Rush and Beck on the Fairness Doctrine threat
In case you missed it yesterday, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck spotlighted Team Obama’s direct and indirect threats to free speech — and how the Fairness Doctrine (or some stealthier form of it) might be reinstituted.
Rush has the full transcript. An excerpt:
BECK: Now joining me on the phone is radio talk show host Mr. Rush Limbaugh. Rush?
RUSH: Glenn Beck. How are you, sir?
BECK: Very good, sir. I want to play something for you. I don’t know if you just saw it, but I want to play it again. This is the new diversity officer for the FCC, a newly created position. This is what he said at a speech or talk he was giving about Chavez’s Venezuela and how the media work down there. Watch this.
MARK LLOYD: In Venezuela, with Chavez, you really had an incredible revolution — democratic revolution — to begin to put in place things that were going to have impact on the people of Venezuela. The property owners and the folks who were then controlling the media in Venezuela rebelled — worked, frankly, with folks here in the US government — worked to oust him. He came back and had another revolution, and Chavez then started to take the media very seriously in his country.
BECK: Rush, I find that breathtaking.
RUSH: I find the whole administration breathtaking, Glenn. You’re doing great job this whole week. I mean I saw Sarah Palin even “tweeted” about what you’re doing, urging people to watch. This whole administration is as radical and far left as any that the country has ever had, and what they’re trying to do here to communications is simply stifle dissenting voices. They’re trying to wipe out any opposition. If you look at Barack Obama and his track record as a politician, it is to clear the playing field. He doesn’t even like debating his opponents. He just wants to get rid of them. And this “diversity czar” comes from a fringe, radical, Saul Alinsky-type of background; and the things that he’s talking about doing — and I watched your show for the first half hour today — but the things he’s talking about doing to shut down radio are simply un-American. It’s not enough to say that it’s not constitutional.
It’s simply un-American, and make no bones about it, folks, Glenn is right — and I think he’s maybe underselling a little bit about as far as their intentions are concerned. The stimulus plan! Glenn, look at what they’re doing to the US economy. Anybody with a sense of economic literacy would know this is not how you create jobs. You do not rebuild the private sector. This is being done on purpose. All of these disasters are exactly what Obama wants. The more crises, the better. The more opportunity for government to say, “Let us come in and fix the problem.” His number one opposition is on radio and Fox News. His number one opposition is on radio. They can’t go Fairness Doctrine because it’s too obvious. So they’re trying to do this backdoor route with “diversity” and ownership, a 100% tax on operating in order to pay public radio because they’re supposedly fair. It’s insidious. But I don’t think it’s gonna work in the end because the American people are too informed, Glenn. They’re too aware of it. Their radio means too much to them. Their free speech — freedom in general — means way too much to them. And just as they’re fighting back on health care and a number of other things, so will they fight back on this.
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Barack Obama has a stunning lack of tolerance for free speech. And one thing Americans can expect from an Obama administration, and a Democratic-controlled Congress, is a legislative attempt to bring back the so-called Fairness Doctrine, which will limit free speech and diminish the conservative influence on talk radio.
A new ATI-News/Zogby International poll released on Oct. 26 made it clear that those who intend to vote for Obama support re-establishing the Fairness Doctrine.
The poll asked likely voters, “Some members of Congress have discussed reinstating the Fairness Doctrine for broadcasting. The Fairness Doctrine requires radio stations to provide equal air time for opposing viewpoints.”
“If reinstated, regulators determine if both sides of an issue are equally presented. There is concern among some broadcasters that this equal presentation could lead to dropping some popular conservative talk shows in an effort to avoid airing less popular liberal talk shows. Knowing this, do you support or oppose reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine?”
Those likely to vote for Obama support reinstating the Fairness Doctrine by a margin of 49 percent to 36 percent, and Democrats support it 47 to 38 percent. Independents marginally support the fairness doctrine 42 percent to 40 percent, though this is within the poll’s margin of error. (The remaining respondents all replied “not sure.”)
Those polled were then asked, “Some say the Fairness Doctrine could result in popular radio shows, such as Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, to be taken off the air in some markets. Knowing this, do you support or oppose reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine?”
When informed that the Fairness Doctrine might take Limbaugh and Hannity off the air, the percentage of Democrat likely voters who support the Fairness Doctrine rose to 53 percent. The percentage of Obama supporters supporting the Doctrine rose four points to 53 percent. However, the percentage of Independents opposed to the Fairness Doctrine rose to 49 percent.
