Thread: Talk radio having influence in Senate

WASHINGTON

Immigration has supplanted Iraq as the leading issue on television and radio talk shows, complicating the prospects of a Senate bill desperately wanted by President Bush.

Conservative talk radio’s effect on the immigration debate reached new heights last week, with one host effectively writing an amendment for when the Senate returns to the imperiled bill this week.

National talk-show hosts have spent months denouncing the bill as providing amnesty for illegal immigrants. Some top Republicans who support the legislation have defied the broadcast pundits. Other GOP legislators have tried to placate them, even to the point of accepting their ideas for amendments.

Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., the key conservative negotiator behind the compromise bill, told reporters Friday that California radio host Hugh Hewitt “had several ideasâ€

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Gawd this pisses me off. Talk radio isn't influencing this they are reporting what EVERYONE who listens to them is calling them about. No one wants to talk about anything but immigration, so guess what the radio shows are talking about immigration.

These idiots really hate Americans. We are the people and we will be heard.