Posted on 08/16/2009 10:24:32 AM PDT by Ooh-Ah
We need to get Our Sarah involved on this one.
She smacked down the death panels, she can smack this one down, too!
SCREW THE CZARS !!
I WANT THEM OUT OF THERE NOW!!!!
GET THOSE FREAKS OUT OF OUR WHITE HOUSE NOW!!!!!
Our GOVERNMENT , our CONGRESS is the one that REGULATES PBS and NPR and THAT IS THE WAY IT SHOULD STAY.
WE ELECTED our CONGRESS
We did NOT elect these CREEPY CZARS!
GET THEM OUT OF THERE NOW.....THE TOWN HALLS SHOULD BE FEATURING THIS TAKEOVER BY UHBAMA JUST AS THEY ARE COVERING THE DEATH CARE DEBACLE.
In 2006 he wrote the book on the Obama Presidential Campaign?? He must be Nostradamus.
Does anyone know how widespread so-called “public access” television stations are? These are publicly-funded stations where communities. Seattle has such a channel, which I mentioned in an earlier post. Do most areas have such a channel, or are they limited to a few large urban arear? If they want to expand diversity, they could expand that program, not create onerous and coercive requirements for existing commercial stations.
Republicans should go after this one like pit bulls chasing a cat with a T-bone steak tied to its tail.
When they pull the plug on the 1st Amendment, we’ll see why the 2nd Amendment was put into place.
I used to think that members of congress would be the first targets when the armed revolution begins. Now I think they should probably take a back seat to the czars.
Funny thing is that when the whole Public Broadcasting thing was created in 1948, one of the basic requirements was that any programing broadcast had to be politically neutral. Somewhere along the way, the Left hijacked “public” broadcasting and used it as their own propaganda vehicle, instead of the universally accessible medium it was intended to be.
And now, that’s no longer good enough. Now they want to shut down opposing perspectives through a new Czar! Man, they’re really spoiling for an uprising...
More accurately - civil war.
It is not aimed at every private station but at every private corporation - this is aimed squarely at Clear Channel - the largest syndicator of AM Talk - and they will dump all hosts to stay in business - sic paaseth the Fairness Doctrine by other means.
And make no mistake, this is only the opening shot - Fox News will go down, then followed by the US Internet - for the DUs reading this that means Free Republic et al will be gone.
“Private = public = 0”
Private Corporations = 0. Public = Only what the Communists want us to know..
They do no mean that sort of diversity - the whole diversity thing is a ruse any way. They want to make it impossible to have any discussions on radio beyond approved ones - every side in every arguement will have to be represented on every show - how many sides are there to any arguement?
Right - more Hussein’s weasel words. He isn’t lying that way. There is no subterfuge here - you know about the appointment and what the guy stands for, so where’s the beef? It all in the open.
He can’t help what some regulator decides is in your best interest, now can he?
“Such a fee would be impossible; it would push everyone out of business.”
Why do you suppose it was included? That’s the point - make radio go back to what it used to be - farm reports, sports, music, weather, news readers, etc.
No it is EQUAL.
Do not give these people the benefit of the doubt - take them at their word. They are counting on you to fudge their words into something you find acceptable, while they go ahead and do exactly what they say they are going to do - go back and read Hussein’s words on the campaign trail.
And do what? They have no power, remember?
Mass suprise attack on them all - give them no quarter.
That’s not what the article says. It says “equal to”. IF this is a typo, then the text of the book or the proposal will say “based on”. But I don’t think this is a typo, anymore than his plan to supervise the content of the programming is a typo.
The 2nd Amendment was put into place in order to deter tampering with the 1st Amendment. Like all deterrents, they’re better at deterring than preventing.
Face it. Shot guns and semi-auto rifles will not work that well against full auto M-16’s, let alone tanks and helicopters. If it comes down to the 2nd Amendment, things will get real bad real fast, and the sunshine patriot and the summer soldiers will not long be with you guys (I’m over here in Israel, and damn glad of it), and will likely turn informant on you. If it comes down to the 2nd Amendment to preserve the 1st, I feel for you all.
They’d have to make the Internet fall under FCC jurisdiction, which will take an act of Congress, out in the open where it can be talked about—on the Internet even if the new “diversity” czar manages to shut down radio and TV.
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