There are other ways of silencing opposing views

"Obama is on record as saying he does not plan an exhumation of the now-dead "Fairness Doctrine". Instead, Obama's attack on free speech will be far less understood by the general public....

• The late community organizer Saul Alinsky taught his followers to strike hard from an unexpected direction....

• Obama himself not only worked as an organizer for an Alinsky offshoot organization, Chicago's Developing Communities Project, but would go on to teach classes in Alinsky's beliefs and methods.

...as applied to conservative talk radio means using vague rules already on the books to threaten any station which dares to air conservative programs with the loss of its valuable broadcast license....

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule in question is called "localism." ...

• Obama needs only three votes from the five-member FCC to define localism in such a way that no radio station would dare air

• any syndicated conservative programming....

On September 20, 2007, Obama submitted a pro-localism written statement to an FCC hearing held at the Chicago headquarters of

• Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.'s Operation Push."...

Leo Hindery, would no doubt agree. Affirming his faith in Media Matters for America, Hindery is quoted on 10/4/07 in NationalReview.com:

• "Leo Hindery Jr., a cable-television executive who contributes to Democratic causes, says he sees Media Matters as part of a coordinated action on the left. “I thought this was a piece of the puzzle,” Hindery says."

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