[rhombus]

Cowards

[Springman]

A hush Rush ping.

[VU4G10]

Fox News FAIR And Balanced.

[YOUGOTIT]

The little Nazi are trying hard and they will succeed if they recapture congress, just as Hitler did when his party took over the German parliament.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Interesting - the lefties are always complaining about Freedom of Speech, and now here's yet another whacko wanting to control what goes out on the radio waves. Bzzzzzzzzzzzt. Sorry - she loses!

[VegasCowboy]

Another reason to flee broadcast radio for satellite.

These people are pathetic.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The "Fariness Doctrine" has nothing whatsoever to do with fair. It is a blatant attempt to silence any public criticism of the left.

[ShadowAce]

Ya know--this bill would also affect FR and DU. Wonder how the moonbats over there feel about this?

[One Proud Dad]

“And of course they have the right to turn it off. But that’s not good enough either. The fact is that they need the responsibility of the people who are licensed to use our airwaves judiciously and responsibly to call them to account if they don’t.”

...but of course Howard Stern, all the "I have a problem shows" and sexual explicit shows are a good use of airwaves.

[My2Cents]

New York Democratic representative Louise Slaughter, who introduced the first of the two bills, says that Right-ruled radio is a grave threat to American freedoms

These people make me sick. If leftist thinking were really all that popular, it would be competitive in the marketplace of ideas. What better evidence that leftist thinking ISN'T popular then the fact that it is virtually non-existent within commercial talk radio. So, in order to push unpopular ideas, the Dems want to force these ideas upon radio listeners by act of Congress.

[Rummyfan]

New York Democratic representative Louise Slaughter, who introduced the first of the two bills, says that Right-ruled radio is a grave threat to American freedoms, “a waste of good broadcast time, and a waste of our airwaves.”

People “may hear whatever they please and whatever they choose,” she tells PBS’s Bill Moyers, in a statement as incoherent as it is illiberal.

And CNNBCBSABC are not a waste of broadcast time and our airwaves?

We can't have the people, who after all own the airwaves, not this boneheaded legislator, being satisfied. These are prime examples of the dimwits in our Congress!

[joebuck]

This could never fly on cable television (ie. Foxnews) because of first amendment issues. It only works on radio and broadcast television because the airwaves these entities use are considered limited public property and subject to public regulation. This doesn't apply to cable and satellite broadcasts. In the past this doctrine proved unworkable and most broadcasters ended up avoiding any political or social issues for fear of being labeled biased by the FCC.

[mlc9852]

I thought this must have been posted by Scrappleface. Surely they can't be serious!

[demlosers]

If the Dems take back Congress or the White House, watch out. Nothing would please them more than to drag the country back to the good old days, when liberals didn’t have to put up with Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham and Bill O’Reilly and Matt Drudge and the countless other upstarts recasting our public debate.

Yes, go ahead and try. Conservative talk radio is an established institution. The Rats would see a repeat of the slaughter they got in the 1994 midterm elections.

[seppel]

typical liberal (dem) doublespeak:

when they say the following:

“may hear whatever they please and whatever they choose,”
...
"And of course they have the right to turn it off. But that’s not good enough either. The fact is that they need the responsibility of the people who are licensed to use our airwaves judiciously and responsibly to call them to account if they don’t.”

then they've just said "BUT" in a PC way meant to mask it.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

They'll want to police blogs, websites, advertisements, magazines, mailers.... etc, etc. Will we all have to flea to satellite radio?

[garyhope]

" Fairness isn’t going to hurt anybody.”

Especially if it's more "fair" to the vast left wing commie, fascist, racist "liberal" conspiracy.

Do you believe this? Is this from Scrappleface or the Onion?

[McGruff]

All the right wing talk show host just got a bunch of show prep material.

Will the fairness doctrine also apply to Imas and Scam America or the the "right wing extremist, christian fundamentalist"?

[popdonnelly]

There is a big difference between free speech and government-induced propaganda. Slaughter's bill slips over into the latter. Why should broadcasters be coerced to include what Slaughter thinks is appropriate?

[WhiteGuy]

Any elected officeholder who advocates any infringment on our Freedom of Speech should be voted out of office.