Pence: Limbaugh, Beck 'speak for more Americans' than 'mainstream media'

October 22, 2:45 PMConservative Politics ExaminerKathy Shaidle

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Conservative media outlets were attacked from both sides this week.

President Obama told one reporter he considered Fox News “more like talk radio” than a legitimate news outlet, while even “top Republicans” were supposedly “worried” about “the flamboyant rhetoric and angry tone of conservative activists and media personalities.”

That led Congressman Mike Pence (R.-Ind.) to defend conservative talk radio on the floor of the House of Representatives on Thursday:

You know, the American people cherish their freedom of speech and a free and independent press. That's why I found this morning's headlines so troubling,” Pence said Thursday. “Goaded on by a White House increasingly intolerant of criticism, lately the national media has taken aim at conservative commentators in radio and television. Suggesting that they only speak for a small group of activists and even suggesting in one report today that Republicans in Washington are ‘worried about their electoral effect.’

Well, that's hogwash.

To suggest that men and women that are taking a stand for fiscal discipline and traditional values in the national debate today only speak for ‘grassroots activists’ is absurd. As evidenced by the hundreds of thousands that filled town hall meetings this summer and the nearly a million Americans who gathered here in Washington in September. Millions of Americans, Republicans, Democrats and Independents are worried about liberal social policies and runaway federal spending, deficit and debt.

So to my friends in the so-called ‘mainstream media’ I say, ‘conservative talk show hosts may not speak for everybody but they speak for more Americans than you do.’”