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And one thing Americans can expect from an Obama administration, and a Democratic-controlled Congress, is a legislative attempt to bring back the so-called Fairness Doctrine, which will limit free speech and diminish the conservative influence on talk radio.

The Fairness Doctrine is a two-edged sword, and while it can hurt conservatives in talk radio, where they dominate, it could hurt liberals everywhere else and give conservatives a chance to correct the grotesque levels of liberal bias in most of the mainstream media.

Conservatives can and should have a field day demanding equal time and representation on network news shows, weekend and nightly political talk shows, late-night comedy shows, and sitcoms and dramas which insist on injecting political and social themes into their story-lines. If Limbaugh and Hannity have to go to satellite radio, make sure the folks at NBC, ABC, and CBS head for cable.

I don't think so. For some reason the democrats are able to recruit people who have nothing else to do but monitor conservative talk shows, listening for a slip.

They would be able to recruit these same kinds of people to harass, to call in and request their point of view be presented.

I think most Republicans work for a living and don't have time to do that kind of thing.

...The Fairness Doctrine is a two-edged sword...

And a strange one as well, with both edges on the same side. Political enforcement is always discretionary enforcement. Never ever forget it. When the bolsheviks were hauling their victims off to their doom, each of them was certain that if Stalin only knew of the injustice happening to them, he would make it go away. Hope springs eternal. Change though, can be unexpectedly ugly.