Well, after a much needed break (and attention to our other political websites) it’s time to momentarily dust the cob webs off Save Talk Radio dot org and comment on what has been happening . . . which is not much. It is pretty clear that Democrats have kept quiet on the issue, and reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, until the next election. With Bush still in the White House, they know any efforts to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine would be wasted.

So what do we do now? Sit on our hands and wait? Nope, it’s time to contact your local elected officials and make sure they know how unfair the Fairness Doctrine is. It’s also time to start supporting your local Republican candidates to ensure we get control back of the House and Senate. Should Hillary or Barack win the Presidential election, which is an unfortunate possibility, we have to have control of Congress to make sure the Fairness Doctrine doesn’t come back from the dead. Of course, when it becomes clear which Republican will be running for President, we need to do everything we can to ensure they win as well. Should the Democrats gain control of Congress and the White House, it is basically guaranteed that they will do everything they can to reinstate the “Hush Rush bill.”

WorldNetDaily recently uncovered a very telling statement from the assistant secretary of commerce for President John Kennedy:

Bill Ruder, an assistant secretary of commerce in President John F. Kennedy’s administration, candidly recalled the way the doctrine was used in the early 1960s. “We had a massive strategy to use the Fairness Doctrine to challenge and harass the right-wing broadcasters, and hope the challenge would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue,” he explained in Fred Friendly’s 1976 book, “The Good Guys, the Bad Guys and the First Amendment.”

Finally, someone related to the Democrats is honest about the Fairness Doctrine. This is the real reason, and only reason, the Democrats want to bring back the Fairness Doctrine. To challenge, harass and ultimately silence conservative broadcasters. The less the public hears from conservative radio talk show hosts, the easier it will be able to lead the blind public and keep votes on their side.

Here is another excellent example from US history why the Fairness Doctrine should never come back alive:

In the 1964 presidential campaign, President Lyndon Johnson and his Democratic machine prepared a kit explaining “how to demand time under the Fairness Doctrine.” The campaign produced 1,035 letters to stations and 1,678 hours of free air time for the Democrats, playing, in the eyes of the practitioners, no small part in Johnson’s landside defeat of Sen. Barry Goldwater.

Had enough? Don’t let “no news” keep you from doing nothing. Let your elected officials know that you have had enough with the Democrats attempt to silence talk radio, and that the topics discussed by talk radio hosts should not be governed by liberals, or anyone. It’s a free country, with free radio airwaves, and if we don’t keep it that way . . . what will the Democrats try next? Whatever it is, it’ll be a lot easier without any voice from the other side.

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