeting between Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin to discuss politics and the proposed hotel, saying Mr. Putin’s consent was the biggest “warranty” for any project.

That appears to be the earliest known contact between an aide to Mr. Trump and a Russian offering to help Mr. Trump’s campaign. The timing of the interaction matched one disclosed earlier this year by Buzzfeed.

Mr. Cohen said he never followed up on the Russian’s invitation….”

I’ve been listening while you’ve devolved from lying by omission to parroting completely unsubstantiated, overtly uncorroborated, government dictated narratives to outright LIES. Since when did “journalists”, like you decide that our intelligence agencies are trustworthy and honest? Since WHEN are the FBI, CIA and the NSA the good guys?

Exactly what the hell are you selling?

All of the sudden, you have lost the ability to distinguish between elaborately hyperbolic claims and actual evidence. All the sudden, there’s a brand of amnesia causing you to forget the notorious history of collusion between your own government and your own media. You’ve forgotten, all the sudden, about Vietnam, Iran Contra, Iraq and the WMD’s, and everything in between.

The same agencies, sometimes the exact same people, selling you some neo-McCarthyist, red baiting, obtuse absurdity and you just lap it up.

All the sudden, you’re new.

I’m DONE with you and KPFK. I will be boycotting both you and the station. I see no reason to be LIED to by a compromised on air personality on a radio station that has clearly submitted to pressure from the military industrial complex. You might be okay with playing with matches next to a potentially combustible world war with nuclear weapons but millions of sane and rational Americans are not.

To be clear, it’s NOT the first time you’ve wallowed in abject mendacity but it is the last time I will subject myself to it.

What you’re doing is reckless, irresponsible and disgusting and the only evidence you need for that accusation is that have to LIE to pull it off.

Pathetic.

You have never seen any actual evidence of hacking or collusion by Russia.

Ever.

Saying you have means you’re lying or stupid.

Drinks for my friends.

Vecordious Slubberdegullions Festooned with NeoMcCarthyist Codswallop