[ijcr]

It is easy to fall for the succulent sweet argument that this is a First Amendment issue.It is not! It is a property rights issue.

The property in question being the national broadcast spectrum...it's owners are every American,democrat or republican, gay or straight,rich or poor,Christian,Jew,Muslim, or any other faith,AARP or high school graduate.

If we take your premise that this is a free speech issue would you endorse for example the Greeter at a Wal-Mart on meeting your wife,mother or girl friend with "Yo, Ho. Nice rack"?

After all you have the option to shop there or not.

The true hypocrisy is that these "hosts" who claim this right, deny the same to all callers to their shows by using tape delay.

It does not matter if it is Stern,Limbough,Boortz,Franken,Beck or Bubba, the love sponge.If you ask them to discard the tape delay you will be informed that while free speech is important,the public cannot be trusted with it!

[The_Outlaw_Josey_Wales]

>>The property in question being the national broadcast spectrum...it's owners are every American,democrat or republican, gay or straight,rich or poor,Christian,Jew,Muslim, or any other faith,AARP or high school graduate.

Sounds like socialism to me: "we all own it..."

Nonsense. As Neal Boortz said, “public ownership of the airwaves is an idea created by politicians for no purpose other than to legitimize government control."

Amen.

[timm22]

If we take your premise that this is a free speech issue would you endorse for example the Greeter at a Wal-Mart on meeting your wife,mother or girl friend with "Yo, Ho. Nice rack"?

I certainly wouldn't like if he said that. In fact, I'd probably complain to the store owner- not the government.

[TheSilverHair]

Aye, and I've got a right to beat the bastard. Though I do see your point, and partially agree with it, this is one of those lovely "gray areas" where the framers of the Constitution failed to foresee the amazing ingenuity of fools. Nothing is foolproof. That includes freedom of speech.
I'm mostly worried about my own rights. However, if a way is presented that A) can remove Stern, and B) doesn't give liberals a way to trample MY rights, then go for it.
Come on, people. Let's try and see what we come up with.
And about tape-delay... good point. Never thought about that.
And you also summed up liberal viewpoints on EVERYTHING. Sure, the public has the right (to speech, arms, etc.), but they can't be trusted with it!