Posted on 08/20/2007 9:46:46 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Talk radio helped sink immigration reform
By: Mike Allen Aug 20, 2007 09:19 AM EST
Opposition from key talk radio and cable TV hosts helped kill the immigration bill in Congress, a study out today concludes.
What listeners of the conservative talk radio media were hearing, in large part, was that the legislation itself was little more than an amnesty bill for illegal immigrants, a phrase loaded with political baggage, it says.
The study by the nonpartisan Project for Excellence in Journalism quantifies what White House and Capitol Hill phone lines and e-mail inboxes already indicated: Talk radio focused on the immigration debate more intensely than the mainstream media did from April to June.
Conservative hosts touched off a brushfire in the Republican base that President Bush and other party leaders were helpless to contain.
"If media attention translates into political pressure, the argument that talk radio helped kill the immigration bill in Congress has some support in the data," the study says. "Thanks to energetic opposition from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Michael Savage, immigration was the biggest topic, at 16%, on conservative talk radio in the second quarter."
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I found this at their website under FAQ:
The Project receives its funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts
Nonpartisan, my arse.
Lets not get too excited and miss the main point. We stopped a horrific piece of legislation but we still have an awful status quo on the issue that needs to be addressed.
Well, on the other hand, I'm glad to know that the libs wasted a bunch of money to tell people something that they already know. It's less money that they can spend campaigning.
Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders! Stop the DREAM Act!!
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It was NEVER reform. When politicians say “reform”, we get screwed. Period.
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