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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Democrats Seeking To Silence Critics

The Democrats keep moving further and further into GestapoLand. Once again, the Dems are hyping up the Fairness Doctrine. NY Post:

    SHOULD Barack Obama win the presidency and Democrats take full control of Congress, next year will see a real legislative attempt to bring back the Fairness Doctrine - and to diminish conservatives' influence on broadcast radio, the one medium they dominate.

    Yes, the Obama campaign said some months back that the candidate doesn't seek to re-impose this regulation, which, until Ronald Reagan's FCC phased it out in the 1980s, required TV and radio broadcasters to give balanced airtime to opposing viewpoints or face steep fines or even loss of license. But most Democrats - including party elders Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and Al Gore - strongly support the idea of mandating "fairness."

    [...]

    The Fairness Doctrine was an astonishingly bad idea. It's a too-tempting power for government to abuse. When the doctrine was in effect, both Democratic and Republican administrations regularly used it to harass critics on radio and TV.

    Second, a new Fairness Doctrine would drive political talk radio off the dial. If a station ran a big-audience conservative program like, say, Laura Ingraham's, it would also have to run a left-leaning alternative. But liberals don't do well on talk radio, as the failure of Air America and indeed all other liberal efforts in the medium to date show. Stations would likely trim back conservative shows so as to avoid airing unsuccessful liberal ones.

    Then there's all the lawyers you'd have to hire to respond to the regulators measuring how much time you devoted to this topic or that.

Read the whole story, it's very good.


Today's Gestapo Wears A Dress

What the Fairness Doctrine essentially does is force poor products on the marketplace, a marketplace that prior to reviving the Fairness Doctrine, did just fine under capitalism and free trade.

It's like forcing a Cadillac dealership to - along with their brand name inventory - sell Ford Granadas.

And, the obvious and most egregious offense of the Fairness Doctrine is it being a pretense for the Dems to shut down The First Amendment, words that may not portray them in the most flattering light.

And all you Insane Liberal Clown Posse members and Obama Cultists believe Fascism will be ushered in by a Conservative movement or by Republicans? Silly! Remember, Today's Gestapo wears a dress.

©2008

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Comments:
The Fairness Doctrine rips the head off of the First Amendment and shits down it's neck, because in the land of Obamica, the Constitution is nothing but an asswipe and the Demotards are the assholes.
 
The Libs want to eliminate all speech that is critical of them.

There's this guy...he rose to power in Germany and did the same thing, crushing speech that was critical of him. I forget his name...some little dictator in during the late 1930s-1940s.
 
Not a very important man... Hisser... Himmer...hmmm who can remember that far back
 
Something like that Arc, yeah.....
 
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