Politics and partisianism is usually mundane to argue about it, but sometimes trading insults and harsh rhetoric can put innocent citizens in harms way. Consider the case of a Florida radio station who would lose their ability to air the dangerous weather alerts because the democrat controlled Broward County commissioners disagree with the WIOD station lineup consisting of conservative talk."If your roof gets blown off, do you really care if the radio station that is giving you the information that you need also carries Rush Limbaugh?" Jacobs remarked to the Sun-Sentinel. "I don't think so. I don't agree with that man's philosophy and I don't listen to him, but I'm not going to not choose WIOD because of it."That sounds like a rational thought from the Sun-Sentinel. If only there were more people who held this view.
Under its deal with Broward County, WIOD broadcasts news conferences from the county Emergency Operations Center in Plantation, Fla., in their entirety.And what would be so wrong as to reach the largest possible audience knowing that WIOD is #1 in their market. Petty jealousy is really ugly when you look at this through the mirror. The democrats have no leg to stand on this argument. Luckily, the voice of the people continues to shine and not accept blindly what a few bureaucrats think what people should have.
The Sun-Sentinel is running a poll on the matter on its Web site, asking, "Broward County commissioners may cancel a contract with radio station WIOD, which is the official source of emergency information, because it features the Rush Limbaugh show. Would you support this?" At press time, 44.9% of 11,204 respondents had answered yes, 52.8% said no, and 2.3% were not sure.Lucky for us, the democrats don't get away with this kind of garbage. This story has been all over the cable news channels and debated many times. You can count on people like me to continue to shine the light of truth on these kinds of issues.
-- Additional reporting by Brida Connolly
