Broadcasting & Cable’s BC Beat column about the right-wing radio strawman that is the non-existent “Hush Rush” bill notes:

But while some Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have recently expressed interest in seeing the return of the doctrine, which was declared unconstitutional in 1987, critics of conservative talk-radio say the idea is a straw man ginned up to get listeners in a fighting mood.

In his new book, Shock Jocks: Hate Speech & Talk Radio (AlterNet Books), veteran journalist and filmmaker Rory O’Connor notes that “[m]ost informed political observers believe there is scant possibility that the fusty doctrine will ever be reimposed.”