| Dear Fellow Conservative,
Last night, I had a horrible dream... and no, this
isn't the famous "I Had a Dream" speech.
Frankly, I think that one could use a rest.
No, in my dream it was 12 noon, so naturally I tuned
in for my daily dose of conservative news and commentary
from the greatest political talk show host in the history
of radio.
As I imagined one half of a giant brain being tied
behind a familiar back, just to make it fair, the
familiar bass notes from "My
City Was Gone" throbbed, and the announcer's
voice boomed...
"Ladies and gentleman... in accordance
with Fairness
Doctrine broadcasting regulations... here's AL
FRANKEN!"
I woke up screaming. But then I realized it was just
a bad
dream.
Or was it?
The next big "bailout" planned by Obama,
Reid, Pelosi and pals is... THE BAILOUT OF LIBERAL
TALK RADIO.
Conservative talk radio drives liberals crazy -- or,
rather, it drives them crazier. They think it's unfair
that more people want to listen to conservative talk
radio than to liberal talk radio.
Sure, conservative radio hosts have a built-in
audience unavailable to liberals: people in cars on
their way to some sort of job. We "crazy
right-wingers" call that a competitive
environment. Liberals hate that kind of environment
- because they lose.
Enter the "Fairness Doctrine," the most
Orwellian name since "Barack
Obama's Department Of Defense."
What do they mean by "fairness?"
To liberals, "fairness" means that the
government will require radio stations that
broadcast popular talk radio hosts such as Rush
Limbaugh, Sean
Hannity Mike
Gallagher and Mark
Levin to also carry unpopular talk
show hosts, known as "liberals."
As I write in my new book, "Guilty:
Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America":
By requiring that any political views disseminated
over the airwaves be counterbalanced by the opposing
view, the Fairness Doctrine not only requires radio
stations to give boring crackpots airtime, but it
creates a conceptual and administrative nightmare.
What is fair? There are conservative and liberal views
-- but there are also libertarian, Green party,
Federalist and Marxist views. (Though the liberals
will tend to have the Marxist arguments covered.) The
problem isn't just the paperwork stations have to fill
out. It's also that radio stations would have to start
balancing three hours of Rush
Limbaugh (20 million listeners) with three
hours of Randi
Rhodes (6 listeners) every day.
Re-implementation of the Fairness Doctrine spells the
end of talk radio.
This is how liberals "compete" - they
outlaw competition.
In case you're wondering, "fairness" does
not mean I get equal time with Whoopi Goldberg
on The View. Or that Brit
Hume gets equal time to rebut the imbecilic Bill
Moyers on PBS.
No. Liberals believe the government is required to
enforce "fairness" only in the case of talk
radio. The TV networks, movie studios, newspapers, news
magazines and book publishing houses would continue to
be dominated by liberals. I guess 90 percent liberal
control is "fair."
By contrast, "fairness" is sorely lacking
in the vastly competitive medium such as radio, where
conservatives triumph solely because of the free choice
of the consumer. Monopolistic industries dominated by
liberals do not need to be made more "fair" by
Nancy
Pelosi and Harry
Reid.
What
can you do now...
What can you do to help fight this shameless assault
on the radio programs we cherish?
Thankfully, my colleagues at Human
Events are just finishing a special
investigative report entitled "The
'Unfairness Doctrine': The Frightening Liberal Attempt
to Silence Conservative America." We
need to help them distribute this special report to
activists, leaders, opinion shapers across the
country... and to do so quickly!
Human
Events will deliver the report to policy
shapers on Capitol Hill, opinion makers at major media
outlets, student leaders on college campuses, and to
Americans who need to know the truth about this liberal
threat to our First Amendment rights.
But we need your help to cover the costs of sounding
the alarm, and in doing the ongoing editorial work that
sets Human Events apart from other publications.
The folks at Human
Events have taken the lead in such battles before.
Against "Hillarycare," wasteful spending, and
amnesty for illegal immigrants - and much more. And with
your help, they've won.
And believe me, this is as big as any of those
battles. Unless we defeat the Fairness Doctrine, conservative
speech may be finished in America. There will be no
alternative voice to the Democratic White House, Senate
and House of Representatives. The pendulum may never
swing back.
We can't wait until inauguration day to take up the
fight. It will be too late. When Time magazine responded
to Obama's election by comparing him to Jesus Christ, we
got a taste of how the "watchdog" media
intended to watch the next president: Far from
watchdogs, they're more like love struck puppies.
The mainstream media won't mention the "Fairness
Doctrine" - they would prefer to slip it by us in
the dark of night.
If you believe talk radio is vital to free and open
political speech in a world of liberal-dominated news
media...
If you believe that Democrat control of Washington
does not bestow the right to replace Rush Limbaugh with
Al Franken...
Then I urge you to join up with HUMAN
EVENTS in their offensive against this threat. They
can't win this fight without your help.
| Any amount you send is greatly
appreciated. To express their gratitude for your
donation of just $75 or more, Human
Events will send you, along with your special
report, an autographed gift copy of my
hard-hitting, soon-to-be-released book, Guilty:
Liberal "Victims" and their Assault on
America. Liberals will be so
upset by my analysis of how they have turned our
country into "Guilt, Inc." -- where
"success" is now defined by
"achieving" victim status -- that I
expect they will soon try to ban books, but only
after they deal with talk radio. |
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Liberals are doing everything in their power to
silence Rush, Sean, Mike, Mark and the others. I
urge you to join Human
Events to save our civil
liberties.
Best Regards,

Ann Coulter
P.S. Barack Obama says he won't
reintroduce the "Fairness Doctrine." But
here's the thing, he won't have to... Madame Speaker,
Nancy Pelosi, will do it for him! Can we really trust
him to rebuff a Democrat Congress' efforts to censor
talk radio? This is why Human
Events needs your help now. Please make as a
generous contribution as you can, and send it today.
Give $75 or more and HUMAN
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