[Uncle Ike]

The ‘Death’ of talk-radio??

Doesn’t anybody remember the 60’s?? Does “Wolfman Jack” tingle a synapse or two??

Underground radio, originating offshore, and delivered nationwide via ‘bootleg tapes’ - the technology of the day -circumvented draconian ‘decency’ laws, and changed broadcasting forever....

I’m as passionate an advocate of the 1st amendment as anyone, but let’s take a breath, here — with modern, borderless, communications reaching virtually every person, would ‘going underground’ necessarily be a bad thing for Talk Radio?

[Yosemitest]

Then they'll do like China and the internet,
and block certain sites, or jam the airways.

[abb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caroline
Radio Caroline

[2111USMC]

Yes, it would be a bad thing.

It would mean that we allowed the Marxists to remove our 1st Amendment rights.

[magua]

Underground is possible. But think of the fight. Our “Dream Team” talk radio against the Czars. Not the feeble Republicans. If we wanted to a have a perfect enemy they are it. This is a good thing. Bring it on.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“would ‘going underground’ necessarily be a bad thing for Talk Radio?”
Allowing the socialists to proceed even an inch with their agenda is equivalent to surrender. These morons need to be sent packing with whatever force necessary to ensure they don't return next year, or ever.
They are trying to systematically dismantle every semblance of freedom in America.
They, and their supporters are organized criminals and traitors. Nothing less than total victory against them is acceptable.

[Broker]

This Government has Laser Beams to annililate rogue broadcasters and viruses to infect bloggers. The world has changed. Defiance is required earlier than later.

[Ditter]

I have been waiting to hear someone say this. don’t you suppose Rush already has his place in the Caribbean staked out?

[andy58-in-nh]

There is a certain romance to that idea: mobile pirate radio stations operating in the shadows, taunting a repressive government to the secret whoops and cheers of their audience. Wolfman Jack blasting rock-and-roll into the Western desert on his Mexican 100KW XTRA transmitter, thumbing his nose at the FCC.

Many of us Conservatives are rebels at heart, and be glad of that, for I believe it is what will ultimately save us. But today, we have the Internet, and even if the FCC moved to block conservative programming, voice over Internet cannot easily be stopped, and any attempt to do so would find the same multinational and offshore paths as pirate radio. There's also shortwave, which provides a global reach (with a powerful enough transmitter).

In any event: bring it on, Obama - all you are doing is stirring up a giant hornet's nest of dissent and engaging people who have been made to endure too much for too long. In my mind, I can almost hear Johnny B Goode wafting across the warm Senoran night sky...