Talk talk talk

“legislative fix to this”
Fix what, now free speach is under attack, ill go out on a limb and say people dont tune in and listen to anything they dont want to.

Is not that what Socialists do, Eliminate opposing views? Be Wary America the Socialist from the Democrat party are trying to take over!!
over 90% of so called journalists are liberal on the Networks and newspapers, per a MSNBC study (which is a liberal TV news station itself)
The so called Fairness doctrine was in place prior to the 80′s because of limited Radio and TV stations, which in the 80 the FCC said that it was not needed anymore due to the increase number of stations on both radio and TV and that it is un-constitutional.
The study group which I have to say Jake, you do a good job in saying the truth about it that it is a liberal organization. But did you know it is funded by George Soros, the Clintons and the DNC.
If any disagrees with this look at Chavez, he is closing down TV and Newspapers that disagree with him.
For those who support even after that hopefully you will never have an opinion that goes against the Hard Left Libs like Hilary

Although talk radio tends to be extreme conservatism, “free speech” allows them to do so. The main issue is the politicians and suits in Washington allow themselves to listen (and care).

no one listens to talk radio except old people. the internet is the way of the future, and it has an balanced offering of the good, the bad, and the ugly. whenever any legislation or company tries to reign in the freedom of the internet, then there will be great cause for alarm.

Unfortunately, all those “old people” you speak of, get out and vote. Talk Radio tells them to and how to vote.

Isn’t it cool that both parties, left and right, feel they are under attack by the same programs?

Air America went belly up even with the tons of cash Soros dumped into it. Face it conservatives dominate talk radio because folks want to hear it. It is very easy to change the channel on every radio I have ever seen.

You mean talk radio that brought forth the Dubai Ports deal that legislators tried to put through? Or Talk Radio that keeps the American Citizen informed on how our government has turned their backs on American Citizens regarding immigration?
The new accusations of the liberal media contributing to election campaigns? Thank you Sen.Inhofe for bringing to light this issue about political control over what we see, hear and read. Term limits now!

Will be interesting to see if any bills are really presented. If one does come up, Clinton and/or Boxer can just have someone esle sponsor it, and they can sign on later. Happens all the time – on both sides of the aisle.

Who knows what the demographics are for listeners of Talk Radio. I haven’t read any surveys on it. I believe its a cross section of all ages. It appears to me to be people who can listen to the radio. Working class folks, office folks, who can listen in during the day or on the way to work. I do not listen to radio at all except to sample some of the freak shows every once in a while to see how bad they are. It appears to appeal to the same kind of folks who get sucked into the watching Jerry Springer. I do know that in my discussions on the Internet political forums (which are real discussions BTW) that most of the participants are younger.

Talk Radio regulated by the Goverment?? NO Does the true voice of the American people scare these politicians that much? It should

I didn’t come up with the term, but if you are wondering why I call right wing extremist talk shows, “freak shows”, it’s because one of the big physiological tricks they play on listeners is to turn anyone who doesn’t agree with their extremist views into a “freak”. Rush and O’Reilly are experts at it (they should run a circus sideshow, oh wait, they do). Do people really think half the nation, “the libs” as ragebot called them, are that different from themselves. Listen at them, you’ll here it happen.

The rise in abrasive, mostly unaccountable political talk radio can be traced directly to the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine. Rescinded in 1987 by the Federal Communications Commission, the original doctrine made sure that radio and television broadcasters covered political topics with fairness.
It seems that lies and FUD broadcast daily on radio stations is OK and “free” as long as it’s coming from the conservatives?

The Fairness Doctrine is a meaningless concept now that the internet is here. All it will do is give the liberal left the chance to lie some more and be exposed.

What the left feels threatened by in Talk Radio is…its success! The fact that AirAmerica and other attempts at humorless screed-mongering have failed is what they dread. SO typical to want a “legislative” solution–i.e. imposing the will of the people who”know better” on the will of the PEOPLE expressed thru the marketplace. I believe Imhofe, and disbelieve Boxer and Clinton, who are proven liars.

Of course they are going to deny saying it, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. What-did Hillary all of a sudden start telling the truth? When did that happen? Of COURSE they want to shut down conservative talk radio. They want to pipe only the liberal mindset into the public’s ears. There is only one point of view–the socialist (Democrat) point of view. At least that’s what they would like. And they HATE the fact that there is any opposition to their complete oppression.

Like I would believe ANYTHING that came from Boxer or Clinton’s office! Just another case of Dem Senators wanting Fascist thought control laws. 1984 anyone?

Again, into every aspect of life the ones without full control want to get it anyway they can. Is this another trend for trying to MAKE equalness where it is not wanted nor needed. Talk radio, specifically the more conservative talk is flourishing because people are listening to it! Get it, We want it. The Air America type radio doesn’t make it because We DON”T WANT it! Make those radio programs more marketable and tuned to the audience and it will be successful. Why this crazy “affirmative type action” forced on talk radio. Rather than fight it perhaps these political junkies should listen to what US the people who listen to talk radio believe and want. Because you the political control freaks don’t like what WE the people want and believe, is your own problem. These gustapo type moves politically and legislatively are throwbacks to the socialist and communist means to dictate and rule people. America, the United States shines because we were founded for the people. Leave us alone. Leave Talk radio alone. If you want to make a change, either listen to the people as WE speak thru OUR talk radio our continue to try to make your own successes in radio on your own. But use a different format than air america. We are smarter than you want to be kings and queens politician believe. Leave us alone!

Putin would love to have Clinton and
Boxer come over to Russia and plan their radio and TV programming after they “fix” ours!

“Oxycon” you miss the point, of course. Talk Radio is accountable…to the MARKET and the PEOPLE. If the ads didn’t sell, if the numbers of listeners weren’t there, it’d be GONE…just like the Air America non-viable un-accountable stuff that went BUST. Those who DISTRUST the marketplace are the only people who want an outside “accountability police’ to enforce their own political views regardless of their acceptance or market demand….and their names are Hillary and Barbara…and you.

st more trash from the fascist brown shirt crowd. First, they use MediaMatters, funded by George Soros, to take people on talk radio’s statements out of context, as a way to discredit them. Then they use an organization headed by Leon Penetta, a hack in a previous Dem administration, to put out this BS. Here’s a glimpse into Hillary’s operational style.
In his new biography of Hillary Clinton, ” A Woman in Charge,” Carl Bernstein recalls April 23-25, 1993, the 94th, 95th and 96th days of the Clinton administration, when the president and Mrs. Clinton attended a retreat with Senate Democrats in Williamsburg. It was already clear that the Clintons were not going to fulfill their promise to present “comprehensive” health-care legislation within their first 100 days. Bernstein reports that two of the most respected and, for Mrs. Clinton’s purposes, most important senators, Pat Moynihan and Bill Bradley (both were on the Finance Committee, which would handle her legislation; Moynihan was chairman), were appalled by her highhandedness.
Bradley asked her whether the tardiness in delivering her bill would complicate passage by making the bill competitive with other legislative goals, and he suggested that some substantive changes in her proposal might be necessary. Bernstein writes:
“No, Hillary responded icily, there would be no changes because delay or not, the White House would ‘demonize’ members of Congress and the medical establishment who would use the interim to alter the administration’s plan or otherwise stand in its way.”
Bradley and Moynihan heard this, Bernstein says, “with disgust and distrust.” Her plan never even came to a vote in a Congress controlled by her party.

When liberals want to shut down talk radio, they want to shut down the voice of the people, because talk radio is the citizens forum, the people’s forum…unlike the major broadcast news organizations which belong to the liberals. That pesky little constitution and that crazy bill of rights!

Depends on what your definition of “took” is.

Funny, It sounds exactly like what I have been anticipating hearing for the fascists

Sure, can’t you just hear these beothces saying “Yes, we said what Inhofe caught us saying and we really hate the right wing and all right wing talk radio and will do everything we can to crush them like our hero Hugo Chavez and Lenin.”
You got one lying and the other one swearing to it. Remember Clinton with the Rose Law debacle: “I don’t recall, I can’t remember, It isn’t clear..” and then all of a sudden 3 years later “Oh, honey look what I found in the library.”

How can talk Radio POSSIBLY be bad if both sides of the aisle ( Shame there are only two) have an issue with what’s being said on market driven airways? If you “Progressives” want equal radio time, work, earn and succeed at the game of radio. Air America was a good try, but who wants to listen to non stop America Sucks?. Put something on that the public will listen to and support and you can make all the censorship talk worthless. Silencing the opposition is the work of tyrants and despots, whom should all be eliminated from the public discourse. Grow up Libs, it’s a big boys world out here.

If you all think there’s a backlash against Congress for the Amnesty debacle, wait until they try to shut up conservative radio talk shows. Is it any wonder the approval rating for Congress just hit 14%! Would you believe 5% next year?
They’re morons. We’re stupid, ignorant idiots for electing ‘em.
Of all the senators, Boxer is absolutely the worst one. Of course, she’s lying when she claims she never said it. She always lies. All she ever does is lie. She’s built her career on it. Check it out.

Senator Inhofe should get in the habit of carrying a micro cassette recorder. He said, she said won’t get us anywhere. As much as I’d like to believe the conversation happened, this is America and there’s no proof. As for the Left’s perceived need to regulate talk radio, let’s ask Al Franken if he would have been willing to take a more conciliatory line towards the Administration in the spirit of fairness. He’s no more obliged to be fair to GBW than Rush is obliged to be fair to Billary.

Regardless of my feelings towards Inhofe, his story does reek of the truth. There’s nothing unrealistic at all about Hillary and Boxer wanting to use the police powers of government to silence those who don’t agree with their socialist Nanny State agenda. I don’t believe their denials at all.

Nothing would be better than having “progressive” socialist media legislation ensuring that radio was “responsible”. indeed, radio, an antiquated technology, would come close to extinction within months of good appropriate “progressive” control of the media. the left also supported chavez’s sovereign right to control “public” airwaves. ortega just last week announced that opposition media were traitorous and has long ago cut off communication to unsupportive media. yes, democrats. you have a model to follow, soon “our” radio will be as fair and good as cuba’s. which like their education and health care is “superior” to the usa’s services.
retch retch tetch
never debate a socialist without a vomit bag. their self loathing need to re-invent humanity is sickening.

Who would you believe a woman who claims to be named after someone she wasn’t named after just to have a gimmick, a woman who steals billing files, a woman who lies about her daughter’s actions on 9-11, a woman who hates our country, a woman who demeans motherhood, but stays with a tramp, just to get ahead, a woman who has her family on the payroll, or a man who stands for the rule of law. Dah, “Stand by your man” Sandy Berger1
Bill Tennant
Lake Arrowhead

If this hearsay was mentioned on AM talk radio it must be true.

Congress shall make no law…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. Trent Lott apparently is against the First Amendment

Sounds like a number of folks on this thread buy into the idea that if something is “hateful”, it is okay to suppress it. In the face-to-face conversations I have had on this, when I question such attitudes, I usually find that “hateful” actually means “less politically correct than me”, or “hates terrorsts even thought they are simply reacting to hateful US policies”. Somehow saying that the US Military is as bad as the Nazis, or Bush = Hitler, is not hateful however.

Hey, Jake, maybe next time you get a call from the Clinton and Boxer camps, you might think to ask them if they are in favor of the Fairness Doctrine. But no, you don’t want them going on record saying they are against it so they can vote for it later.
While I am against the Fairness Doctrine, if it ever passes, I can’t wait to see how network TV will deal with giving a stronger voice to those 10% of conservatives in media.
The problem is not talk radio. The problem is that the ideology of the far left is flatly rejected by US citizens when they are given a chance to hear in detail the idiotic beliefs of the far left. Case in point: Air America.

As a life long Democrat, I think we, as a country, need to revisit the 1st Amendmend. It was not designed to allow millions of people to be insulted and offended with hate-filled insensitive speech.

“As a liberal, and one who supports free speech, I have no problem with right wing talk shows. What I do have a problem with is the use of “public airwaves” to provide only one point of view (right-wing), which happens to be the unfortunate truth. Now before you start screaming about liberal bias in newspapers, remember that newspapers are not owned by the public, they are owned by corporations. The “people” own the airwaves, or at least that is what we are told.
Imagine this: Militant Atheists run 90 percent of all radio stations. You get into your car, turn on AM radio, and station after station, no matter what part of the country you happen to be in, you are told that you are evil, that you are contributing to the destruction of the country, etc. How would you feel? Would you complain? Would you feel upset that the government allows such a misuse of a public good? If you happen to be liberal, or not a republican, that’s what it feels like.”
How about college social science departments that are more or less all liberals. Don’t we the people own these public colleges….is there a problem with bias there… By the way these radio staions are not public property they are owned by private corparations. Except NPR, which is totally liberal.

Well, when Free Speech is not what Libs want to hear, they Legislate. When parents don’t like the crap on TV, Libs say “turn it off”. So if you don’t like talk radio don’t listen.
Radios like televisions can be turned off and have other options.
To Oxycon, WHAT? You have way more free time than you need, volunteer that time.

What did they all expect would happen when President Clinton pushed his deregulation of media through Congress making it impossible for the mom and pop stations to compete with the likes of Infinity Broadcasting and Clear Channel and their financial monopolies on the marketplace? When just two companies control 90% of the free-market stations in the USA they also control the content.

To paraphrase Paul Harvey,there is little that could not be solved in this country if only the major broadcasting networks were moved to any city west of New York City (or east of Los Angeles). What a perfect example. God bless America

If you don’t like what’s being said, turn the dial!!! Obviously the people who listen to it, agree with it. What part of Freedom of Speech don’t you understand????

It just proves what I have been saying for a long time, Democrats are fascist. They want to control your money, your speech, your health-care, your kids and everything else in your life. Unfortunately our elected Republicans are too weak and corrupt to stop them.

There is a reason conservative talk shows are successful…we listen to them, participate, and genuinely like them. There is a reason liberal talk shows fail…no one is listening to them because they too are listening to conservative talk shows to see what they are saying.

You are all under arrest, do not move, do not pass go and do not think or speak freely.

The truth has already been established: Rush listeners are consistently the most informed and knowledgeable about the workings of government,economic and foreign policy, and the daily shenanigans of the administration. If you look at these responses, you will notice that the only hystrionic screed is from MJ, who wants to imply that Limbaugh is a viagra popping child molester. Par for the course and by far the most extreme, distorted and hateful of any comment so far. He would do well as a writer for Air America, which proves my point once more. People don’t like liberal radio because it’s humour has become laced with pure invective. Liberals have taken over the blind hatred still so readily ascribed to right wing troglodytes. Never forget, the Nazis were SOCIALISTS in favor of big government, nationalised health-care, and (what a coincidence!)government controlled media.

Wasn’t there also a democratic house memeber from NY who was pushing for a return of the “fairiness doctrine” a few months ago?

Once again the number on qualification to be a liberal is to be dishonest IE Boxer and Clinton did not have this conservation. Yea right.

Balance, Talk Radio???
Did we NOT heard the other day the reporters, 9 out of 10 are giving money to the democrats and NOT to the republicans.
Hello, hello talk about balance!!!

“As a life long Democrat, I think we, as a country, need to revisit the 1st Amendmend. It was not designed to allow millions of people to be insulted and offended with hate-filled insensitive speech.”
The whole point is to protect speech people do not want to hear. There has never been a threat against people who say what folks want to hear. I get offended when liberals criticize the US, but that is their right, regardless of how I decide to handle it. Your petty personal feelings are not grounds for a constitutional amendment. Lets take gays off tv they offend some people, lets get rid of CSI (too much violence is offensive), lets arrest people who say or do offensive things just like Nazis.

You have to remember, Brandon, the Fairness Doctrine doesn’t apply to television news (like CNN or MSNBC). It only applies to the federally licensed airwaves of radio. It’s the one medium that liberals don’t already control.
WABC owned Rush, Sean Hannit, and Mark Levin until recently. Eisner and Iger are both big liberals. Based on this alone, you know it’s about profit and market. It’s the only place the majority of Americans can hear some truth, so we all tune in. If we want to hear the angry liberals, we don’t need the failed Air America – just trun on CNN and MSNBC.

Right-wing radio has “the fix” already. Of course they’re going to do any thing they can to stop serious action on their severe advantage on the airwaves. It wouldn’t suprise me if this conversation is made up. I just can’t trust Sen. Inhofe, who also believes global warming and evolution are hoaxes.

HAHAHAHA for Clinton to say she never said it – means SHE DID say it. Dang, even her marriage is a lie.

It’s just like Limbaugh describes it. This is the Left simply stunned that their views are challenged. To them, they have some unwritten edict granting them the right to govern however they see fit, and if anyone opposes them they simply silence the opposition. You don’t see the Right trying to shut down the New York Times, do you? Keith Olbermann gets to keep his show (that no one watches, by the way), yet Rush (25 million a week) gets shut down? Come on….

Typical Women Deny everything

In Response to Chris:
“As a life long Democrat, I think we, as a country, need to revisit the 1st Amendmend. It was not designed to allow millions of people to be insulted and offended with hate-filled insensitive speech.”
Yes, it was. When you start talking about restricting Rights of others, remember that those restrictions will also be used to against you.

To Chris, the life long Democrat. You people made your bed, now you sleep in it.

