[Jack Bull]

Unusually well-written piece. I would suggest forwarding to as many people as possible. Every radio station in the country should read this.

[Prole]

I wonder if Obama and his communist thugs are really gonna try this.

I can only imagine the backlash that is coming.

It will be like the shots fired at Fort Sumter if these communist bastards go after Rush, Sean, Mark, Laura and the rest.

[period end of story]

Talk show hosts, the good ones, are like modern day gunslingers, and, obviously, some people don’t like that.

It’s interesting that, seemingly, only an act of government can stop them.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[Wil H]

they’d better repeal the second amendment before they repeal the First...

[Myrddin]

I grabbed a copy of "Rules for Radicals" at Barnes and Noble this afternoon. I want to understand the enemy tactics and use it against them. The ACORN creeps will be vying for positions on "community" boards. We have to compete for those positions and crowd them out. Sitting complacently while the radical leftists jump onto those boards is a recipe for failure and surrender.

[wac3rd]

Here is where the Left may end up losing in the Supreme Court.

They have no Fairness Doctorine applied to ANY other media but Talk Radio.

They are totalitarian, you need to admit it and fight back.

[Bon mots]

[hdbc]

Mark Levin said last night that talk radio is the last outpost we have against the Stalinist onslaught now on the march.

[lonestar]

Scary

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The Right to Know

[Delacon]

Ping

 

PETITION TO BLOCK CONGRESSIONAL
ATTACKS ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PRESS

To: U.S. Congress, President of the United States, Supreme Court of the United States

Whereas, the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution clearly states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances";

Whereas, members of Congress are recently on record saying they want to re-impose the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" on U.S. broadcasters, or else accomplish the same goal of censoring talk radio by other means, and thereby establish government and quasi-government watchdogs as the arbiters of "fairness" rather than the free and open marketplace of ideas;

Whereas, the U.S. experimented with the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" for 38 years - from 1949 through 1987 - during which time it was repeatedly used by presidents and other political leaders to muzzle dissent and criticism;

Whereas, the abandonment of the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" in 1987, thanks to President Ronald Reagan, resulted in an unprecedented explosion of new and diverse voices and political speech - starting with Rush Limbaugh - that revitalized the AM radio band and provided Americans with a multitude of alternative viewpoints;

Whereas, talk radio is one of the most crucial components of the free press in America, and is single-handedly responsible for informing tens of millions of Americans about what their government leaders are doing;

Whereas, it is a wholly un-American idea that government should be the watchdog of the press and a policeman of speech, as opposed to the uniquely American ideal of a free people and a free press being the vigilant watchdogs of government;

Whereas, the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" - either under that name, or using a new name and even more devious methods - represents a frontal assault on the First Amendment, and its re-imposition would constitute nothing more nor less than the crippling of America's robust, unfettered, free press:

 

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