"Hush Rush Plan" - Somehow, I got on a right-wing email list.

[davidwparker]

ALERT: This just in from the conservative http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/008935.php">"Captains' Quarters" blog: "Democrats aren't wasting much time in rolling back free speech now that they have the majority. Putting (Rep. Dennis) Kucinich in charge of domestic policy reform was no mistake on their part. They want to kill talk radio, and if they manage to hold their majority and win the White House in 2008, they just might do it."

What is he talking about? The same thing we've already warned you about: activists on the far left are positively giddy over the Democrats' takeover of Congress, and they're ready to do "whatever it takes" to set their gains in stone by passing new laws to KILL CONSERVATIVE TALK RADIO.

Just think of this new attack as the "Hush Rush Plan."

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Apparently, they are getting upset about a possible return to the Fairness Doctrine.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. All those right wing assholes in radio are worried

Tough.

[AndyA]

2. I heard about this today at lunch from my RW Father.

He listens to all of them all day long, every day. Rush. Glen. Sean. Laura. :puke:

I told him I was about fed up with his gullibility. I told him he believes everything they tell him, without question. I then told him it was people like him who have gotten us in the mess we are in today.

I told him to stop voting the way they tell him to vote, and vote for his kids for a change. We're the ones who will be stuck in this mess they've created in the coming years.

He didn't say much after that.

I'm tired of playing nice, and having people who supposedly love me vote for people who would just as soon see me dead as alive. NO MORE! THAT'S BULLSHIT!! As an American citizen, I should have the same rights as anyone else. Period.

[davidwparker]

5. I understand how you feel. I'm distancing myself from RWers that I have

known except for family and one friend. (That may have been how I got on the RW list.)

It's not about having a difference of opinion. We on the left have that all the time. It's that clueless-ness that irritates me. That's going to be the lingering effect that * has had on me. If you are someone who supported him -- at least to 2004 after the first term -- then I really don't see that would have much in common.

[NoAmericanTaliban]

3. Old talking point - they were saying this during the Clinton years

What they don't want is a viable liberal counter talk show - aka. Randy Rhodes. They want to retain their voice without any competition - How market friendly is that?

Boortz - a Rush wannabe from Atlanta - said that he was glad that Air America was on and hope it would succeed, because the the liberals would want to shut down talk radio.

If they are not scared of one thing it will be something else. Always in a constant state of fear & paranoia.

[maxsolomon]

4. Ed Schultz's point today:

the RW has 43K hours of talk a week across this formerly great nation. progressive talk has 3K.

no wonder they don't want the fairness doctrine brought back.