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I don’t know about Rush being on satellite radio (is he on
Sirius?) but I have XM and you already can find Hannity,
Ingraham, and Levin there. But of course with the FD
back, satellite radio would become the only place to find them.

And this is really an infringement of freedom of the press.
A broadcast radio station can run what it wants, provided nobody swears of course! Can the FCC step in and say that
stations must change format because a certain format is not
on in a given city, or regulate musical content? Can the
government step in and tell The New York Times or
Rolling Stone to have 50 per cent conservative content?

People shouldn’t have to get satellite or internet radio
to hear shows that are very popular (much more popular
than Air America). What succeeds, succeeds. Proof: in
New England, it’s so “blue” that there is exactly ONE
U.S. Rep. who’s a Republican. Yet Air America has largely
failed here, having only stations in southwest Vermont
and western MA. The stations in Boston, Providence,
New Haven, Burlington VT, and Portland ME all changed to
a different format (Spanish, conservative talk, sports,
and women’s talk) because people didn’t want to hear AAR.

And the government will now force unpopular talk shows on us, or...ELSE? Lawyers and media monitors would have to
be brought in to ensure “fairness”. WRKO in Boston can
still have Laura Ingraham, but they’ll have to pick up
Randi Rhodes too. They may still keep Rush but be forced
to also carry Thom Hartmann. As a result, Michael Savage
would be thrown off because there’s no airtime left.
They might even have to “muzzle” their conservative
afternoon guy, Howie Carr, and make sure he only
acts as an impartial moderator, not an outspoken
commentator.

This is tolerance?

XM TALK AND ENTERTAINMENT
165 Talk Radio features Glenn Beck

166 America Right features Liddy, Ingraham, Hannity,
Levin, Michael Reagan, Rusty Humphries

167 America Left—the Air America stuff

168 Fox News Talk: Brian and the Judge, O’Reilly,
John Gibson, Alan Colmes

Can the FCC step in and say that stations must change format because
a certain format is not on in a given city, or regulate musical content?

I don't know the actual answer to that. But I'm enough of a
"graybeard" (literally) that I can remember how BORING AM talk
radio was before Rush came along.

The first time I heard a Rush Limbaugh broadcast in Oklahoma,
I had (most likely) the same tingling that oppressed folks in
the USSR had when they heard their first Voice of America broadcast.
(my FR handle was born from talking with a family that escaped
one of the Baltic States after The Berlin Wall fell.)

With Sixty Democratic Senators and a majority of Democrats in
The House...
I suspect The ObamaMessiah can try (and maybe get) any sort of
lunatic legislation he pleases.