That’s why PBS has to resort to extorting money from the taxpayers in order to keep afloat. Does anyone think it could survive on private donations only?
I keep calling PBS during their fund raising drives and ask them to send me something since I support them every year through my taxes.
Funny how the MSM claims to be unbiased while 9:1 give money to democrats. I wonder why all the stories regarding Iraq are ALWAYS negative?
“Big Brother” is democrats ramming their beliefs down our throats and threatening anyone who dares to confront them.
Our biggest enemy isn’t Al Qaeda… our biggest enemy already lives among us. they call themselves democrats and they represent the fifth column in our country.
They have successfully destroyed the pillars and foundation that had been built by our forefathers and through the blood and sacrifice of our brave soldiers in the military.
I am afraid the future here looks bleak after witnessing the absolute moronic 2006 elections where control of the legislature was handed back to a bunch of perverts and reprobates. The writing is on the wall and it isn’t written in English.

Ok.. so the Conversation never took place..
I suppose that Hillary Clinton never said that there was a vast right wing conspiracy against her husband due to talk radio in the 1990′s..Oh wait.. there are recordings of that too.
Trent Lott also is against talk radio because he dose not like whats is being said about immigration bill also..
It proves to me that its not just Democrats and Socialist who do not like the free expression of speech in talk radio… its both sides of the political spectrum
I still wrote my representatives stating that I am apposed to the bringing back of any sort of Fairness Doctrine to talk radio.. and everyone else should do the same!

They said they didn’t say those words. However they did not back away from that policy idea. They are both socialists, period. If Hilary is elected she will try to make criticism of her a crime.

Will,
Please explain PBS and NPR and how those belong to the public as well. Clear channel is a private organization. They have tried the liberal crap and it doesn’t fly (read: can’t make money). PBS is the Global Warming arm of the liberal party and NPR is the boring anti-American wing of the liberal party. Just admit that liberal/progressive “idea(l)s” can’t compete with common sense. You also left out TV.. Why? Let me tell you. It is because several studies have been done that show 90 percent of TV “journalist” are left wing. Who do those airwaves belong to? You and the other liberals? I think not. So please spare us the “I am a liberal that believes in free speech” crap.

I think Savage is right… liberalism IS a mental disorder. Just read these posts from liberals here.

Wow who to believe. Inhofe or a couple of loony leftist known liars? Tough call

And will the Fairness Doc apply to TV news stations? You only have Fox on the right compared to CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN,on the left..you can probably add PBS in there too

If Senators Clinton and Boxer are going to try to revive the Fairness Doctrine for talk radio, will they be using the same doctrine for the majority of left leaning newspapers, regular and cable TV news channels as well.

Is it possible to look any more like the archetypal white-bread metrosexual liberal newsman than Jake Tapper? Give him the trophy.

“no one listens to talk radio except old people. the internet is the way of the future,”
I’m in my early twenties, but I guess my name is “No one.” I am very tech-savy, and I listen to talk radio over the internet! Politicians don’t like talk radio because it doesn’t revolve around sound bites (which they can manipulate).

To snoopicus:
What about CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC etc…..? No liberal slant there? Right?
How about giving equal time to Conservatives on these TV channels?

Conservatives are afraid the people won’t know what the legislators are doing. Liberals are afraid the people WILL find out what the legislators are doing.
The greatest threat to liberals is an informed citizenry.

The reason liberal talk shows fail is that they are competing with the big liberal broadcast stations. Skipping Fox can someone name a show that either leans or falls left? The government would have to guarantee LibRadio air time to succeed because their audience has so many outlets.
P.S. It would have to be on FM or XM too!

My husband sets the alarm clock to public radio because he knows I’ll find it so annoying that I will have to get up and turn it off. Invariably, they are going on and on about some liberal cause or another. This morning I think it was something about transgenders or some other malarky. Of course we are going to want to listen to “conservative” radio. For a little bit of sanity in a world of loony leftists.

Let’s not kill the messenger, eh?

Hillary lie???
Geee, what a concept!!
Started with Whitewater, Rose Law Firm records, Hillary Health Care, and Now EVITA talk to bring down the entire system…
George Orwell lives again….

Great! The very people who have hidden behind the shield of free speech are now trying to mute it. Why? It is because they don’t like it and it does not support their wacko liberal agenda. isn’t it interesting that they don’t want to constrict the major media outlets like CNN that mimic democratic party talking points. Typical liberal stuff. I have the right to say anything but you conservatives don’t. yuck.

It does’nt matter if talk radio is left or right, up or down. These people complaining of talk radio don’t need to be in Congress in the first place. Obviously, talk radio must be having an effect, they are listening :-) Talk radio certainly is a powerful medium and they just might be scared of it. The American people have every right to speak out on a public platform, such as talk radio. Talk radio is the most listened to format in my house. I listen to the left AND the right, I keep an open mind and make my own decisions about politics. Not a single station can make my decision for me, it’s MY decision. Leave talk radio alone, they harm absolutely no one. ILLEGAL immigrants harm our country, leglislate about that Hillary, leglislate about that Trott, but leave talk radio alone.

Jodie,
I agree completely.
You said:”Radio is paid for by advertisers, nobody is forced to listen. What are they fixing?
Our freedoms as Americans are in jeopardy everyday, but I never would have guessed we needed to protect ourselves from our own government!!!!!”
Posted by: Jodie | Jun 22, 2007 10:16:41 AM
Our Founding Fathers had the same idea when they framed our Constitution.
I suggest you get more familiar with it.
oledawg

In most “liberal Western democracies” (look up the true meaning of the term) public broadcasting is heavily funded to provide a balanced perspective. The USA is the only major exception. It’s actually amazing how much PBS is able to accomplish by essentially begging for money, but, of course, much of the programming is indirectly being paid for by the taxpayers of other countries (especially Canada (CBC) and the UK (BBC)). The programming that PBS produces itself is where your dollars (tax or otherwise) are going.

And when is enough enough? I am warning you people out there that the Left will not stop until they have complete control – I can tell you out of experience as a person from Holland. In the UK they are talking of denying access to their health system if you smoke or you’re too fat. They will eventually, ‘for the good of society’ (which is their last ditch argument to curtail free speech) prohibit Rush, Savage and Beck from talking and critiquing their positions. Just wait and watch.

Would anyone believe the Hillery camp when they deny anything?

The Left has to silence speech because the only way they can get their way is to force ignorant people into it. Killing millions means nothing to them Just ask Mao, Stalin etc.

Hugo Chavez would be proud of the liberals attempt to silence their adversary-talk radio and Fox News.

The notion that big “corps” are intentionally losing money in order to push a conservative agenda is nonsensical.
First of all, many of these companies, such as Clear Channel, are publicly traded (Clear Chanel Symbol CCU) and report their earnings every quarter.
Second of all, the ratings books do not lie, and are controlled by media types, who studies have consistently shown to be biased to the left. Conservative radio earns consistently HIGH RATINGS. All five of the top five radio shows in the USA are conservative talkers.
Big ratings equal big fees for ads. Big fees for ads equal big profits. Liberals simply cannot answer Conservatism’s intellectual arguments, so they turn to irrational conspiracy theories.

If Clinton becomes president we will have to re-name our country the United (or probably the Divided)Socialist States of America, once the land of the free. People need to open their eyes to
the fact that Clinton and all her little buddies, like Pelosi, are Socialist and Communists.

lets see, who to believe. hillary, who probably had her former lover shot, or boxer who probably wouldn’t tell the truth if her life depended on it. lets not forget. these are die hard socialists who have been known to tell tall tales.

Like Joseph Goebels, the Socialist Democrats are trying to control people’s thoughts and ideas. Its already part of the American public school system but some of our children are thinking for themselves and opposing this big government concept.

I’m not getting into the fairness doctrine that the 1st poster talks about because his core argument is about free speech/expression. You have free speech without fear of the gov’t. coming to take you away. There can be repercussions from outside the gov’t. from your utilizing your right to free speech—ask Don Imus. Besides, this started from a comment that may or may not be true. If the conversation of Boxer and Clinton never took place, then that comment (spoken, printed or otherwise)would be a lie—and that is not protected by the 1st ammendment (slander, libel, etc…). What does lying have to do with the fairness doctrine? That doctrine had to do with topic, content and point of view—not whether the host was lying or not.

someone’s lying…….certainly not Hillary Rotten

Who hasn’t been shooting the breeze with a colleague and said something out of passion that they wouldn’t even dream of following through with? That is probably all that happened here. They dislike conservative talk radio because it is deceitful and dishonest. Over coffee, they had empty dreams of a better world. This shouldn’t even be a news story. Stick to legislation that has ACTUALLY been written or proposed.

@Jebster
Conservatism = Nazism/Fascism = Satan
Goes both ways, Buddy, if you want to look at it this way. There’s extremism on both sides.
9/11 was an inside job. Restore our Constitution.
-Reagan Conservative

this is just artificial Drudge Report contoversey

I’m trying not to image whats said behind the scenes on a daily basis.. we’d all probably be in shock.

Nice spin on the programming facts – “91 percent of the total weekday talk radio programming was conservative”. Did it ever occur to you how too few shows make up the 91%? Between Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck and Savage, what percentage falls outside those four? They compose such a large percentage not because people hate them but listen to them anyway, but because they do reflect what America thinks. And your Trent Lott salvo is meaningless. People do know what was in the immigration bill and that is precisely why there is such opposition.
See you on your next “drive-by”….

Excuse me but the liberal media has tried and tried to make it on radio but have failed because of ratings…the liberal media has nothing to say except for name calling and attacks…people don’t want to hear this as ratings have shown! The government does not want well informed citizens which talk radio tries to do…you see a well informed constituency means that Congress can’t bulldoze bs through without being blasted for their actions! An illinformed constituency is what Congress wants!

The founding fathers would be thrilled by today’s talk radio. Whether they agree with the majority of hosts and callers or not, they would recognize it for what it is – free speech unfiltered by goverment. It is the ultimate in democracy, with people listening to, and participating in, those conversations that most interest them. So far, most of the left leaning talk show hosts have not been able to establish audiences large enough to keep them on the air (unless you count those on NPR, but with no advertisers to worry about they really don’t have to be concerned about the number of listeners). Let the marketplace determine who we want to listen to. After all, it’s radio, and it is intended to entertain.

Democrats are angry that they havent been able to control this piece of the information pie. They have liberals on many news stations, many many newspapers and magazines and the only nut they havent cracked it talk radio.
They have tried and failed in the free market because they are boring. When Conservatives have thier talk shows on the radio, they also encorporate jokes and life in thier discussions. They also entertain. Most liberal talk shows, who call themselves progressive, which btw is nothing more than them trying to fool people into thinking they are the only ones who want change, are boring. Thier shows are very depressing when you listen to them. It’s all about bitching and complaining. Who wants to listen to complaining all day. They cant compete in the free marekt so they go and cry to big brother government and want them to fix it for them. This is the same old, same old. You dont want to compete in the job market, so you ask for welfare, you dont want small businesses growing so big that they drive the market, so you have government throw them out. this is very synonomous to kids crying to mom and dad to make brother or sister do what they want to do.
This is a capitalist country. Work harder and stop being so depressing and maybe you’ll make it. Don’t be pansy and cry about not getting your way and your control and quit asking the government to hold your f—— hand
!!!

there’s an easy way to fix this….Dems need to support radio more to their liking. This really is about sponsorship and making money. Air America went off the air because no one listened, which equals no spondors.

9 out of 10 media employees (TV)give to the democrats and Hillary and Boxer have the nerve to shut down Talk Radio. If Rush Limbaugh and Neil Boortz hosted a show with cans and strings. Hillary would want to pass a law against that as well.

I am a non-partisan 32-year-old black man who has never voted in an election and I can honestly tell you why conservative radio works and the liberals’ attempt at radio recently hasn’t. It’s truly simple: Al Franken’s show was never interesting or funny. He can be hilarious — but his show was crap.I can’t stand liberals or republicans — BUT if someone put me on an island and forced me to have to listen to either Air America or Rush/Hannity — I’d choose the latter. It’s simply more informative and entertaining.

uh huh..it never happened….just like Bill said about Lewinsky…never happened..is a vast right wing conspiracy it is….uh huh…yeah conspiracy thats it

Like America would believe a word a CLINTON would say; we all still remember him lying to our face while wagging his finger and his wife Hillary going to the mat for him despite his infidelity only because SHE WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT.

First off, I’m not taking sides in Inhofe vs. Clinton/Boxer, but I do want to ask several questions:
For those taking sides with Inhofe or Clinton/Boxer, what evidence do you have that either contention is factual? Why are any of you taking a side on this event/nonevent? Because one side has an “R” next to it and the other has a “D” next to it? Wake up, sheep!
When I read the ABC blog comments, I always find it sad/funny that they’re full of circling right-wing sharks, just waiting to strike out at the liberal media. Yet, if the media (i.e. ABC) is so liberal, what are those right-wingers doing on this ABC website in the first place? To those people, I’d like to ask:
Why not troll the Drudge/Fox News waters where there’s plenty of red meat for your gluttonous consumption?
And to all those who’ve played the free market card in this debate (i.e. that right-wing radio makes money and left-wing radio doesn’t), let me just say “rubbish!” The fact that an endeavor is profitable or unprofitable has no bearing on its contribution to public good.
Slavery was very profitable. That didn’t make it right.

Senator Inhofe, you know Mrs. Clinton was lying, after all, you could see her lips moving…right?

Let’see:
Named for Sir Edmond Hillary…LIE
Rose Billing Records were always on the table – she knew nothing about them….LIE
Bill “never had sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky”….LIE
Just to name a FEW lies from the Hillary Camp….Yup, I believe her!!!
And don’t even get me started on Ms. Boxer…….I LIVE IN CALIFORNIA!!!!

“I’m going to totally “Vince Foster” Rush’s ass.” (Said with faux Southern drawl.)

Democrats are angry that they havent been able to control this piece of the information pie. They have liberals on many news stations, many many newspapers and magazines and the only nut they havent cracked it talk radio.
They have tried and failed in the free market because they are boring. When Conservatives have thier talk shows on the radio, they also encorporate jokes and life in thier discussions. They also entertain. Most liberal talk shows, who call themselves progressive, which btw is nothing more than them trying to fool people into thinking they are the only ones who want change, are boring. Thier shows are very depressing when you listen to them. It’s all about complaining. Who wants to listen to complaining all day. They cant compete in the free marekt so they go and cry to big brother government and want them to fix it for them. This is the same old, same old. You dont want to compete in the job market, so you ask for welfare, you dont want small businesses growing so big that they drive the market, so you have government throw them out. this is very synonomous to kids crying to mom and dad to make brother or sister do what they want to do.
This is a capitalist country. Work harder and stop being so depressing and maybe you’ll make it.

Well this is the last time I ever want to hear one of these wind bags use the phrase “Main stream Media is against us”.

Be careful what you wish for you just might get it. If the Fairness Doctrine is passed a lot of people in this country will scream their heads off until the MSM has to give the other side equal time. That won’t go over well with the left.

Those of you who think Inhofe is not truthful do not know the Senator.I would bet my life on anything Inhofe said as being truthful.

For those of us that get our news from television and radio I know I can at least select my radio news, left or right. As I don’t watch much television I have basic cable, Comcast removed Foxnews from this package and replaced it with MSNBC. Now instead of actual news and reporting I get the nightly Paris Hilton updates and the moron from Hardball describing the VT shooters backwards ballcap as a suicide bandana. If right corps own the radio, please explain one useless tv news channel?!

I am not one to listen to Radio or listen to and watch TV. I have found both mediums to full of outright deception, and at best half truths. It is all meant to provide entertainment, generate profits, some of the programming is loosely based on fact. Cable is only good for connecting to the internet where one can read multiple reports and find the 3 words of truth in a 1,000 word report.
I don’t know about you. But since the airwaves are owned by the public. I’m still waiting for my deed for my portion of said airwaves. I also plan to will my portion of the public airwaves to my children. And have started a search to regain control of the public airwave deeds owned my grandfather and grandmother.

It must be awful being a Liberal. Seems that they have an over abundance of Hate towards Conservatives Talk Radio and Traditional Families. And yet with their overflowing cups of hate is’s still not enough. Liberals need to stop being intolerant to the tolerant.
Memo to Liberals: Stop Listening.
Now Please, Someone respond to this in a Loving Liberal Rant. Prove me right.

If you really want to know just how absurd things have become, just watch C-SPAN on your computer during the day when congress is in session. Both sides point at each other and accuse each other of hypocrisy and lies. Well the real news is that both sides don’t give a darn about this country and it’s all about posturing for the next election. Can we say term limits!!

You may notice that the liberals are going after the conservative media again. Why aren’t they doing something about Liberal television….let’s control them and get more conservative television on the air. The liberals want to silence Conservation views, as they expose the liberals as the traitors they are to this country.

1. HC is proven habitual liar.
2. HC denies conversation took place.
3. Therefore it did.
It’s that simple.
I can’t wait to see this witch get her butt whipped in Nov 2008 whoever the Republicans run (just hope it’s not JC because I’ll have to vote and gag at the same time).
Socialism is a proven failure.
God save the USA.

For those taking sides with Inhofe or Clinton/Boxer, what evidence do you have that either contention is factual? Why are any of you taking a side on this event/nonevent? Because one side has an “R” next to it and the other has a “D” next to it? Wake up, sheep!

