The Talk-O-Sphere: Why the Empire is Striking Back with the Fairness Doctrine
Let’s face it: the whole “Fairness Doctrine crap is not merely a Democrat attack on Conservative talk radio (most specifically Rush Limbaugh).
There are more forces involved in this frey than just one side.This is a matter of “blue-blood” politics verses a very loud and effective populist voice.
The worst possible thing that the “blue-blood” politicians (the old-school gang that runs Congress, i.e. McCain, Kennedy, Reid, etc.) have always feared is that talk radio could motivate the public to revolt against something the ruling elites wanted: in this case unfettered illegal immigration to create a worker/servant class that does not talk back or demand wages and benefitsw.
The story about what they were planning got brought to the public fore and was killed by an outraged AND INFORMED public.
The problem posed by folks like Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O’reilly, and others was shown in glaring clarity when they informed and exhorted their followers to flame blast the Congress to stop the latest amnesty for illegals.
This barrage of annoyance and out right disaffection by the little public serfs is infuriating to the blue-bloods. The public is not supposed to interfere with their plans and when the interference was lead from the thorn in their side of talk radio, it just motivates them all to move to shut up the offenders.