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I saw this last night. Both Rush and Glenn made some great points. I would NOT miss Glenn.
L
Any serious move to silence the Right in this country — which found its voice through the internet and talk radio after many years of being beaten down by the one-note MSM — any move to silence us is a declaration of war, which I will take quite literally.
It’s all about subverting the democratic process via various czars and imposing a new corporate-based global government. It is so discouraging to observe how easy it is to brush our Constitution aside. Where are the patriot in Washington? Instead of gushing over your special friendship with Ted Kennedy, how about growing a pair GOP? It seems ALL of Washington is seeking relief from voters behind Kennedy’s death.
I wouldn’t miss Glenn either, his show that is. It is on Fox @ 5pm eastern each day.
Great point, PP, and one much on my mind yesterday.
Sometimes I wish that politicians (and media commentators and journalists) never even met one another, face-to-face.
To all the clubby GOP senators reminiscing about what a great chum Teddy was personally, I say: Who gives a rat’s butt how much fun it was to tip one back with him and slap his back. We sent you to Washington to ****FIGHT**** him.
#1 post S/B I would NOT miss watching the Glenn Beck show on Fox. A must see!
L
If the Republicans fail to retake control of Congress in 2010, the Fairness Doctrine will be upon us before we even see it coming -
I made sure I watched GlennBeck last night after seeing the promo. I think the episode with Mr. Limbaugh was extremely interesting and concerning. What I noticed, however, was that Limbaugh, with real aplomb, dodged Beck’s main thesis about some secret, underlying plan (backed up by and “army, he will reveal tonight) to completely undermise the constitutional order of the country.
I don’t know if Beck is right, or if he’s a bit overwrought. Allah, over at Hot Air, seems to take a lot of what Beck says with a grain of salt. Speaking for myself, I saw a piece by Beck a few weeks back about the Nazi takeover of Germany and the German health system which was just historically wrong…he had events completely out of sequence.
Nonetheless, we are left on our guard. Is President Obama a real-life Jake Featherston?
One of the main objectives of communist revolutionaries is to control all the organs of communication in the object country. It’s part of their playbook. Pretty clear this Congress and Administration are all over that. Their plans are on pace.
State government-directed constitutional reform is the only way to strangle this Federal government beast. The “democratic” process has been completely subverted.
One may only talk about the destruction of this country if one is in a mosque.
Or on Folsom Street.
I assume you mean you would not miss his show, not that you don’t like him. Your post could be taken two ways. But I’m sure you will clarify that…won’t you?
I am thankful for the age of the internet, satellite and cable TV and other “independent” media. Also very thankful for our First Amendment defenders like MM, Rush and Glenn. If Obama was in power 20 years ago I think he and his minions would succeed in keeping the vast majority of people in the dark. I think it will be very, very difficult now. That does not mean he will not try; and we do need to be ever vigilant. I will protest loud and clear and do whatever else is necessary to keep them from actually implementing any of their illegal and unconstitutional plans.
Last time I checked, the United States of America was a VOLUNTARY confederation of individual states.
The Federal government’s power is LIMITED by the Constitution, not enhanced by it.
Another observation about just about every news outlet in the MSM: who gave the order to only refer to Ted Kennedy as “The Lion of the Senate”? They don’t even use his name anymore. Even the Bloomberg channel does this.
Back when the unFairness Doctrine was in effect, the looney leftwing liberals still reported only one side of a story.
They just don’t like not having a monopoly anymore.
They have never said it outright but all libertarians and conservatives see this as a communist Congress and Administration working hard to bring the system down. Once that happens, they have the pretext for total control of the economy and civil liberties.
I’m sure the “governing” communists were stunned that their planned sub-prime crisis did not fully and immediately accomplish that. Prison is too lenient for these traitors.
Glenn Beck is giving FACTS. Once in a while, he might get something a bit wrong or out of sequence. But his FACTS are irrefutable. Ignore him at your own peril. Even the White House has e-mailed him to correct his facts, which were merely that he named someone a “czar” when he was actually an “advisor”. That was it. They did NOT refute his facts, because they couldn’t. I know he sounds “over the top” sometimes. But I am taking him very seriously. There is too much going on involving radicals and very bad people in power for us to ignore. The past is rearing its ugly head in the forms of Weather Underground reconstituted and advising the POTUS. That can’t possibly be good! Question, question, question. I don’t trust ANY of them.
