Dems on the run - Limbaugh and Savage return to airwaves today

Since 06-25-07

By Judi McLeod

Monday, June 25, 2007

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover062507.htm 

It's Monday and 'little man

Lott' and 'little man Lamb' have got this not so little problem: radio talk show kings Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage are back on the airwaves. 

‘Little man Lott' is Republican Senator “Turncoat” Trent Lott helping Democrat debs Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein revive the tattered corpse of the so-called fairness doctrine.
 

‘Little man Lamb' is C-SPAN's head honcho Brian Lamb, who waited until Michael Savage was safely out of town before attacking him over sending a DVC speech instead of himself to pick up his Freedom of Speech award in person at a gathering in New York.
 

Feeling the full heat of the immigration bill, a liberal posse, with a little help from 'Republicans” like Turncoat Trent Lott, are on a witch-hunt to censor talk radio.

Between the two of them, Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage own talk radio. The combination of their listening audiences must represent an impressive percentage of “we the people”.
 

Too impressive by half for Senators Lott and Feinstein, who were beating the fairness doctrine drum on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace yesterday.

Wallace played audio clips from talk show hosts for the senators. Rush Limbaugh: “Talk radio is the American voter. That's what bothers Trent Lott.”

Michael Savage: “Trent Lott saying today that talk radio is running America and we have to deal with that problem is gangsterism.”
 

Unlike their liberal detractors, you never have to guess where Limbaugh and Savage are coming from.
 

“Dianne and I were just talking about that,” Lott told Wallace on Sunday. “One of the mistakes that we have made many times on legislation is it's introduced, it comes out of committee, we bring it to the floor. We never bother to explain what we're trying to do and what is in it.
 

“I think that was the mistake that was made with immigration, Talk radio defined it without us explaining that there were reasons for it and the good things that were in it.
 

“So the onus is not on them, it's on us to do a better job of communicating what we're trying to do.”
 

As Frank Livingston, EFO former DoD fire chief points points out in a critique of Lott and Feinstein on Fox News Sunday, “Try telling the truth, it will set you free. You voted for the 1986 amnesty, didn't you?” (For Livingston's complete critique of the Fox interview, see here).
 

Reminding her that Oklahoma Senator Inhofe said that he overheard Barbara Boxer and Hillary Clinton three years ago complaining about talk radio and saying that there should be a legislative fix, both of them deny ever happening, Wallace asked Feinstein about her intentions on reviving the fairness doctrine.

“Well, in my view, talk radio tends to be one-sided,” Feinstein responded. “It also tends to be dwelling in hyperbole. It's explosive. It pushes people to, I think, extreme views without a lot of information.”
 

Guess Feinstein never reads or watches what Limbaugh describes as the “drive-by media”.
 

The fairness doctrine seeks to require broadcasters to put on opposing points of view, which is precisely what is needed for the liberal leaning, one-sided mainstream media.
 

That's the same mainstream media that MSNBC investigative reporter Bill Dedman only last week pointed out made whopping political contributions to the Democrats.
 

“MSNBC.com identified 144 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to Democrats and liberal causes. Only 17 gave to Republicans. Two gave to both parties.”
 

Lott, who represents the new in-synch-with-Libs Republican image, Clinton, Boxer and Feinstein like to portray talk radio listeners as well, little lambs.

Problem is Limbaugh and Savage listeners know that it is both sides of the House who are busy selling the land out from under their own constituencies and they're turning to talk radio and not the mainstream media to complain about it.
 

It's the passion of the tell-it-like-it-is Limbaugh and Savage that piques the politicos of the day.
 

Long live talk radio. It's the last frontier of we the people against senators who would sell the land out from under them.