I think he is going to talk about his plan this week.

Not if but when this happens, there will be no advertisers who will support any of the Liberal stations, just as Air America and PBR have never been able to support themselves with advertising dollars. Heard someone say this weekend that the Libs cannot take all and any callers, as the Conservative stations do, because they can’t back up their arguments, and they get run over with the truth and facts.

Someone in the past said if the fairness doctrine came about for the internet, they would move their servers off shore. Would they block access then as the Chicoms do?

Well, here’s hoping Rush sails out into international waters and broadcasts from there…

…or something. At any rate, in this country, people WILL come up with innovative ways to get around this - legally, at that - and get the word out. Of course, I don’t put it past the left to try to make WHATEVER we do illegal. And then we’ll find creative ways to get around that, too.

At some point, though, this will almost certainly come back to bite the left. It’s just a question of when.

For all those in the pundit class who say that this is just a normal swing of the political pendulum and in 8 years it’ll swing back our way I say simply: you’re kidding yourselves!

Christopher Buckley was wrong! Obama will not back away from his Leftist Utopian ideology now that he’s in office. He’s going to do just what he said he was going to do in spite of his early fumbles.

Why do we have such a hard time believing what the Left is going to do when they spell it out for us in big bold print?

Wake up, Bill Kristol. Wake up, Peggy Noonan. Wake up, David Brooks! Wake up Michael Medved!

Fascism in America.

in a previous comment. (no, Can’t find it.). The gist of which is this is the lefts attempt at a legal end runaround the 1st amendment. I personally believe that public sentiment IS turning against this though. Will our party in Congress have the backbone from stopping this? If it is just the FCC, then we as conservatives need to bombard them during the “open comment period.

A Holocaust survivor was once asked what was the greatest lesson he learned from her experience under the Nazis. She replied: “When someone says they’re going to finish you off, you better believe them.”

The Left is not interested in political discourse or debate. They have nothing but contempt for political opponents. And Politics. There is a reason why in his campaign speeches Obama derided “politics as usual” or “remaking America.” Like their fascist predecessors on the Left searching for Sonderweg, these people are not interested in politics - the give and take of democracy. Their simple desire is to undermine our republic as we know it. I will never forget what Michelle Obama said about “not being proud of her country” or Barak not holding his hand on his heart during the anthem. These are very important indications - not to be ignored or played down as ephemeral flashes of emotion. They tell you something very important about the person’s deepest, innermost beliefs about America and its ideals. And those beliefs, my friends, will come through in all of Obama’s actions as a President - from welfare, lack of transparency, fairness doctrine, to foreign policy and more.

to tweek their search software and make it more ‘fair’. This won’t end with just talk radio, the internet is a very juicy target too. The first wall was breached when Congress allowed taxing, which is defacto regulation of the internet. The next wall is content, defining and regulating ‘hate speech’ (opposing points of view are now unpatriotic).

We need to be prepared to fight this on all fronts.

Surely most Americans still retain the ability to think for themselves. Surely the left is not so driven by partisan politics that they will stand up for this garbage when it is the antithesis of what they profess to believe.

If they include the internet and demand “fairness” there, that means MoveOn and Daily Kos will have to post Conservative views on their websites. Or else ALL views will not be seen and heard.

Guess they didn’t think that one all the way through. As usual.

“One idea Waxman’s committee staff is looking at is a congressionally mandated policy that would require all TV and radio stations to have in place “advisory boards” that would act as watchdogs to ensure “community needs and opinions” are given fair treatment. Reports from those advisory boards would be used for license renewals and summaries would be reviewed at least annually by FCC staff.”

It reminds me of the system the Chinese used to have (maybe they still do!), back in the old days of the Cultural Revolution when we still called them “Red China”: each neighborhood had a “helper” whose job it was to assist the residents in their struggle to maintain ideological purity.

Residents who had problems toeing the line were publicly criticized, and if that didn’t work, the kindly and benevolent government would step in to gently point out the errors in their thinking.

Conservatives in this country had better start to wake up.

Where is our conservative group that can mobilize millions of emailers and callers? We are letting this group hijack what our ancestors fought so hard to create. When are we going to stand up to them with our own millions and make ourselves heard? When are we going to publicly out Soros for what he really is and what he really wants? He is the one that is controlling the message and in turn the hand that controls the country. All that lefties have been claiming we’ve been doing for the past 15 years is actually what Soros has been doing.

I have read Rush has 28 million listeners - we need to mobilize them. I understand that our side works and doesn’t have the extra time the other side has, but we need to make it our biggest priority. If we don’t, we won’t just be banished to a minority party for the near future - we’ll be living in a fascist state.

It’s time for our tea party folks.

Maybe even a land station in Mexico. We’ll have Radio Free America. They can’t control what doesn’t broadcast from U.S. soil.

Neil, Erick & Moe must confer with a representative group of liberal counterparts before wielding the blamstick.

Oh, speaking of the blamstick, it’s gonna be renamed the Sceptre for the Celebration of Enlightened Progressive Thought. And instead of terminating the user’s posting rights, they get promoted to be a Director.

And we’ll have to take up a collection to pay reparations to all those who have been sent to The Pile over the years.

Oh, man, it’s gonna be great.

I want a crack at the comments regarding PBS. They are not only public airwaves, they are public money.

Two, read any of the threads here at RS. We have plenty of dissenting opinion. No matter how many points of view a radio station airs, we need to contact the FCC with a complaint that they didn’t address ours.

I mean freaking wear them out like a teenaged girl wanting to go to the prom wears out her parents.

Demand that since roads are public as well, that all news carried over public roads be scrutinized for ‘fairness’ and ‘alternative content’. Taht gets teh newspapers and magazines. And since TV is certainly transimitted over public airwaves, TV must be included in this.
If censorship is good for AM radio and bloggers, it is certainly good enough for newspapers, magazines and TV.

What’s it going to take?
When they’re using your medical records to decide if you get to live?
When they tell you shouldn’t need so much medication for your chronic pain condition, or that doctors can’t attempt surgery because you’re a “lost cause?”
When they’re using census information to decide who gets sewer repairs and who doesn’t?
When they break into your home and take your firearms?
When they bar you from a job because you’re not in a union approved by Obama?
When they have total, unquestioned control over all media?
When they haul people off in the dead of night for not speaking enthusiastically enough of the Fuehrer?
What’s it going to take?
Death camps? Would even that revive your backbone?

nothing to the protest this would raise.

I’m saving my money for a road trip. Anybody else?

the Democrats may encounter on their way to turning our country into the Stalinist state. We were all warned a year before the election about BHO, his wife and associates. Why did we not heed and come out in full force on election day? McBain was never accused of trying to undermine our Republic—–BHO was. We did not heed the warnings.