I’m with you. At the first step to silence free speech there needs to be a march on Washington that will close down the city and government until Constitutional order is restored. “Million Man March” be damned, let’s show them what ten million looks like.
The lionization of this man will be used to leverage this country into all manner of evil. He did enough harm while he was alive, we don’t need any more of his legacy.
We need to formulate a Plan B for us all to reconnect if MM’s blog is taken off the internet. You think it can’t happen? It can.
I guess asking people to change the channel is un-American?
Try telling that to an administration that doesn’t give a damn.
I would be there! And millions more would…believe me. They don’t want to push us much further.
I think the Obama selections for czars and advisors are enough grounds to impeach the guy. Time to get the petition started.
This admin is really testing the American peoples patience, I see the multi million man march happening to oust these cronies wayyyyyyyy before Odopey’s first term is anywhere near full.
The writing was all over the wall with this guy and ignorant voters drank the hopey changey kool aid and got him in.
IMPEACH HIM NOW!
If…
1) Lies are used to promote something;
3) Misdirection is used to deflect attention;
3) Spin is used to “shape” utterances;
4) We are told, repeatedly, that something is good for us, yet our gut says otherwise;
5) We are told to trust blindly, politicians who have never kept their word;
6) We are told that a new policy will help everybody…
BEWARE!!!
Common sense should scream at you, that something is terribly wrong. You ignore it at not only your own peril, but to the peril of those you love.
I’ve also seen this coming for years. I tire of screaming at the television…calling elected officials “idiots” and worse. A blind man could see this developing, and only a person in denial could not see the obvious subversion occurring within our government, right under our noses.
I am consoled that I am not alone in these feelings of dread, and suspicion. Finally, we have a small group of brave patriots willing to do what’s right. May God protect them, and us.
Thank you Glenn, Rush, Michelle, Mark, Sean, and so many others than are fighting this fascist takeover. We must be prepared for what’s coming!
Glenn was afraid to say it, but we all know what he thinks the future portends. One big event, an excuse to enact Marshall Law, or other mechanism to control dissent, and the violence will explode.
Pray our military, and police, abide by the Constitution, and refuse to follow unlawful orders.
Excellent post and “right-on”! I am thinking maybe they will use the swine flu in some way.
Apparently the last time you checked was in 1860.
I have been thinking along similar lines. We need protocols in place to facilitate conservative conversation even after ObamaState tries to shut it down. There also need to be mechanisms to sustain the talk radio hosts through an alternate means of distribution.
I think about peer-to-peer technologies like like Napster and BitTorrent, not that more primitive approaches like email lists and trees should be ignored.
Of course, you have got to assume that resistance, by such means, to an ObamaState assault on internet free speech would eventually be overcome by the a technological response from our Washington masters. So we need also to think beyond the internet.
We can’t AJ! He has appointed like-minded individuals to positions of power, and his party owns congress.
Do you really think Eric Holder will initiate any action against Obama? He OWNS everybody at the top, and our RINOs helped him establish them there.
I fear this can only turn out badly, unless a majority of elected officials begin to see the light. That won’t happen unless their elected positions are put at risk, and they begin to fear the voter.
Obama wants the U.S. to become a “Banana Republic” so bad, well, maybe he should rethink that…those places have military coups to replace leadership. If he continues, he may just get what he wants (if all Constitutional means fail.)
Yeah…something’s not right about the hullabaloo surrounding the “pandemic.” I’ve been telling my wife for several weeks that something just doesn’t smell right about it. I’m glad you see it too.
Thinking more about how to resist suppression of free speech on the internet…
I think I have been too passive in suggesting how we will keep our conversation alive under this sort of assault. It is the equivalent of moving back into a mountain redoubt with generators.
Yes! We have to have a ten million man march. And we need — at that point — to march with at least as much emphasis on our Second Amendment rights as on our First Amendment Rights. As Mao said, “Power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
At minimum, you can expect that all fluimmunizations will be mandatory.
Blaise, I don’t know if Beck is right or not but I don’t need convincing that something is wrong. God gives us common sense to question information that comes into our brain and we describe as a “red flag”. If what Beck is saying is true, there have been provisions put in place far ahead of where we are now in our ability to grasp the situation. We’ve been conditioned to back off from using our common sense when the political correctness of our time causes us to shut up and not say what we believe.
