Why is this a big deal?
The Democrats routinely have conference calls with far Left-wing bloggers.
The lib media don't get freaked out when Daily Kos and MoveOn pull the strings of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. They aren't troubled by Russ Feingold blogging on Daily Kos.
The connection between the Dems and the radical Lefties isn't considered inappropriate. The influence that the Leftist groups exert on Dems isn't considered the result of pressure from unruly, uneducated, mindless mobs.
Democrat presidential candidates bowed to pressure from the radical Lefties when they insisted that they abandon a debate hosted by FOX News.
The lib media didn't condemn that move. They didn't call the Dems puppets of the fringe Left. They did a victory dance.
Why is it news when citizens listening to conservative talk show radio CHOOSE to contact their senators and representatives about an issue, in this case immigration?
No talk radio host has the power to make listeners pick up a phone and place a call.
No talk radio host has the power to make listeners write an email.
That's a choice the listeners make, just as it's their choice to listen to conservative talk radio in the first place.
It seems that the lib media aren't pro-choice anymore.
Go figure.
WASHINGTON -- 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.
Hewitt, a conservative who has criticized many aspects of the bill, had Kyl as a guest on Thursday and asked: "Does the bill provide for any separate treatment of aliens, illegal aliens from countries of special concern?"
Kyl replied: "It's going to, as a result of your lobbying efforts to me."
...Other Bush allies have tried more confrontational approaches to the talk hosts, sometimes with bruising results.
Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., told reporters last week, "Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem." Some hosts, he added, do not know what is in the lengthy bill.
The comments incensed conservative talk show hosts who generally had supported Lott over the years.
...Radio host Rush Limbaugh asked his audience: "What are we going to do about Mississippi Senator Trent Lott?"
Lott's treatment contrasted sharply with that given to Kyl. In a column posted on his Web site, Hewitt called Kyl "perhaps the single most effective and principled conservative in the United States Senate."
The Democrats routinely have conference calls with far Left-wing bloggers.
The lib media don't get freaked out when Daily Kos and MoveOn pull the strings of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. They aren't troubled by Russ Feingold blogging on Daily Kos.
The connection between the Dems and the radical Lefties isn't considered inappropriate. The influence that the Leftist groups exert on Dems isn't considered the result of pressure from unruly, uneducated, mindless mobs.
Democrat presidential candidates bowed to pressure from the radical Lefties when they insisted that they abandon a debate hosted by FOX News.
The lib media didn't condemn that move. They didn't call the Dems puppets of the fringe Left. They did a victory dance.
Why is it news when citizens listening to conservative talk show radio CHOOSE to contact their senators and representatives about an issue, in this case immigration?
No talk radio host has the power to make listeners pick up a phone and place a call.
No talk radio host has the power to make listeners write an email.
That's a choice the listeners make, just as it's their choice to listen to conservative talk radio in the first place.
It seems that the lib media aren't pro-choice anymore.
Go figure.
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