I am not one to listen to Radio or listen to and watch TV. I have found both mediums to full of outright deception, and at best half truths. It is all meant to provide entertainment, generate profits, some of the programming is loosely based on fact. Cable is only good for connecting to the internet where one can read multiple reports and find the 3 words of truth in a 1,000 word report.
I don’t know about you. But since the airwaves are owned by the public. I’m still waiting for my deed for my portion of said airwaves. I also plan to will my portion of the public airwaves to my children. And have started a search to regain control of the public airwave deeds owned my grandfather and grandmother

Sure they didn’t say it. Nor did they know about the 10,000 FBI files stolen by Craig Livingstone. Cattle futures? What cattle futures? They know nothing, they say nothing, they hear nothing. Typical lefties. They are getting their butts kicked by Rush, and they don’t know how to stop him. QUIT LYING! Oh, if they did that no one would support them. DARN!

What is it about Rush Limbaugh that makes liberals, and their allies in the media, incontinent?
And on a humourous note, as el Rushbo has said, the reason we have the second amendment is to make sure nobody takes away the first :-)

Listen to the vitriol spilling from mouths of these conservatives. I think your anger is misdirected. Look toward our president that has led your party astray.

Let’s see. Humm… Liberal talk show hosts with entertaining shows that the average American would listen to… If you’ve ever listened to Air America? That “piece of work” was not funny, not enligtening, and had no real debate. It was only thumb-sucking liberals talking amongst themselves without substantive discussion.
If any Air America guest was conservative, it was usually someone not of the calibre of a Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Mike Reagan. Any debate was weak and not interesting. It put you to sleep. That’s why they aren’t on as many stations as conservative shows are.
Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, Bill Press, Lionel? Give me a break. They are not funny, entertaining, or smart enough to maintain or grow an audience. If they had one-tenth the talent and verbal skills of Rush and Sean, redio stations would be falling all over themselves to get them on their stations.

Clinton is a liar period. She lied about wanting to continue inspections and negotiations at the UN regarding Iraq but Didn’t vote for Sen. Levin’s bill to do that. She lied about her involvement in the travel office firings. She lied about her stance on abortion. She also lied about not knowing about Monica when she in fact had her removed from the White House to the Pentagon. Liar, liar house on fire. We need to fire her. She doesn’t like talk radio because they are the only venue that crtiticizes her hypocracies. Shame on her and she’s supposed to be a liberal but doesn’t want free speech. Get rid of NPR they are biased and liberal and are supported by the Fedreal Gov’t to the tune of 25%. Bet she wouldn’t like that

I find Ed Schultz arguement somewhat hollow.
1) Ed Schultz cherry picks 4 market places in which he beats Hannity (unsubstatiated) then he uses this a platform to argue he should get more market places. (I’ve listened to Schultz, he’s a talented guy)
If this is the case, then shouldn’t he have a beef with the competing stations. If I owned a radio station and had to place somebody head-to-head with Hannity wouldn’t I get somebody that has a track record of beating him. Money talks and BS walks. I’m finding it difficult to believe that an smart executive would make a non-sensical decision based on their view of Schultz’ politics.
2) Decsions are not just based on overall market share, its based on advertising dollars. Arbitron gives demographic breakdowns of listenership and based on that marketing potential, advertiser support is determined. Even though he may beat Hannity in select markets, it does not indicate revenue potential
3) The overall medium is driven by conservatives because of statistically substantiated driving listening preferences. It is proven that conservatives are much more likely to listen to talk radio than music and directly the opposite for liberals.
The only thing the fairnes doctrine will do is destroy the advertising potential of AM radio and squash debate. For some in this country that is the intent. However for many of us, this is a powerful show of force by the government against the people that supposedly employ them.
Don’t let politics cloud your judgement

Gee do YA think Hillary and Boxer would admit the conversation happened??? If the people were not listening to the Talk Shows, the adverstisers wouldnt be supporting them to the tune of millions of dollars a year. Air America crashed and burned for a reason. It stunk! As one sided as they may claim Talk Radio is the same argument can be made for the Press and MSM-TV. Just check the contributions of the press. 10-1 for the democratic party.

And Rush isn’t a drug addict and liar? I guess I’m Santa Claus

It’s the market that moves the popularity of talk radio. No one is forced to listen…if one doesn’t like what’s being said, turn the dial or turn the radio off. Air America failed because it was uninteresting and staffed by “hosts” that would have found a home on Radio Moscow. For some reason, liberals refuse to see that they have as much a chance to succeed – or fail – as anyone else in radio or in any other endeavor. What’s so frustrating that liberal Democrats won’t admit is that they virtually control the traditional print media…this based on the recent revelations by MSNBC.

Why would Senator Inhofe need “new glasses” for something he overheard?

Liberals have no talent when it comes to radio. Did you hear Baldwin, and Franken….there with idiots in front of a mike. Libs are good on TV. Where deception is easily rendered, sex sells,(substance is soooo geekish) and looking good is more important than being right.
We wont even go into the glorifying of gangster rap, same-sex relationships, and alot of other garbage ala’ MTV.

Who knows what politicians said or didn’t
say. They are all trained liars.

Liberals cannot compete in the arena of ideas, hence, they need to shut down their opposition through legislation. Maybe the Dems should find someone who can effectively compete with Limbaugh, Hannity, and Ingraham rather than scream how biased and unfair talk radio is. Has anyone listened to Chris Mathews or Anderson Cooper latley? Oh I forgot, they are unbiased journalists, not entertainers. Or how about Rosie O’Donnell? Unbiased? Hardly! Hey Hillary and Barbara, keep your mits off talk radio. Somebody has to keep you and your ilk in check!

If I don’t like a radio show (except NPR), I can call the radio station and its sponsors to voice my displeasure. Enough calls like that, and advertisers may pull their sponsorship, resulting in the radio station having to come up with some new programming. For that matter, I can turn the dial on my radio to some pop music station if I don’t like what I’m hearing. If I don’t like the music on the pop music station, I can then call that station and its sponsors to voice my displeasure, and enough calls like that may result in the radio station having to change the type of music it plays. Or I guess I could just put a law into place that bans all pop music from the airwaves period, or that requires pop music stations to play equal amounts of rap or country music along with the pop music, and then user feedback wouldn’t be necessary at all because it’s the law. I prefer to find stations that play and/or say what I like to listen to, and promote those stations by giving business to their sponsors.

No wonder 14% don’t have any faith in our legislators! Since when did “We the people” become “we the political elite?”

I am all for free speech but right wing talk radio is really awful. It is mean spirited propaganda. If the liberals control the media then the conservatives definitely control talk radio. I think this type of speech is harmful to the U.S. because it “fires up” the followers and angers the dissenters which has created a rift in our society. Also, I think it is dangerous that they have demonized the term “liberal” to the point that if anyone has a position they disagree with they can slap the liberal tag on them. At any rate, I think right wing radio is a detriment to our society.

Legislative Fix needed to stifle market-driven free speech?

From ABCs Jake Tapper:
Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okl, claims he overheard Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, and Barbara Boxer, D-Calf, chatting about how out of control talk radio had become.
They said weve got to do something about this,&#8…

Ha Ha!
Neo Cons talking about their Constitutional rights, Free Speach, and I even saw one ‘If you don’t like it change the channel’.
Amazing how it sounds when the shoe is on the other foot!!!
Your party started the war on the Constitution, we are just following your lead!

All you people on this board should begin to accept one thing.
PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON
There is a great liberal age in front of us. Wake up and be filled with joy.

One thing that the so called “Liberals” can’t win is debating the issues…. they don’t have the guts to debate with conservative on the issues, but hiding behind judges is what they often do. They won’t admit to plan of some kind of legislation to shutdown the conservative radio talk shows because they know the radio listeners are well informed and opinionated of what’s happening around their lives daily. If we don’t stop the liberals, they’ll ruining this country, some day we will wake up and it’s becoming a socialist or a fascist country that many people in Europe of Asia have faced. “Never trust the Democrat Party… they only want out money and screwing up the middle class, they’re favored the criminals more than law abiding citizens. It’s time to stop them and throwing them out of office.
Tom

It is way too late to shut down talk radio. It has exposed what a joke our political system is and we are not going back to the Mushroom method of government. If anything, this talk of getting rid of talk radio has exposed the real cancer in the Republican party. If they pass something it will only last two years. No one gets elected or reelected who supports this and I think there are enough Senators on both sides of the isle that understand this. We will not forget. What baffels me is that Free Speech has always been a Liberal standard. Maybe that is why they call themselves progressive.

So Air America fails…because it is out of touch with the majority of Americans, and now the democrats want to shut down the opposition (meaning the majority of Americans) with bogus legislation. The left couldn’t succeed with their message, so now they’re going to force it on those who don’t agree with it. Yeah, that’s freedom.

Plausible Deniability.
Hillary’s denial is as funny as Obama promising to overhauling big gov’t on his first day in office !!

How much did Jake Tapper give to the Hillary campaign?
That question should be answered first on this thread. Then we can go from there

Yeah, let’s believe Crazy Inhofe; a man who denies global warming exists, believes the earth is 5000 years old and that Dinosaurs roamed with man.

Conservatives listen to talk radio because we’re usually driving to and from WORK, whereas your typical liberal is most likely lounging on the couch watching Rosie on the View. Just a theory.

Why would anyone request a statement on anything from Hillary’s office. There is a 100% chance the statement will be a total lie! What’s the point?!?

Yes Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. boxer I am 100% sure Senator Inhofe just made this up out of thin air. I am starting to think that Congress is just High School Student Council for rich elitist.

In the spirit of modern day liberalism, I propose the NBA be forced to have more goofy, uncoordinated white dudes to make a more level playing field.

Wouldn’t you know it…
The Liberals are the first ones to try to suppress free speech…

The recent revelation regarding the campaign contributions of members of the dinosaur mainstream media has more than convinced most people listening that the MSM and liberals on the Hill are in deep collusion with each other.
I hope this story gets out all over the place.

Free speech is something that Nancy Pelosi would truly love to kill. If folks look back at Senate Bill 1 when she started her reign. She tried killing grassroots lobby groups. Her and Hillary are American’s greatest dangers. As far as who listens to talk radio – well Trent Lott and President Bush should realize that pressure by the American people informed by talk radio and the Internet kill that piece of political garabage.
Sad fact today folks is most of our political leaders are trying to sell this country out. Maybe its time we reviewed our options – impeachment, recall elections and demanding a roll back on what our leaders can do.

Censorship by any other name. I find it hard to believe Inhofe was pulling that conversation out of his ass and making it up as he went along. The shoes fit.
All things considered, I would much rather trust free markets to determine who stays on the air and who doesn’t, as opposed to letting a group of liberal Leninists with twisted political agendas determine which voices must be silenced in the name of “fairness.” How is that any different from what Hugo Chavez is doing in Venezuela?
Rush, Hannity and O’Reilly would not be on the air if their ratings were tanking. Radio and TV stations across the country care only about the bottom line. No different in Hollywood. These talk show hosts would not be put on life support if they cost the affiliates millions to do so, no more than Hollywood studios would continue to back producers whose films consistently fail at the box office.
The only exception to that rule I can think of is Air America, which is the radio equivalent of box office poison.
People go to the movies and listen to talk radio to be entertained and perhaps even enlightened, not be demeanded and lectured to by one-sided political kommissars who sound more like broken records than intelligent talk show hosts. If it weren’t for organizations like Soros and the New York Boys’ and Girls’ Club, they’d already be dead air. Not that they aren’t now, judging by the ratings.

If Al Franken had Rush Limbaugh type ratings Hillary and Boxer wouldn’t think talk radio was out of control. I fear for this nation if that woman becomes prez.

To Talk or Not to Talk.
Right, Left, Indpendent, Gay, Straight, Black, Brown, or White. The 1st Amendment protects our right of free speech. The citizens are so frustrated with Washington right now that if Congress selectively goes after the media, there will be hell to pay.

To my fellow Conservatives,
I wouldn’t worry about this possible bill doing anything. Bush would veto it and the Congress and the Senate would not be able to override it. you would have moderate Democrats who beleive in the fre market cross over to protect free speech and keep the Stalinist Democrats from turning our country into Cuba where the government decides what’s best for the public to hear about.

Unbelievable? Not with Hillary and company. It’s called FREE SPEECH, Hillary. Liberals love FREE SPEECH as long as it is there own free speech otherwise they hate it.
America, wake up. Republicans and Democrats are ruining our nation with their bickering and stupidity. Clinton and Boxer are just too more examples of stupidity in Washington DC. Vote ‘em both out of office.

Derek, Sean Hamnity doesn’t “oooo and aaah” anyone.
All he does is paint a target on some Democrat’s back and tell his gullible “26 percenter” audience who to hate for that day. Just like all the other right wing hate speech radio “personalities”.

Government schools, government radio stations. Glad my kids are grown.

To tie this into another recent story on the media and bias:
Of TV news people 9 Dems to 1 Rep. give to candidates of the same party. So 91% of talk radio is conservative. Seems fair enough.

One of the reasons conservative radio is succesful is that neocons need someone to tell them how and what to think. They don’t call them “ditto heads” for nothing.
Most liberals can think for themselves. Neocons never having rebeled from authority have no ability for independant thought. Never learned because their parents wouldn’t let them.
Independant voter and moderate in NE PA

The politics feel they must “tinker” with the system … and when they do, invariably they muck it up! Methinks it a good idea to have a literacy test for political candidates. Featured would be questions on the U.S. Constitution and Free Enterprise Economics. Mainstream America GETS IT … most politicians don’t!

Let’s all show that we are not happy with the government and not pay taxes. I did stop paying my taxes a couple of years ago. I am still out and about. Lets send a message to Washington DC that the public will not take there crap anymore. Let’s vote every person out of office this next election that we can and continue to do that until we find the people that can do the job right. To the IRS agent reading this, if you want your tax money come and find me. But I think you will have to spend a lot more tax money to come find me and put me in jail than you would get in back taxes I owe. Plus you will have to spend more tax money to feed me and house me if you put me in jail. To the people that think they will make me work to pay it off. Well I will quit my job and then not have any income. Then go on the food stamps and then become more of a tax burden. Let’s say they put me in jail and try to make me work. I just will not lift a finger to do want they want me to do. I refuse to pay a government that does not work for the public any more. It’s like paying a teenager to cut your lawn before he cuts it. Then you find out that he just took off without doing anything. We are paying taxes for nothing in return. I say screw this government. We need to rise up and take back these United States away from these selfish, un-honest, money grubbing, anal, self righteous politicians that only line there own pockets with our hard earned money.

Lott, Boxer, and Clinton are all liars. I believe the conversation did take place and that Lott would love to do something about talk radio. Never trust or believe a politician regardless of their party. If they can’t prove it, they are lying.

Amen Bill. Its freedom of speech! Liberals vocally attack conservatives and conservatives vocally attack liberals.
I really don’t mind. When I hear liberals complaining about conservatives sure, it strikes a nerve but then I think “Well, we do the same to them.”
ITS OK!!

I’m a republican and total fiscal conservative; and I have very little respect for Inhofe. The guy is against evolution, against modern science, and obviously suffers from paranoia. As a mater of fact, he is not even real conservative; he has more than doubled the government spending in Oklahoma! Besides, he supported restrictions on our personal freedoms in the aftermath of 9/11.
Hillary will not get my vote, but I’m not naive enough to share Inhofe’s paranoia and have no doubt that Hillary respects 1st amendment more than Senator Inhofe.
McMahon

McMahon,
Clinton is more of a fiscal conservative than anyone in the current administration.

The hypocrisy of calling this the ‘Fairness’ Doctrine is simply too much.
After we abridge free political speech on the radio which books should we burn first?
Ayn Rand? Dinesh D’Souza?
Oh I know!! Bernard Goldberg’s Bias and Arrogance detailing the clear left wing slant of the mainstream media.
2+2=5

Diffuse,
And Bush, Reagan, Newt, and all the other republicans do not have any investments that might not look up and up. Come on. Rudy dropped out of the 9/11 commission to make money speaking about 9/11.
Diffuse, this is not about which government parties or officals are corrupt. Judging by recent polls, I think we can ALL agree on that. For example, what is William Jefferson still doing in office? He was caught cold with bribe money in his freezer and is under 95 indictments. The wolves look out for each other, not us.
The point here is the First Amendment. Americans of ALL stripes and political persuasions can say whatever the hell they want, write their books and publish their newspapers. It is the general public which determines financial success or failure in these endeavors.
Considering how badly our government is performing on any number of levels, I would be the last to trust Congressmen, Senators or even the President with the power to determine who stays on the air, who goes, and what political viewpoints are acceptable or not. That’s not fairness, that’s dictatorship.
As far as I can tell from the comments by Hillary, Boxer and even Trent Lott, it would seem the American people are considered more of an impediment to their political goals that as constituents. This is the outlook of a dictator, not of elected representatives. Speaks volumes.
Too many Americans have died since the founding of this country to just hand over the First Amendment to a bunch of politically motived hacks, just as I wouldn’t hand over the power of politicians to appoint our Congressional representatives instead of electing them, because they know what’s good for us better than we ourselves do.
“The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.”

This is really a control issue. The Senators, both right and left are afraid of losing control. No control, no money from the powers-to-be. No new world order.
This country is so messed up, that self-thinkers are no longer buying the crap of either party.
We don’t need politicians, we need leaders. It time for new ideas built around old values.
Bring back Common Sense and The Ten Commandments. Its time for political revolution. like…Boston Tea Party Xtreme.

