Reply #2: Did I suggest suppressing speech?

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I suggested breaking up the media oligopolies and forcing Rush & co. to compete on a level playing field.

Do you think that without the big corporations and Rupert Murdochs backing him up that Rush would get all the airtime he gets? In that environment, when we tune out Rush, it will hurt his bottom line, and Rush will get replaced by better programming that attracts more listeners than just the Limbaughtomized.

In today's environment, the media oligarchs just look for new ways to spam us with the same right-wing message. It's at the point where we're almost forced to listen to him. If not Rush, then O'Reilly, or Beck, or Coulter, or Stephenopolos, or they'll sneak in the message in less overtly partisan forms - slanted news coverage, for example. It's virtually impossible to escape.