Christine Craft is a Sacramento liberal talk show host, aired weekdays 3-6pm on KSAC 1240AM. She is very active in local grassroots liberal politics, mainly in the form of staging protests. A McGeorge Law School graduate, Christine is highly articulate and usually fair-minded, but occasionally defensive and uncivil with callers she strongly disagrees with, like most AM radio jocks. You can call in to Christine's show at 916.766.1240.
On December 5, 2005, Christine took issue with the ASUCD resolution urging Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef to ban military recruiters from UCD campus, on the grounds that a public university campus should not block any forms of speech, and asked whether the students who drafted this resolution would be so high-minded if the ban cost them something, like for instance if federal grants and loans to UCD students were contingent on recruiters' having access to the UCD campus.
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As perhaps the most active ASUCD Senator with this resolution I called in the next day to give my side of the story and she brushed me off, allowing me to be on the air briefly, and then she essentially hung up on me even though I said nothing rude or overly contentious. - RobRoy
In 1983 Ms. Craft brough a lawsuit for breach of contract against her former employer Metromedia, Inc., an ABC affiliate, which had terminated her allegedly on the basis that she was "too old, too unattractive and wouldn't defer to men". Through various appeals her suit reached the Supreme Court which declined to hear the case, although Justice Sandra Day O'Connor voted in the minority to hear it, a fact which Christine refers to frequently on her show. She sounds ditzy at times on the air and appeals to serious dumbshits, but the following link will attest she is no slouch: ![[WWW]](http://wikispot.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small}
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/craftchrist/craftchrist.htm.
As a left-opposition member, I sent the following letter to her. Her response was a five-word sentence that stated something about the P.A.F. women questioning her love of America. Anyway, here is my letter to Christine:
I take issue with your diatribe against the Peace and Freedom woman on your show yesterday. Don't get me wrong, as an old lefty, I haven't met a Peace and Freedom person who isn't wacko, but I think your reaction was a bit reactionary. I don't think just because a person disagrees with the mode of production and distribution exercised in this country that they automatically hate this country and want it to come to harm. I don't think just because a person takes a similar perspective to that of Howard Zinn, a great American historian and activist, that history is the tale of class conflict, that they automatically hate democracy. I don't believe that capitalism and democracy are synonymous. I'm not fond of capitalism and I think we could do better, but that doesn't mean I want to see bad things happen to this country. When bad things, like 911, happen, I don't rejoice, but I also don't become a hawk and lose perspective about why something like that does happen. I love this country's people, land, Bill of Rights, as well as many other aspects, but I also love humanity in general, and I happen to believe that capitalism has lost it progressive nature a couple centuries ago and we'll lead to humanities demise. I think you do yourself a discredit by responding to the issue of communism or socialism so flippantly. Why not do some research and present a well thought out liberal opposition to the idea. Your response reminded me of the time I was in Air Force basic training, many years ago, and we had a class about communism. At the time I was just too scared to question it, but looking back I just laugh. All the class consisted of was a Cuban-American yelling at us about how horrible Fidel Castro was for Cuba. Not surprisingly, there was no mention of Marx, class struggle, unions, or anything useful. Your reaction wasn't much better. Respectfully yours, . . .
That's it.
Remember, leftys, there is no god. - WayneSchiller
