Posted on 10/11/2008 6:53:29 PM PDT by SumProVita
Conservative-friendly media better get ready. Should Barack Obama win the presidency and the Democrats control Congress, as now seems likely, they will launch a full-scale war to drive critics — especially on political talk radio — right out of legitimate public debate.
Signs of what the new environment will be like for the right are already evident:
• When the National Rifle Association recently released television and radio ads in Pennsylvania targeting Obama's history of anti-gun votes, the Obama campaign's general counsel fired off bullying letters to stations that ran the spots, implying that they may have violated public-interest obligations.
• When the 527 group, the American Issues Project, came out with a commercial linking Obama to former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, the campaign (unsuccessfully) complained to the Department of Justice that AIP had broken campaign finance laws, and managed to spook some stations away from the ad.
• When two different conservative writers looking into Obama's background appeared on Chicago's WGN-AM Radio, the campaign's "action wire" energized its activists to bombard the station with rage-filled phone calls and e-mails, making the program more difficult to conduct.
(The show, hosted by the eminently reasonable Milt Rosenberg, had on both occasions invited the Obama campaign to send a representative to respond; the campaign preferred to answer with digital brownshirts.)
These crude efforts are only a start.
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You can forget about the First and Second Amendments. They’ll be history.
The Right better get used to crying censorship. Of course, the Left will say they are only fighting “hate speech”.
They’ve done it before and will do it again. IF the fairness doctrine were in place AND REALLY FAIR, we’d be leading in the polls.
The second amendment is the guarantee for all others.
Care to speculate on what action would be taken with the Internet?
They can try to suppress free speech-it won’t work. No one is better than the commies in China at doing it, and they can’t. Conservatives can move to satelite radio, and if the left shuts that down they’ll move to the internet. The will try but it won’t work. The right in this country is being pushed to the point of revolt-(the anger we saw at the McCain-Palin rally in WI was very encouraging). The sooner the battle starts the better.
Agreed. We need to start getting ready to fight a second Civil War now! Before Hussein Obama’s thugs try to confiscate all of our guns. You better believe he’ll try!
Could Obama use the Net Neutrality idea as a jumping off point for something more restrictive?
You mean, ACORNnet?
I guess under Obama and troops we will cesas to be the USA and will become the United Socialist States of America...and the Obama logo will replace the stars and bars..
Then 0bamma will confiscate short wave radios.
I imagine that on 01-21-09, the Manchild will be visiting the U.N. to start the process. Freedom of information is very detrimental to Communism.
This will be Bush’s and the Republican controlled congress’ greatest failure : Not crushing the Dimocrat party and their allies when they had the chance . This would have consisted of defunding Leftist groups (ACORN) and passing safeguard legislation for the alternative media .
The Dims are not afraid of wielding power to crush their opponents and we are on the verge of being on the receiving end of the ruthlessness of total DimocRat control . It’s going to be a very bumpy ride from which we might never recover ....
I have the solution — make sure the socialist Obama does not win the election. We have the power in our hands to turn out people to vote against him and if you have never worked a GOTV effort, now is the time to do it. Call your local Victory office that is with the State Party. We need every last vote we can get to defeat Obama.
Call family, friends, people at Church and get them out to vote. Send out emails to everyone you know with how important it is for them to vote.
With the number of people on here we can make a difference so do it starting tomorrow when you go to Church — ask people to please go vote for McCain/Palin. If you don’t like McCain tell them to vote for Sarah Palin.
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Rush used to be on shortwave.WRNO which i think is now defunct. But ther eare some other hug SW stations out there with alot of signal power.
Best make preliminary plans on buying an island with a consortium.
Build a short wave tower and begin broadcasting Free America from there.
Agreed. Go to your local McCain office and volunteer. If you can afford to donate then donate.
If I was a retiree I would be down there making calls and helping out. I work full time but I will be there tomorrow, each night this week and all the weekends to the election.
If you are in a safe Red State or solid blue State - they can set you up to call out of state.
I am hoping McCain’s GOTV is as good as Bush’s 2004.
Hand wringing, whining, watching the polls, watching sports games on the weekends does not win election. Volunteering is a lot of fun and you work with great people.
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