Actually, I enjoy talk radio … because it reflects my viewpoint that I do not get via newspaper or radio!
And I am
1) female
2) 25 years old
3) Hispanic
Supporting market-driven free speech,
SA

Really. Who is more believable, Boxer and Clinton or Inhofe? That’s not even a fair fight. Clinton probably had a focus group study performed to tell her to deny the conversation.

S. Braden:
I work for Fox News. Come on over. You’ll love the view from here.

Question for the Repub 26 percenters:
Who is hiring the illegal immigrants?
The evil “Liberals”?
I don’t think so.
Better take a good look at the political party you belong to and corporations you bow down to.

Oxycon…that is because in these other formats stuff like computer graphics, nifty little blinking lights, and other forms of wow can be employed to entertain the audience..whereas in talk radio it boils down to facts and how they are presented.

JohnnyT- We are in complete agreement. Read my earlier posts. My point is that, although Ms. Clinton has no problem silencing her opposition, she also has no problem profiting from an investment in FOX news.

Democrats have been talking quietly about censoring talk radio for two years now, it was part of what “energized” them in the most recent election cycle. Purely and simply they want to find ways to censor the right of Americans–in this case talk radio hosts and their listeners–who do not agree with them. If they succeed in doing so I am calling for nothing less than an all-out Civil War to either [a] take back this nation or [b] split it into two nations–the Coastal Democratic Union and Central Federal Republic–with laws reflecting the two widely-differing views of how people should live and govern that are tearing America apart today.

It seems to me that the vast majority of the media has a liberal bias — I think if we added up the papers and news channels it wouldn’t even be close. Don’t get me wrong — I’m a moderate — but whatever happened to “I may not agree with what you say but I support to the death your right to say it?” Guess with Hillary she’ll support it as long as she agrees with it.

“Who is hiring the illegal immigrants?”
Hey OxyCon, have you looked at the demographics for your big city union shops lately? Look at recent news stories about immigration raids and what you find are the big companies that by and large advance the liberal agenda in this country. When was the last immigration raid on a talk radio station?
Get your facts straight.

Let’s all show that we are not happy with the government and not pay taxes. I did stop paying my taxes a couple of years ago. I am still out and about. Lets send a message to Washington DC that the public will not take there crap anymore. Let’s vote every person out of office this next election that we can and continue to do that until we find the people that can do the job right. To the IRS agent reading this, if you want your tax money come and find me. But I think you will have to spend a lot more tax money to come find me and put me in jail than you would get in back taxes I owe. Plus you will have to spend more tax money to feed me and house me if you put me in jail. To the people that think they will make me work to pay it off. Well I will quit my job and then not have any income. Then go on the food stamps and then become more of a tax burden. Let’s say they put me in jail and try to make me work. I just will not lift a finger to do want they want me to do. I refuse to pay a government that does not work for the public any more. It’s like paying a teenager to cut your lawn before he cuts it. Then you find out that he just took off without doing anything. We are paying taxes for nothing in return. I say screw this government. We need to rise up and take back these United States away from these selfish, un-honest, money grubbing, anal, self righteous politicians that only line there own pockets with our hard earned money.

Hey citizens, let us try not to take sides and buy in to this “he said/she said” nonsense fiasco (do any senators, Republican or Democrat, really hold ANY credibility as truth tellers these days? Why does anybody reasonably think that any of these politicians are perpetuating these congressional conflicts for the benefit of the people? THEY ARE JUST TRYING TO STIR UP MORE PARTISAN POLITICS TO BITTERLY DIVIDE THE ELECTORATE!!!), but rather start a sane, non-partisan and open discussion about the state of talk-radio today and the politicos who want to control the flow of information.
I think it’s rather childish and foolish to debate which politician is more trustworthy. Based on what? Their political affiliation (or rather, your political leanings)? Pff please, that is totally missing the point of the issue. Conservatives and liberals alike want to control what is said and debated over talk radio and the rest of the news media. It’s how they control the issues, divide the voting electorate against each other (rather than against those holding power) and, in the end, get the votes they crave so much for either themselves or their party.
I don’t trust either Inhofe or Clinton/ Boxer and neither should you if you can look beyond your own political partisanship and see clearly that none of these politicians are exposing or denying the validity of Inhofe’s claim for the benefit of aiding the public.
Are we a nation of 6 year olds?!?!?!?!

I think we need to start another civil war to solve this problem:
Conservatives vs. Liberals
Sounds like a plan to me!
…I’m kidding.

Hillary and Barbara are just following in the footsteps of Hugo Chavez. If leftists can shut down free speach and opposing points of view in Venezuela then why can’t they do it in America too? Gee, I wonder where Jimmy Carter stands on this question?

Here here, Mr. Pickles!

Bring back the Fairness Doctrine and you wont have the sort of hateful rhetoric and hot emotional ranting that passes for discourse on talk radio. There has always been an audience of uneducated xenophobes who lurk in the tribal underbelly of advanced civilization. Bring back the Fairness Doctrine I say!

Now all we need to do is get NANCY P.
in the picture and they could make up the 3 Scamigos

This is just the opening salvo of the current “progressive” agenda. We Conservatives can expect more of this and worse if the Democrats acquire a political majority.
The Bush administration may have broke faith with true conservatism, but if we turn our backs on the Republican party, we risk making the Perfect the enemy of the Good, and give those who truly hate this country a perfect opportunity to destroy it further.
Air America was free to spread lies and Stalinist propaganda for years, and when they failed in the marketplace of ideas, a new approach was needed. The report by “Center for American Progress and Free Press” (how Orwellian) lays the groundwork for the “legislative fix” that Senators Clinton and Boxer quickly embraced. Their lock-step endorsement of this report is the next step in the “progressive” assault on the values that built our nation.
I am pleased with the uproar that this study generated. Wake up and smell the coffee America! The godless barbarian elitists are on the attack!

Let’s all show that we are not happy with the government and not pay taxes. I did stop paying my taxes a couple of years ago. I am still out and about. Lets send a message to Washington DC that the public will not take there crap anymore. Let’s vote every person out of office this next election that we can and continue to do that until we find the people that can do the job right. To the IRS agent reading this, if you want your tax money come and find me. But I think you will have to spend a lot more tax money to come find me and put me in jail than you would get in back taxes I owe. Plus you will have to spend more tax money to feed me and house me if you put me in jail. To the people that think they will make me work to pay it off. Well I will quit my job and then not have any income. Then go on the food stamps and then become more of a tax burden. Let’s say they put me in jail and try to make me work. I just will not lift a finger to do want they want me to do. I refuse to pay a government that does not work for the public any more. It’s like paying a teenager to cut your lawn before he cuts it. Then you find out that he just took off without doing anything. We are paying taxes for nothing in return. I say screw this government. We need to rise up and take back these United States away from these selfish, un-honest, money grubbing, anal, self righteous politicians that only line there own pockets with our hard earned money.

The politicos feel they must “tinker” with the system … and when they do, invariably they muck it up! Methinks it a good idea to have a literacy test for political candidates. Featured would be questions on the U.S. Constitution and Free Enterprise Economics. Mainstream America GETS IT … most politicians don’t!

David, you say “There has always been an audience of uneducated xenophobes who lurk in the tribal underbelly of advanced civilization.” I agree with you, and most of them can be found getting their information from the propogandists employed by the Democrat Misinformation Media Machine, not talk radio listeners.

Go get em’ Hillary! Go get em Boxer!

One of the reasons conservative radio is succesful is that neocons need someone to tell them how and what to think. They don’t call them “ditto heads” for nothing.
Most liberals can think for themselves. Neocons never having rebeled from authority have no ability for independant thought. Never learned because their parents wouldn’t let them.
Independant voter and moderate in NE PA
So what you’re saying is, since liberals know how to think, you’re just the poeple to tell the rest of us how to think because liberals know best?
That you are the masters of independent thought, and need to teach others the same? Have you any idea how contradictory and ironic that statement is?
As for Neocons rebelling against authority, you haven’t been paying attention to the immigration debate. How do you explain the disconnect when Neocons like Trent Lott say that talk radio in America is the problem?
Your whole attitude is childish and uninformed. Demeaning the intelligence and character of those you disagree with says a whole hell of a lot more about you than it does anyone else.
BTW how many independent liberal thinkers are there vis-a-vis Global Warming? How many reasonable opposing scientific viewpoints on this subject
are hailed by liberals and not met with ridicule, spite and ostracism?
I rest my case.

Bill is right, the left and the Hillary campaign are going to use the “Fairness Doctrine” to muzzle talk radio to affect the ’08 election. Can anyone deny that the sponsors of the talk radio study are ALL liberals? This issue of fairness is not the same as free market business competition, which is properly regulated by the anti-trust laws. It is purely an issue of speech and expression, which cannot be regulated under the Constitution. Interestingly, liberals couch their arguments for the Fairness Doctrine in language similar to anti-trust language, but the issues are totally different. Anti trust prevents unfair competition of goods and services, and the free market of talk radio promotes the free and open discussion of “ideas” and opinion – which is protection under the Constitution.
Liberals have exactly the same opportunies as conservative to compete in the marketplace of ideas. They just don’t have any ideas. All you hear on liberal radio is whining and crying. No one wants to listen to it. There is no market for it, so big money liberals have to come in and “save” failing radio stations like Air America. On other words, they have to artificially “manufacture” a market for their radio boring hosts. The Fairness Doctrine will actually “impose” this unwanted “product” (i.e., liberal radio) on the public – whether the public wants it or not. Radio station owners will simply have to take a loss because there will be no sponsors to pay for the air time. That is socialism, pure and simple.

I wouldnt trust either of these 2 women. Both have been known to lie in the past to better their positions. Just ask Sir Edmond.

“A great civilization cannot be destroyed from without, until it has first destroyed itself from within” … by adhering to the LIBERAL agenda.

Americans exercise freedom of choice everyday. They can purchase “Brand-X” instead of “Brand-Y”, change the station if they don’t like it, vote the bureaucrats in/out, vote the law in/out, etc. In order for freedom of speech to survive we have to be tolerant of other points of view. This is what makes America great. It’s ironic that success brings such criticism, usually from the competition. Mass media is driven by advertising dollars, and if there are no viewers/listeners/readers buying the products advertised, the show/newspaper/magazine will not survive. Free market dynamics 101.

If your a registered Republican or Independent voter the first thing the dems plan to do is require you to be tattooed and look at naked pictures of Hillary for torture untill you change partyies. Kindest Regards

The media is already own by the government…you gota” be joking me!!!

Personally, I think we should apply the fairness doctrine to ABC’s news casts. Given that every report ABC delivers is slanted far-leftwards, that would mean the network would have to give hours of equal time to conservatives every day of the week. So I suppose of Hillary and Barb get their way, Rush Limbaugh could find plenty of work as a professional provider of equal time on ABC and the other two television networks.

Bring back the Fairness Doctrine and you wont have the sort of hateful rhetoric and hot emotional ranting that passes for discourse on talk radio. There has always been an audience of uneducated xenophobes who lurk in the tribal underbelly of advanced civilization. Bring back the Fairness Doctrine I say!
Let’s see: “hateful rhetoric.” “Emotional ranting.” “Uneducated xenophobes.” “Lurking in the Tribal underbelly.”
Well. I can under a “Fairness Doctrine” of YOUR choosing that we wouldn’t hear any more hateful speech, emotional ranting, or slandering of those you disagree with. Way to go!

Boxer and Clinton should be arrested and charged with perjuring their oaths of office, The first Amendment is absolute or is English to complicated for them.

I have absolutely no doubt that this conversation took place. In typcial Liberal fashion, their preferred option is to shout down or in this case “Silence via legislation” the opposition. Free speech and healthy debate are not in the liberal (Democratic Party) lexicon.

Given Barbara Boxer’s disrespect for the truth, we have to go with Inhofe on this one.

Left, Right or Fringe, t’aint the governments business.

thanks, karl. it worked. they’re more confused than ever. (slapping my knee in delight). see you next hunting trip.
sincerely,
charlie

Johnny T -
What a rebel you are. my hero. a person who can think all by himself, congratulations for being able to think for yourself and being a rebel. Now, instead of turning the conversation into a name calling contest like Liberals such as yourself often do when they can contribute no substance to a conversation, how about commenting on what you think about freedom of speech. Why haven’t you free thinkers been able to succeed at putting a long lasting talk radio show out there yourselves. Because the audience for talk radio is not liberal. Libs have mainstream media, Conservatives have talk radio. Yet that is not enough for Ms. Pelosi and Ms. Boxer. They want balance on talk radio, yet do not worry at all about the imbalance on the major networks (i.e. 9 to 1 Dem contributions by news staff). It’s the typical liberal solution to everything…let the government control it, squash ideas that disagree with theirs, and then deny everything afterwards. So much for madame Speaker turning the tone of government around during her watch. same old, same old.

No more free speech. Next,….. the “Department of Happiness”.

These commercial station owners are giving listeners what they want. The typical informed listener wants stimulating AND entertaining broadcasts while they hustle around their daily lives. Personally, I listen everyday for a few laughs from an interesting and biased point of view. I’m not buying most of the exaggerations and angry rants, but I certainly enjoy it!

Bring back the Fairness Doctrine and apply it to Congress on C-Span so every person can speak there minds on C-Span.

In reading through the comments, more than a couple keep talking about the 26% people, or the 24%, or whatever. Are these folks who are obsessed with polls? Are these folks that operate not from a logical or moral/ethical standpoint, but from a poll-driven one? Are these the same folks that can’t do something because it’s the right thing to do, but instead have focus groups and test pollings to see what will be most popular? I don’t want that mentality running my country, do you?

To Snak-bahr Kashir: “The Republicans claim the media are nothing but left-wing liberals out to undermine them. The Democrats claim the media are right-wing paid demolition artists.”
THEY ARE! And the MSM IS very liberal! What corner of the orld are you living in???

How funny.
I listen to Savage (and sometime Rush), read Buchannon, Novak, Wills, Noonan and Buckley and sometimes Coulter. And oh by the way, I ama liberal.
Please be smart. This problem started with the upper GOP trying to tell the base that it was racist and unamerican for not supporting the amnesty give ity away bill.
Then Trent Lott thought he could help by bashing talk radio (which is factually conservative.)
How ironic that a rebublican “overheard” the two of the top dems having a private over the same thing!
Well, the only person who is lying is Inhofe who is trying to cover Lott’s and Bushes butt. Please be smart. This is ONLY meant to implicate Dems in smashing conservative talk.

Once again the liberals are getting punded because their arguments are based on fear and emotion rather than fact. So now they think you are so stupid that you cannot choose for yourself on what you want to hear on the radio and they will try to do it for you! Buyer beware if one of them gets in the White House. If you think Gearge Orwell’s 1984 was bad wait until you see what they have in store for America. Let’s just limit terms in all areas of elected Gov’t and make these people WORK for a living. Congress is just a highly paid welfare system as it sits today.. Remember, you get what you PAY for….

I say the hell with the govt. Lets all just live our own life and just dont bother with having a govt.

All righty then. Let’s try this a third time: The public does not own the airwaves. That’s a political red herring. Government, however, controls the airwaves because no other entity, public or private, is capable of enforcing the use of those airwaves so as to avoid absolute chaos. Otherwise, you’d have those little bitty 10,000-watt stations getting blown away from dozens of 100,000-watt stations all competing for the same local market. Government’s jurisdiction, however, ends at the dispensing of operational licenses (emergency broadcasts notwithstanding). When government supplants the people and free market forces as arbiters of content, tyranny raises its ugly head. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
This time’s a charm, eh Censor?

Know they enemy, huh, Eric. Nice conspiracy theory. Goes right along with the Vast Right Wing conspiracy, 9/11 was an inside job, and Global Warming. Who knows if what Inhofe says is true, but between him and Clinton, I don’t think he holds a candle to her in deception and lying. She’s learned well from hubby.

boxer and clinton are LIARS! Does anyone really believe them? If this does go forward, then here are some other areas that need legislation to insure that opposing views are presented
Public TV
FM radio
Unions (expecially teachers)
Newspapers
News magazines
Lawyers organizations
NPR
There are probably dozens of others as well. We need to insure these outlets are added if this starts looking like it might happen.

Clinton totally dishonest. If she says the conversation never took place, then you can bet that it did.

Just goes to show you, politicians think we’re a bunch of idiots… unable to think for ourselves… mindless robots walking around saying in monotone voices, “WE MUST OBEY TALK RADIO.”

After all, when it comes to anything Hillary says, it’s a vast right wing conspiracy, right??

This is NOT a right vs left issue. It IS an elite vs peon issue. Those in control HATE having the common man have an opinion and hate it more when they voice it in a powerful way. Let’s open the 22nd amendment to include a 2 term max for ALL elected officials. These blowhards forget where they come from and who they work for.

Johnny T -
“What a rebel you are. my hero. a person who can think all by himself, congratulations for being able to think for yourself and being a rebel. Now, instead of turning the conversation into a name calling contest like Liberals such as yourself often do when they can contribute no substance to a conversation, how about commenting on what you think about freedom of speech. ”
What in the HELL makes you think I’m a liberal? I’m a six-year Veteran who’s voted Republican since I turned voting age 26 years ago. My first vote was for Reagan, and I’ve never regretted it. Bush, on the other hand, was the lesser of two evils, Gore and Kerry. I had to bite my lip on those two votes.
Perhaps you misunderstood my sarcasm. Look at some of my earlier posts, or the one I just put up. BTW I gave Joe Lieberman a campaign contribution (only the second in my life) last year to keep nutroot Ned Lamont from screwing up the Senate even more than it is already. I’m only a liberal (a REAL liberal, not the Orwellian groupthink version) when it comes to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
How ironic that it is those very liberals who profess themselves champions of freedom of speech that are the first who wish to clamp down on it. I also point you to Kerry’s efforts to suppress the Swift Boat Veterans’ book in the summer of 2004. Not a stellar track record on which to build a “Fairness Doctrine.”
By their actions ye shall know them. We on the same page now?