But maybe watching, waiting and listening to others who say “ah, Glenn Beck is overwrought” will be our Waterloo. If our gut feelings are that all this administration is setting up to seize power, we should be listening to our feelings. I believe we need to begin thinking about what we will do when we no longer have freedom of speech.
Oh, and for the record, I’m not worried about the swine flu because I’m not taking the inoculation.
The mission of the Second Amendment March is to galvanize the courage and resolve of Americans; to petition our elected officials against establishing anti-gun legislation; and to remind America that the Second Amendment is necessary to maintain our right to self defense.
And Mega Dittos 2
There aren’t enough SEIU purple shirts to protect our elected officials if they pull a stunt such a this via a backdoor deal.
From what I understand, Beck’s ratings are only increasing.
If anyone doubts how imminent the theat is to our free, capitalist way of life, consider the post that is now at the top of PowerLine (and PowerLine is a moderate, neocon site):
A communist in the White House
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August 27, 2009 Posted by Scott at 7:42 AM
Ronald Radosh explores the case of Van Jones. Jones is Obama’s green jobs “czar” (his formal title is Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality). As green jobs “czar,” Jones’s responsibility is to coordinate the stimulus spending to assure that a hefty portion of it goes to projects that promote green energy.
In his relatively recent past Jones was a Marxist revolutionary. From 1992 until 2002, Jones was a member of a radical communist group that was dedicated to “organizing a revolutionary movement in America.” Does Jones remain a Marxist revolutionary today?
The White House has declined to provide a straight answer to the question. We will accordingly assume that, in Jones’s case, “commissar” would be more like it.
UPDATE: A commenter points out that Jones is not a “czar,” but rather an “adviser.” The Wall Street Journal distinguished between the job titles here in the case of Jones. Does the title of Obama administration “czar” have formal legal contours? The Chicago Tribune asks: how many czars are there? In any event, I think commissar is the more appropriate honorific, and Victor Davis Hanson makes the case that the Marxist spirit pervades the White House.
Local ownership and local news events are fine, but only half a loaf. How will radio listeners get national information, network news? Sheeerrrie Preston? Aaaron Katersky?
Now that’s diverse.
Watch Glen Beck. He said that Obama is building a private army that any day now will stage a coup. Are they issuing arms to ACORN workers?
Folks, these guys are nuts. They’re making big bucks working you into a tizzy day after day. It’s like professional wrestling — it’s fake (as I said the other day). They’ve figured out that the farther out they go, the more people tune in. Well, folks, this entertainment comes at a cost.
I try not to buy in to conspiracies, but Rahm Emmanuel’s statement about ‘not letting a crisis go to waste’ keeps ringing in my ear!
What are these?
I’m sure there’s NOTHING to worry about!
Mass Evac. Bus
Emergency Containment Area
FLASH! PMSNBC reports the Rush Limbaugh EIB ratings fell to zero this Saturday and Sunday! Crissy Matthews will have full report at 5PM-if his legs calm down by then. Both of Keith Obermans viewers have been notified.
My Emergency Containment Area link is not connecting.
Try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okrc3O87UNY&feature=related
Bingo!
tarpon, you hit the nail on the head. It is interesting that when the intelligent people want less sex and violence on TV, in childrens shows, the liberals always say, “Just change the channel.”
Well, if the liberals don’t like what’s on the radio, then change the channel!
Nor am I. This flu vaccine is being rushed through very quickly. That is fine, except I wonder how safe it can be. I am a bit fearful of this particular vaccine. First of all, they don’t know for sure if the flu will mutate into something else that the vaccine won’t touch. What is in the vaccine? Will it work? We really don’t know. I don’t want it and I don’t want my family to have it either.
I am NOT anti-vaccine. In fact I get a regular flu shot every year. I also got the “shingles” shot when it became aviable. But this swine flu stuff is worrisome.
The Democrats could lose a 100 Seats in 2010….
“Telling” isn’t what I had in mind.
I like the idea of marching on Washington, for starters.
lgm (#42), I don’t understand this. How do you stage a coup if you are already the executive power?
I’m not disagreeing with you about the entertainment aspect of these opinion shows, but I’m not sure what point Beck is trying to make in your reference. I tried to Google a quote, but found nothing but the usual stuff using army as a metaphor for organized support.
I’ve only gotten ONE flu shot in my entire live.
One month later, I was in the ER with a SEVERE case of the FLU.
I’ve opted out ever since…and have been healthier for it!
