Separation of church, state and talk radio: UCC and FCC target Rush Limbaugh

October 20, 9:10 AMConservative Politics ExaminerKathy Shaidle

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Jeffrey Lord is a reporter for the conservative magazine American Spectator. He's also a member of the United Church of Christ (UCC).

Today he reports on a labyrinthine scheme being promoted by his Church to bully conservative talk radio in general, and Rush Limbaugh in particular, using the increasingly familiar "hate crime" ploy.

Lord's story is necessarily long and involved, but he's connecting the dots in a pretty convincing fashion. Here's his summary, but please read the whole thing:

There is an organized campaign now afoot, a carefully planned, well-funded systematic assault on talk radio and Fox News that involves at least seven major liberal American religious denominations. All of whom are apparently planning to spread the gospel that talk radio and Fox News personalities are spreading hate speech. This message will be spread to their parishioners' children, in adult education materials, in sermons and through lay leaders -- people like me.

And to back it up, they are trying to invoke the legal authority of the FCC. After having a cozy, private lunch with a sympathetic FCC Commissioner on September 30.

Which brings us last, but certainly not least to: The White House.

No doubt more will follow in the near future.