"There's WAY to much free speech going on out there, and we're going to have to DO something about that!"
Posted on 06/23/2007 5:23:43 PM PDT by BornInASmallTown
WASHINGTON -- Immigration has supplanted Iraq as the leading issue on television and radio talk shows, complicating the prospects of a Senate bill desperately wanted by President Bush. Conservative talk radio's impact on the immigration debate reached new heights last week, with one host effectively writing an amendment for when the Senate returns to the imperiled bill this week.
National talk show hosts have spent months denouncing the bill as providing amnesty for illegal immigrants. Some top Republicans who support the legislation have defied the broadcast pundits. Others GOP lawmakers have tried to placate them, even to the point of accepting their ideas for amendments.
Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., told reporters last week, "Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem." Some hosts, he added, do not know what is in the lengthy bill. The comments incensed conservative talk show hosts who generally had supported Lott over the years.
Lott is "upset that the American people got right into the middle of the conversation over the problem with illegal aliens and it didn't turn out all that well for the pro-amnesty forces," Atlanta-based talk show host Neal Boortz wrote on his Web site. "If Trent Lott and his other buddies up on the Hill aren't listening to 'talk,' then what are they listening to? The answer is either their wallet or their legacy." Radio host Rush Limbaugh asked his audience: "What are we going to do about Mississippi Senator Trent Lott?"
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“Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.”
What does he mean by ‘deal with that problem’?
Hugo Chavez “dealt with that problem”.
There is a problem and we are going to deal with it in no uncertain terms.
Talk radio attacked a very powerful American entity called corporate America. The Dubai port deal was scuttled by talk radio costing investment bankers hefty commissions and fees. Now talk radio is about to upset the global corporate schedule for a North American Union (openning the borders for truckers, the super highway and movement of cheap labor). I think the Dems will have a behind the scenes supporter for the Fairness Doctrine and a number of initiatives to chop down the power of talk radio.
“Some hosts, he added, do not know what is in the lengthy bill”
some of the American citizens dont know, Trent, but the talk show hosts and too many of us peon Americans do know and that is very upsetting for you...
Just why do you think 85% of the Republican base is mad at you? We know you are trying to sell us out...
This Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 has nothing to do with immigration and everything to do with giving AMNESTY to 25,000,000 illegal aliens...
Be a MAN and vote NO on clotgure and NO on BOTH OF the AMNESTY Bills....S-1348 and S-1639
And DONT introduce any more of these sickening “IMMIGRATION” Bills...
The "Talk Radio Wars" will be very interesting, and lead to many more 'us v them conflicts', I'd guess.
The Enemy Within® is asserting their power, and we have to bitch-slap it down, once again, before their diseased minds rot the soul of this Nation.
The left would love to shut down conservative talk radio and here we have a couple of top republican senators, Kyl and Lott helping them out. How smart are we fellas?
Uh, no. The Dubai ports deal was supported, or at least given a pass by many national talk show hosts, Rush chief among them. The deal was scuttled by opportunistic politicians like Schumer who saw the specious indignation of an uninformed public and grandstanded against the deal to enhance their "national security" credentials. Since it was, as you point out, to the detriment of a few "investment bankers", it was easy pickin's for the socialists.
btt
Any Senator who has ever voted on a bill without having thoroughly read it (let alone having comprehended and analyzed it)--and that would be vitually all of them--should be impeached for making such a statement.
Any Senator who has ever voted on a bill without having thoroughly read it (let alone having comprehended and analyzed it)--and that would be vitually all of them--should be impeached for making such a statement.
"There's WAY to much free speech going on out there, and we're going to have to DO something about that!"
Would you allow a company from the Muslim world to operate American airports or airport security?
And lapdog Bush will sign it, as ordered.
Yep; you’re right, MTR, I’m sorry to say. Dammit.
My point to the poster was not to argue for the ports deal, but rather to point out that talk radio really wasn't the culprit behind the demise of the ports deal, self-interested socialists were. Certainly there's no shock there...
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