"BIG EDDY SHOUTS OUT"

Michael Hood (blatherWatch) says

Censoring liberals for jesus- buy 'em up & shut 'em up--Big Eddie is pissed off. Ed Shultz, (KPTK m-f,12-3p) the impassioned red-sounding blue talker is the No. 1 rated liberal talker in the country. He's number one liberal talker in Seattle. In his time slot, he edges out not only the "Cheap Lunch Limbaugh," Sean Hannity (KVI, m-f, 12-3) but also passes Dori Monson, (KIRO) and Michael Medved (KTTH) by a mile or two.

"It's clear, he says, "that the Christian hard right is buying up the signals of progressive stations to get liberals off the air." He says in the next few years, Christian broadcasters will increase their AM station ownership to the tune of $500 million.

Stations with these small numbers can't effect much influence, you'd think. But shutting down liberal talkers by buying them out is as effective a method of censorship as we've ever seen.

Everything is for sale- especially in media. Especially radio stations. So as long as they have the dough,(and they do) theocratic capitalists can buy up big chunks of any market. And that's what they're doing, says Shultz.

"This is conservative push-back at the success of me and other liberal talkers- it's about controlling the airwaves" he says.

"Radio ownership is a key free speech issue, and we deserve to hear about this in the Congress."