get ready, your idea of free speach is about to be tested, the leftest are willing to use the power of government to takeyour freedom of speach away, all because it is exposing them for the socialist trash that they are.
THE WAR ON TALK RADIO
As talkers prove their influence on public policy, the sharp knives come out
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Posted: July 30, 2007
3:30 a.m. Eastern
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=56827
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Though most Americans aren't yet aware of it, talk radio – from Rush Limbaugh to the local talker in small-town America – is under major attack, reports the August issue of WND's acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, titled "THE WAR ON TALK RADIO."
And no wonder: Last month radio talkers presided over a minor American revolution when they urged millions of citizens to successfully oppose the immigration/amnesty bill that the president and both political parties had been pushing relentlessly. It went down in flames – a devastating blow to the political establishment.
Now it's revenge time. If radio talkers, in conjunction with the Internet, can mobilize Americans to oppose the political elite with regard to immigration, what kind of effect might they have on voters during the critically important November 2008 presidential election just around the corner? The fact is, powerful forces in and out of politics feel extremely threatened by this one part of the mass media that overwhelmingly champions traditional American values.
In short: They want talk radio crippled before it does any more "damage."
Ironically, virtually the entire "Old Media," including the broadcast networks, major daily newspapers, newsmagazines and wire services like the Associated Press, represent views far to the left of Middle America, as every study for the past three decades has proven conclusively. It is only talk radio and the Internet – the "New Media" – that provide any balance and fairness to what has until recently been a leftist media monopoly.
As the incendiary August issue of Whistleblower magazine proves, "THE WAR ON TALK RADIO" is rapidly heating up, and involves many different types of attacks. Some are already well under way, some waiting in the wings, some out in the open, some behind the scenes. All are intended to throttle talk radio.
Some of the attacks are congressional, such as the controversial "Fairness Doctrine" which would legally require that views expressed on a radio talk show be "balanced" with opposing views – a surefire formula for destroying talk radio, critics contend. But beyond the "Fairness Doctrine," which was defeated – for the time being – a few weeks ago, Sen. John Kerry has gone so far as to call for bringing back the equal-time provisions. That would mandate not just "fairness" in broadcasts – by forcibly requiring that "conservative" views be balanced with "liberal" views – but actual minute-for-minute, second-by-second measurements of what is said on the public airwaves.
Some of the attacks on talk radio are quiet and technical – like proposals to force minority ownership on radio stations in an effort to get a more left-leaning worldview on the air. That would be accomplished by: 1) limiting how many radio stations one company can own, 2) shortening broadcast license terms, 3) requiring radio broadcasters to regularly show they are operating in the "public interest," and 4) believe it or not, imposing a fee on broadcasters who fail to meet these "public interest obligations" with the funding to go to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting!
Other attacks are more public and sensational – like the efforts of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton against talk show hosts. After successfully leading the charge against talker Don Imus for using a watered-down version of the coarse language that permeates today's black music industry, Sharpton said: "It is our feeling that this is only the beginning. We must have a broad discussion on what is permitted and not permitted in terms of the airwaves." Talk radio executives are convinced Jackson and Sharpton are sharpening their knives to go after more talk hosts for "abuse of the airwaves."
Still other attacks are based on charges of "bigotry and hate speech." Currently, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, John Gibson and Michael Smerconish have all been declared to be under scrutiny for their on-air "hate speech."
a little off topic here....
ask yourself a big question. we are supposed to be having a war on terror right?
well, terror is a tactic, declairing war in a tactic is impossable, that would be like declairing war on the blitzcreigers, what we are at war with is islamic facist,
and if we are at war with terrorist wanting to do us harm then why in the hell has the government left the borders between the US canada and mexico wide openm it makes common sence to close your borders if you are being threatened by the possablility of some1 comeing in and causing you harm, that is what you do if there is a immenent threat on your country.
CLOSE YOUR BORDERS, if we are under such a big threat from these people why hasnt more been done to controll the boarders, is it so that there will be a big attack in the future so that they can create another policeing force, or so that they can declair an emergeny and suspent the constitution and bill of rights under martial law? who knows.
and has any1 ever heard of the department of heartland security? no it was what the department of homeland security used to be called, they just changed the name and you belived that they made another organization to help you.
like the KGB it is still around but under a diffrent name aand used to be called something other than KGB, they create an organization, start off small, then as time goes on let people attack your country(or attack it yourself) give them more power and change the name and say that you make another organization to help defend the nation, remember, DAS HOMELAND SECURITY is there to help you, not. it is just another organization that is not needed and formed only to spy on americans and hurass them justlike the gestapo.
all the people we had in the guard and other military units b4 911 we could have sealed the border without any problem, so why change the name of an existing organization and give them more power to spy and controll?
yes i said it again, ISLAMIC facist, i am not afraid to say it, and any1 that is afraid to say it ,shame on you, no1 should be afraid to speak their mind in the US, and if you are then something is terrably wrong.
the constitution and bill of rights is supposed to put chains upon the government so that you can say what you belive without the fear of being persicuted for your belief, and if you are afraid to say your mind knowing that you have these rights given to you NOT BY THE GOVERNMENT, but by god himself, remember FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE.
if you are afraid to speak your mind knowing that you have the right to free speach, that means that some1 has done something in the government to make you afraid of speaking your mind for fear of prosicution, unless you are just a coward and are afraid of what some1 will think of you in that case just sit back and watch them take more freedoms that you arnt willing to fight for.