"An Obama senior adviser has indicated that the administration is mulling whether the controversial Fairness Doctrine will get a new lease on life, according to a report in Broadcasting and Cable. The now defunct Fairness Doctrine, if revived, could be used by a liberal administration to silence Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and other radio talk show hosts, as well as much of the new alternative media. The doctrine required broadcasters to report both sides of controversial issues. The Federal Communications Commission dropped it in 1987....This soft position is a departure from a much more definitive posture on the doctrine touted during the Obama campaign in June 2008: “Senator Obama does not support reimposing the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters,” press secretary Michael Ortiz said in an e-mail to Broadcasting and Cable at that time....Last week on a radio show, former President Bill Clinton announced that in his opinion something needed to be done to balance broadcasting. “Well, you either ought to have the fairness doctrine or you ought to have more balance on the other side,” Clinton said, “because essentially there has always been a lot of big money to support the right wing talk shows.” -Source: Newsmax
First of all, you have a Democrat President and a majority of Democrats in the House and Senate....so....what are you guys afraid of, exactly? These talk shows have been around for years, yet you bozos all got elected. I don't see you demanding that The New York Times or any other obviously liberal rags have to be "balanced". Let's be honest, guys, this isn't about balance. This is about extermination. This is about silencing the right, once and for all. This is government controlled censorship. Yes, CENSORSHIP. When the government dictates what we HAVE to listen to, it's censorship. Do you people get that? You are going to be forcing your liberal agenda pill down my throat, like it or not. How the hell is that FAIR??? The radio stations want to carry the conservative agenda, because, yes, they want to make money. They make money because...gee, people want to listen to conservative talk shows! If they didn't, they wouldn't make money. Simple economics. Supply and demand. It's called"capitalism". Liberal talk shows fail, time and time again. Well, except in places where there are a lot of liberals who will listen, I'll give you that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_talk_radio
Oh, I have a question....who's going to fund these liberal talk shows that no one wants to listen to? Hmmm. Let's see. Oh, I know, it's US. You are going to fleece us, so the radio stations have funding to carry shows that most people won't listen to! BAAAAAA!!!!
As we all know, Capitalism is an evil empire that Socialism cannot tolerate. And so is free thinking. This is why the Liberals are rallying around this (cough) "FAIRNESS Doctrine", which will basically be Big Brother telling us "if you say THIS, you have to say THAT TOO, because that's only FAIR." And guess what....all the people who do conservative talk shows will throw up their hands and say, "Screw this, I'm done." And who saw that coming? The liberals! There will be NO voice of the other side of the story! Exactly!
Oh, and I LOOOOVE how the "Obama of Oz" flip-flopped on this issue (note the underlined part) I'm sure we will see more of this....a LOT more of this.
I know, some of you die hard republicans voted for this guy. You thought, "Oh, he's not so scary. He's a moderate. We need change. This sounds so good." You bought it the snake oil, people...and it's laced with arsenic.
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