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This seems to me to be the first test. If President Obama shuts down free speech in this country (He already effectively owns/owes the MSM), we are in for a very wild ride indeed.
1 posted on 11/05/2008 4:06:14 AM PST by marktwain
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Fingers crossed. I don’t know what I’d do without Rush, Sean, Laura, Mark Levin, etc etc!


2 posted on 11/05/2008 4:08:22 AM PST by EdnaMode
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I think we’ll see a civil war withing the democrat party. Too many things promised to too many different people.


3 posted on 11/05/2008 4:09:01 AM PST by cripplecreek (Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
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It will be on his desk and signed by him by 1 Mar 09.


4 posted on 11/05/2008 4:09:15 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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He’ll move on it immediately, as well as on amnesty with voting rights.

After all, it is best to decapitate your enemy with a devastating initial attack... and Obama’s enemy is America.


5 posted on 11/05/2008 4:09:49 AM PST by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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Zero complained of harsh treatment repeatedly throughout his campaign. Also he and other Dims have been increasingly vocal about the Unfairness Doctrine. He has complete control of the MSM so he has simply got to silence the opposition. He doesn’t care about how he is perceived. He will take radical steps to fundamentally change our country forever. I do not expect to see free elections in 2012. By then his takeover will be complete and we will have a Chavez on our hands.


8 posted on 11/05/2008 4:11:55 AM PST by Heartland Mom ("In all things God works for the good of those who love Him.")
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The media already was corrupt to the bone and gave Obama Hussein positive press at a ratio of 8:1 to 9:1....

OBAMA: WILL THE LAST HONEST REPORTER PLEASE EXIT THE PLANE.

OBAMA: WILL THE LAST HONEST REPORTER PLEASE SHUT UP.

10 posted on 11/05/2008 4:13:41 AM PST by FreedomProtector
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I think people need to be a little more educated on the Fairness Doctrine. It doesn’t take radio stations off the air, per se, it doesn’t force a conservative to have liberals on his show. What it does do, in the short run, is force radio stations to allow liberals to buy equal time, or force them to run public service type programs in place of that equal time. What that will do in the long run, is force radio stations to either go out of business, because liberal radio does not generate revenue, or change their format from 24/7 conservative talk. In my area, we have one station that plays Beck, then Rush, then a local conservative, followed by Hannity. Fairness doctrine would force them to sell time to liberals, but if it’s like the old fairness doctrine, that time wouldn’t have to be primetime...so we’ll go back to liberals in the middle of the night. All this is predicated on the Fairness Doctrine being reinstated in the form it was in the 70’s.


12 posted on 11/05/2008 4:16:37 AM PST by Dawn531
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In the Sinclair Lewis novel, It can't Happen Here, one journalist fights back against the repressive regime in his own small way by making his pre-government editorials as lame and unconvincing as possible. Perhaps something analogous could be used against the coming "Fairness Doctrine" censorship of the broadcast media.

Conservatives could create a slate of "leftwing" programs even weaker (if that's possible) than the current ones out there and shop these out to stations being forced to broadcast leftwing fare.

14 posted on 11/05/2008 4:17:40 AM PST by Mojave (http://www.americanbacklash.com/)
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I beleive this will be the first test of Obama as a member of the far left. If the "fairness doctrine" or something similar is reinstated, President Obama will have confirmed our fears that he is a politician in the same vein as Hugo Chavez.

What "test"? He's already stated he'll sign it.

17 posted on 11/05/2008 4:18:24 AM PST by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
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All it will do is force consevitive talkradio to move to satilite, internet radio, and podcasting.


19 posted on 11/05/2008 4:19:20 AM PST by Biggirl (Throw The Bums OUT!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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All I know is if I’m a conservative radio talk show host, and geography means nothing anymore, I’m relocating to Canada and broadcasting via shortwave and satellite.

I’d buy a shortwave or get a satellite subscription to hear something besides the claptrap on our media systems. FoxNews will be another target; “fair and balanced” doesn’t cut it with socialists.


21 posted on 11/05/2008 4:22:21 AM PST by Marauder (I fought for four years against communists; I'm sure as hell not going to vote for one.)
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The “Fairness Doctrine” is to free speech what Title IX is to male college athletics.


25 posted on 11/05/2008 4:24:02 AM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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“Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool.”

Expect a LOT of executive orders, followed by confirming legislation from the now totally tame and subservient national legislature, and rulings from the compliant Federal judiciary, who face impeachment and removal from office if they resist, to be replaced by much more tractable and reliable candidates.

It is our duty, as Americans, to goad this monstrosity of a regime into taking itself over the cliff, and forcing the resulting period of anarchy. Use Saul Alinsky’s strategies against the governing power that got put in place by those same tactics.

Assume there shall be a complete suspension of the Constitution, and begin arranging for a new country to be carved out of the existing real estate. There are red and blue counties in every state. Try to form an alliance between all the red counties, ignoring state lines for now. The blue counties shall then be embargoed, and essentially put to siege, as most of them do not have the internal resources to survive without their dependence on the surrounding red counties. They want to be Cuba, let’s give them a taste of Cuba.


32 posted on 11/05/2008 4:28:58 AM PST by alloysteel (Molon labe! Roughly translated, "Come and take them!" referring to personal weapons.)
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Folks, you have too understand what is about too happen. Since the 1960s when the radical left tried to basically riot to over throw the government and establish their socialist empire, they have been planning for this day. YOU CAN BET YOUR LAST DOLLAR that they have a COMPLETE list of everything they WANT and are GOING TO ACCOMPLISH in the next two years before the next congressional elections. They will move immediately to put every one of those into law. The federal court system is now lost for 25 too 30 years. They will pack the courts with the most radical leftist judges they can pack in. COUNT ON IT. I am not trying to be a doom sayer here, I am simply stating facts. Facts that are now going to come true. This is their wet dream, TOTAL POWER, TOTAL CONTROL, UNSTOPABLE CONTROL. NOW THAT THEY HAVE IT, THEY ARE GOING TO DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO KEEP IT FOREVER!!!
35 posted on 11/05/2008 4:31:36 AM PST by RetiredArmy (America as founded is finished.)
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Why wouldn’t the reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine meet a court challenge?

Would conservatives just roll over and play dead?

Woe-R-Us


36 posted on 11/05/2008 4:32:23 AM PST by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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Obama’s first test will likely be watching Russian tanks roll into Kosovo. Watching that would almost be worth it...


37 posted on 11/05/2008 4:32:59 AM PST by wendy1946
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He’ll bring it back I think. And he will want to absolutely find a way to shut down YouTube. That led him to all sorts of uncomfortable moments, even without talk radio.


38 posted on 11/05/2008 4:33:53 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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The fairness doctrine? All I've seen for the last 3 months is obama’s face on every channel and magazine cover.

I think you're right though. Selling “fairness” to the masses should be pretty easy. Of course, everything coming out of a dem mouth is “fair” so there is no need for an opposing opinion.

40 posted on 11/05/2008 4:34:18 AM PST by ILS21R
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This is not “wait and see”, or “cross fingers”.
This is start writing letters as soon as the bastards start talking about the “fairness doctrine”. Make phone calls, send email.
Liberals are despicable people. They don’t care about our rights or the Constitution. They care about getting elected. Write to them.


42 posted on 11/05/2008 4:37:02 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism = serious mental deficiency)
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Does anyone know of any states willing to secede from the union? The military would join us since 80% hate hussein, thereby rendering the zero zombies without military protection.


48 posted on 11/05/2008 4:43:05 AM PST by SDS
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