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memeorandum.com - 11/20/2008
Bum Rush - Obama's secret plan to muzzle talk radio. Very, very secret. (Marin Cogan/The New Republic)
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Marin Cogan / The New Republic : Bum Rush   —  Obama's secret plan to muzzle talk radio.  Very, very secret.  —  Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and other friends have spent the past year screaming about the horrors of Barack Obama.  And, while it's true ...

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Taylor Marsh:  Fairness, Shmairness

Doug Ross @ Journal:  Some call it Fascism

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Fairness, Shmairness
Taylor Marsh — ... It’s interesting that all the people opining about the Fairness Doctrine are not or never have been, as far as I know, talk radio hosts. Not that you have to be to opine or write about it. Marin Cogan does a decent job of making the case why the right-wing is paranoid about it. But do any of these progressives have any professional experience trying to get or keep a show on the air? Anybody? Two good reasons all liberals should be tweaking the wingnuts on this issue: Rush Limbaugh. He bloviates for 3 hours every day without one ...

Some call it Fascism
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... G oebbels was in favour of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re in favour of free speech, then you’re in favour of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise.” — Noam Chomsky, in 1992, writing in Manufacturing Consent Courtesy of Memeorandum I took a quick stroll over to the left side of the blogosphere this morning. I observed the leftoid pundits in ...

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