Buffalo News Supporting Silencing of Righty Radio Talkers

Publius' Forum ^ | 11/13/07 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

Douglas Turner of the Buffalo News wants conservative radio talkers silenced. He calls them "virulent," "violent" and "coarse" and hopes that starting January 1 the "work of flushing" them will begin. Turner fills his little anti-free speech screed with claims and a few examples of how rotten he thinks righty talkers are and how they need to be shut down, yet can't seem to find a single cross word to say about the "coarseness" of lefty talkers. In other words, it is plain that "coarseness" or "one-sided" radio isn't really a concern of his. Only eliminating the free speech of the right is his goal not any leveling of the playing field.

Naturally, his is filled with prosaic generalizations. Turner assumes that all conservative talk show hosts "were fond" of addressing Obama as "Hussein," his middle name. Yet, Turner offers no list of those that did. He says righty talkers are "violent" but does not offer a single example to prove the allegation. It also seems that Turner can't understand why radio hosts that call themselves conservative would be "one-sided." Curiously, he didn't excoriate Alan Colmes, Randi Rhodes, or Al Franken for being "one-sided." (I know... Imagine that, huh?)

His "violent" claim has me wondering, though. (Bold mine)

As station ownership became more consolidated, talk radio became more virulent, if not violent, and one-sided.

He makes this "violent" claim but offers not one single example. Who was "violent"? What radio host urged listeners to violence? This is quite a charge and it would be nice if Turner would provide an example instead of throwing such a bomb without proving his wild-eyed claim...

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[Mobile Vulgus]

Good question!

[Allegra]

A wing of B-52's just flew over for a landing. How cool is that!

I like it when that happens. Here, it usually means somebody's in for an ass-kicking. :) What base is near you?

This morning, we're mostly getting black helicopters flying around.

[eleni121]

7 of the largest employers invole the govt.

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Yup. And don't forget the aging Roosevelt dems who are also on the SS dole. And a good proportion of the rest who are on SSI and Welfare.

I recently heard that 50% of black males and 25% of white males are unemployed (or underemployed or working under the table) in the city of Buffalo. We have become the turd world of the West...and it's gonna get worse.

[eleni121]

Your world certainly sounds exciting!

[OPS4]

I think the BUffalo News should be sued for being a free arm using its news license for Obama and left wingers.

Boycott this paper in NY

[saveliberty]

I can only find a story in cache - according to the clip, he passed away on May 25th

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:FSKepOR69dkJ:www.buffalonews.com/494/story/491418.html+obituary+james+griffin+buffalo+mayor&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us

[saveliberty]

Wikipedia has more

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Griffin

[NYTexan]

What base is near you?

Fort Worth Naval Air Base. Formally Carswell AFB

[Petronski]

Fascism is on the march in today’s United States.

[Made In The USA]

Just collected this WNY Bump, thank you for sending.

Libs are reallying showing their true colors on this so-called Fairness Doctrine. They have equal opportunity to compete for market share to express their opinions (AirAmerica, MSM, etc.). Their response to loosing the talk-radio battle is to legislate. That tactic, will likely be played out repeatedly in the coming 4 years.