It ain't so much the likes of Rush as it's the ones who pay them and offered local radio stations his programs for free. Rush's are a dime a dozen and they will find another one for rural hate radio. Joe should have the FCC reassign the AM broadcast band to digital ASAP and change the licensing requirements for the digital service, take yer time too. The serpent's voice will be silenced in millions of half tons and the democrat's wouldn't lose a single vote over it. As for the station owners, fuck them, making war on your own country has consequences and it's high times they were felt.
Want to narrow the urban rural divide? This would be a start, they can still stream it on the internet, but reception in a rural half ton with a gullible moron behind the wheel would be problematic. The AM band should go to digital use, like TV did.