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To: Dale Baker who wrote (68547)	5/26/2008 9:52:33 AM
From: quehubo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 543652

Well maybe not the whole left, but the legislators noted in your post are the ones who worry me the most. Obama on the other hand is quick to label others with promoting hate crimes. I wonder where this goes? Obama collects another $500,000, slams Limbaugh By Michael C. Bender \| Friday, May 23, 2008, 07:15 AM More than 800 donors packed into a Westin Diplomat Hotel ballroom Thursday night to pad Barack Obama’s war chest by another $500,000, according to this pool report of the evening. In a speech to the crowd, Obama sharpened his rhetoric against some of the most vocal voices against immigrant workers and migrant worker programs. “A certain segment has basically been feeding a kind of xenophobia. There’s a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year,” Obama said. “If you have people like Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh ginning things up, it’s not surprising that would happen.” palmbeachpost.com

To: Dale Baker who wrote (68547)	5/30/2008 2:27:30 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543652

>>Support for Reinstitution of the Fairness Doctrine<< Dale - I'm catching up on the thread after moving over the weekend. My opinion is that the Fairness Doctrine might have made some sense when there were only a few media outlets, but in today's world it doesn't. Furthermore, it's virtually impossible to enforce something like that fairly, so it would not deserve the name. Apparently, though, there's no real threat there, and the right-wing screedsters are not under siege from the Left. They'd love it if they were, but they just aren't. - Allen