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Battle lines are drawn over conservative radio
TheHill.com ^ | October 03, 2007 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 10/03/2007 1:33:55 AM PDT by Arnold Zephel

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Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has said broadcasters should be required to give listeners both sides of political issues so voters can make informed decisions.

As Mark Levin would say "Little" Dick Durbin is a Stalinist. He disguises assault on Free Speech rights with the perfect storm of Marxist rhetoric.

Query Dick: Will you apply the same standard to ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The LA Times, etc, etc, etc, etc,.......etc.......etc

1 posted on 10/03/2007 1:34:00 AM PDT by Arnold Zephel
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Kinda sad that free radio needs to be protected from the Government. But hey, they are just looking out for us. Asking talk-shows to show both sides of an issue is like a commercial where you show your product and then invite competitors to show theirs. makes complete sense. Next up is legislation defining the maximum number of sides an issue can have and establishing a cabinet to regulate it. Id like to petition names for the new cabinet post, The Department of Issue Geometry is my suggestion.
2 posted on 10/03/2007 1:47:47 AM PDT by benjamin032
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To: Arnold Zephel

Has even one Republican Senator gotten on the floor to defend Rush Limbaugh and expose the lies the Democrats are telling about Rush’s “phony soldiers” comment. That Rush was speaking about one particular indisputably phony soldier named Jesse MacBeth


3 posted on 10/03/2007 1:58:57 AM PDT by dennisw (France needs a new kind of immigrant — one who is "selected, not endured" - Sarkozy)
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Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has said broadcasters should be required to give listeners both sides of political issues so voters can make informed decisions.

This is just so scary and disgusting. Hey Dick, how about letting station OWNERS decide what to have on their stations based on the amount of revenue it brings in? No, that would be too much to ask for you you sniveling little communist puss bag. It's not up to you or any of your tyrannical buddies to determine whether or not the content on a privately owned radio stationed is fair or not. You don't like it then don't listen, but HOW DARE YOU try to dictate to me what is acceptable or unacceptable for me to hear on my radio.

I know I shouldn't be surprised by anything a communist (I from now on will refuse to call them democrats) does but this is outrageous! I am so disgusted not only at people like him, but at every single voter who puts people like him into positions of power.

4 posted on 10/03/2007 2:01:50 AM PDT by frankiep (Insert clever quote here)
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To: dennisw

Don’t expect any good from Republican senators. They are a sorry lot.


5 posted on 10/03/2007 2:17:23 AM PDT by EEDUDE
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To: frankiep

Yep I sure don’t want the likes of Dick Durbin, Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, et. al. telling me what the issues are and then rationing air time for the opposition to speak.

These Democrats are absolutists on certain issues, such as abortion. Well, I’m absolutist on freedom of speech. Let Hillary screech and cackle all she wants as she tells us her view of the issues of the day. Then, let Rush and anyone else have their say. Any restrictions on our freedom of speech is a form of censorship.


6 posted on 10/03/2007 2:21:20 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Arnold Zephel

Let’s make it clear what Democrats are doing in one word: CENSORSHIP!

Let’s add one more: STALINISM!


7 posted on 10/03/2007 2:25:20 AM PDT by Wiz
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"Little" Dick Durbin is a Stalinist

I imagine at some point a limit will be reached and the old standby of firing squads and hangings will have to be employed to rein the enemy at home in.

8 posted on 10/03/2007 2:29:18 AM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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Not only that, but it is a huge step towards tyranny. If something like this were to go down then it would be a step towards having them force us to hear their viewpoints. Then comes the issue of forcing the views on the air to be “balanced”. Well obviously they will want to be the final arbiters on that, and it should be abundantly clear to anyone paying attention that “fairness” on the airwaves will pretty quickly become a matter of communist viewpoints being balanced by socialist ones. Anyone who agrees to such a law would be better suited to living in Cuba than in the US.


9 posted on 10/03/2007 2:38:01 AM PDT by frankiep (Insert clever quote here)
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To: Rome2000

It really pains me to say it but that’s what it seems like these dictators are pushing for.


10 posted on 10/03/2007 2:39:40 AM PDT by frankiep (Insert clever quote here)
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I propose to democrats something much better: The rights to switch channel and rights to turn your radio off

WOW! That proves that such equal time for broadcasting voice of the other is totally meaningless!


11 posted on 10/03/2007 2:41:39 AM PDT by Wiz
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Once the first nuke goes off stateside all bets are off and scum like reid and durbin had better watch what they say very carefully.


12 posted on 10/03/2007 2:44:46 AM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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First they took the Airwaves—Then they burned the books—then there were ethnic symbols painted on businesses!!!!!!!!!SOUND FAMILIAR? THIS MUST BE STOPPED!!!!!!!!!


13 posted on 10/03/2007 2:47:31 AM PDT by ScareyFast63
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To: Arnold Zephel

%100 on the mark my friend.


14 posted on 10/03/2007 2:49:45 AM PDT by sonic109
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That’s exactly what is going to bring this effort to silence Rush, Sean, Mark and Michael to a halt. When Levin sues NBC, CBS, the NYT to require equal time, the Lame Stream Media will rebel. Under the equal protection clause these media outlets will be subject to the same rules, or the Talk Radio muzzle will have to be declared unconstitutional. Problem is, if Herself the First is coronated, you can forget about the constitution altogether.
15 posted on 10/03/2007 2:52:18 AM PDT by Shady
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Why can’t someone in the senate stand up and say what you just said? Is there no one on our side with balls anymore. They pussyfoot around issues instead of laying it on the line to the Dems.


16 posted on 10/03/2007 2:52:50 AM PDT by sonic109
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EXACTLY!!

We have seen this all before and it doesn’t lead anywhere good.


17 posted on 10/03/2007 2:54:11 AM PDT by frankiep (Insert clever quote here)
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“Query Dick: Will you apply the same standard to ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The LA Times, etc, etc, etc, etc,.......etc.......etc”

Oh, he’ll gladly apply the same standard...the way all the MSM do already. Just ask them, they’ll prove they show both sides of the issue by trotting out their few conservative talking heads and having them debate the issue (4 loud libs to one cowed conservative).


18 posted on 10/03/2007 3:02:36 AM PDT by wgflyer (Liberalism is to society what HIV is to the immune system.)
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You know, these kinds of things wouldn't infuriate me nearly as much if we could at least count on Republicans in power to that. Then again, if you ask me, it probably doesn't bother them so much since they feel like they probably won't be too affected by it anyway seeing as how Congressmen and Senators of any party enjoy a de facto protected status from any of the crap that comes out of Washington. After all, they already got theirs right? It's sad but all too true.
19 posted on 10/03/2007 3:04:17 AM PDT by frankiep (Insert clever quote here)
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Senator Warner did... and he called Rush a GREAT PATRIOT and a GREAT FRIEND to the Military. He said that he doubted the story that the evilcrats were pushing.

LLS


20 posted on 10/03/2007 3:38:29 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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