The enemies of freedom (the Marxist/Leninist left) within this country will not rest until all opposing views have been silenced. They are already well on their way to realizing their goal. The Campaign Finance "Reform" bill was a huge victory for the left, as it gets people used to the idea of the government controlling what can and cannot be said in the election process.

Their next target will be (is) talk radio. Once talk radio has been silenced, the next target on the list will be the very few non-liberal and non-government controlled news outlets that exist in this country, outlets like the FNC. After that, it will be the internet.

Of course, they won't stop there, as soon we who hold contrary views will notice other rights slowly dissappearing, as well. It will start out very subtly at first, but will soon move into other, more visible areas, such as interfering with and/or seriously impairng we dissenter's ability to make a living (Jimmy the Greek, Don Imus, etc., and many, many more). We contrarians will also see the gevernment take away our right to self-defense, as well as our right to freedom of assembly (Churches, non-liberal political organizations,etc.).

If even recent history is any indication, after the above has been accomplished, we dissenters will face open hostility from the totalitarian state and its supporters. Those of us who own our own businesses and could not be fired or otherwise punished for our contrarian views will lose our businesses. This will soon move into we opponents of the state being herded into re-education camps and then the Gulags. If after that we are still found to be resisting totalitarianism unduly by the powers that be, the gas chamber could very well be our next stop.

And don't tell me this cannot/will not happen here in the United States of America.

It already is.

Help Fred defeat everybody.

Over at The American Thinker, a letter writer laments the following:

My daughter, a student at LSU's Honors College, is a Mass Communications major in the Manship School of Journalism. While reading the course outline for one of her journalism classes, last semester, she was intrigued by the title of one of the lectures: "How To Bend The Truth." She, a very honorable sort, was flabbergasted to learn that, rather than being a cautionary lecture, it was, in fact, an encouraging tutorial (wink, wink).

So much for journalistic integrity, when this is the course content at a prominent journalism school...

The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. ~~ Ecclesiastes 10:1-2

For some reason a great many people are under the impression that there is no such thing as fact, there is only interpretation, only opinion. We need to get away from this relativism and report facts as facts, opinions as informed by facts and sanction those professionals who confuse the two.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts
Facts are great, opinion is fine too and even better if it's based on fact.

Talk radio blurs beyond recognition the already vanishing line in this country between fact and opinion. From sun up to sundown, the streams of consciousness blurted out as facts over the airwaves wash any semblance of common sense back into the ocean.
From TV news to radio talk, Americans have a serious problem - distinguishing perspective. Not just fact or fiction, but what's fun and what's foremost.
On the radio, news updates every half hour bleed into talk radio shows. Hosts huff and puff on the latest events seconds after they happen. Listeners soak it up while they simmer in traffic jams. With nothing but undivided attention to give the radio, drivers turn into devoted listeners.

Pick a talk radio host and put them on a ballot. I guarantee they'll be voted into office. Doesn't matter the government position.
But why would a talk radio host run for office when they can smear their untested theories across the airwaves without a worry or regret. No one keeps the runaway mouths in check. In fact, companies like Clear Channel are happy to pass these articulate tongues onto as many radio stations as they can gobble up in their Pac Man attempt to swallow up our nation's over 44,000 radio stations.

That's the problem. Talk radio hosts are exceptionally adept at passing along their opinions as fact, for hours on end.
Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity also appear on television's Fox News Channel. A place where fact and opinion are invisibly intertwined.
O'Reilly even leaps to the conclusion that his world is fact and the rest of the media world is a Spin Zone.
If you need evidence of how our country mistakes opinion for fact, just pick a daily newspaper and read a week's worth of letters to the editor. Or better yet, have a conversation with a Dittohead.