As an inkling of where the more conservative bunch are here is an article by David Limbaugh, yes the Brother of Rush, but a credible journalist appearing in many newspapers nationally and a lawyer of good reputation. I send this recent article to you to expose you to what a major body of American voters think, and my view is that there is much to be learned in this article. When I say the more conservative bunch, I am talking not only of Republicans, but inclusive and of a wider percentage of the American voters than you might consider at first, including many very recent converts to more conservative views as a result of what is going on in Washington in the last three months. There are signs of many people moving more to the conservative side of things, or at a minimum to a more right position recently due to perceptions that Obama and his inner circle are and have been administering well to the left of his voters. In other words many who voted for change were angry at President Bush, but are now realizing that their anger at Bush for what ever reason justified or not has resulted in a much more leftist world then they imagined when they entered the voting booth in November of 2008. Obama has used these prior more conservative votes to his advantage and not to the advantage of moderates and conservatives generally.
This real shift will cause a massive shift back more toward the center in the next few years and must be recognized. The Obama inner circle are awakening to this and will do nothing short of illegal, if not taking morally bankrupt actions to nullify the message to the center and right of the center political world. This will include the FCC Targeting Conservative Radio, as well as using our taxpayer monies to bailout the leftist media that has lost readership due to the apparent leftist message they have been spewing to the dismay of a majority of Americans. Electronic media (Radio and Television) has shown in the last few years, but more so in the last few months a remarkable increased listenership while liberal electronic and more importantly print media has taken a dramatic nose dive and this is worthy of significant finding in the eyes of the Pew Foundations for Public Opinion and many other reliable sources. Capitalism is under direct attack by the far left, and this shakes the foundations of many Americans who understand that Capitalism has made this country the most successful country on earth, and they don’t want that jeopardized in any way shape or manner, and the Obama administration is perceived to be throwing dirt upon the capitalist concept daily. The tide is turning very quickly and will be growing as a large force in the very near future. The newly awakened moderates and conservatives will activate more forcefully against the far left policies of the Obama administration because they see damage developing to the business world and thus the capitalist world, damage that must be stopped.
It is clear that we are now seeing a President that understands how to divide the political spectrum far better than President Clinton attempted to do, Barack is grounded in his entire shaping and development in the far left world from childhood through adulthood. Unlike Clinton, Obama really hates this country and what it stands for, and his ardent leftist popularity is evidence of that, and this assessment of Obama is beginning to be seen for all to see at this point. Many are beginning to see his mythology in stating his disinterest of the Fairness Doctrine, then out of the shining light of openness he exacts the policy he wants without public knowledge. He knows how to manipulate far better than typical politicians. He claims openness and transparency, but he has in reality shown contempt for these concepts. People are becoming afraid of the major shift from the free enterprise and capitalist heritage we have seen for our generation as a working and successful venture overall not to be judged on the basis of one five or ten year period of time. This hard time will pass, but do we really need to massively change our country as Obama is attempting to do? I think not.
Jim The Conservative
Newsmax
FCC Chief Targeting Conservative Radio
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:13 AM
By: David Limbaugh Article Font Size
Of the dozens of reasons to be concerned about the ever-growing and unchecked power of the federal government under President Barack Obama, the upcoming assault against conservative talk radio may surpass them all.
It’s not enough that liberals dominate the executive and legislative branches, liberals are poised to control the judiciary, and, at liberals’ direction, government is absorbing ownership and control of large chunks of the private sector. They also must shut up the opposition.
We have genuine cause for alarm on multiple fronts — and actual alarm indeed exists among increasing numbers of people, not all of whom are predisposed to excitability.
The government has declared war on innocent life in the womb in the name of “free choice.” It is spending unconscionable amounts of money it doesn’t have and can’t possibly acquire without taxing the primary producers in this nation into abject servitude. It’s set to impose “cap and trade” taxes in the name of protecting an environmental threat that exists mostly in the data-resistant prisons of their ideological minds, which will yield no environmental benefit but will cause irreparable economic harm.
It has passed constitutionally repugnant and morally odious legislation, carving out new crimes for violent acts motivated by “hate” against certain protected groups. Neither military veterans nor conservative males are among the protected groups, but pedophiles very well may be.
The proscribed “hate” under the statute may not be “hate” at all, but mere political or theological disagreement with the view of the dominant media culture and the ruling class on, for example, the normalcy of homosexual behavior.
Meanwhile, this same ruling class and its enablers, who are so selectively indignant about certain majority opinions they mischaracterize as “hate,” openly bask in the kind of behavior no one can dispute rationally as hateful at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
The government, through President Obama, has trotted the globe, painting the United States, the most magnanimous nation in the history of the world, as an international pariah and disgrace for which he must presume to apologize.
The government would have prosecuted officials of the previous administration for conducting enhanced interrogation techniques they reasonably believed were legal (and the lawyers who furnished the legal opinions approving the techniques) until it discovered, with egg on its face, that in a recent case, an appellate court (and the Justice Department, in another) had endorsed the previous administration’s definition of torture.
The government threatens and intimidates creditors into transferring wealth to the administration’s friends in labor. It uses taxpayer money to fund nefarious enterprises, such as ACORN, to engage in widespread illegal activities designed to corrupt and skew the census, elections and other democratic processes as we watch, with mouths agape, seemingly powerless — for now — to stop it.
The government is a heartbeat away from nationalizing healthcare based on deliberate misinformation about the nation’s uninsured and despite the 100 percent failure rate of such fantastic reforms elsewhere on the globe.
This government has declared a false moral equivalence between the respective behaviors of democratic Israel and Palestinians committed to the extinction of Israel. It will attempt to force the Israelis to accept the twin suicidal concessions of relinquishing strategic real estate vital to its security and agreeing to the “return” of millions of Palestinian refugees. It appears to have abandoned any pretense of preventing Iran, a nation also committed to Israel’s extermination, from acquiring nuclear weapons while encouraging Israel, instead, to disarm.
But of all the unfolding outrages, I doubt any will ignite true patriots more than the imminent resurrection of the government’s war on conservative talk radio. If we can’t even express political dissent, the nation we’ve known as a bastion of individual liberty will be no more.
President Obama, in classic misdirection, has proclaimed that he will not support efforts to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine, through which the government would silence conservative talkers in the name of achieving “balance.”
But he doesn’t have to support the Fairness Doctrine to accomplish the same sinister goal when Congress and the Federal Communications Commission will do his dirty work for him. WorldNetDaily reports that Michael J. Copps, acting FCC chairman, has denounced the lack of racial and gender diversity in the broadcast industry as “a shameful state of affairs.” Unsurprisingly, his proposed corrective is to force the transfer of station ownership to greater numbers of minorities, who are statistically more likely to carry liberal talk shows.
Let the record reflect emphatically that conservatives never have tried to use government to shut down the liberal media monopoly in network television and major newspapers, under the deceitful pretense of achieving balance or otherwise.
Let the record also acknowledge that, if this administration presses forward with this overreach, it finally might jolt the complacent among us out of their stubborn naiveté and apathy.
David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney.