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By hook or crook, BOHICA the censorship of free speech and our to right to peaceably assemble. Not to mention, it restricts our ability to form coalitions that petition our government for redress. Talk radio hosts are our 'community organizers'. It will result in absolute loss of all the tenets of the 1st Amendment. After #1, #2 will be thusly subverted illegally. Check out AmericanThinker.com. The comments there are insightful as well on the subject. We are in for it. They want to shut us up. What is next, the death of FreeRepublic.com with Net Neutrality? Sleep tight FReepers and may God go with you.

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1 posted on 11/16/2008 11:57:24 PM PST by ebiskit
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These people expect conservatives not to gladly attempt to use such a rule to shutdown MSM. Any impact on Talk Radio would pale against a main force attack using similar tactics by local church groups..

The Alynsky thing works because of a sleeping silent majority. When the thugs come in the door and bother the politician and no one else stops by like the church ladies.. they think.. its ok to give in to the loud ones. But if the loud ones are those church ladies.. they know they are the very same people that make 90% of all of the elections work.. and then.. real fear sets in.

Church ladies.. unite and save our country!

81 posted on 11/17/2008 4:58:27 AM PST by dalight
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To: Landru; BraveMan; ForGod'sSake; MeekOneGOP; unspun

ping:
talk radio is in serious trouble


“Obama needs only three votes from the five-member FCC to define localism in such a way that no radio station would dare air any syndicated conservative programming.

Localism is one of the rare issues on which Obama himself has been outspoken.

On September 20, 2007, Obama submitted a pro-localism written statement to an FCC hearing held at the Chicago headquarters of Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.’s Operation Push.

Furthermore, the Obama transition team knows all about the potential of localism as a means of silencing conservative dissent. The head of the Obama transition team is John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress.

In 2007, the Center for American Progress issued a report, The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio. This report complained that there was too much conservative talk on the radio because of “the absence of localism in American radio markets” and urged the FCC to “[e]nsure greater local accountability over radio licensing”


84 posted on 11/17/2008 5:05:08 AM PST by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger then yours)
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Welcome to Barry Odinko's USSA.


87 posted on 11/17/2008 5:14:49 AM PST by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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“liberals” doing what they know best: silencing normal people who are right, but disagree with liberal madness.


88 posted on 11/17/2008 5:15:11 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism = serious mental deficiency)
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If they pursue this for partisan purposes, they are going to regret it.

The syndicated talk radio hosts are far more entertainers than they are organizers. Local talk radio hosts can be far more effective at spurring people to action.

The Obama juggernaut isn’t so much about him as it about the “swing” Democratic Senators and Congressmen — recently elected from conservative-leaning jurisdictions. Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin simply aren’t going to be any good at keeping those Members from backing the most extreme proposals. Strong local conservative voices, by contrast, will be able to keep their feet to the fire. It will be dissent from “moderate” Democrats that will stop the Obama momentum far sooner than it will be people voting Republican again.


89 posted on 11/17/2008 5:17:04 AM PST by only1percent
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I think it was Savage who said three of the big wig talk show host already have a law suit against any silencing action.


90 posted on 11/17/2008 5:22:37 AM PST by jetson
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The Soros Connection in the Minnesota Senate Race Vote Count
American Thinker | November 17, 2008 | Ed Lasky
Posted on 11/17/2008 2:08:30 AM PST by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133408/posts

Obama Bill Would Make Voter Intimidation, Election Fraud Illegal
[except for Black Panthers controlling polling places in Philly]
obama.senate.gov | Thursday, September 6, 2007 | Amy Brundage
Posted on 11/16/2008 11:50:06 PM PST by OL Hickory
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2133394/posts

Obama Breaks His Own Rule!
ObamaHood.org | 11/17/08 | Soft Tyranny
Posted on 11/16/2008 10:12:46 PM PST by SoftTyranny
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133371/posts


91 posted on 11/17/2008 5:25:14 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
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And just as the Community Reinvestment act forced banks to subsidize ACORN, this stuff will force radio stations to subsidize “community groups” with free airtime and “local businesses” with reduced ad rates, to the benefit of the Dems.


97 posted on 11/17/2008 5:40:32 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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.... and hopefully we can have Obama declared ineligible to serve as President. Have you seen this citizenship petition against Obama:

http://www.rallycongress.com/constitutional-qualification/1244


103 posted on 11/17/2008 6:25:19 AM PST by real_patriotic_american
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bookmark for later read


104 posted on 11/17/2008 6:28:21 AM PST by altura
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Attempting to go after Rush and get him off the AM airwaves will only send him to XM/Sirius/Internet and explode his popularity.


106 posted on 11/17/2008 6:29:45 AM PST by CodeToad
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To: ebiskit

Good grief. I never thought I’d see the day when we’d need a Radio Free America.


109 posted on 11/17/2008 6:41:16 AM PST by 3catsanadog (I plan to give the new President the same respect and dignity the other side gave Bush.)
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1) This week, sit down and write a letter to to your reps concerning this matter.

2) Copy and send this story to everyone you know. Spread the word, and get people involved.

3) Donate via monthly EFT to this site and any others you see fit.
112 posted on 11/17/2008 7:00:21 AM PST by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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Some say that talk radio will simply go to Sat Radio. Is that not governed by the FCC also?


113 posted on 11/17/2008 7:01:38 AM PST by RetiredArmy (America is entering four very long and cold years. First victim: liberty)
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Should “localism” prevail, it will simply mean that talk radio will move to satellite and Internet radio outlets and many AM stations will go bankrupt as no one will listen to “localism” correct drivel. I think Rush, Hannity, Laura Ingraham and other top talk radio should already be staking out overseas shortwave stations as well as powerful AM stations in Canada and Mexico in anticipation of the day when the only source of truthful reporting will come from beyond the Obama curtain.


117 posted on 11/17/2008 7:22:05 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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Network TV stations do very little “local programming.” Maybe an hour a day of local news. It seems like they would all suffer greatly under this burden.


120 posted on 11/17/2008 7:32:47 AM PST by cookcounty ("A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built." ---Governor Sarah Palin)
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124 posted on 11/17/2008 7:45:55 AM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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This sword will have two edges. NPR can be forced to be “local” as well as any other station.

Fifty or a hundred people writing letters and showing up at an FCC re-licensing hearing can have a big impact.


125 posted on 11/17/2008 7:54:19 AM PST by Ender Wiggin
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Those of us that have been paying attention know that Obama IS a well funded Chicago thug, and he will do what ever he needs to to silence dissent.It would be wise to assemble a strong conservative network, so if one is shut down, there are other avenues to continue the fight. Digg is one such network, as is Facebook...I'm sure there are many others...

129 posted on 11/17/2008 8:56:45 AM PST by jan in Colorado (For Barack Hussein Obama TRUTH FILE see my homepage!)
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Take ur ball and go home obama noone wants you to play..


136 posted on 11/17/2008 9:35:52 AM PST by angelcindy ("If you follow the crowd,you get no further than the crowd")
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