Waging War On Talk Radio

Dick Morris, a very smart man, says that Obama is waging a war on talk radio.

Let’s say you are in charge of counting how many items are in a certain place. You have always done it the old fashioned way, picking up one item at a time and counting it by hand. Now along comes a machine that scans the items and keeps count of them so the person doesn’t forget before they write it down. You find out that the old method is unreliable and some items were undercounted while others were overcounted.

You would expect everyone to approve of the new method, especially since it is a better and more accurate method of counting. This is where you would be wrong when it comes to lefties. They don’t care about accuracy, they only care about power.

Arbitron, the company that counts radio listeners and is the bible for radio advertising, switched to an electronic means of recording what stations people were listening to on the radio. It turns out that the old method, which involved people having to keep written diaries of what stations they tuned in, is very unreliable and inaccurate. People would not fill out the diaries until later, and they were not always accurate. It turns out the hip hop stations were overestimated and the talk radio audience was undercounted.

This has angered many lefties, who see it as their manifest destiny to destroy talk radio and any other form of free speech that disagrees with them. Lawsuits have already been filed, claiming the ever-popular mantra of the leftie – racial discrimination.

If you value your freedoms, and you enjoy being able to speak out when you choose, you should be paying close attention to the lefties who are seeking to squelch free speech. Remember, a leftie will protest at the drop of a hat, claiming they alone have the right to free speech, but let a conservative try to speak somewhere and the same lefties will act like petulant children, desperately trying everything to shut the speaker up.

UPDATE - Here's another story on the lawsuits against Arbitron.