2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary has spent most of her political career denying she's a liberal [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)since reagan killed the fairness doctrine in 1997. and it was and still is mostly invisible to those who least like what it pushes.
by the mid 90's they'd already subsidized limbaugh all over the country - they already had him and some of his spawn working on hundreds of radio stations, excluding competition, and working over the clintons to stop health care reform, sell lewinsky, and obstruct, force compromise and deregulation, and push them right. gingrich would be nothing without limbaugh and sons.
500 radio stations with limbaugh and a complementary lineup of other national and local liars on those and another 500, repeating the same think tank scripted PSYOPS all day, is a monopoly of the airwaves, whether their owned by 100 republican owners or 3.
it was already over then, and today the left still continues the biggest political mistake in history.