Broward County's Liberal Preservation Plan

If you're a resident of Broward County, FL and there's a hurricane coming, where are you going to turn for storm information? If county officials have their way, it won't be to a radio station which carries Rush Limbaugh:

Rush Limbaugh has long been a thorn in the side of liberals, but now, because of him, some Democratic politicians don't even want to join with a local radio station to broadcast hurricane information.

Radio station WIOD, AM 610, has been the official channel for emergency information from Broward County government for the past year. The County Commission, all Democrats, balked at renewing the deal Tuesday, unable to stomach the station also being home to Limbaugh's talk show.

Commissioner Stacy Ritter said she did not want to support a station that's out of step with area politics. Ritter, a Democratic stalwart in the state Legislature before being elected to county office, cited talk shows hosted by Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and WIOD's partnership with Fox News.

"They have every right to speak, but we don't have to do business with them," she said.

Limbaugh has long been a fixture on WIOD, but no county official raised an issue about him or the other shows when the deal was approved for the first time a year ago.

The deal with WIOD would ensure that news conferences are broadcast start to finish live from the county Emergency Operations Center in Plantation. Emergency managers became concerned during hurricanes in 2004 and 2005 that radio and television stations preempted their announcements in favor of news out of Miami.

Limbaugh, who lives in Palm Beach, could not be reached for comment. Ken Charles, WIOD's director of AM programming, said the station's talk show lineup has no relationship with its news coverage and that the county should focus on the benefits of teaming with the station.

"It's a shame that people would let politics get in the way of saving lives in a hurricane," Charles said.

On the surface this looks like little more than petty partisan politics, but I think the libs have something more sinister in mind. By switching to a station that features liberal programming (if they can find one that's still in business), they can assure that only liberals will hear the storm warnings and be saved. Since libs abort more of their children than do others, they don't reproduce very well so it's important that they don't lose their waning numbers in a big storm.

Of course, while they're listening to the lib D.J. blame Bush for the storm, the conservatives will have already split for higher ground, thus thwarting the Broward County plan.