Sean Hannity

The White House War on Fox News continues unabated. If this report from the Chicago Tribune is correct, the White House is now threatening Democrat strategists to keep them from appearing on the network. I find it hard to believe that this strategy will inure to the benefit of the White House. The White House has already antagonized millions of independent Americans by insulting their character, think tea-baggers.

Now the White House continues its assault on one half of the cable news watching population, those that watch Fox News.

Fox News consistently has Democrat politicians and analysts on their network. Without those appearances, conservative views will go unchallenged.

How can any of this be good for the White House?
FOX off-limits

At least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, an outlet that presidential aides have depicted as not so much a news-gathering operation as a political opponent bent on damaging the Obama administration.

Political consultants are a staple of cable television talk shows, analyzing current events based on their own experiences working on campaigns or in government.

One Democratic strategist said that shortly after an appearance on Fox he got a phone call from a White House official telling him not to be a guest on the show again. The call had an intimidating tone, he said.

The message was, “We better not see you on again,” said the strategist, who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to run afoul of the White House. An implicit suggestion, he said, was that “clients might stop using you if you continue.” [click to continue…]

Leave a Comment

American Thinker: Talkers fill GOP leadership vacuum

The Old Media are in a breathless tizzy over Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and other conservative talk show hosts. These high-profile voices of the Right speak to ever-larger audiences. They provide a logical and devastating criticism of the leftist agenda of the Obama Administration on a daily basis. So, Old Media asks: Are these conservative talkers the new leaders of the Republican Party?

The answer is yes, by default.

The Republican Party has a defined structure of local, state and national leaders. As a precinct committeeman and local party chairman, I am part of this structure. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is working diligently to communicate the conservative message. However, Steele is hampered by a media reluctant to shine their light on an African-American conservative success story. More importantly, Steele is constrained by a party apparatus dominated by non-conservatives.

Limbaugh et al suffer no such constraints. They are free to broadcast conservative principles in their own unfiltered style. The desire of liberal lawmakers to restrict their access to the public airwaves is proof of their influence and importance to the conservative cause. The talkers are not a danger to America — they are a threat to the liberal media and political monopoly.

A common refrain from the base is: Why aren’t Republicans doing anything to stop the Democrats? Of course, most are voting against liberal proposals such as higher taxes, higher spending and bigger government. The problem is that Republicans are the minority party in a representative democracy.

Between elections, the only way to stop the majority party is to threaten their majority status. This is achieved by generating ample issue-oriented public outcry that worries the most vulnerable of the majority party legislators. However, you can’t beat something with nothing. So, you have to channel that public outcry into action.

This is where the Republican Party is failing. They are not connecting with the town hall dissenters and Tea Party protestors. Some Republican elected officials even act embarrassed by these citizens turned activists. The liberal media immediately highlights these embarrassed Republicans to marginalize the protestors. Rather than pushing them away, the Republican Party should be recruiting these folks. These citizen-activists need a channel for their energy and passion and their natural home is the Republican Party. Protests are for publicity, elections determine government policy.

So, where does the ignored and derided would-be citizen-activist turn? Logically, to those they hear every day confirming the correctness of their beliefs – Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and the thousands of other conservative talk show hosts trumpeting their cause. Many a host is asked: What can I do? Sadly, the answer is never to contact your local Republican Party.

The Republican Party ignores this ample public outcry at its peril. However, more than political irrelevance and election defeat is at stake. America will pay the much higher price.

Sphere: Related Content

Leave a Comment

Yesterday, we wrote a post entitled, “Van Jones Will Be Forced to Resign: It is Just A Matter of Time” outlining the damage Van Jones is doing to the Obama Administration. Americans are losing trust in Obama. President Bush’s credibility was destroyed by the Democrats effective attempt to paint Bush as a liar. Obama is suffering the same fate, but at his own hand.

I have put together a series of clips of talk radio hosts and their guests making just such an argument. You will hear from special guests including Carl Rove and Charles Krauthammer.

Krauthammer: Van Jones being a 9-11 Truther is Devastating.

Ingraham Debates Van Jones Controversy On “Factor”

Karl Rove Calls Van Jones A “Foul Mouthed Lunatic”

Sphere: Related Content

Leave a Comment

Normally one is honored to be called a fascist and a liar by Air America. If you are the President of the United States and an extreme liberal, being on the receiving end of this rant can’t be good.

