[Califreak]

>Come out and say it publicly and make it clear that you are not simply making a political case for “anyone but McCain” but are also lobbying to preserve your livelihood.<

So what if they’re trying to protect their livelihood?

By doing so, they are also fighting for free speech.

It won’t just stop at talk radio, you know.

Once they get rid of talk radio as an alternative to the mass brainwashing known as MSM they will come after people like us on sites like this.

The only information we get will be what we’re allowed to get, in carefully measured, thoroughly sanitized doses. It won’t be much different than what MSM gives us now, but we will have no other means of obtaining information.

Information is power. They are always holding back on us in order to render us powerless.

[Antoninus]

So what if they’re trying to protect their livelihood?

They have every right to do so. But they should be up-front about it and not pretend to do so for other reasons. And that, in effect, would make them just another lobbying group.

By doing so, they are also fighting for free speech.

Not exactly. They conservative media is as much about shaping perceptions as the liberal media. I'm glad they're out there because I think this is needed. But in this election cycle, where so-called conservative hosts were in the tank early and often for liberal losers like Rudy and Romney, it made me wonder if we really have much of a media presence at all that is truly conservative.

The only information we get will be what we’re allowed to get, in carefully measured, thoroughly sanitized doses.

Exactly--like what we get when Hugh Hewitt talks about any candidate other than Mitt Romney.

As I said above, the conservative media has shown itself to be more media than conservative in this election cycle. Their latest attempt to stampede their audiences into Romney's camp is simply disgraceful--and an insult to our intelligence.