When did Billary ever tell the truth?
In the eyes of your typical socialist/marxist, truth is only a fantasy.

A majority of the people just on this forum could do a better job then what we have in Congress. The common American hard working citizen know more about what we need then “some” Congress members worrying about how much money they can stuff in their deep pockets.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people keep hate going on a regular basis. Hate mongers on both sides on the isle keep the nation divided and when we need to be together we’re as far apart as ever before. Sen.Inhofe is never been one for peace and neither has anyone on the other side has learned to turn the other cheek. PEOPLE WAKE UP!!!!! This is no time to argue about petty he said she said statements.If it is set in stone that the freedom of speech is being taken away then we have reason to be upset.But this is another example of hate mongers trying to start up mess when there is none. I know this is not a novel idea but let try to do it any way, GET down on our knees and close our eyes and pray for ourselves and this world because if we don’t freedom of speech is the least of our worries

Why would Inhofe just make this up? It doesn’t make sense…the simplest explanation is they said it and are lying about it. I mean, it’s not exactly unheard for a Clinton to be unfamiliar with the truth.
And what about the reaction from Boxer? Mean-spirited, in my opinion. If a Republican had said that about a colleague there’d be calls for their resignation.

Will, after the things you Liberals have called this President, I find it hilarious that you would bring up the issue of name calling on talk radio.

KJS — Your 3:57. The original thought you expressed is…?

ABC now has a gossip columnist to cover the senate?
What a stupid story!

Fact; most papers are liberal. Let’s have equal rebuttal to the headlines in every newspaper. Like today “US kills 25 civilians”, should read “After cowardly ambush, militants using human shields get killed”.
Nice

I’m really shocked at all the ignorant comments here. “Go out and buy a radio station …?” ARE YOU KIDDING? The point is, the airwaves shouldn’t be FOR SALE, any more than our water should be for sale, ya dumb clucks. The reason 91% of the shows are conservative is because corporations have bought what should be held in public trust, and that means, ultimately, THEY’VE BOUGHT YOUR MINDS, since you apparently listen and believe everything you hear. You are being brainwashed by corporate media, and you aren’t even aware enough to know who you should be mad at. What’s the matter with Kansas? What’s the matter with middle America is more like it. Read. Think. ACT.

I listened to the recording of Inhofe. The radio jock asked if it was feinstein and boxer and Inhofe said he was half right and said the other was running for president. That means hillary is one of them but it leaves unclear if the other was feinstein or boxer. If it was feinstein the denials were would be technically true. I wish people would have asked if it was hillary and feinstein for if that was also denied then someone is lying.
Posted by: Richard Crisp | Jun 22, 2007 3:34:20 PM
RICHARD, THAT IS AN EXCELLENT POINT! IF BOXER WASN’T NAMED, HOW DOES SHE KNOW IT WAS HER WHO NEEDED TO ISSUE A PRESS RELEASE? ABC, TAKE NOTE!!!

“Inhofe is a bizarre person and a complete embarressment to the United States of America.
The things that come out of his crackpot mouth you’d expect to hear from a conspiracy theorist who OD’d on crack.”
Posted by: OxyCon | Jun 22, 2007 12:53:38 PM”
Wow, that’s hate speech times 100! Get this hater neocommiefascist off of the internet!
Trivia question: Do any of you lefty fools know who Billy Dale was? I’ll give you a hint. A woman running for President tried to frame him and throw him and jail so her friends could get some work. Oh yeah, he was a Democrat!

The left just can’t stand capitalism and the free market, because they can’t compete. Air America had the money and the backing, and it crashed and burned.

If I were Sen Inhofe, I would challenge the ladies, Sens. Clinton and Boxer, to a lie-detector test. Even a congenital liar can’t pass a well-administered test. The loser gives, say, $500K to charity of the winner’s choice.
Put up, or shut-up!!!
Let’s see – Hillary’s dirtball brother, Tony, marries, cheats on, and divorces Barbara Boxer’s daughter. I wonder how they met??? Hmmmm. Then Tony and his brother, Huge Rodham, get the tar beaten out of them by the husband of the woman who Tony cheated on Barbara Boxer’s daughter with.
And these two political so-n-so’s remain ‘friends’. Do they have any character or sense at all? Can we possibly believe them?
James Inhofe winner of this round.

Remember, Newt said it first. Or “Brother Newt”, as El Rushbo USED to refer to him. The powers that be have spoken. Talk (hate) radio is about to become history. It’s about damn time.

If I was Inhofe, I would be on the guard for a “Vince Foster” handshake the next time he runs into Ol Hank Clinton and Babs Boxer.

Gogi, you speak of OUR minds being bought, and yet, you can’t even remember that your own people were just as responsible for Iraq as this President, because your “control Unit” over at the Democrat Misinformation Media Machine keeps telling you “Bush lied.”
In spite of having an Ivy League Diploma, and better grades than Kerry or Gore, and authorization to fly high performance jet aircraft, you keep repeating the mantra that the DMMM has given you about this President being stupid. Of course, the same thing was said about Reagan, now they want to put him on Rushmore. So, who’s minds are really bought here?

This is not a real issue at all! It is only gossip. Its fake controversy that was produced entirely by talk radio itself and the Drudge Report.

Such a ludicrous story. Let Inhofe provide a tape. If not, it’s nothing more than “so, when did you stop beating your wife?” type of stuff. In other words, both unprovable and indefensible. Lame.
Incredible how people here believe this story as fact for no better reason than they want to. Typical ideological blinders, which both parties wear all too well.
Yet another reason why we need a third party. One that’s not right, not left, but common-sense pragmatic.

fake controversy

Gogi, many people listen to talk radio because for years they held opinions and beliefs that they NEVER heard expressed in the dominant media. One day, they turn on the radio and discover that many people agree with much of what they do, they are just not given a forum.

Talk about the American Revolution II – this would do it — but these two dumb broads wouldn’t have the time to spend on this project anyhow, what with their obsession with make-up, botox visits, hair care, and tailored suits. I gotta believe half their day is gone before they’re ready to face the public.

Diffuse
1. Don’t presume you know me. You don’t. But your comments make clear you lump anyone who disagrees with you in the same “them” basket.
2. Bush did lie. And continues to. And repeating the lie that he didn’t doesn’t make it true. Nor does all your name-calling make you the winner. Speaking of truth …
3. Talk radio rarely deals with the truth, it’s opinion. Which is the reason for something like the Fairness Doctine, since opinions will always differ (as yours and mine do) and TRUTH is not served by exclusion but by inclusion.

Being a retired lobbyst I feel that I have a better insight than most. For over 30 years I walked the hallowed halls of DC. There were Statesmen and women then. Now there is not a soul who is not there just to get re-elected. As an American I am imbarassed that congress is only 14% approved by us. I think we need to get good elected officials, not the least bad person. Talk Radio is a market place. If Liberals had a worthy story to tell they would have a listening audiance. Legislating our right to here whatever is corrupt at it’s best and shamefull.
Of course most persons won’t fight the big Government. At our young age we never learned to take a position in politics because we believed in our congressman. We learned to fight and kill to protect the liberals and thier way of thinking. Shameful. Thanks

We are talking about a group of people that have a 14% approval rating. The same people that got nothing accomlished in the first 90 hours (or 90 days) and who can’t see that immigration reform is as much a security matter as it is increasing the voter rolls.
Ther’s very little to worry about since it “sounds” like our constitutional rights are being trampled on and you know this message will come out STRONG as the fairness doctrine looms larger and all the “noise” (liberal and conservative) hits the airwaves.
But lets say it does happen.
All the conservative talk show hosts have to do is move over to XM radio and they will become rich beyond their wildest dreams.(Remember Howard Stern?) Add to this that they will be able talk about anything they want and not have to worry about being censored. Can you say “Michael Savage on steroids”?
Ang guess what – all the “ditto heads” will follow and they will poney up the bucks to do it. If you want to look at it as the lemmings will always head into the sea, then so be it. AM radio, in all likelyhood,will just disappear into history and XM will be as big a force in shaping public opinion as AM radio is today.
All you libs who want to silence talk radio have to come to grips with the fact that it can’t be silenced. There has never been a point in history where censorship was considered a good thing or one case where it improved the human condition.
As long as Americans “yearn to be free” there will always be a conservative radio host out there giving ideas on how to do that.
Conservative radio will never die. Its just going to move to the next venue and dominate that as well.

No, the govt. should stay out of it. Free enterprise and capitolism works! That’s why US is the most envied country on the planet.

What’s the big deal libs?? If you don’t like it, turn the dial to something else. You dno’t even listen to your own lefties, why are you worried about Conservatives?
Thom Hartman, that Socialist is on everyday at noon here est. I always listen to the first opening segment before heading to Rush so I can here if “Independant” as Thom describes him, Bernie Sanders is on.
Independant Bernie Sanders is like saying Good Guy Joseph Stalin.

Calm down everyone!!! Inhofe just admitted on Cavuto that it happened over 3 years ago and not like it was reported on Drudge!!! A non story!!

How typical of Liberals to attempt to leglislate that which cannot be accomplished in a free market, or at the ballot box.
Liberal Talk Radio has been tried a bunch of times. The truth is, nobody, not even their supporters, wants to listen to it. Air America actually has had to pay stations to run their show.
I mean really, who wants to spend hours of their time listening to clueless, hateful like Janeane Garofalo?
I know this much. There are only two ways in which “Liberal” Talk radio can succeed. One, is if they can find a lefty who is as funny and entertaining as Rush Limbaugh. So far, no luck. The second is if they pass a law reinstating the so-called “fairness doctrine.”
The free market has spoken. Basically, people don’t want to listen to liberal talk radio because they don’t like spending several hours being condescended to.
In a nutshell, here is why Liberal talk radio will never work:
Q: How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: That’s not funny!

Diffuse has it right. For a long time I kept hearing about this “shock jock” Rush Limbaugh and the horrible things he supposedly said. Then, as I was moving across country in December 1989, I heard one of his broadcasts for the first time. As I would travel out of range of one station, I found myself frantically trying to find the rest of the broadcast on another, closer station. He was saying what I had been saying and believing for years. Come to find out, he was no “shock jock” after all. He’s just conservative, and an arch enemy of the political left in this country.
Gogi, I’m not brainwashed at all. I wouldn’t call myself a ditto-head if I was the last Limbaugh listener left on Earth. I think for myself, gather information from a wide variety of sources, and make decisions for myself based on that research. It just so happens, I agree with Limbaugh more often than not, and I hardly EVER agree with anyone on the political left.
So shoot me!

Gogi,
Repeat after me: The Constitution allows ALL people’s opinions to be heard, whether or not their views line up with yours, or whether you think they’re stupid or worthless. Got it?

Left, right, up or down. None of the aboved parties represent any of us.
It is all a show so we don’t look at what is really going on.
Taking away all of our freedoms, fighting wars for false pretenses and not finding out what really happened on 9/11/2001.
Please stop making comments from the right or left.
Start thinking as an AMERICAN!

Dear Diffuse,
I don’t believe the “so did the Dems” argument. So now you’re assuming I’m an apologist for the Dems, huh? How little you know.
And my Mama taught me that two wrongs don’t make a right. They ALL lied, my dear. Because they wanted to keep that secret Cheney oil deal a secret, and keep those oil dollars coming into their own coffers.
But because he has the most power, Bush needs the most scrutiny, that’s all. You, as a “conservative,” ought to agree with that.

Wow. I guess I’m to stupid to figure out anything. Can’t be trusted. I might even start believing Ted Kennedy next. Then where will I be?

Hey, uBoat,
That’s exactly what the Fairness Doctrine says — all people’s opionions, not just the ones corporations paid for. So we agree on that! :D Nobody’s trying to shut down Rush – just offer some alternatives.

I believe there is too much liberal content on broadcast TELEVISION shows and news programs. Why isn’t that ever discussed? Perhaps because it is fundamentally un-American to regulate TV script content, even though TV stations are licensed users of airwaves. Once the government issues the radio license, they should forget all about the content unless it is actionably obscene. OK? Let freedom work.

Diffuse:
I think you’re over-generalizing. I am a proud liberal, not even a so-called “progressive,” and I get my information from sources outside the liberal media. My sources range from middle of the road to the left. But since I don’t even understand the right-wing perspective, I don’t frequent right-wing outlets. It would be like hanging out with a bunch of native-speaking Japanese people all day long. Nice people, probably. But I wouldn’t understand a word.
That’s what I observe from all the conservative commenters on sites like ABC. Just a bunch of right-wingers getting frustrated with and misrepresenting ideas that are opposed to theirs. Where’s the interest in that?

Burt,
You sound like a right guy. I have no beef with you, because you seem to actually have done some thinking and made up your own mind. It’s the dittoheads of both parties I can’t stand. I want people to THINK and make up their own minds. And they should have CHOICES about what they listen to. 91% of stations is pretty much mind-control territory in my book.
AND I just wish we had some real news left on the radio or anyplace at all.

Anyone, I repeat, anyone who would take what they hear on Talk Radio (national shows, at least) as gospel really needs a reality check.
Someone once asked Limbaugh why he would never admit anything good that might have been done by Democrats. His response? “I’m not going to cheerlead the other side.”
In other words, there’s no “truth” on Talk Radio. It’s only one side’s dogma, and the side doesn’t matter. For some idiotic reason, people enjoy it because it panders to their prejudices. It’s simply preaching to the proverbial choir.
It’s purely divisive, and only reinforces half-truths and stereotypes about people and parties. That’s what you want to subscribe to?
Anyone wondering how despots like Hitler came to power need only listen to the one-sided diatribes on talk radio (both left and right). Once people begin believing this nonsense, it gets scary. That makes it a bit more important than just “entertainment”.

After Michael Savage heartlessly attacked the Virginia Tech community, including it’s memorial service and speaker Niki Giovanni, only a day after the bloodshed, and right after the Imus scandal – a heinous act on Michael’s part akin to walking up behind and kicking the families of the dead while their loved ones’ blood lay fresh on the ground in front of them – I am a proponent of regulation on the likes of Savage. Imus got fired for saying “Nappy Headed Ho” which had nothing to do with taunting those who just experienced carnage and immense lose of loved ones – an event noticed world wide. Savage did not get fired for an act much worse than Imus. No one in the media even noticed Savage. Hypocrisy abounds. ABCNews would do the public a service by getting an old recording of the Savage show on April 17th and doing a story on it as part of its research on regulation of shock jocks, conservative or not.

I tried, I REALLY REALLY tried to listen to Air America a few times simply to get the gist of their side of a (any) argument. I could not find enough real “substance” to justify the venom spewed. Tell me FACTS and I’ll listen; tell me your NUANCE…I’m gone.

I have to respond to Mike’s comments. He seems to think that all media is owned by a few corporations that are interested in brainwashing us. No, they are interested in making money. On the networks, you notice that the bigwigs never get involved until there is a scandal. Example: the Rather situation. Once it was shown that he put obviously forged documents on the air, they knew it was time for him to go. And their decision for a replacement was not based as much on political leanings as it was on having a pretty fresh face and a perky personality, because they thought it would drive ratings (they are starting to see that it was a dumb idea now).
As far as talk radio goes, it is basically the same situation. Clearchannel is the leader. They own two stations in my city. On one they have Rush, Hannity, and local hosts. On the other, they stacked it with the best-known liberal talk show hosts along with Air America. They hung with it for a couple years, but after the ratings stayed so miserable, despite their consistent marketing of the station, they dumped the format. A pure business decision, nothing else.

Diffuse, my friend,
I am all for scrutiny of the corrupt, no matter who they are. But you must admit, leading us into a war where thousands upon thousands have died, and bankrupting the country … deserves a bit of scrutiny, yes? Undercutting civil liberties … scrutiny, yes?

Talk radio resulted from the liberal bias of the television/cable media. Those of us with differing ideas than those of the boob-tube sheeples wanted to hear and talk about important issues and have the hipocrisy of the liberal politicians exposed for what it is. If you are liberal you probably went to government schools beleived every word your socialist professors fed you in college and now settled into being a conforming member of your socialist democratic party. Hope you enjoy your brief ride. For me, I will fight for my freedoms and kick sand in every wimpy liberal I meet. ROCK ON!

“Nobody’s trying to shut down Rush – just offer some alternatives.”
How wrong you are, Gogi! You need to go back and look at what the “Fairness” Doctrine required before 1987. If you’re being literal and talking only about Rush, you might be right. But Rush in this case represents all of conservative talk radio, or according to that recent survey, 91 percent of daily talk radio. If radio stations are required to provide equal time to those with different or opposite opinions, someone’s current airtime is going to be chopped WAY short. I’d sure like to hear your explanation how that is not shutting down “Rush.”
And what’s with this “offering alternatives” garbage? Progressives (liberals) had Air America to put them to sleep every night. That was an alternative. Why can’t liberals understand the concept behind market forces dictating business decisions? Is the ideology so infective that liberals are blinded into believing their only hope comes in the form of a strong-arming federal government that forces specific attitudes and behaviors upon people?
Hey, go find Hannity’s TV sidekick on the radio dial and have a pitty party about how our country isn’t fair.

