Democrats from Bill Clinton to Howard Dean have complained that conservative talk radio hosts Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly have grown too powerful.
Now an effort has begun to drive one of them off the air, according to the manager of a station that carries Hannity's show in New Mexico.
Bob Clark, station manager of KRSN in Los Alamos, described to Hannity on Tuesday a series of threatening phone calls to his station and its advertisers that were part of a bid to get Clark to drop the top-rated talker's broadcast.
Clark said it began with a call two weeks ago from someone who complained about the "right-wing drivel" he aired. The caller said he was preparing a list of KRSN's sponsors, adding that he intended to contact them in a bid "to convince them to stop advertising with us until we took the show off the air."
"I got a call a week later from one of my good advertisers," said Clark. The sponsor said that he'd been contacted by an organizer of the boycott.
Recounting the conversation, Clark told Hannity, "What they said was that they represented the Democratic Party, that there were 4,600 members in this area and that they had discussed initiating this boycott of your sponsors to get you off the air."
The KRSN manager said his advertiser, who's also a personal friend, "was quite concerned" about the boycott threat.
The chairman of the Los Alamos Democratic Party appeared on KRSN Tuesday morning and denied any "official participation" in the boycott, saying the action was news to him.
Editor's note:
Get FREE traffic to your Web site INSTANTLY! Click here now!
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Media Bias
2004 Elections
DNC
Print Page 
Forward Page 
