Obama Would Toss Limbaugh, Hannity From Radio

Newsmax ^ | 10/27/08 | Brad O’Leary

[onlylewis]

Barack Obama has a stunning lack of tolerance for free speech. And one thing Americans can expect from an Obama administration, and a Democratic-controlled Congress, is a legislative attempt to bring back the so-called Fairness Doctrine, which will limit free speech and diminish the conservative influence on talk radio.

A new ATI-News/Zogby International poll released on Oct. 26 made it clear that those who intend to vote for Obama support re-establishing the Fairness Doctrine.

[KarlInOhio]

Nope. Satellite radio will be just as vulnerable to the "Fairness" Doctrine as any other broadcast. The only way to avoid it would be the internet or offshore transmitters (hunted by the Navy and Coast Guard) as the Exile in Broadcasting Network.

Now entering fantasyland: Maybe a Limbaugh led Cuban counterrevolution and have a counterpart to Radio Marti broadcasting from Free Cuba into the socialist US.

[MNDude]

Wow, you’d think that having the presidency, the legislature, 90% of newspapers and magazines, 90% of Hollywood, 80% of news broadcasters, 90% of Universities and public schools, 80% of the Internet infrastructure they’d be content.

I guess Stalin and Hitler complained of not having enough control too.

[NavyCanDo]

We have heard from a lot of Savage listeners who still refuse to vote for McCain. Who still insist 3rd party is the only way they will vote. Wonder how they will like it when their beloved favorite radio host is pulled off the air or balanced with the Randi Rhodes show that will follow him. If there is one issue that should unite ALL the conservative minded thinkers - it should and must be the fairness doctrine.

[Mr. Jazzy]

If the “Fairness Doctrine” is reinstated, then internet radio would REALLY take off.

I think there would be a positive impact on satellite radio also, but the impact on internet radio and the collapse of AM radio would be the biggest events.

[I_hate_politicians]

I think it would be as explosive to attempt to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine as it would be to try and gut the Second Amendment from the Constitution. That’s the kind of stuff revolutions are made of.

[Sig Sauer P220]

We may be fleeing the U.S. for Cuba before long.

[xkaydet65]

Years ago I was a nightime radio nut. I think they call it DXing today. I listened to programs from my home in Queens from as far away as WCCO in Minn, KMOX in StL. One program blasted the others off the air. It was a religious program broadcast from Bonaire in the Neth Antilles on a 500,000 watt transmitter at 800 on the dial. I don’t know what the int’l agreements are now but folks like Rush and Sean and Hugh could put together something like the religious broadcasters did 40 years ago.

[ken21]

i know union democrats that say

“what right does ann coulter (or rush limbaugh) have to say those things?”

[dsat4life]

Yes, I have seen “Red Dawn” many times. I love it, and I definitely see your point in bringing it up, particularly as I recall the “re-education camp” scene.

[freedombird]

To all our Brothers and Sisters in the Occupied zone, I have a message for you:

the chair is against the wall, the chair is against the wall, john has a long mustache, john has a long mustache.

My God, I hope it doesn't come to that!

[tapatio]

Pelosi Supports Return of Fairness Doctrine

[svcw]

Bar the door Katie..............its only going to get worse if Barry the Marxist wins.
However I do not believe that is going to happen.

[ConvictHitlery]

We are on the verge of the American Marxist revolution.

Brought by a Marxist African-American Moslem, a man with 8 or 9 half brothers and sisters in Africa or abroad, ALL MOSLEM, but with a large following here.

Marxist revolutionaries always took control of the media first. It already happened here. This control will be only be stronger.

[The Great RJ]

I fully expect the new Fairness Doctrine to also be applied to cable TV news and Internet blogs. Rush and other conservative talk shows better start looking for foreign countries to base their broadcasts via the Internet, satellite radio and short wave and for radio stations in Canada and Mexico. Without talk radio local AM stations will be filled with infomercials and local drivel and lose massive amounts of audience. I expect the Fairness Doctrine will be the end for many local AM stations.

I'm just wondering how the millions of people who listen to Rush and other talk radio programs will react to such censorship?

[AuntB]

February 21, 2008 - 8:12am

FCC MEDIA OWNERSHIP HEARING RECAP

Hundreds Line Up to Speak To FCC About Media Rules (includes video)
FCC urged to restrict media consolidation
Tribune’s Truthiness: Blame the Internet

_Testimony_

Obama Calls for Tighter FCC Regulation of Broadcasting
_Testimony_

* Obama Calls for Tighter FCC Regulation of Broadcasting
In a statement delivered by a staffer, Democratic presidential candidate and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama laid into the Federal Communications Commission for its dereguatory policies under chairman Kevin Martin, saying that it promoted “the concept of consolidation over diversity,” and he heartily endorsed tightening FCC regulations on broadcasters. “I believe the FCC media-ownership rules remain necessary and are critical to the public interest,” he said. “We should be doing more to encourage diversity in ownership in broadcast media, promote the development of new media outlets and the expression of diverse viewpoints,” as well as provide “greater clarity” of broadcasters’ public-interest obligations. Sen Obama said he “fully endorsed” new rules “promoting greater coverage of local issues and greater responsiveness of broadcasters to the communities they operate in. I also believe that broadcasters’ license-renewal requests ... should require greater FCC scrutiny and public input should occur more frequently.” He added that he “strongly requested” that the FCC “put out any specific changes they intend to vote on in a new notice of proposed rulemaking.”
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6480419.html?rssid=193
* Obama warns FCC on endgame for media ownership proceeding
“In the spirit of transparency and because of the importance of this issue to our democratic discourse, I strongly request that the FCC put out any specific changes they intend to vote on in a new notice proposal rulemaking, so that the American people have the opportunity to review them,” Obama’s spokesperson Corey Bennett told the audience at today’s FCC hearing on media ownership, held at Operation Push’s Chicago headquarters.
http://www.lasarletter.net/drupal/node/471

[SpaceBar]

I guess you missed yesterday’s show where he endorsed McCain.

[alloysteel]

Unchecked power....

And what makes anybody think that satellite radio and the Internet might not be next?

At a certain point, even telephone messages may come under this spreading umbrella. After all, it will be HIS National Security Agency, then, and the old rules that prevent Republicans from using this power will be thrown out.

Dust off all the old tomes on “civil disobedience” so beloved of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, and begin to apply their principles. It may also do to practice up the techniques of carrying on a brisk black market, while avoiding detection and arrest by the authorities.

[Biggirl]

Just heard on a local show that the President of Francee calls Obama a “light weight”.

[NC28203]

Fairness Doctrine is nothing. With the help of the Patriot Act, he could name them enemy combatants and lock them up for years without access to counsel or judicial review of their case.

[Biggirl]

“Unchecked power....”

Sadly if we see unchecked power, the price to be paid will be great, and it will “explode” into a bloody second civil war.