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By: Neal Boortz | Published on 06/25/07    

Trent Lott and Diane Feinstein had a little chat on Fox News last night. They discussed some of our favorite topics: immigration and (you guessed it!) the Fairness Doctrine.

Now, just a little over a week ago Trent Lott gave me and my colleagues credit for "running America." Well maybe not me, but talk radio. But, shockingly, Trent Lott is doing the back-pedal. He is saying that it isn't talk radio's fault. Really? Nope. He is saying that it is Congress' fault for not explaining itself ... for not communicating to the great unwashed. We all just need for government to 'splain everything to us and it will all be OK.

Lott talks about the immigration debate saying," Talk radio defined it without us explaining that there were reasons for it and the good things that were in it." Well guess what Trent? We did the research. We read what parts of the bill were actually available to the public. We've read the Heritage Foundation reports. We've read analysis from Congressional offices. We read the Congressional Budget Office report which said that the amnesty bill would stop about 25% of future border crossings. Sorry, Senator: we have done the research and we still say no.

That was just kicking off the interview. Then Diane Feinstein comes into the picture. Here is how Senator Feinstein describes talk radio, "Well, in my view, talk radio tends to be one-sided. It also tends to be dwelling in hyperbole. It's explosive. It pushes people to, I think, extreme views without a lot of information."

Did you hear that? Folks, I always tell you not to believe anything you hear on the Neal Boortz show. But I have to tell you that I don't just sit up here and flap my trap and make things up. I do research. I don't invent studies or stories out of thin air. I'm just not that creative. But when I do have an opinion or view, it comes from a story I've read or a study I've researched. I have my right to have my own opinion on it.

But wait, not for long! Then Feinstein gets into the fairness doctrine. She claims that if talk radio was "fair," then the other "good" side of the amnesty bill would have been forced to be discussed, and it never would have been defeated in the first place.

WALLACE: So would you revive the fairness doctrine?

FEINSTEIN: Well, I'm looking at it, as a matter of fact, Chris, because I think there ought to be an opportunity to present the other side. And unfortunately, talk radio is overwhelmingly one way.

And there you have it. There ought to be an "opportunity" to present the other side. Guess what Senator. There is a way. Air America is presenting the "other side." The trouble is, nobody is listening! Sad to say, but nobody wants to listen to "progressive" radio. That's not my fault. Why should I be punished for putting out a product that people want to listen to. Just because conservatives can prosper in talk radio and "progressives" can't just infuriates the hell out of liberals. Talk radio is "overwhelmingly one way." Well, what about CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN .... you get the idea.

Feinstein might as well have been in the elevator with Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer, huffing and puffing about ending talk radio. More on that today with Senator Inhofe ...

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