Posted by
Bill Crawford on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:49:06 PM
And the Congress erupts in offended fervor against one radio commentator.
Obama the salesman has created a personal cult that attaches him to the future of America. I guess he is sort of like the old Japanese Emporer, a divinity set to earth for the sake of all humanity.
To dare to stand up against this is now akin to holding up money from the poor folks and the l'il children. This must be the post-partisan world that Obama promised us all. Ye who disagree with me shall be trivialized. All debate must cease now, because we have important things to do. Hell, isn't what this what George W. was accused of?
But that is parlor in light of the real game afoot here: this is about the resurrection of the Fairness Doctrine, only it gets more narrowly focused with every passing week. At this point, it is about taking the radio spectrum and mandating that it carry a certain percentage of "local issues"- which is a way of demanding that, for every hour that Rush rails about Washington D.C., an hour must be devoted to school board hearings and pothole reports.
That's the Democrat way. If you can't beat 'em, silence 'em. They're just following the Karl Rove precedent of using federal power to silence Air America. I'm sorry, if memory serves, Rove thought they were pathetic and offered to help fund them.
Welcome to the new world. As it was when Clinton took power with his party holding Congress, these people have no leash on themselves.