Mom’s flu advice 101 ~
1. Wash your hands
2. Cover our mouth when you cough
3. If you have a fever…STAY HOME!
Well said, Tiger Lady, #35. I have had a sickening feeling in my stomach since the day Obama got elected and I am convinced that millions of Americans across our great land are feeling the same. Bad, bad stuff is going on that we don’t even know about yet. The Unfairness Doctrine is perfect for these communists–they can use it to propagandize every aspect of the media. I work with people everyday who seem to have absolutely no clue or concern with what’s going on with this administration, or they don’t care. I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees – and I mean it–we just can’t give up on our Constitution and losing our Freedom of Speech would make us servants to these marxists masters.
So what has changed? Are we no longer a voluntary federation? Have we become so dependent on the largesse of big brother so that weaning ourselves would be too painful?
What’s worrisome about the Swine Flu pandemic is that there is no evidence of even a minority of the overall population having this flu. It seems to be used as a propaganda agent to scare people into taking the vaccination. Rush was just saying that someone at the CDC has some courage to question the number that they are using in the reports. 90,000 is the number. It wasn’t clear if it was 90,000 who have been diagnosed or 90,000 who could be diagnosed.
I’ve not tried to research the facts. But how would they know it was that swine flu?
lgm, please be the first to volunteer to take the swine flu.
Also explain what a card carrying communist is doing in the white house?
Please provide proof that beck said obama is building a private army to stage a coup against himself.
Wash you hands, at least 100 times a day, after touching anything from shopping cart to stair railing. Otherwise it does no good.
So you are saying that Glenn Beck’s facts are lies for ratings? Prove what he said are lies. Please.
Yeah, this whole swine flu thing is a “pig in a poke”.
Thanks Firstskirt.
Happy, I fear you are wasting your time responding to lgm. He’s a troll. I will not respond to him again. Maybe if he is ignored enough he will go away. We can only hope.
Sometimes I feel like doing that after watching anyone from O’s admin. speak!
I NEVER use a grocery cart w/OUT wiping it with a sanitizing wipe!!! Walmart’s are the WORST!
I have hand sanitizer in my purse and refill it constantly!
The left has been outright lying about Beck so often that I don’t trust anything they say about him. The FEMA camp thing is only one of the lies. Beck debunked the fema camp myth, he doesn’t promote it.
LOL, I like that Happy.
There will be a communist in the WH when pigs fly!
Well ~ I give you SWINE FLU.
Had similar thoughts a month or so ago…who’s going to impeached him…no one…realizing this I wonder if any American loving, major military officer’s are contemplating a non-violent military coup. Wouldn’t have to be messy, would take sometime to set things back to where the country is operated by the constitution and not Karl Marx/George Sorass.
rightwingwoman,
Regarding “a communist in the WH,” please see my #40.
It is not necessary merely to infer the presence of communists in the WH…we have one with his membership in a revolutionary communist movement right on his resume. And I don’t mean a covert commie group, like ACORN, I mean right-out-front communist revolutionaries…and not in the distant past.
HA!!!!
And you don’t think his army of totalitarian communists/socialists (he calls them “czars”)is enough cause for concern about this very thing?
Get a life.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
And STILL, STILL, the MSM is silent. What kind of traitors do we have in the media? Our tea party groups need to gather at the headquarters of NBC, etc. and let them know what we think of them. Of course, no one will report it, but if enough people show up, they might wake up a bit. Or not.
Ignatius Reilly #40
Excellent summary of Van Jones. The WH’s silence on his status as a communist is most telling!
We have not begun to see the disturbing ideals coming from this admin.
Keep up the good work.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Their tanked ratings are telling them! Heard last night that Leno is their only hope…if his ratings fall the network is doomed.
I’m sure they’ll recieve $$$ from WH to keep the propaganda alive.
rightisright,
I am not sure that a military coup offers a path back to constitutional democracy. Sadly, in fact, I don’t think that there exists a path to get us back there.
But one nice thing about coups is — if they are the robust kind rather than the daisy-strewn kind — it is sometimes possible to round up and hang the criminals who brought things to such a pass.
(I was thinking wistfully the other day about those scenes of Boris Yeltsin atop a tank firing at the Soviet “White House,” which was actually their legislative building. These country could sure use a Boris Yeltsin.)
FIFY.
I loe Beck’s show. He’s getting everything out in the open for all to see. He’s telling the truth and truth to a liberal is like bleach to germs – it make their heads explode!
