"Localism"

Let's Begin Discussion of "Obama Declares War on Conservative Talk Radio"  with a quote from Hubert Humphrey.

“ "Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.... The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible." ”

Obama is on record as saying he doesn't plan an exhumation of the now-dead "Fairness Doctrine".  I don't know why that matters.   The Him will to turn on a dime when it suits him.  In this case, he's apparently drawing on the Democrat habit of dressing something ugly in new clothes;  e.g., The Children's ... ; The Clean Air .... ; Temporary Refund Adjustment, etc.  Only worse. “ The late community organizer Saul Alinsky taught his followers to strike hard from an unexpected direction, an approach known as Alinsky jujitsu. 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, writes Jim Boulet, Jr. in an American Thinker paper, " ”  "Fairness Doctrine" has been swapped out for "localism."   The word can easily conjure pleasant thoughts of Federalism, and State Rights,  wot?  Nuh-uh. We're dealing with a Leninist here, and don't you think otherwise. “ Team Obama and the "localism" weapon The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule in question is called "localism."  Radio and television stations are required to serve the interests of their local community as a condition of keeping their broadcast licenses.  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. Localism is one of the rare issues on which Obama himself has been outspoken.  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. Furthermore, the Obama transition team knows all about the potential of localism as a means of silencing conservative dissent.  The head of the Obama transition team is John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress. ” I know what you're saying. "But Rodge, what the heck does that have to do with Hubert Humphrey's endorsement of the Second Amendment?  Well, I've taken you to the river, but you have to decide whether the water's poison.  WWJD?