The Mission: "To Gag Conservative Talk Radio"

Mike Rosen writes in the May 8 Denver Post, "It's beyond dispute that leftist thought and spin dominate news and political coverage on the major televison networks, National Public Radio, and the Public Broadcasting System (to say nothing of K-12 education, academia, and the entertainment industry). But apparently that is not enough for the left, which finds it intolerable that conservatives continue to enjoy prominence on talk radio."

Obama and the Democrats in Congress have come up with a new scheme designed to threaten local radio stations' broadcast licenses. Many of these stations carry one nationally syndicated show after another. I believe the top five most popular are Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, and Laura Ingraham. But there are many others: Bill Bennett, Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager, Mike Gallagher, Fred Thompson, Billy Cunningham, and Tammy Bruce come to mind.

The scheme involves forcing the stations to program "locally" with "diversity." The Federal Communications Commission has already created a "Federal Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age." Rosen alleges that the "unstated mission is to gag conservative talk radio." To get involved in fighting against this attack on our right to listen freely to whomever we want, Rosen suggests we go to www.donttouchmydial.com.

We did not fight hard enough last fall, because we knew McCain. It was hard to envision the nightmare we ended up getting. Now, after 100 days, we know what to expect. Let's not allow ourselves to lose again.