“He is such a charming liar”. – Christiane Brown

You know things are going in the wrong direction for President Obama when Air America hosts begin turning on him.

Air Ameria host Christiane Brown calls him “a charming liar” and investigative reporter Greg Palast suggests that we may be in the middle of “an absolute fascist nightmare.” He even wonders “What if the people out there screaming and breaking up the discussion at town (hall) meetings are correct?”

The trend is not Obama’s friend.

h/t – I Hate The Media.

Sphere: Related Content

Leave a Comment

I have posted this speech by Ronald Reagan before, nevertheless, I am compelled to do so again. It is as relevant to today’s health care debate as it was when delivered in 1961.

Substitute the names of today’s Democratic leaders for those holding power in 1961 and you would believe it was delivered today.

If you are as concerned as I am about the prospect of socialized medicine, listen this clip. Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh have played it in its entirety and in-part respectively. It is that good.

The speech text begins:

As if we’re not already overextended enough financially, the issue of National Health Care is now on the table once more vote. Here’s some perspective you might find interesting.

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it.

Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it. We had an example of this. Under the Truman administration it was proposed that we have a compulsory health insurance program for all people in the United States, and, of course, the American people unhesitatingly rejected this….

Now in our country under our free enterprise system we have seen medicine reach the greatest heights that it has in any country in the world. Today, the relationship between patient and doctor in this country is something to be envied any place. The privacy, the care that is given to a person, the right to chose a doctor, the right to go from one doctor to the other.

But let’s also look from the other side, at the freedom the doctor loses. A doctor would be reluctant to say this. Well, like you, I am only a patient, so I can say it in his behalf. The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it’s like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then the doctors aren’t equally divided geographically, so a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him you can’t live in that town, they already have enough doctors. You have to go some place else. And from here it is only a short step to dictating where he will go…

Write those letters now; call your friends and them to write them. If you don’t, this program I promise you, will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow, and behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country. Until, one day, as Normal Thomas said we will awake to find that we have socialism. And if you don’t do this and if I don’t do it, one of these days we are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men were free.

To read the complete the text, follow this link.

Sphere: Related Content

1 comment

Mark Levin warns the White House that they will be accountable for anything that happens that to people attending town hall meetings. Sphere: Related Content

Earlier today I took an in depth look at Obama’s trip to Russia. I was particularly concerned with Obama’s refusal to acknowledge America’s leading role in ending the Cold War. Here is Mark Levin, Sean Hannity and Major Garrett’s take. In this clip from the Mark Levin Show, Mark asks, “Does President Obama hates his [...]

Today on Sean Hannity’s program, Dick Morris summed up why so many of us are irate with President Obama. Put all this together, he’s borrowing at record amount;, raising interest rates hurting the recovery; he is socializing medicine so that we can have like Canada, a 16% higher death rate; he’s doubling utility bills; he [...]

Tonight Hannity will be featuring the ads that ABC is refusing to air during its special on health care. His guest will be from Conservative’s for Patient’s Rights. From their site: Conservatives for Patients’ Rights: ABC turned down CPR’s initial request last week to run paid advertising during their hour-long special presenting the President’s health [...]

Sean Hannity

White House War On Fox News Enters New Phase

Talk Radio and Fox Are Leaders of Republicans by Default

Radio Roundup: Van Jones Must Go

Sean Hannity: “Obama is Bill Ayers”

Air America Host Says of Obama – “He is such a charming liar”. – Video

Ronald Reagan’s Take On Socialized Medicine – Video

Mark Levin on Hannity – Video

Mark Levin and Sean Hannity Decry Obama’s Revisionist History – The Russian Episode

Quote of the Day: Dick Morris via Sean Hannity

Hannity Takes on ABC For Denying Obama Opposition Ads During Health Care Special – Video

Search Friend of Talk Radio

A Reminder

Recent Posts

Blogroll

Recommended by Friends of Talk Radio

National Review Online

Hot Air

Founding Bloggers

Megan McArdle

Power Line

We Rush Daily

Follow Us On

Sign In With Facebook

Join Our Communities

Welcome To Friends of Talk

We Rush Daily

Official Show Sites

Listen to Your Favorite Shows Live

Red State

Sign In To Our Site With Your Google Account

Log In/Out