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PRAVDA RADIO ?

Dick Morris says Nancy Pelosi wants to take over talk radio:

Just as Eileen McGann and I predicted in our book, Fleeced, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is pushing an amendment in Congress that would require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to “take actions to encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership and to ensure that broadcast station licenses are used in the public interest,” according to CBS news.
This measure is far more dangerous than the Fairness Doctrine, since it goes not only to programming but to the personnel a station employs, the members of its board and its ownership structure. Pelosi is trying not to muzzle talk radio but to take it over!

Is she the real leader of the Dem party?  Inquiring minds want to know. Shame on Obama if indeed she is.

JAMES DOBSON NOMINATED TO RADIO HALL OF FAME

Anyone who along with creative genius possesses a force of personality, makes provocative statements. So it goes with James Dobson. Now that he has been nominated to the National Radio Hall of Fame, lesser persons of character (in Phil Gramm's book"whiners") seek to keep Dobson out of the Hall. But, one cannot ignore the profound effect Dobson had on our culture and Christianity in particular. His medical/psychology background, Christian faith, and compelling communication skills produced a myriad of works that aided in bolstering the American family. No one can credibly dispute this fact. Occasional flaps aside, Dobson indeed deserves a place in the radio hall of fame. If you agree, go here and declare your support by signing the petition to get James Dobson in the Hall.

GODFATHER BLOGGER HUGH HEWITT DA' MAN

Dean Barnett, Hewitt's partner in crime directs our attention to this item from the AP concerning talk radio, with particualr reference to Hugh Hewitt:

Immigration has supplanted Iraq as the leading issue on television and radio talk shows, complicating the prospects of a Senate bill desperately wanted by President Bush. Conservative talk radio's impact on the immigration debate reached new heights last week, with one host effectively writing an amendment for when the Senate returns to the imperiled bill this week. National talk show hosts have spent months denouncing the bill as providing amnesty for illegal immigrants. Some top Republicans who support the legislation have defied the broadcast pundits. Others GOP lawmakers have tried to placate them, even to the point of accepting their ideas for amendments. Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., the key conservative negotiator behind the compromise bill, told reporters Friday that California-based radio host Hugh Hewitt "had several ideas" that "we are trying to include" in amendments to be offered in an upcoming series of crucial votes.

Trent Lott added:

"Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.

Barnett replies, "Is there any doubt that if that's the case, it's an improvement?"

SOME REPUBLICANS NOT HELPING TALK RADIO

Conservative pundits agree, the revival of the Fairness Doctrine threatens to blow a hole in talk radio. According to Oklahoma Republican Senator James Inhofe, Barbara Boxer and Hillary Clinton want to reign in conservative radio talk shows. Captain Ed Morrissey warns of another group that may pose an even greater threat than Boxer and Clinton:

However, we have less to fear from Boxer and Clinton than we do from Trent Lott and others on the center-right who use talk radio as scapegoats for their own failures and frustrations. Lott said much the same thing as Boxer and Clinton did to Inhofe about the effect talk radio has had on the immigration debate. I reminded Inhofe of this, and Inhofe told me that Lott was "wrong" -- and that Lott needed to rethink his criticism. (That comes at around the 50-minute mark of the show.) If the center-right starts attacking talk radio, they will give momentum to the Fairness Doctrine's return.

RADIO AND GLORY DAYS

Michelle Oddis describes the good ole days of radio.