Call me an empiricist if you will, but I would really like to see evidence of that.
But I guess, if lgm can have his Obamessiah on video proclaiming his support for single payer, and deny that Obamessiah supports single payer… I guess it stands to reason that he can believe Glenn Beck said something he never actually said.
It sort of balances.
Which is better than the progressive alternative: GOD-LESS AMERICA.
That’s because I-won and his minions view the Constitution as a flawed document.
Most brilliant piece of political writing in existence, along with the Federalist Papers and the Declaration, and His Eloquence sees it as flawed….
Ditto! I’m not much on crowds, but that’s one throng I’d be willing to join – and I’d bring friends and family. I’m sick and tired of the bastardization of our Constitution by the political whores in Washington.
Trying to convince us that it’s flawed!
They see these brilliant documents are standing in their Marxist way
…THAT WAS THE INTENT OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS!!!
Or something like that.
They should rename 1600 Pennsylvania ave. to Sesame St.
Just remember folks, without the first two Amendments, everything else is negotiable.
lgm, did you take your medicine today? Your writing style doesn’t read like your normal stupid self. I agree that Glenn Beck is an alarmist. His sidekick, Stu Burguiere, is always calling him on the crazy stuff he says. However, if you listen to him, he inserts a lot of disclaimers and exhortations to do our own research. I don’t believe that Obama could get away with raising and sending out armies of thugs to force his will (although, I believe he would try if he thought it would work). The scary thing that GB mentioned is the possibility of martial law or other form of suspension of the Constitution (but don’t we already have that?). This would be due to a national threat – real or perceived – that the Federals would use to justify such a suspension. That prospect is frightening under any administration. Does anyone doubt, given Obama’s track record and shady personal associations, that it is doubly dangerous on his watch? After all, Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”!!!
Socky—and better than lgm defending the ‘G-d Damn America’ a couple of days ago.
Excellent and thoughtful post.
I watched it. It was powerful, and very very scarey. I am getting the feeling it ain’t gonna be pretty.
Thanks!
Just in case, I have my shortwave receiver to huddle over in the basement to listen to Rush when he’s forced to transmit from a pirate station on a barge anchored outside territorial waters. When asked about the antenna, I’ll claim it’s a global warming detector.
I don’t think “0″ has to build an army, I think he already has one – unions, acorn,seiu plus many other non-profits with decidedly liberal base. I believe “0″ will cause a situation if he has to in order to call out his army. I think that is why Beck keeps telling us not to respond if provoked. I also think “0″ already knows the American people won’t go down without a fight, and he is prepared for it.
sonofdy said (#57):
It’s in the video MM linked to.
happyscrapper said (#59):
I don’t have proof of this, but it it’s true for professional wrestling, and Beck acts a lot like them.
You want me to prove that Beck does not think the Obama is building a private army to stage a coup? Well, if he does, he’s too crazy even for Fox. If he doesn’t, he’s a liar. Either way, he should not be on TV.
I might agree with you lgm except for the fact that no one on the left (including the White House) is disputing anything Glenn says. The best they can do is call him an alarmist and compare him to professional wrestling.
Mine looks like part of my plumbing vent on my roof. And since it’s attached to the off-street side of the vent, you have to be in the backyard to see it. And the metal roof makes a great ground plane. Now if I could just find a better radio to replace my little HT. . .
The real goal here. Supression of free speech.
Solid proof that liberals want to destroy the constitution.
sonofdy–be very scared if the likes of lgm ever get to say what we watch on tv…
I am seriously wondering if LGM works at a college because even a liberal can’t be THAT ignorant of the history of state censorship.
“letget,”
I do not understand your post.
Are you saying that you will not miss Glenn Beck’s’ program, as in “I love his program!. I find it quite educational and entertaining, so I will not let anything keep me from watching every program,” or are you saying “I don’t like his show, I don’t like him, and I will NOT watch Glenn Beck?”
William…I asked letget that question a long time back, and still have not gotten a reply. Letget must have flown the coop.
William…see my post #12. No response to it.
I’ve heard that the Mormons have an emergency plan for all their wards to keep in contact with Salt Lake City via shortwave.
yep it can and may…we need to take lessons from the founding fathers who found ways to work around the British to get the word out..yea it’ll be much tuffer than their time but we Americans can be very inventive can’t we…
yea and the illegal aliens flooding our country haven’t accomplished anything have they…push 1