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201 “primarily to gender, race”: Ibid.
202 “I centainly can’t tell”: Jim Inhofe, “Inhofe: Localism Is a Threat to Freedom of Speech,” American Chronicle, March 8, 2009, www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/93765.
203 “Localism”: Brian C. Anderson, “The Unfairness of a Fairness Doctrine,” Los Angeles Times, March 3, 2009, www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-anderson3-2009mar03,0,3110313.story.
204 “localism…also could”: Ibid.
205 “comprised of local”: Jim Boulet Jr., “Obama Declares War on Conservative Talk Radio,” AmericanThinker.com, November 17, 2008, www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/obama_declares_war_on_conserva.html.
206 Anderson calls localism: Anderson, “The Unfairness of a Fairness Doctrine.”
207 Media reform groups: Matthew Lasar, “Obama’s FCC Chariman Pick Hailed by Reform Groups,” ArsTechnica.com, January 13, 2009, http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/01/obamas-fcc-chairman-pick-hailed-by-reform-groups.ars.
208 “Barack Obama believes that”: Ibid.
209 “leadership, the FCC’s”: Ibid.
210 “take actions to encourage”: Ryan, “Speaker Pelosi Backs Senate Amendment to Regulate Talk Radio.”
211 “any effort to encourage”: Boulet, “Obama Declares War on Conservative Talk Radio.”
212 “Restore local…public broadcasting”: Ibid.
213 “diversity in [station]”: Matt Cover, “Durbin: ‘Right-Wing’ Radio Hosts Wave ‘Bloody Shirt’ over Broadcast Censorship,” CNSNews.com, March 12, 2009, www.cnsnews.com/PUBLIC/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=44895.
214 “‘affirmative actions’ to”: Ibid.
215 “What is most concerning”: Inhofe, “Inhofe: Localism Is a Threat to Freedom of Speech.”
6. OBAMA SENDS MESSAGE: THE WAR ON TERROR IS OVER
216 “avoid[ed] the terms”: Associated Press, “Napolitano Avoids Terror Terminology,” CBSNews. com, February 24, 2009, www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/24/national/main4826437.shtml.
217 “an unprecedented level”: Barack Obama, “Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies; Subject Transparency and Open Government,” WhiteHouse.gov, www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/.
218 “presumption in favor”: Barack Obama, “Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies; Subject Freedom of Information Act,” WhiteHouse.gov, www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/FreedomofInformationAct/.
219 “organizing and directing”: Pauline Jelinek, “Pentagon Announces Charges in USS Cole Bombing,” USA Today, July 1, 2008, www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2008-06-30-2475186758_x.htm.
220 On February 5, 2009: Catherine Herridge and Associated Press, “Charges Dropped Against USS Cole Bombing Suspect,” FoxNews.com, February 5, 2009, www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/05/sources-charges-dropped-uss-cole-bombing-suspect/.
221 The United States had sought: Catherine Herridge and Associated Press, “Military Judge Refuses to Halt Trial of USS Cole Bombing Suspect,” FoxNews.com, January 29, 2009, www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/29/military-judge-refuses-halt-trial-uss-cole-bombing-suspect/.
222 According to U.S. intelligence: “Profile: Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri,” HistoryCommons.org, www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=abd_al-rahim_al-nashiri.
223 “critics are…saying’: Myra MacDonald, “Pakistan Agrees to Shariah Law to End Swat Fighting,” Reuters.com, February 16, 2009, http://blogs.reuters.com/pakistan/2009/02/16/pakistan-agrees-to-shariah-law-to-end-swat-fighting/.
224 “a surrender to the Taliban”: Ibid.
225 “it means that there”: Ibid.
226 “According to certain”: Indrani Bagchi, “In Search of ‘Good’ Taliban,” Times of India, March 5, 2009, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/In-search-of-good-Taliban/articleshow/4226199.cms.
227 “any kind of Talibanism”: Ibid.
228 “They point out that”: Ibid.
229 “received a hero’s”: Sherin Zada, “NATO Cautions Pakistan over Truce with Taliban,” YahooNews.com, February 17, 2009, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090217/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan.
230 “is certainly reason for