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"The remedy for what ails our democracy is not simply better education (as important as that is) or civic education (as important as that can be), but the re-establishment of a genuine democratic discourse in which individuals can participate in a meaningful way - a conversation of democracy in which meritorious ideas and opinions from individuals do, in fact, evoke a meaningful response."

But at the same time he is fighting for the "Fairness Doctrine" with the intention of killing democratic discourse on talk radio. The Dems say they want equal time, but in reality they want zero time by making political talk too difficult for the broadcasters to deal with, so they'll just have sports, gardening, home repair and relationship shows instead of people like Boortz, Limbaugh, Hannity and Savage.

I guess radio talk isn't "meritorious" enough because it criticizes the Dems too often. How long would it take for him to demand a Hillary style "internet gatekeeper" to ensure that all discussion is properly meritorious.

I think it was Jacques Elul (spelling?) whose classic book on propaganda said that in order to be effective, propaganda must be total, i.e., the slightest amount of contrary propaganda spoils the efficacy of the whole thing. I wouldn't go so far as Elul, but I think that's why libs hate Fox so much; even though it's only a small part of the national media, it spoils the total control that libs want, and is influential beyond what would be suggested by looking at statistics of how many people watch the various networks.

Fox and Rush and Drudge are like scabs on the bodies of liberals; libs can't help but look at them and pick at them and hence the bleeding starts and libs find themselves in controversies that would have been overlooked by the MSM.

it’s parallel to his “every vote must count” rant in Fla 2000. I seem to remember him uttering these words while he had a gaggle of lawyers running around to throw out the absentee ballots of the military.