Silencing Talk Radio

It's no secret that liberals want to silence talk radio. They can't compete, so they want to eliminate the competition.

With the election of Barack Obama, reimposition of the unFairness Doctrine is a top Democrat priority. And no wonder; talk radio allows conservatives to have an active voice in the arena of ideas. Given that most journalists are liberal and many news outlets are abandoning objectivity (see their incuriosity about Barack Obama, for instance), talk radio and Fox News Channel (and some blogs) are the only conservative outlets that spread the information liberals don't want you to know.

There's little doubt that the Supreme Court would strike down the Fairness Doctrine as an improper restriction on free speech, but litigating this case would take time (Dick Morris says two years), and by that time, talk radio would be dead. A Pyrrhic victory.

Smear merchants like Media Matters spend hours documenting "errors" and "slights" they perceive on talk radio. If you go to the link, you'll discover just how outrageous their claims are. If Media Matters actually cared about sexism, they would have prominent articles about the outrageous smears and slams by idiots like Keith Olbermann and Andrew Sullivan. Instead, MM is only concerned with things conservatives say. Liberal lies get a pass.

But then, to liberals, truth is lying and lying is truth. Welcome to Newspeak.