Democrat Senator Wants To Regulate What You Hear On The Radio

  •  October 23, 2008

Sure. Why not. Nothing says “fair” like government-mandated broadcast content.


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  • http://Array scharfy

    Fairness Doctrine = bye-bye talk radio. Broadcasters lose half their revenue because nobody listens to liberal talk (Air America anyone?). A 50% drop in profits hurt, so the broadcaster moves on to something safe like country music… until the government tells him he’s playing too much Toby Keith and not enough Dixie Chicks.

  • Harry

    I’m sure this democrats name is Dr. Joseph Goebbels.

  • Jerry

    I’ll Tell ya where they could stick ther Regulations…….

    Straight up…

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/white_folks_greed_runs_a_world_in_ Joel

    AR 15

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/white_folks_greed_runs_a_world_in_ Joel

    Listen to Mark Levin smack down Senator Jeff Bingaman.

  • Hungry Bear

    FAIRNESS DOCTRINE (continued)

    6. And for every dollar spend funding departments like Womens Studies, Chicano Studies, Black Studies, the university would need to create and equally fund a department that promotes ideas opposite those in the various victimology classes.

  • http://views-from-right.blogspot.com/ subbob

    Amazing. I am in no way supportive of the Fairness Doctrine. But did you hear what this guy said around the one-minute point? I played it over a couple times and typed it out:

    “media generally should have a higher calling than to reflect a particular point of view, I think they should use their authority to try to, uh, and their broadcast power to present an informed discussion of public issues”

    I wonder what he’d say if we asked the same of the New York Times? of MSNBC and other news networks? Most of the American public has yet to hear any informed discussion of who Obama really is.

  • Hungry Bear

    FAIRNESS DOCTRINE!

    I don’t think it will be that bad. Hannity and Colmes works every night on tv, why can’t it work on radio? But I also think the fairness doctrine would have to be applied to network tv as well.

    Hey Bolger:

    In order for the fairness doctrine to truly be fair, it would have to apply to more than just talk radio. And most of the media is far more unbalanced in a liberal direction than in a conservative direction

    Here are my suggestions:

    1. The New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Boston Herald, Gannett and the Associated Press would be required to hire many thousands of conservative reporters and editors to balance the liberals on their staff.

    2. CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC and Telemundo would be required to hire manty thousands of conservative reporters, editors, writers, and producers to make up for the deliberate bias in the TV News media.

    3. Hollywood would be required to buy thousands of scripts from conservative screenwriters so that the number of scripts that had conservative bias would equal the number of scripts that had liberal bias.

    4. The music industry would need to balance the number liberal musicians and conservative musicians on their label.

    5. American universities would need to hire one conservative professor for every liberal professor, and one fascist professor for every far-left professor.

  • Wing Chun Geologist

    This senator is fascist.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    This is s a horrible Idea and it must be rejected and fought with ever ounce. I heard they also want to use it on the internet as well…

  • robert108

    Censorship of diverse opinions; pure Stalinism.

  • jpe

    I’ll be any of you $20 that fairness doctrine hasn’t been instituted in 4 years. Or: if it is, I’ll donate $20 to an entity of your choice. If it isn’t, the taker has to give $20 to Acorn.

    Heck, I’ll give 2:1 odds. Put up $10, and I’ll put up $20.

  • http://northerngleaner.blogspot.com/ Gene

    This is what the liberal thugocracy will bring us. Free speech is coming to an end. On the internet too.

    The left can’t stand the light of day. So they will now impose the new dark ages on us.

    I hope Scott Hennen’s Beetles collection is still intact.

    He’s gonna need em.

    That 1100 was a good idea as long as it was allowed.

    This sucks.

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    Say bye bye to free speech!

  • ews48

    Apparently, these people are so convinced that they’re the victims that they can’t see the neolib slant of the rest of the media.

    http://ewebsmith.com/Finance/notlistening.html

  • Bolgar

    Rush didn’t fight for my job when his corporate buddies brought in millions of foreigners to take our engineering jobs through phony H1B visas so why should I fight for his job?

    I don’t think it will be that bad. Hannity and Colmes works every night on tv, why can’t it work on radio? But I also think the fairness doctrine would have to be applied to network tv as well.

  • Hungry Bear

    Our constitution was written to protect the right of individuals to engage in political speech that the majority disagreed with.

    Our founding fathers had no idea that it could be used to protect close up images of genetalia, but that’s exactly how the liberals have interpreted it.

    Now the liberals want to protect absolutely the rights of those who want to promulgate vulgarity, while stifling the right of people to disagree with progressive political ideas.

    Liberals truly inhabit a Bizarro America where the first ammendment only protects speech our founding fathers could never have imagined, while not protecting the type of speech they risked their lives to defend.

  • Mickey

    Get that Democrat Senator a brown suit. He looks like a size 42 tall.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    jpe – Or: if it is, I’ll donate $20 to an entity of your choice. If it isn’t, the taker has to give $20 to Acorn.

    What kind of bet is that?

    We hope that the “Fairness Doctrine” doesn’t get reimplemented and would hope to lose, at which point we would have to donate to a voter fraud organization. If it does get implemented, we lose.

    Either way, with your bet, we lose.

    Where is the payoff for the taker of the bet?

  • http://northerngleaner.blogspot.com/ Gene

    The Left is Worried Sharialess

    If you are wondering why the Mainline media is so in the bag for Obama, I think I figured it out. They are hoping to impose sharia type law at least as it has to do with their world view.

    Off with your head if you voice an opinion they don’t like.

    It’s sharia law for the right and open season for them. They don’t like the competition. They don’t like that there are voices uncontrolled by them. They want to paint the USA as a problem to be solved. Not a solution living in a troubled world.

    I have been hard on Rush Limbaugh in the past. They want to Hush Rush. That’s where the idea of “Fairness Doctrine” comes in. He’s been a problem for them and he opened the flood gates of Conservative Talk and feeds into the Internet.

    Rush Limbaugh accurately said something I agree with fuly: America isn’t the Problem, America is the Solution.

  • Hungry Bear

    This is s a horrible Idea and it must be rejected and fought with ever ounce.

    Yes, this is a horrible idea. But it’s not going to matter once Obama gets elected with Democrat house and senate. This is going to be rammed through.

    Anyone who thinks this can’t happen hear needs to look at the way people are routinely prosecuted (charged and tried) for politically incorrect speach in Canada and Europe.

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