Claim: Hillary, Boxer look to 'fix' talk radio
Sen. James Inhofe says Democrat colleagues want to take legislative action
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Senate colleague Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., want to "fix" talk radio because of its conservative influence on America, according to Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla.
Appearing on John Ziegler's evening show on KFI 640 AM radio in Los Angeles, Inhofe reported hearing Clinton and Boxer discussing plans for a "legislative fix" and confronting them about it.
Inhofe told Ziegler he'd been walking to a vote "with two liberal gals" who were outraged over something a conservative radio talk show host had said, according to the Breitbart.tv recording.
"They said we've got to do something about this. These are nothing but far right-wing extremists. We've got to have a balance. There's got to be a legislative fix for this," Inhofe said.
"As we got off the elevator, I said, you gals don't understand. This is market driven, and there's no market for your liberal tripe," Inhofe said.
Inhofe told Ziegler that such complaints about the opinions expressed by talk show hosts is "common chatter" in Washington.
Ziegler asked if the two were talking about shutting talk radio down, and Inhofe said, "They just want to influence it."
The conversation had begun with the Oklahoma senator saying that opinion in the nation is influenced by the conservative leaders in the industry and he related the conversation where he'd been present.
Initially he didn't identify the Democrats.
"Was that Boxer and Feinstein?" Ziegler asked.
"You're halfway there," Inhofe said. "The other one's running for president."
"So it was Boxer and Hillary?" Ziegler said, who were complaining about talk radio.
"Oh yeah … this is common chatter," the Oklahoma senator said.
"So Boxer and Hillary were conspiring to end talk radio?" Ziegler asked.
"Not end talk radio. They just want to influence it," Inhofe said.
A WND message left with Clinton's Washington office requesting a comment was not returned. But on an ABC blog both offices issued denials.
"Senator Boxer told me that either her friend Senator Inhofe needs new glasses or he needs to have his hearing checked, because that conversation never happened," says Natalie Ravitz, the communications director for Boxer," wrote Jake Tapper on Political Punch.
"Jim Inhofe is wrong," said Philippe Reines, Clinton's press secretary. "This supposed conversation never happened – not in his presence or anywhere else."
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