With the recent defeat of the Immigration (amnesty) Bill, people are worried that this will add further fuel to the fire for liberals hell bent on ending talk radio as we know it. Even though Mike Pence helped to prohibit federal funding for the Fairness Doctrine, we should all still be very worried.

Conservative talk show radio hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Neil Boortz and others have spoken daily against illegal immigration. As the liberals have control of the major media, the only thing in their way from passing an amnesty bill and securing the Hispanic vote is to end talk radio once and for all. No more political thoughts, ideas, positions or comments about anything. After all, we can’t think for ourselves, so we need big brother to save us from the one-sided, racist, diatribe ramblings of conservative talk radio.

Senator Harry Reid (D) had the following to say. 

Talk radio has had a field day.  These generators of simplicity — now, Mr. President, I want everyone to know and I want the record spread, I do not believe that anyone who is a United States senator that votes against this motion to proceed is filled with prejudice, with hatred, with venom as we get in our phone calls and our mail.  I don’t believe that.  But I do believe, Mr. President, that we have an issue before us that we must resolve.”

An issue before us that we must resolve . . . as in we need to get rid of talk radio. Here is what Harry is really thinking: Because of talk radio, I had citizens who actually cared about an issue enough to call me endlessly. I received so many phone calls that my only response is to say that these callers are racists Hispanic-phobes that don’t care about America.

Rush made a nice connection about immigration and talk radio last week.

“By the way, all this talk about the Fairness Doctrine and there’s too much one-sided opinion on talk radio, how about the Fairness Doctrine applied to the Senate.  Dingy Harry literally shut down debate on this at a point yesterday.  I have some comments from senators on that in the audio sound bite roster as well.  We are in our current situation with this whole immigration imbroglio because people like senator Lindsey Grahamnesty and others who have served in Congress for many years and who have sworn to uphold the law have failed to uphold the law.  Let’s be clear about this.  Grahamnesty and his fellow amnesty supporters have used rhetoric and arguments that have undoubtedly inflamed various ethnic groups, not us.  We have to go on the offense about this, rather than being defensive, because you and I, all of us that ganged up on Washington, we are going to be accused here of all kinds of racism and hate and bigotry.  And we have been.  It’s going to continue.  It will probably expand and increase.  If there are riots, if the illegals come out of the shadow and riot, and there’s talk that they might — oh, well, it would be funny if they did.  We can’t find them, but they’ll come to us.  But there’s talk, you know, people trying to stir the excrement out there, if you will.  They’re going to say, if that happens, talk radio did it.  “This is what happens when you have lack of balance in the media,” so forth and so on. 

After all of this, how I can be called a piece of the Republican message machine…  But this is the template, and this is the bias of the Drive-By Media, that there is no independence here like there is in the Drive-By Media.  There’s no independent thought, there’s no individuality whatsoever.  We’re all just mind-numbed robots on the right, folks.  We’re kooks because we are conservatives.  Unnamed piece of the Republican message machine.  “Several senators said Wednesday that they did not care to be identified speaking critically of the broadcasters, fearing the same conservative backlash that befell Senator Trent Lott, a Mississippi Republican, this month when he declared: ‘Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.’”  So a lot of Republican senators apparently wanted to launch but were afraid of the backlash caused by us unnamed pieces of the Republican message machine.  Dingy Harry, we have time to squeeze this in.  This morning on the Senate floor before the vote.”

Well, I guess the bright side is we have a few liberals who can be honest about at least one issue: Talk Radio needs to go bye-bye.

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