How do you know a Clinton or Clinton aide is lying?
simple, their mouth is moving.

DaTruth, Rush Limbaugh takes great pains to describe himself to his listeners as an entertainer. Nothing more. People like Hitler came to power by silencing alternative viewpoints, not offering them.

I think that Nancy Pelosi is in violation of the Logan Act of 1799 when she travelled to Syria. This law was signed by President John Adams that prohibits unauthorized U.S. citizens from interfering with relations between the United States and foreign governments.
Nancy Pelosi went to Syria as the Speaker and took it upon herself to conduct foreign policy. This is a blatant violation of the Logan Act.
No one has ever been prosecuted under the 208-year old law, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Pelosi carried a message from Israel to Syria and that message according to representatives of both Syria and Israel wasn’t consistent with what one of them agreed to … these are the kind of problems you get and I think she must be held accountable for her actions.

Naked power, used to silence opponents.
Evil. Tyranny. Here!

well how about the liberal agenda in hollyweird…i dont think its fair that they can push their agenda in movies and tv like i see,but i am not going to call on the goverment to do something about it.
it’s the way of the left if they have nothing they look to goverment and courts to circumvent their agenda.
they have nothing and they know it.

Johnny T, you’re ranting. Take a breath. A rant like that only undercuts anything of substance you might want to say.
Posted by: Gogi | Jun 22, 2007 4:51:45 PM
First off, I agree it’s a rant. I tried to make it an intelligent one. For example, the Declaration of Independence was an intelligent rant against England’s excesses in the Colonies. Like Johnny Rotten said, “anger is an energy.” Anger, properly focused and eloquently stated, can move worlds.
You can make your response more intelligent by pointing out what things I say are beyond the bounds of reason and common sense, I’ll be glad to listen to you. Otherwise, you’re no different from the Fairness Doctrine supporters who detest talk radio and demand its regulation without specifying exactly what subject matter or specific quotes they find objectionable enough to suppress.
I await your eloquent response.

Hogfan — From your leftist perspective, I imagine you would find “mainsteam” media to be too middle of the road-ish. That’s a typical socialistic viewpoint, but not that of a liberal. So tell me this: Besides yourself, when is the last time you heard someone — anyone! — describe mainstream media as being anything other than liberal? Why is it NEVER described as being conservative?

The fact that someone could actually ask the question “when was the last time you heard anyone describe media bias as other than liberal” … is evidence that you’re traveling in very limited circles. In fact, it’s not an accepted fact, but a bit of PROPAGANDA, which you’ve swallowed hook, line and sinker.

Thomas Sowell said it best when he noted that the road to “fairness” is paved with despotism.

Hey Gogi,
Quit your whining. If you want air time, you have to come up with a product and compete like everyone else. Radio is not a charity case designed to make everyone feel loved and accepted, it’s a business.

Gogi, Using the IRS, and peoples FBI files against the people are a much greater threat to your civil Liberties than Bush, who has a Constitutional obligation to protect you from people who would like nothing more than to see you assume room temperature. We could go on and on about the war, but basically, I support it, and I’ve been there and done that. Besides, all the Democrats said it was the right thing to do, until they discovered that they would rather have power than the courage of their convictions. Bush is the one who has remained constant in all of this, whether you agree with him or not.

The fact that Gogi would read “media bias” out of the words “mainstream media” is quite telling of how we all tend to place our own biases on whatever we read, see, hear or do.

Burt:
The only people I hear complaining about the liberal media are conservatives.
I never hear a peep from moderates.
And actually, my fellow liberals complain all the time that the mainstream media is conservative. They back that up with at least some proof, making the case that each is owned by conservative-leaning, conservative-donating individuals.
But the sheer fact that conservatives call the MSM liberal while liberals call the MSM conservative is the only proof I need to see that it’s in the middle.
By definition, it must be.

I can’t take this anymore,you guys are lying no one is talking about stopping free speech.What would be wrong with places(like where I live)to get some liberal voices on radio that’s not in noway saying stop free speech.STOP LYING to make your point!!

“Unfortunately, all those “old people” you speak of, get out and vote. Talk Radio tells them to and how to vote.”
So does MTV and The New York times when they “endorse” a candidate. Maybe big brother should intervene in those mediums as well.
Democrats are Socialists, and Socialists like to stick Govt. into every aspect of our lives. This is why we have the second amendment.

Oh, come on, don’t mince words. What you were saying was that media was biased to be liberal. Please!
Oh. And it ain’t true, either. For example … ABC! Corporate owned and corporate censored.
By the way totally agree that using FBI and IRS to spy on us is a big threat. Only PAY ATTENTION. Bush is the guy who’s doing it. Ever hear of a little thing called The Patriot Act?
Got to run, really. It’s been fun.
G.

The Democrats could easily oversee the airwaves and silence conservative talk shows. They have the power and the mandate to properly supervise our lives. We want to be safe, well fed and warm, not free.
Besides, conservative talk show hosts are big noisy gas bag frauds and like all conservatives will fight for nothing. They’ll squawk and huff and puff, but in the end, like all conservatives, they’ll fold.
Go ahead, implement the “fairness” doctrine. There’s nothing to fear. Show some guts.

PEOPLE, STOP WRITING HUGE, LONG ESSAYS…KEEP YOUR COMMENTS SHORT.

Here’s a moderate Independent’s opinion: Liberals have ABC, NBC, CNBC,CBC, The New York Times, The LA Times, and just about every major newspaper as well as am radio programs. Conservatives have Fox News, talk radio, WSJ, and not much more.
But who cares?! People have a right to read and listen to whatever they want!
Restricting freedom of speech and choice is dangerous.
If someone feels threatened by talk radio, then they have something to hide — something they don’t feel they can win in a simple debate.
It’s stupid and silly to try to shut someone up because they don’t agree with you.
Oprah, Barbara, Katie, and just about every other tv talk show is liberal.
Who cares? Let people do what they want.
Hillary is an idiot for bringing this up (it’s been an issue with her for many years). I’m sure Obama is losing no sleep over Rush and Hannity. And I’m sure Rudy is losing no sleep over Chris Matthew or Blitzer…
So don’t tell your neighbors what they and or can not listen to!!

You right wingnuts have to eat humble pie on this story, and this story is the ONLY thing that matters, since everything flowed from it.
Your boy Inhofe now “clarified” his remarks by admitting this so-called conversation wasn’t made “the other day”. So, we know he lied right there. Zero credibility.
Any commentary about what the left wants about censorship, etc., are hereby rendered moot. Inhofe lied. You commenters now look like fools, since you played right into the phony story.
That DaTruth guy was right (below). There’s no truth on talk radio. Only fools who want to believe everything they hear, as long as it is inline with their beliefs. How ludicrous.

Even if you discount what Inhofe said, Pelosi, Hoyer and Kucinich are ALSO pushing the Fairness Doctrine!

Not to worry, Hillary will fill her gulags with these talk radio people as soon as she becomes president!

I’m willing to say that Rush’s demographics are not “a bunch of old people.” The one telling the old how to vote is the AARP, controversial because they have a LIBERAL point of view. If anyone is “telling” people how to vote, it would be those folks filling up the buses at the public housing projects around the country and taking them to the poles on election day. And which party would that be?

Burt:
I think you’ve already had one too many. As clearly as I made my point, it still flew right over your head. Here, let me give you a visual aid:
Left———Moderate———Right
So those on the Right complain that the mainstream media is to the Left.
And those on the Left complain that it’s to the Right.
Then, guess where that puts it? One guess.
Au revoir.

Hogfan,
You’re a moderate apparently. Just because both sides claim the media caters to the other doesn’t make it automatically moderate. That’s hardly a fact my mentally challenged friend. What are the facts? Print and television media gives 9 times more to liberal causes than conservative. The BBC did a study that found that it had a liberal bias. Those are facts genius.

I don’t understand why when something seems to be in the least bit awry or unbalanced, people’s first reaction is “the gov’t needs to control this”. Why, o’ why, would government control EVER equate to making things better? There are three choices: let pinhead bureaucrats control the world, let greedy corporate titans do it, or give the reigns to the clueless masses. Not to be overly cynical, but my vote is for the latter, not only because I a AM member one of the clueless mass, but because that’s the right the constitution gave ME–not the federal government. We let them have *way* too much control over our lives, because too many of us assume things are better controlled from afar by politicians. Have some faith in yourselves and your fellow people to change the channel if you hear a word you don’t like, or to do your own research on what foods you should eat, etc. Federal Gov’t was never meant to be your mom. Power needs to go back to the states and the citizens.

The Nazi’s were right of The Commies but, still leftists. They were socialists. Keep in mind one thing. It is slavery.

Wow! Such hateful and intolerant comments coming from some of the contributors here. Sounds a lot like the crap we here out of Al Jazeera and the ridiculous terorist manifestos that make their way to the evening news. You sure you guys are really Americans?

Regulate??? Congress needs to regulate themselves and leave talk radio alone! We are not a communist country yet!!!!!

Well, when it comes to Hillary Clinton, my starting position will have to start from the view of her close friends and supporters. As David Geffen, Hollywood music bigwig, explained a couple of months back, “Everybody in politics lies, but they [the Clinton's] do it with such ease, it’s troubling.”
Besides, it’s well documented that the Clinton’s, inc. Hillary, are completly connected and running the show behind this massive organized campaign to remove all voices from the public airwaves which might offer a different view. The effort is led by a shadow organization of the Clintons – notably by Center for American Progress, which is comprised of Clinton friends, former Clinton administration officials and staffers. Free speech, dissent, and debate on the issues is a good thing – let’s fight the supression of free expression and free speech by the radical lefists.

Concerning the issue at hand… I am a strong believer in freedom of speech, whatever the speech may be. But media ownership has been consolidated into fewer and fewer hands over the past few years, thanks to the past Congress. Wehn those few hands are more concerned with promoting a particular ideaology or agenda, then you start to see more gate-keeping in what you see. Therein is the problem here (Think… Rupert Murdock). We need to bring back the laws limiting how many channels of media and how much can be owned and controlled by one owner. Freedom of speech means your news is not filtered and is truly fair and balanced (without just claiming). Of course there are going to be biases. I would rather not see them quite as blatant.

“We need to bring back the laws limiting how many channels of media and how much can be owned and controlled by one owner.
Posted by: dave | Jun 22, 2007 6:04:54 PM”
If people don’t want liberal crap like Air Amerika (yes, with a ‘k’ comrade), why should we want laws so that you can try to force it down our throats?

If too much power of ownership is not in Liberal hands, the remedy is not talking about how much conservative speech is on the air. The fact that this is the primary point being made by Mr. Penetta, a former Clinton operative, uses his report to criticize conservative speech shows EXACTLY what the Stalinist goals are here.

For the lack of a better term, I am what some would call a “middle-of-the-road” conservative, though I despise that label. I do happen to enjoy the banter on the cable news programs, and though I often find myself disagreeing with him, I do like O’Reilly (enter boo and hiss sound effects). But for many who have posted here that claim that they can’t find blatant liberalism on cable news, you need to look no further than Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. I actually like Keith, I was a fan of his since his sports days long ago on ESPN and I hear he’ll be doing some work with ESPN with their football broadcasts this season so I’m interested to see how he does. My point is that I enjoy to take in both sides of the political arguments, and if you tune in to Olbermann, you’ll get your fair share of “liberal media.” I don’t care for his blatant Bush-bashing every single program, but I can put up with him just so that I can see what the “other side” is saying, and his show is somewhat entertaining as well. And when I get sick enough of either O’Reilly or Olbermann, I simply don’t watch – amazingly simple, isn’t it.

Of course the answer is simple, first kill the messenger even if the precise words or the precise date is correct or not. Liberals think it is “unfair” to quote anything they say (except praise). Are we back to defining the word “is”? (Remember Bubba?).
Radio in general was almost dead until Rush came along, and gave it the shot it needed. Say what people want to hear and they will listen. Say anthing the Liberals want to say, and NOBODY LISTENS (Except in NYC LA and SanFran., and then the audience is pitifully small). The Liberal objective is not fairness, it is to shut off anything the Liberals FEAR! Basically, it is TRUTH they fear.

Fairness doctrine? Talk radio hosts invite democrats and liberals on their shows all the time and they refuse to come on to defend their viewpoints.
So the left is whining about talk radio again? LOL It’s just been documented that they’ve got 90% of journalists in the media donating to democrats and lib causes and they’re crying foul about some talk radio. Why? Because in the market place of ideas theirs fail!!!!!
Liberals can’t hold up any stats or facts to show liberalism works that’s why you can’t hold an intelligent conversation or debate about their policies and ideology.
Lib logic 101: Save the seals, kill the human babies… punish hard workers (ie the rich) and reward irresponsible behavior (ie out of wedlock births)… nationalized healthcare systems are failing all over the world and what do they want to do for us? nationalize our healthcare!… and on and on.
After welfare reform the republicans pushed through in the mid 90s teenage pregnancy rates went down for the first time in over 40 years!!! Gee imagine that people were responsible for their own behaviour and they actually responded.
Every state that’s enacted a concealed carry law has seen the crime rate go down. Liberals want more gun control laws that don’t do jack!
The tax cuts have resulted in record tax revenue and the democrats still harp their class warfare mantra of raising taxes on the rich.
we capture terrorists and get information out of them that saved thousands of lives and they want to give them all an aclu lawyer and falafel!
the libs and dems say they will be big tough guys in the war on terror… but they’re afraid to go on fox news and talk to brit hume! LOL the reason they’re afraid to go on Fox or talk radio is because their policy stances will be literally dismembered when logic is appied and they know it.
talk radio show hosts are saying now that they invite liberals and especially democrat politicians to come on their shows all the time to defend their policies and the lib ideology and they ALL politely refuse. why is that? i’d love to hear nazi pelosi or hitlery clinton come on rush limbaugh or michael savage and defend their ideas. what’s the big deal hitlery? let’s sit down… let’s chat… let’s have a conversation. surely if you’re confident with your positions you should have no problem defending them right? LOL
liberals and democrats say they’re for energy independence but they won’t let us drill anywhere or build any nuclear power plants…. for the past 30 years!!!!
they say their for alternative energy such as wind power… but not in their backyard!! (see ted kennedy blocking wind turbines for years because that’s where he likes to sail… that is until the mass state legislature finally overode him just last year)
It’s an endless litany of insanity and there’s no logical way to defend it. This is why no one listens to air america not because of some mystical kabal out there keeping them from being heard.
PEOPLE CAN SMELL BULLSH**T WHEN THEY HEAR IT (pun intended)… EVEN ON THE RADIO.
Journalists donate to dems and lib causes 9 to 1… no bias here. And they’re saying there’s some vast right wing conspiracy in the media keeping THEIR viewpoints from being heard! Now that’s funny!!!!!
So since liberals can’t win in the market place of ideals they’ll do a back run through the courts and use legislation to attempt to silence the opposition. (Hugo Chavez would be proud!)
I really hope they try it. I don’t think these morons know who they’re messing with because if they do attempt this they’ll motivate the conservative base in this country like they’ve never seen before. This will make gay marriage look like a picnic as far as getting the conservative vote out is concerned.
Furthermore makes me laugh out loud that libs are now calling themselves “progressives”! You can put lipstick on a pig but it’s still a pig! And of course the inference is that if you’re not progressive… you’re regressive.
Nice try losers! You’re not fooling anyone. It might work on your simpleton uneducated “looking for a hand-out” democrat constituency but it’s not working on the talk radio crowd so stuff it!

Reporters must be licensed and regulated. 89% of reporters financially support the Democrat party and thus cannot be objective.

“89% of reporters financially support the Democrat party”
That is a right-wing LIE.

Trent Lott says ” talk radio is running the country”. If this is the case what exactly is congress doing? I find it amazing that the same people that want to destroy the First Amendment and complain about talk radio, are the same people who want to grant amnesty to illegals and grant Geneva Convention rights to terrorists.

“Liberals can’t hold up any stats or facts to show liberalism works …”
LBJ’s Great Society programs reduced the poverty rate by 40%.

I wonder what the people at ABC News and Jack Tapper think when they read these whacked out comments from the right wing fringe 26 percenters.
Especially the deluded lunatics that say that the Nazis were a bunch of “Libruls”.
You can’t get any more deluded than to say that.
Presently Germany is having quite a problem with today’s Nazis, who are engaging in race based hate crimes, and violently attacking “Libruls” of all stripes, in a similar manner to their American right wing counterparts.

How rich is this? Everyone is conveniently forgetting about the major
T.V. Networks AND the major news outlets across the country? You’d find that they have a OVERWHELMINGLY LEFT WING/DEMOCRAT/LIBERAL bias! A survey just came out about how journalists contributed to Democrats at a rate of 9 to 1 over Republicans?
I’d say that pretty much nullifies ANY point claiming Conservatives have a “unfair advantage” on the media market. Quite frankly, CONSERVATIVES ARE JUST MORE ENTERTAINING TO LISTEN TO THAN THE ‘I hate America’ crowd (the Left).
By the way. You people on the Left should get to know the Constitution! Trying to control talk radio through legislation is a blatant violation of Article 1, Freedom Of Speech! If any elected official supports this whole media fairness doctrine idea with legislation , they can expect to suffer the consequences!!!
What’s wrong with the Left? Middle America would like to know!
MaverickCoast

“You’d find that they have a OVERWHELMINGLY LEFT WING/DEMOCRAT/LIBERAL bias! ”
Only an extremist could believe that.

