Posted on 03/25/2013 6:10:21 PM PDT by TeaPartyJakes
Will the fate of immigration reform be in the hands of talk radio even as popular Republicans are stepping forward to support it?
Last week, the Republican National Committee released an “autopsy” for the party that called for, among other things, supporting immigration reform. Likewise last week, Tea Party favorite and likely 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul expressed support for a process to provide legal status to illegal immigrants. Another likely 2016 GOP hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio previously announced support for immigration reform.
But in 2007, talk radio sounded the amnesty alarm. Conservative hosts were blamed (or credited) with derailing a bipartisan measure supported by Republican President Bush and congressional Democrats. Fred V. Lucas writes about this in The Right Frequency: The Story of the Talk Radio Giants Who Shook Up the Political and Media Establishment (History Publishing Co.).
After the defeat of the 2007 immigration bill, prominent Republican Sen. Trent Lott famously griped, “talk radio is running America.” Many Democrats, feeling the medium was too powerful, demanded a return to the Fairness Doctrine.
After Trent Lott’s assertion, Limbaugh defiantly posed on the cover of his newsletter under the words, “I run America.”
The Right Frequency details how most American talk hosts including Limbaugh, Hannity, Mark Levin and Glenn Beck called on their listeners to call Capitol Hill in opposition to "amnesty." Listeners obliged, melting the phone lines of their Senators and Representatives and succeeded in stopping the bill backed by leadership in both parties.
However, not everyone thought it was a good idea. The Right Frequency tells of one conservative host who believes his colleagues were short sighted and that Barack Obama would have lost the 2008 election had some version of immigration bill passed.
(Excerpt) Read more at i-newswire.com ...
Mark Levin and all those “surges” back then...
Ah, the Levin surges. I have to say, I have proudly participated. I love melting those phone lines.
The funny thing about talk radio is how bad libs suck at it. Colmes. Frankenstein. Mr. Ed. All pathetic.
I think that was the time Air America went off the air...
Laura Ingraham was a major force on that pushback in 2007. Limbaugh not so much as I recall. Do not know where Laura stands now since she is no longer on the air in Twin Cities and I lost interest in her when she and Knobby Knees dissed Sarah.
I vividly remember the very day in 2007 when the amnesty hubbub really started, as I was on a long drive home, and listening to talk radio in the car. Bush had that obnoxious quote condemning the border “minutemen” folks as vigilantes. Expecting to hear some pushback from radio hosts, the first show I managed to get on the dial was Michael Medved’s show. Medved, however, was praising Bush’s amnesty plans to the hilt.
Yes, I remember that day. Because I switched Medved’s show off, and never listened to it again. Similarly, from that day forward I never uttered a word in defense of Bush ever again, regardless of issue. Remember the day well.
The only Immigration “Reform” needed is to enforce existing US Federal Border Laws, “severely’ enforce US Border Laws.
No need of "Immigration Reform," when we won't carry out the last one. Enforce "Simpson/Mazzoli Immigration Reform" now!
Play the Broken Record: Give us the 3 high points of Simpson/Mazzoli!
Who is knobby knees?
“Who is knobby knees?”
Coulter.
Ska-rew “immigration reform” we need Wetback Reform.
“The funny thing about talk radio is how bad libs suck at it. Colmes. Frankenstein. Mr. Ed. All pathetic.”
Have you noticed that libs are always MAD. As someone said, Conservatives believe liberals are wrong whereas liberals believe conservatives are EVIL. Compare Hannity to Colmes. Ann Coulter to any female lib talk show host. Happy vs. Hateful. Whenever a conservative talks to a lib he/she is pleasant and non confrontational. The lib, OTOH reverts to invective in the second or third sentence at the
latest.
That explains the difference.
(A)Employers are required to certify that their employees are either citizens, people working with green cards, or other such legally authorized to be in the U.S. and seeking employment by showing one of the following: Birth U.S. Passport; certification of naturalization; Visa showing authorization for work AND showing photo ID certifying same. Violations of these identifications require both $250,000.00 fines and minimum 5 yrs jail time, followed by immediate deportation. Certain agricultural temporary work visa are permitted and no increases in those percentages unless official applications submitted and allowed beforehand. Any changes to law require a two (2) year period with congressional hearings and time for public comment;
(B)Congress allowed extra money for hiring Border Security to effectively stop illegals from entering the United States. Border Patrol shall issue such statements declaring their areas are free of incursions. All illegals entering U.S. are immediately deported, no "hearings to determine status" if they can't provide documentation.
(C)Illegals not allowed to receive other than "emergency" medical procedures.
Lastly, 1996 Welfare Reform Act purposely denies ANY government, federal, state, county or city benefits paid to illegal aliens!
My pleasure to submit this but anyone may read same at: http://library.uwb.edu/guides/USimmigration/100%20stat%203359.pdf
Thank YOU!
Would you please ping me if you post a thread on the Simpson/Mazzoli Act?
Please do me a big favor, bone up on this law as this is the one we should be demanding all our elected officials enforce NOW, not write something else or worse yet, do what they've done on Obamacare, make it up as they go along.....a la Pelosi's "we've got to pass it before we can know what's in it!"
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