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Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, 'Legislative Fix' for TalkRadio

'Little man Lott' & 'little man Lamb'

By Judi McLeod

Friday, June 22, 2007

When radio talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage both go on holiday at the same time, tsunamis come to call.

Both kings of the airwaves, arrived yesterday on the Drudge Report--in absentia.

According to his website, Rush is enjoying his annual northeast golf trip this week and won't be back until Monday.

Yesterday started off with a Drudge headline: "Michael Savage versus C-Span."

"Note: Savage was never contacted by this unknown blogger and is on vacation," said a note posted to the Michael Savage website on Thursday. "He may respond to this deceptive article next week on his radio show."

Then by day's end came the headline, "Sen. Claims: Boxer/Clinton want 'Legislative Fix' for TalkRadio."

Appearing on John Ziegler's evening show on KFI640 AM in L.A., U.S. Senator James Inhofe says he overheard Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer saying they want a "legislative fix" for talk radio.

With Limbaugh and Savage conveniently out of town, it had to be a classic reverse case of "When the mice are away, the cats will play."

Things are getting hot and it was only the first day of summer.

Getting rid of talk radio seemed to originate with Senator Trent Lott.

"I want to spend a little time here on Trent Lott's comment that talk radio is running the country," Limbaugh said on June 15. "What is talk radio? Talk radio is the greatest democratic forum in the country today. It is truly diverse. There are more ideas, there's more back and forth, there's more so-called diversity. There are all kinds of great things to say about it. Talk radio is the American voter. I bet most of the people who listen to talk radio are voters. That's what bothers Trent Lott. Well, who should be running the country? I don't mean making the day-to-day decisions, but go look at our founding documents and all that jibber-jabba about governing with the consent of the governed. This is a battle between Washington and the people now. This amnesty bill, when you strip away all of the extraneous stuff, is a battle between Washington and the people, and they know it. So you got a Republican talking about talk radio the way liberals talk about talk radio, which tells you (it tells me) what the real objective of most elected officials in Washington is anyway. It's to perpetuate themselves and their jobs and to spend money and maybe not--well, yes it would be in that order. The reason talk radio is "running the country" is because the people who are voters in this country are listening and involved and are passionate. Talk radio may be informing you, but it's not making you a robot, and you're taking action on your own, and these blowhards in Washington are hearing from you, the American people, and that's what bothers them--and we are being blamed for you being informed, and that should tell you something,"

On the very same day, came a Drudge Report story about C-SPAN head honcho Brian Lamb reading emails from Michael Savage fans on the June 15 episode of "Washington Journal", including one that referred to Lamb as "little man Lamb".

It seems that Talkers magazine had awarded Savage a Freedom of Speech award. Savage, who elected not to pick up the award in person at a gathering in New York, instead sent a speech on DVD.

C-SPAN cameras were at the conference and covered parts of it but not the taped Savage speech.

"How did Savage react? By selling a DVD of the speech on his website with these messages: "See the Speech that C-SPAN Banned!" and "See the Speech Too Hot for Left-Wing C-SPAN!" wrote blogger Howard Mortman.

"C-SPAN lies when they say they offered to show the speech if Savage would present it in a theatre. No such offer was ever received by Michael Savage," says a note on the Savage website. "Moreover, they lie when they say they never run a speech presented on a DVD. Numerous such speeches at events have been broadcast by 'little man Lamb'.

Now that Clinton and Boxer want a "legislative fix" for talk radio, 'little man Lott' should be dragged back into the big picture.

Though they're not exactly colleagues, between the two of them Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage own talk radio. The combination of their listening audiences must represent an impressive percentage of "we the people".

That makes politicians on both sides of the House who are busy selling the land out from under their own constituencies a tad queasy.

A 'Legislative Fix' for talk radio is about as real as the ropes of pearls adorning Clinton's and Boxer's necks.

Meanwhile, 'little man Lott', who does the bidding of Democratic ladyships, and 'little man Lamb, who waited until Michael Savage was on holiday to take him on, will go skittering back to their corners on Monday, June 25. Right about the same time Limbaugh and Savage return to the airwaves.

Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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