“What is next” is the true fear. And by your name I can tell what you think. I am in total agreement. If they go after Rush then we must rise up. He has twenty million dedicated listeners. And for the advertisers that’s a whole lot of people to offend by pulling your ad’s!
Thus the Golden Rule trumps the First Amendment. He who has the gold makes the rules.
The corporations (big advertisers, media owners) are buckling to liberalism for whatever reasons (liberal board members, executives) and the conservatives will need to challenge corporate liberalism sooner or later.