“punish hard workers (ie the rich)”
Like Paris Hilton?

“Nazi’s = Socialists
Socialists = Liberals
Do the math.”
Another poster who hates History. The Nazis outlawed all the socialist partiers.
I guess Mill was correct:
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill
English economist & philosopher (1806 – 1873)

It’s not that Liberals are stupid, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.
Ronald Reagan

“It’s not that Liberals are stupid, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.
Ronald Reagan”
Why did Reagan give arms to Islamic terrorists?

Fix right wing radio talk? Let ‘em. Don’t forget when Hillary or the legislator tries to fix something it gets worse. That means right wing talks gets “worser.”
How much worse has immigration got since 1986 fix?
How much higher is cable tv?
How much more is gasoline, and how much more gasoline is there, after all the CAFE standards of yore?

“we capture terrorists and get information out of them that saved thousands of lives and they want to give them all an aclu lawyer and falafel!”
If you hate the ACLU, you hate America.

DIFFUSE -
Unemployment under Clinton was 3.9% at one point.

Clinton and Boxer are liars. Of course they were discussing this topic, and probably in a more sinister fashion than anyone suspects. Keep in mind, these are not “smart & strong women” we’re talking about. They’re dyed-in-the-wool socialists and anti-American activists.

“Your boy Inhofe now “clarified” his remarks by admitting this so-called conversation wasn’t made “the other day”. So, we know he lied right there. Zero credibility.”
INHOFE is unfit to hold public office.

thanks for the grammar lesson. winning since the 1600s??? yeah right. political correctness, class warfare, socialism, and appeasement our enemies is what’s made this country great. i stand corrected

When will Inhofe be delivering his apology?

Steve J. “Why did Reagan give arms to Islamic terrorists?”
I suspect that when he came into office, and saw that it was good that Jimmy Carter started channeling arms and funding the freedom fighters in Afghanistan, that he decided to continue the effort. The imperialist USSR had invaded a proud and independent country, not in the mold of freeing it, but rather simply to extend it’s arm and to get a gas and oil route to the sea.
Unfortunatly, as with elsewhere – as Sen. Byrd said in 1996 – it is only the US that will come to the aid of contries in Europe (well, he called them, “that sorry old part of Europe”) and elsewhere when threatened by insiders or outsiders.
Further, it is very unfortunate that after the USSR withdrew from Afghanistan, Bush #1 and the world bodies did nothing to fill the void.
Bill Clinton continued the disgracful art of looking the other way in Afghnaistan, as in Rwanda and the Congo (where millions died), as Afghanistan fell deeper into chaos, and even less (other than give up on his efforts to build a pipeline across Afghanistan – yes, it was Clinton also)as the Taliban took control of much of the country, and violated all human rights issues which we stand for. Some 60,000 Afghan citizens died, hundreds of thousands were injured, millions fled, and we did nothing while the “terrorists” took up camp, declared a holy Jihad on the US, telling us that all US civilians, women and children were targets, that they would come and get us, and that they were building an network of operative cells all over the globe.
Can’t help but wish that Reagan had done even more.

Steve J., Since I supported my point that unemployment is lower under Bush than Clinton, and provided a link, I’m waiting for yours. In the meantime, if by being right, I shouldn’t own a firearm or be allowed to vote, maybe you should just go commit yourself, before your neighbors have to.

The Nazi’s called themselves National Socialists, and banned other Socialist Parties so their strength would not be deluded. Wish I could stay, I’m out.

FORBES: CLINTON BEST AT ECONOMY
Forbes Magazine declares the Clinton was the best of all 10 post-war presidents at handling the economy:
Presidents And Prosperity
Dan Ackman, 07.20.04, 3:00 PM ET
Clinton’s two terms in office (1993-2001) were marked by strong numbers for gross domestic product (GDP) and employment growth and especially for deficit reduction. His overall ranking puts him first among the ten postwar presidents–ahead of Lyndon B. Johnson, Kennedy and Reagan, who were tightly grouped behind the 42nd president and recent autobiographer.

This sounds a lot like what the communists and socialsts have done in the USSR, China, and Cuba. It sounds like what is now happening in N. Korea, Iran and others. With Clinton’s past rantings about socialized medicine, child care, and it taking a village – I’m sold. She is either a communist or a socialist. She is not a ‘progressive’ and can’t hold her hand on any book and take an oath to protect and defend the constitution – she has proven she can’t do that. Apparently Boxer can’t either.

RE: Clinton economy/jobs v. Bush economy/jobs
Look folks, without praising (hard to do) or trashing either of them, everyone needs to understand what the economists really understand – both sides keep putting way too much credit and/or blame on both.
As the progressive (very liberal) economist Dean Baker said:
The inflated stock market has created enormous distortions in the economy, the ramifications of which will only be apparent when stock prices return to more normal levels. If the market falls 50 percent and loses $10 trillion of wealth in a correction, it’s going to be very hard to avoid a recession. A lot of these dot.coms are worth a corner lemonade stand and are putting real companies out of business. What are you going to tell people who lose much of their retirement savings in their 401K when there’s a downturn?” Today, Baker said: “The decline in the stock market was an entirely predictable event for anyone familiar with basic arithmetic, even if the exact timing could not be known in advance. The nation’s political leaders chose to ignore the stock market bubble and instead focused their attention on distant and relatively minor problems like potential shortfalls in the Social Security trust fund in 30 or 40 years or the reappearance of budget deficits in a decade or two. As a result, millions of families have seen their dreams of a secure retirement or their children’s college education vanish with the stock market bubble. The level of negligence of the nation’s political leaders [during the late 90's] in ignoring the stock bubble exceeds anything since the days of Herbert Hoover.”
The booming economic bubble that created so much wealth and jobs during the late 90′s, was built on the back of corporate and accounting greed and fraud. When it’s historic collapse began in early 2000 (actually, most economic indicators were already in deep reversal mode) all of the recent new jobs, the health insurance that went with it, and the savings of millions of Americans would be lost.
The same is true for the reversal of the newly created budget surpluses. Bush did not cause the return to massive deficits, rather they were set in motion before he ever got the nomination. Later – as in 2003 forward, his tax cuts and war costs as well as huge increases in spending education, medicaid, Medicare, Veterans, and National Security (and the D’s keep pounding to spend even more on all of these and more)did indeed pile on top of the deficits, as they also helped spur the economy back into recovery. Yes, there one can argue to what degree, and at what cost – but not if. By far the largest portion of the shift from projected surpluses to deficits were caused by what Bush inherited, rather than by his actions.

Congress needs to keep their hands off the communications media because they will surely make a mess of it. The last thing we need is those dolts monitoring and controlling our information channels and deciding what we should say or hear.

Off Track, but IMPORTANT:
WHY did Bush and Cheney REFUSE TO TESTIFY UNDER OATH to the 9/11 Commission?
i.e. REFUSE TO SWEAR TO GOD to tell the TRUTH to the Commission and the USA?
Because of their involvement with the Bin Ladens and the SAUDI TERRORIST FINANCIERS?
Yup…
Come on, supporters of TRAITOR Bush…
BRING IT ON!!!

So, when Congress is done with radio, do you think they will go after the comment section of webpage articles or blogs?
What will you say and do then Steve J.?

BRB, Steve J. for you response. Got to preheat the oven for my pizza
(TALK OFF TRACK, BUT IMPORTANT)
Come in Mr. Bush goes to HELL.
Thought you guys didn’t believe in HELL. HMM?!?
I stand corrected?

But this is the life I’ve chosen.
Thank you very little NORMAN

Next you’re going to tell me Santa isn’t real and doesn’t deliver all those gifts in ONE night.
POP … my bubble has burst

Clintoons lie under oath, Bill lies with all the Jews in NY, Hillary lies about Bills’ lying with NY Jews, Oaths are what Hillary uses when Bill lies about his lying.
I wouldn’t necessarily wash my hands after playing with the puppy, but I would wash and sterilize my hands after shaking hands with the Clintoons.

RE: SANDY BERGER
The wingnuts still cling to the LIE that Berger destroyed originals.
Berger’s Plea
Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: Apr 6, 2005. pg. A.10
So we called Justice Department Public Integrity chief prosecutor Noel Hillman, who assured us that Mr. Berger did not deny any documents to history. “There is no evidence that he intended to destroy originals,” said Mr. Hillman. “There is no evidence that he did destroy originals. We have objectively and affirmatively confirmed that the contents of all the five documents at issue exist today and were made available to the 9/11 Commission.”

“Still not impressive (besides, I’d imagine that you’ve used the other shallow talking point, as well). They gave arms and aid to both sides in the Iraq/Iran war”
5 (five) felony indictments of the SECDEF aren’t impressive? What happened to the “rule of law” you clowns bleat about so often?

Let’s see now. The world’s smartest woman didn’t know about Gennifer Flowers, the Rose Law Firm billing records, Monica Lewinsky (hell Jake, even you knew Monica Lewinsky, right?!), Travelgate, the raw FBI files and the guy who requested and received them, Whitewater, cattle futures, etc. but knows for sure a simple conversation never took place.
Yep, I believe her. [/sarcasm off]

Dear David (see his posting below), You’re exactly the reason why Democrats and liberals are so deathly afraid of talk radio. Blacks voted 91% for Democrats in the last election. Saddam Hussein used to only get 95% of the vote and he actually used to hunt down and kill people that voted against him! Go figure on that for a bit.
The reason Air America sucks is because they can’t defend their logic or their arguments. The reason that people prefer to listen to Rush is because he presents his case in a logical manner and then we can decide for ourselves whether or not we agree with him or not and even if we do happen to disagree with him we can still understand where he’s coming from as intelligent “thinking” human beings.
This drives liberals and Democrats crazy because talk radio encourages people to think for themselves instead of just going into the booth to press the button with a big D next to it in the next election like a bunch of mindless sheep.
Forty years of Democrat leaders in our inner cities and elsewhere have done the black community no favors and the evidence is around for all of us to see with our own eyes the damage they’ve done with their victimization and government dependence ideology as well as their welfare state mentality that rewards irresponsible behavior instead of discouraging it.
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“I am a non-partisan 32-year-old black man who has never voted in an election and I can honestly tell you why conservative radio works and the liberals’ attempt at radio recently hasn’t. It’s truly simple: Al Franken’s show was never interesting or funny. He can be hilarious — but his show was crap.I can’t stand liberals or republicans — BUT if someone put me on an island and forced me to have to listen to either Air America or Rush/Hannity — I’d choose the latter. It’s simply more informative and entertaining.
Posted by: David | Jun 22, 2007 1:51:35 PM”
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Dear David (see his posting below), You’re exactly the reason why Democrats and liberals are so deathly afraid of talk radio. Blacks voted 91% for Democrats in the last election. Saddam Hussein used to only get 95% of the vote and he actually used to hunt down and kill people that voted against him! Go figure on that for a bit.
The reason Air America sucks is because they can’t defend their logic or their arguments. The reason that people prefer to listen to Rush is because he presents his case in a logical manner and then we can decide for ourselves whether or not we agree with him or not and even if we do happen to disagree with him we can still understand where he’s coming from as intelligent “thinking” human beings.
This drives liberals and Democrats crazy because talk radio encourages people to think for themselves instead of just going into the booth to press the button with a big D next to it in the next election like a bunch of mindless sheep.
Forty years of Democrat leaders in our inner cities and elsewhere have done the black community no favors and the evidence is around for all of us to see with our own eyes the damage they’ve done with their victimization and government dependence ideology as well as their welfare state mentality that rewards irresponsible behavior instead of discouraging it.
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“I am a non-partisan 32-year-old black man who has never voted in an election and I can honestly tell you why conservative radio works and the liberals’ attempt at radio recently hasn’t. It’s truly simple: Al Franken’s show was never interesting or funny. He can be hilarious — but his show was crap.I can’t stand liberals or republicans — BUT if someone put me on an island and forced me to have to listen to either Air America or Rush/Hannity — I’d choose the latter. It’s simply more informative and entertaining.
Posted by: David | Jun 22, 2007 1:51:35 PM”
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NOTE: justice department has no integrity so how is it possible to have a public integrity section.
unless your dictionart says integity is a homonym for corruption.

“I haven’t heard anything about this “Fairness Doctrine” being applied to newspapers and television.”
That’s because you don’t understand what the Fairness Doctrine is. Look it up before making another ignorant post.

talk talk talk indeed

What liberals are trying to do is Ithe equivalent of the Bush Administration enforcing that secular rock radio stations devote half of their content to Christian rock…can you imagine the outrage (and rightly so)?

the smartest woman in the world(that does not include other species or men and children)failed the DC bar exam.
thereafter the SWITW was forced to go to arkanasa w/will-yams because he wanted to run for congress.
the self described SWITW went with him because she couldn’t get a job in DC without a law license,
finally will-yams got her to pass the bar with an open book test and no time limit along with 10 #2 pencils.
when this occurred he got the ol’ wlarus webb hubbel to put her on th epayroll in charge of billing records and cattle futures.
someone else always has to do her work because she is incompetent.
is there any project that anyone is aware of that she started and finished.
no fair: tying bill’s shoes does not count.

I said BS, not the truth.
Will half-truth, he was a great president!

Steve -
The point remains – the 90′s economy was conservative economics at it’s best. In fact, it was Reaganomics gone mad (I’m not a fan – are you too dense to catch on). That’s why when it collapsed – there was only a giant big hole for the country to collapse into.
Only in this past year, have the CEO’s and the top 1% regained the extreme position of income that they had attained back in 200-2001, before it crashed.

I think HRC and BB are onto something, we can revive Err America AFTER university campuses, federal judgeships and all federal agencies, print and TV media positions are certified to be 50 percent filled by conservatives. Oh! DIVERSITY of THOUGHT?? NO WAY!!!!!!

It is obvious most of the posters have never had a thought different than their political party hacks. As a former career military man I find it amusing so many want to censor what they think is radical. I see radicals on both side of the equation. I have not seen or heard of conservatives or spineless republicans beating, intimidating, or destroying another’s property because they disagree with a liberal’s political stance as recently at the liberal convention

THERE IS NO FREE MARKET FOR TALK RADIO
And here’s some evidence to support that claim:
I heard Insannity whining today about the possible restoration of the Fairness Doctrine and I decided to update my previous compilation of local talk radio hours, broken down by conservative and liberal shows. The hours below are only for the M-F schedules and do not include repeats.
Based on these hours, you might think that Tucson was overwhelmingly Republican but you would be wrong. According to the Pima County Recorder, Democrats far outnumber Republicans in voter registration.
DEM 95,681 REP 56,313 LBT 2,037 GRN 994 OTHER 63,563
CONSERVATIVE LINEUPS – Daily total: 56 hours
KNST -
6AM – 10AM: Tucson’s Morning Show with Jim Parisi
10AM – 1PM: The Rush Limbaugh Show
1PM – 4PM: The Sean Hannity Show
4PM – 7PM: The Savage Nation with Michael Savage
7PM – 10PM: Mark Levin Show
Daily hours: 15 (last hour of Levin show repeats 1st hour)
KVOI -
12:00-3:00am Brian & the Judge
3:00-6:00am Morning in America
6:00-9:00am The Dennis Miller Show
9:00am-12:00pm The Dennis Prager Show
12:00-3:00pm The Michael Medved Show
3:00-6:00pm The Hugh Hewitt Show
6:00-9:00pmThe John Gibson Show
Daily hours: 21
KZPT -
6AM-9AM The Morning Truth
9AM-12N The Laura Ingraham Show
12N-2P The Neal Boortz Show
2P-4P The Radio Factor w/ Bill O’Reilly
4P-7P The Jerry Doyle Show
7P-10P The Mike Gallagher Show
10P-12A The Greg Knapp Experience
Daily hours: 18
KJLL -
7PM – 9PM Tammy Bruce
Daily hours: 2
LIBERAL LINEUPS – Daily total: 10 hours
KJLL -
6AM – 9AM Stephanie Miller
9AM – 12AM Ed Shultz
9PM – 12PM Alan Colmes
Daily hours: 9
KXCI -
3PM – 4PM Democracy Now! Hosted by: Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzales
Daily hours: 1

“he [Ken Starr] vetted the incredibly stupid state senator. sandra “LIGHTS OUT” o’connor”
Another example of conservative ignorance.
When O’Connor was nominated. she had been a state judge for 6 years.

some write about their city being overwelmingly democrat and that is a reason to take conservative radio off the air. ever hear of the raygun democrats?

“some write about their city being overwelmingly democrat and that is a reason to take conservative radio off the air”
More conservative lying. NO one and certainly not me has been saying take them off the air.

“Liberal Radio has been tried, and has failed.”
Ed Shultz, Randi Rhodes and Stephanie Miller are doing just fine and so was Al Franken before he quit to run for the Senate.

Hannity and Beck and O’Reilly and all those right wing hacks are lying when they say the Fairness Doctrine will ‘silence the opposition.’ The opposition is already silenced, in that the right wing is on 24/7 where I live. Rush runs three stations in my listening area – there is no counter-viewpoint. What we have here is right wing cowards who want to make certain the other side is not heard.

Liberals love freedom and tolerance only when it benefits their failed ideology and agenda.

