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WashPost Columnist Calling for a Shutdown of Conservative Talk Radio? (Michael Gerson )
newsbusters ^ | September 2, 2016 | Tim Graham

Posted on 09/03/2016 8:33:26 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt

When former Bush chief speechwriter Michael Gerson wrote a column for The Washington Post headlined “Cancel this reality show,” it sounded like just another anti-Trump column. Or is Gerson calling for a shutdown of conservative talk radio?

It's understandable that establishment Republicans would despise the dynamic of conservative radio talkers trying to yank party leaders to the right. But shutting them down? Does that sound like reasonable moderation?

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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

“Trump’s angry nativism — newly restated in Arizona with a few twists —,”

More BS. Trump is the least angry person I’ve seen...now Hillary..that is one angry old hag.


21 posted on 09/03/2016 9:23:41 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

They only need to wait another three weeks then we hand off the Internet to the U.N. and those pesky conservative voices will be gone.

This is why the msm doesn’t cover ICAAN transfer, not their problem.


22 posted on 09/03/2016 9:25:41 AM PDT by Kenny
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
If Trump is such a weak candidate it is because you (establishment) would not listen to us (the base). We told you not to go forward with open borders we made it all very clear. Do not do this! We wrote letters, emailed and visited offices of Congressmen to stop it. The traitors conspired on every level to do it but we stopped them long the way because they wanted cheap labor and their Democrat friends wanted voters. We told you a holes not to do this. Since you would not listen to us we took the matters into our own hands and nominated a candidate who would do something about closing the borders. If you a hole establishment types did not commit such treachery against us we would of never had to do this.
23 posted on 09/03/2016 9:30:11 AM PDT by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Glad you liked it


24 posted on 09/03/2016 9:38:20 AM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Trump’s angry nativism

The left trolls are out in force today.

NOBODY uses that terminology except leftists.

Begone - we're onto you.

25 posted on 09/03/2016 9:49:19 AM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: Reverend Wright

The Gaydar is pegging with this one.


26 posted on 09/03/2016 10:17:41 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: M. Thatcher

The propagandists of the Cheap Labor Express love the word nativist and also xenophobic.
This man was a Bush speechwriter.
Not all the leftists wear D jerseys.
Many who wear R jerseys have been actively trying to convince the citizens that abandoning the rule of law and surrendering our country was our only choice.
Rubio, Graham, McCain, Flake, etc.
Then they worked to make that true by only running candidates who were of the same mindset, effectively blocking the citizens from stopping the illegal alien inundation.
Every GOP Presidential candidate since the last amnesty has been a Cheap Labor Express stooge.
It would have happened again but for Trump.
That is why the visceral hatred for Trump.
They are protecting a 30 bipartisan policy of non-enforcement of immigration laws.
The invasion was intentional.
They will go all out to prevent Trump from re-establishing the rule of law.

If illary starts losing bad enough, it won’t just be Bush appointees endorsing her, we will see the entire Bush family endorse the wicked witch of Chappaqua.


27 posted on 09/03/2016 10:57:09 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

He does resemble Yeb!, especially the confused look....


28 posted on 09/03/2016 10:58:05 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Enjoy the rest of your stay here.


29 posted on 09/03/2016 11:00:24 AM PDT by Defiant (The Koran is the Mohammunist Manifesto.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

The bush family is an embarrassment to Freedom.


30 posted on 09/03/2016 11:02:06 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin; M. Thatcher; Defiant
Lurkinanloomin :
"Every GOP Presidential candidate since the last amnesty has been a Cheap Labor Express stooge.
It would have happened again but for Trump.
That is why the visceral hatred for Trump.
They are protecting a 30 bipartisan policy of non-enforcement of immigration laws.
The invasion was intentional.
They will go all out to prevent Trump from re-establishing the rule of law."

Exactly true !
Furthermore, I couldn't believe that someone who identifies as a Republican would identify Conservative talk radio and propose closing it down
obviously a restriction, imposition, and violation of the First Amendment concept of "Free Speech" because he found it inconvenient and divisive to the "Vichy" GOPe.
The statement by Gerson represents an anti-Republican ethical morality, and suggests shutting off any discussion in favor of the globalist agenda.
I initiated this thread because I couldn't believe this crap would be put out by anyone who self-identifed as a Republican
It's time to purge the "go long ..to get along" globalists who have more in common with the Dems than with the party grassroots.

31 posted on 09/03/2016 11:35:41 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Were the words of the first post yours or from the article? If not yours, you should have made that clear.


32 posted on 09/03/2016 11:42:49 AM PDT by Defiant (The Koran is the Mohammunist Manifesto.)
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To: Defiant
Defiant :" Were the words of the first post yours or from the article?
If not yours, you should have made that clear."

I believe that Gerson's comments should have been in quotes (").
That entire statement was his , and not mine
I don't talk, or think like that.
If those statements were not in quotes , then it is an oversight on my behalf.

33 posted on 09/03/2016 11:50:01 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: Defiant

I just saw that the entire presentation was done without quotes (”).
My mistake !!


34 posted on 09/03/2016 11:51:38 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

They’re scared to death the people are going to start listening to the other side of the arguments - that’ll be fatal for their plans of conquest.....


35 posted on 09/03/2016 11:52:28 AM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Republicans are now caught in a complicated electoral dynamic. What their base, incited by conservative media, is demanding,...

Some folks just can’t seem to think outside of their
liberal box. The conservative base was and is not “incited”
by so called conservative media, but incited and angered by
people who talk conservative but act like liberals once
they are in office!!!


36 posted on 09/03/2016 11:55:49 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Intolerant in NJ
Intolerant in NJ :" They’re scared to death the people are going to start listening to the other side of the arguments
- that’ll be fatal for their plans of conquest....."

That is exactly what is happening in the illery Camp too - Ultimate Desperation !!
And some of the Bugs are coming out of the woodwork, into the light, and getting identified for the Vichy GOPe that they are.
I believe that the world is acknowledging and rebuking the globalist agenda, one country , one party at a time.

37 posted on 09/03/2016 11:58:42 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

In that case, the zot should go to Gerson, not you. :)


38 posted on 09/03/2016 12:06:45 PM PDT by Defiant (The Koran is the Mohammunist Manifesto.)
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To: Nifster

I evidently deleted my comment to your comment.

I think it was like...Trump is our voice and all real Americans are disgusted.


39 posted on 09/03/2016 12:31:19 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: tet68
tet68 : "..but incited and angered by people who talk conservative but act like liberals once they are in office!!!

There are only a few ways to correct this as near as I can tell :
#1) Constitutional issued "Term limits "
#2) Primary in "Closed /Registered Party only"
#3) The Right of the electorate to "Recall"

#1)Term Limits would eliminate someone who is no longer a representative of the people, but rather a self-enamoured power broker/shill/whore.
#2) Closed Primary would eliminate the Boehner, and P.Ryan 'Vichy' rogues.
#3) Would demand the representatives attention to the electorate more often than every 4 to 6 years.

40 posted on 09/03/2016 12:44:19 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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