How about some balance in speakers on college campuses. How about balancing faculty at colleges, where there’s not a single centrist, much less a Republican in some whole departments. How about some balance among television reporters and producers who lean to the far-left by 80-90%. Perhaps some balance in our major newspapers which are overwhelmingly leftist. Next Hillary and Barbara will come after the Internet and censor free speech here. HYPOCRITES!!!!!!!!

Hilary Clinton = Hugo Chavez.
It’s obvious now.
Don’t vote for the Marxist!

Do it and that will amount to a declaration of war against the people, and we will defend the Constitution vigorously.

“Hilary Clinton = Hugo Chavez.”
LMFAO!!! Another bedwetter tells himself a ghost story!

“you guiys can’t stand it that there is another medium out there that meets the need for open and honest debate about the issues”
Heheheee! Wingnut radio tells lies to the stupid and ignorant.

“Before anyone says that “Talk Radio” does allow a debate, do you really think that the people that are put through to talk with the hosts are just random samplings of people calling in? It’s a SHOW! The topics, the points, the people calling in, are all CONTROLLED. No real debate is going on. Apparently they are slick enough at it, that Joe Q. Public forgets this.”
So sorry Mike but as usual your socialist lies don’t wash with those of us who actually call in and debate the host. If you don’t want to hear these shows, as you tell us when nothing but trash is on TV, turn the knob. I am sure there will be something for you on the Communist Broadcast Service with Katie.

o’connor was massively underqualified
lower court judge but had been a state senator and worked in the attorney general’s office. any way you slice it, if you are defending her for being a judge after a senator, it doesn’t make her qualified. she was probably nancy’s mannequin. her litmus test by the incoherent starr probably was sticking pins in her ears.
she was appointed because of ken starr’s stupidity and ronald ray-gun having a very small internal operating system.)oh, goody, we got sandy)(thought it was orphan annie’s dog) she was labeled a conservative as was the even more liberal george (walk-on the-moon) bush.he can’t speak in full phrases.
i am not a conservative blogger but i will warn you steve J. (Juvenile) that i am going to put your leash back on if you don’t behave and if that doesn’t work we will have to see the vet to calm you down.
no more red bull either.
no starbucks.
i won’t tie you too tight if you shown any signs of rehabilitation.

It’s reallly pretty clear that liberals and conservatives don’t trust each other’s information. There’s so much information to digest, it’s hard to know what’s important. We all rely on trusted secondary sources who make a living processing information and giving us capsules of what they feel is important. Even so, I appreciate those of you who present facts, from where ever you got them. Some of you are pretty liberal and others pretty conservative. Unfortunately, these blogs tend to be dominated by narrow minds who want to brand as corrupt or stupid those who disagree with them. I find this mode particularly prevalent among those who criticize “right-wing talk radio.” They want to assert that if you listen to Rush or Hannity, you’re a greedy bastard who can’t think for himself. The cynicism most Americans feel about politics and politicians comes from the fact that too many of us are willing to judge each other as incompetent in some way just because we disagree. Ladies and Gentlemen (terms used loosely but hopefully) perhaps we can focus on facts and recognize that others may have facts we don’t know. I have lots of conservative opinions, but I’m not stupid or corrupt. I have liberal friends with whom I can have great discussions, and others who expect me to hear and believe what they say while rejecting my known facts. I have conservative friends who lack facts, too. I avoid closed minds of all stripes. That’s what makes a visit to blog sites so excruciating.

Is something preventing liberals from starting their own talk show?
I don’t think so. Well, maybe their lack of talent.
So, why don’t we call it for what it is? It’s the democrats trying to control public opinion for the 2008 elections. And the only people agreeing on “>restricting talk<” radio are the liberal sheep who can’t form an intelligent thought.
Here is a little advice for you liberals. How do you turn off a liberal or conservative radio show? Tune out.

How do we all consume all this info,right or left? It seems easy to me and my small mind. whatever the Polition is blabbing… go the other way. It is unfortunate that it has come to this in our lifetimes but, i hate to be the bearer of bad news. Our politcians are not for the people anymore… they are for…. who knows..
WELL I’m for America and I hope you are too. I hope you,, anyone reading this will vote for what is really in the BEST interest of every “American”. Do we really need 10, 20 or 30 million people to do the jobs “people won’t do”? Do we need the 10′s of MILLIONS of ILLIGALS to bring thier extended families here as well? Do the math, That could be 10,20,50,100 million people flooding our country,,, I really don’t care who they are… I just see what is happening NOW in my small community. Our school districts can’t buy books, our hospitals are going broke, our jails are full, cities are going broke and our streets are in shambles….. what sence does it make to open our boarders to whoever wants to come in? I think we need to slow things down and step back,,, If this were your money,(which it is)do you want to spend more on free houseing,medical,prisons,education.. I don’t… I work all my life,work with my kids to do their best so they can advance to the best colleges. Save money to pay for it and plan for the future,,, The whole time our polititions will hand over in state tuitions to Illigal’s. I will work my whole life pay my taxes and ss taxes and hope to survive at retirement… Yet someone from another country can come here,l get a house or apartment to live in, free medical,schooling and food stamps. Is this fair? Is there a country on this planet that I can retire to and get all these benifits? The answer is absolutely NOT A CHANCE.What are our elected officals really up to? That is what we need to know. I truely beleive they are no longer for the people. The only way we can make a change is to VOTE… And to vote new blood into congress and our senate… So, I suggest to vote for the underdog,,, get the old blood out.Lets see if we can Totally shift the house,senate even the whitehouse,,,, retire the lifers in our government… the only way we are going to have change is to change our leadership,,,,
I want to hope and believe it will happen…
Thanks… An American

Talk radio is another source of free speech guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Need I say more? Regulated it? Herr Geobbels must be dancing in his grave. Ya, let’s make it propaganda, mein fuhrer. Just say nice things about our leaders. How can we boast we are a free society when talk radio may be regulated by the very people talk radio gets off offending. This smacks of killing the messenger for the message is not liked by those who fear the free message. Most talk radio is crap, but it’s OUR crap; leave it be, or next, it will be our telephones that will be regulated — oh, I’m too late!

Tam (Jun 23, 2007 4:38:34 AM) – “Our politcians are not for the people anymore… they are for…. who knows..”
Tam: they are for anything which will keep themselves in power and make us more dependant on them. This is very easy to verify. Any program which creates more government bureaucracy
and more control by the government is a perfect example. This give them more control over our lives, which requires more people within the government to control and regulate the program (taking away yet another freedom), thus making us more dependant on the government (I think they call it Socialism). National Health Care is a perfect example of this. This takes away our freedom (to choose our own health care providers), gives the government more power, and thus helps those in power more powerful. Keep an eye open for these types of programs (that take away our liberties), and watch out for catch phrases like “for the good of all the people”. The hair on your neck should stand up when you hear this, and standby to have yet another liberty taken away.
Jeff

A gossips happened 3 years ago. How can this be report as news?

Do not do anything. We still have freedom of speech, you may like what they say, but they have a right to speak.

There is a Clinton history on silencing and demonizing people who disagree with them. Whether it is stealing peoples FBI records to use unsupported stories against their opponents: http://www.cnn.com/US/9606/23/fbi.files/
Using the IRS to audit people who make accusations against them: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14702
Or selectively targeting churches and conservative groups who speak out against them: http://www.texemarrs.com/121998/irsmuz.htm
It is how they, and their army of private investigators work. And now, all you “geniuses” who say Rush listeners don’t think want to give these people every single Americans health records! Are you crazy? I can hear “Shrillery” now. “Oh look, Bill, this opponent of ours had an abortion, and that one had VD back when he was in college.” Here’s a little article on how HRC operates.
In his new biography of Hillary Clinton, ” A Woman in Charge,” Carl Bernstein recalls April 23-25, 1993, the 94th, 95th and 96th days of the Clinton administration, when the president and Mrs. Clinton attended a retreat with Senate Democrats in Williamsburg. It was already clear that the Clintons were not going to fulfill their promise to present “comprehensive” health-care legislation within their first 100 days. Bernstein reports that two of the most respected and, for Mrs. Clinton’s purposes, most important senators, Pat Moynihan and Bill Bradley (both were on the Finance Committee, which would handle her legislation; Moynihan was chairman), were appalled by her highhandedness.
Bradley asked her whether the tardiness in delivering her bill would complicate passage by making the bill competitive with other legislative goals, and he suggested that some substantive changes in her proposal might be necessary. Bernstein writes:
“No, Hillary responded icily, there would be no changes because delay or not, the White House would ‘demonize’ members of Congress and the medical establishment who would use the interim to alter the administration’s plan or otherwise stand in its way.”
Bradley and Moynihan heard this, Bernstein says, “with disgust and distrust.” Her plan never even came to a vote in a Congress controlled by her party.

The audio of Inhofe seems to have been removed. At least we still get the picture: http://thumbsnap.com/v/Mm1Q5d9X.jpg

Censorship of the American people; they aready removed our rights to vote in these last two fraudulant elections. What a beautiful Right-Wing religious corporate militaristic fanatic Bushie world it is! Yehaw! Yup Yup Yup. When is he going back to Crawford, Texas? And by the way no more Texas Presidents, two Bushes and a Johnson are enough for the next few hundred years.

Thank God for George W. Bush.

Here’s how the left handles free speech and the rights of Americans. Silence the American people with “hate speech” laws. Silence the soldier’s, because they dare to speak out against them, and just want to win. Silence the radio waves with the “Fairness Doctrine.” Silence the pulpits with threatening the churches with removal of their tax-exempt status for conducting “political speech” from the pulpit. (I.E.- talking about them.), but exempt your church’s from the same. http://www.texemarrs.com/121998/irsmuz.htm. Silence people who accuse them of wrongdoing by having them audited by the IRS. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14702 Silence your political opposition by obtaining their F.B.I. records, where any accusation can be unfairly made, and pass it off to a willing media as an “innocent mistake.” http://www.cnn.com/US/9606/23/fbi.files/ B. J. Clinton was a master of the last three. Silence dissent in the classrooms. Silence speakers and alternative viewpoints by heckling on college campuses. Silence authors by not displaying or reordering their books in the bookstores, even when those books are on the best seller list. Attack the right of free speech, and others, by denying that there is a God, so no such thing as “God given rights.” Disseminate false and misleading information when it serves your interests to advance your cause. Silence the right of being asked serious questions by your opposition, by refusing to appear on any network that doesn’t support you, even if that network’s opinions are supported by over half of the nation, and they are the most watched. Deny the right to free and closed election ballots to people voting on Union membership. Any of you sunshine patriots who support these people should think twice. When you stop marching out of lockstep, and have a different view then the one the media is filling you with, it will be your turn to discover just what an oppressive government can do. You know, “when they came for me, there was nobody left.” When the right of free speech is gone, the only thing separating us from a revolution will be the size of our middle class. Should China, or another nation, put us into economic chaos, all that will remain is anarchy. Woe to you on that day, as I for one will be part of a group of millions that will be ferreting out you lunatics who support the silencing of your fellow Americans, or believe all this nonsensical conspiracy garbage . Then, all the gun laws, faith in global warming, and smarmy intellectual superiority you think you possess in the world won’t be enough to protect you from we, the people, who still love this country. We will be sanctioned in what we do, as the documents that created this great nation demand us to revolution, should we be threatened with the government usurping of our “God given rights.” This is what our founder’s said, in case you’ve forgotten- “Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their saftey and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light or transient causes: and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” Ya’all just might want to keep that in mind.

Teucer said:
“Inhofe is a prevaricator to say the least. No thousand word Limbaughesque essay will change this fact.”
My turn:
I guess it was too much to hope that more than a glib response that doesn’t even begin to refute what I said was on its way.
I don’t know or much care about Inhofe and whether he overheard Mrs. Bill Clinton and Babs Boxer discussing how they were going to take down your Limbaugh boogeyman.
I pay more attention to congressmen Kucinich, Hoyer, and Pelosi, who have advocated reinstitution of a severely antiquated and constitutionally troubling bit of regulation.
Now, do I believe that it will amount to much more thana token effort to put it forward, as a way to at least throw the far left a bone?
No, I really don’t.
I believe they will at least mention it at their campaigns some, and they may even introduce written motions, but they won’t get very far with that, either.
No, I believe that it will get scuttled by both right and (sensible) left thinkers.
The sensible ones will recognize it for what it is: sly government regulation of things it doesn’t like flying under the banner of fairness, whatever that is.
However, if they should press forward with any real seriousness, it would do its advocates FAR more harm than good, what with how it would energize their opposition.
People are funny that way.

SAndra 1…”they aready removed our rights to vote…”
Really? So “they” you didn’t vote?
And “they” won’t let you vote next time?
Who are “they,” Sandra? The very liberal Democrat Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, who warned his court that they were getting way out of line – that there was no way the Supreme Court would let their radical decision stand. That same decision, the state-wide recount that Al Gore’s chief counsel argued in front of the Florida Supreme Court that they had no legal standing in ordering such a “state-wide” recount. Yes, Sandra. Boies argued against what the left says they wanted. Only Gore did not want it. Besides, the recounts did, in fact show that if “those” recounts had proceeded, Bush would have won any way.
in the end, it did not matter that the US Supreme Court voted 7-2 to stop the recount. Had they voted for it to continue, Bush would have won the recount. There is no argument on those issues. The arguments are on fringe fantasies.

Radio today, internet next, shortwave eventually? Maybe we will be forced to publish broadsides as they did during the revolutionary war. Sharpen your quill pens!

Rush who? The only Rush I listen to are named: Geddy Lee, Alex Lieson and Neil Peart. But Rush Limbaugh et al in all honesty are nothing Since Howard Stern for example left terrestrial radio, Limbaugh’s listenership went fom 30 million to 10 million. And currently, left radio has increased from say: 500,000 to 1.8 million. So where are the others? Sure not Sirius or X.M., but to a small network called Premiere Radio Networks, specifically to a show called Coast to Coast A.M. The show hosted by George Noory, Ian Punnett and Art Bell has more than 10 million and up to 50 million listeners. Yes, it’s that woo woo radio show, but that woo woo radio show asks the questions no talk show asks: 9/11, Codex, Soldiers dying from D.U., RFID tags and so on. And yes the UFO theories too, but guess what? Rush Limbaugh doesn’t talk smack about Coast when George Noory has guests criticizing Bush. And Fox news is a part of Premiere’s radio news program.
So don’t worry about Rush, et al, just make sure you’re honest and not on the other end of the CoastRider’s wrath.
J.A.
P.S., Gorge Noory for President 2012

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A FEW QUESTIONS THAT SHOULD BE ADDRESSED. THE FIRST IS WHY DOES EVERYONE SAY THAT OBAMA DOES NOT HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE, YET NO ONE ASKS THAT QUESTION OF FRED THOMPSON? THE NEXT IS AN ISSUE NO ONE ASKS, WHY IS HILLARY RUNNING? SHE IS PASSE AND TAKING UP SPACE THAT NOW BELONGS TO OBAMA, EDWARDS OR RICHARDSON. WHY DOES HILLARY THINK SHE HAS THIS RIGHT? THE CLINTONS ALREADY HAD THEIR TURN. BESIDES THE FACT WE HAVE CLINTON AND BUSH FATIGUE, DOESN’T ANYONE WANT TO ADDRESS THIS FACT? 28 YEARS OF BUSHES AND CLINTONS DOES NOT SEEM LIKE A DEMOCRACY TO ME, AND THERE SHOULD BE A LAW AGAINST THIS ! THEN WHAT? JEB BUSH GETS TO RUN? THIS IS INSANE AND THIS MUST STOP! AND THIS IS BESIDE THE FACT THAT NO ONE LIKES HILLARY AND NO ONE LIKES THE BUSHES.

talk radio (noun)[mod. Eng. derivative of "radio", in reference to "radio programming"] 1) broadcast radio programs consisting almost entirely of moderator(s) discussing issues of the day with callers or interviewees; 2) much sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Diffuse – Great post
Ahmed – It is Freedom of Speech NOT Freedom from speech. And plus please state something that is hate-filled from conservative talk Radio, I know the Left Radio shows were filled with hate speech, so please list hate speech form the Conservative talk shows please??
Also can’t you change the dial to the 1000′s of other stations?
And for those bringing up Florida GET over it!! First of all President Bush won the 2004 election with a record number of votes from any election in past. and in 2000 how come Gore did not want the Military votes to be counted in Florida?? and They never were!.
Do you know that all great countries were destroyed from the inside. The only way to destroy this great country is from the inside, and the greatest protection we have is the First Amendment, if the Libs do away with that we are sure to be no more.

Is no one working or is everyone watching TV and listening to the radio?
When I was working a 40 hr week, I was so tired, I bearly had time to watch TV or listen to radio……….Oh, well, those were the good days, when Americans had well paying jobs.

Personally I see no need for a congressional decrees to change “Talk Radio.”
We have main stream television news programs that have shown to be more liberal than conservative. Then we have talk raido. I have a brain. I gather information from a number of different sources. I do not need one network providing two sides of one issue. I have a hand that can tune into many different avenues to get the “big picture.”
I do tend to lean toward a more conservative process. More just right to center than hard right… So I can also see how re-starting the “faireness” doctrine could actually improve things… as the hard left, is more sociallist in nature…. It would only bring out this fact more plainly than current news agencies currently show.

Hello everyone. I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
I am from Verde and also now am reading in English, give please true I wrote the following sentence: “  The fact that a large segment of the american public is suffering is irrelevant from their perspective.”
:( Thanks in advance. Oneida.