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Obama to appoint talk radio's executioner?
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | November 08, 2008

Posted on 11/08/2008 4:04:09 AM PST by Man50D

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To: Man50D; PhilDragoo; devolve; y'all

They’ll have a BIG fight on their hands if they try this!


61 posted on 11/09/2008 6:47:37 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (Obama, WHO is Bill Ayers and WHY are you still friends with him? Please RSVP asap!)
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To: Man50D

Two words:

PIRATE RADIO


62 posted on 11/09/2008 6:58:03 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hey, Obama! Where's my check?)
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To: Man50D

I think this can be stopped at the SCOTUS.

How can the socialists argue anyone has been harmed here, they just won a landslide victory. There’s no real justification to regulate radio content and control free speech at all. However maybe there is a problem in the MSM that needs to be addressed.

The MSM is a cartel of noncompeting news organizations. That’s the real problem for us.


63 posted on 11/09/2008 7:15:27 AM PST by o2bfree
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To: Man50D

Why wouldn’t the “fairness Doctrine” also require MSNBC, PBS, etc to also give opposing views?


64 posted on 11/09/2008 7:56:16 AM PST by uscabjd ( a)
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To: GWMcClintock
I hadn’t been able to get into FR all day (Saturday)! I thought they had already turned the lights out!

Same here, anybody know what the problem was?Even the DUmmis were talking about it. (I'm ashamed to say I ventured over there)

65 posted on 11/09/2008 8:13:50 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Election '08, the year McCain defined the word "dilemma")
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To: Man50D

Does Country music have to send out 4 hours of Philharmonic stuff for Balance??

Does the TV Media have to provide conservative stuff?

This can be used a number of ways.


66 posted on 11/09/2008 12:56:55 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Man50D

Does Country music have to send out 4 hours of Philharmonic stuff for Balance??

Does the TV Media have to provide conservative stuff?

This can be used a number of ways.


67 posted on 11/09/2008 12:57:08 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Helen
...and yet he's going to swear on a Bible?

Clinton was sworn in on a Bible. It didn't burst into flames, much to my surprise. We'll have to see what happens when zero touches one.

68 posted on 11/09/2008 1:06:11 PM PST by VoiceOfBruck (I personally believe...)
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To: GWMcClintock
I hadn’t been able to get into FR all day (Saturday)! I thought they had already turned the lights out!

Lol, me too! ALL DAY long without FR, but DU and Kos were still up and running??? I just knew the Fairness Doctrine had already been put into effect, starting with FR. I did pass a little time on a PUMA site, and I Wikipediaed FR...interesting.

Thank God FR is back!

69 posted on 11/09/2008 1:42:42 PM PST by TXBlair (Delightfully tacky since 1974.)
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To: Man50D

Shortwave radio might be the way to go.


70 posted on 11/09/2008 1:43:44 PM PST by Nowhere Man (Is Barak HUSSEIN Obama an Anti-Christ? - B.O. Stinks! (Robert Riddle))
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To: tobyhill

They’ll manage to make it stick only to those who would oppose the Messiah’s agenda.


71 posted on 11/09/2008 1:51:05 PM PST by Boiling Pots (Can we go back to hating John McCain now?)
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To: GreyMountainReagan
WOLVERINES!!

The chair is against the wall.

The chair is against the wall.

72 posted on 11/09/2008 1:54:07 PM PST by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: awake-n-angry
Imagine being the owner of a radio station who's faced with the Fairness Doctrine. Could you put the lib on between 2-5 a.m. when most people are asleep and still be in compliance? Normally, shows that are money losers are replaced with something else. What happens when the lib show is a money loser? Can't replace that without either violating the Fairness Doctrine or also getting rid of the conservative who is making money. And what happens if libs think the lib broadcaster isn't liberal enough?

Complying with the Fairness Doctrine would be such a headache for the radio stations that it would be easier for them not to carry either conservative or liberal shows at all. So, they'd be replaced with shows on sports, gardening, food, movies,...

The idea is to silence the conservative voice by silencing everyone's voice on radio, while the libs still have their voice on ABCNNBCBS, NY Times, Washington Post,...

73 posted on 11/09/2008 2:25:32 PM PST by raisetheroof ("To become Red is to become dead --- gradually." Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
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To: Ben Reyes

is satellite outside the FCC jurisdiction? I will gladly pay to listen to America Right on Sirius if Rush joins them.


74 posted on 11/09/2008 2:33:12 PM PST by omega4179 (Stolen Election ping where did the money come from.)
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To: mvpel

That’s my concern, too. I’m sure “they” have some control over what is broadcast over the satellite bands.


75 posted on 11/09/2008 2:34:20 PM PST by boxlunch
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To: sirchtruth

Rush would fight it to the supreme court and win. The FCC cannot place talk radio in the same category as porn.


76 posted on 11/09/2008 2:35:30 PM PST by omega4179 (Stolen Election ping where did the money come from.)
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To: mvpel

And, how do you speak out against it if you can’t communicate? I don’t think it is really that farfetched, and the time to be thinking about potential problems is now, before they shut down.


77 posted on 11/09/2008 2:44:02 PM PST by boxlunch
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To: omega4179

yes they can and I think they will. Decisions are based on politics where politics is involved instead of rule of law.


78 posted on 11/09/2008 3:31:20 PM PST by GreyMountainReagan (Liberals really intend to increase the misery through their actions. Gives them power)
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To: GoodDay

***Will satellite radio be able to absorb Rush, Hannity, Levin, Ingraham, and Savage?***

I imagine they’d get huge amounts of money for hosting them should they have to. That’s also the reason I’d get satellite radio.


79 posted on 11/09/2008 7:14:04 PM PST by wastedyears (Every FReeper is on Obama's Black List. He will try to have us all "taken care of." Mark my words)
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To: ari-freedom

He’s saying conservative talk will move to satellite radio. Sirius already has a conservative talk channel (right next to the liberal channel) but I haven’t listened to it, so I don’t know how good the hosts are.

Limbaugh on Sirius would instantly save that company.


80 posted on 11/10/2008 8:28:30 PM PST by Terpfen (Ain't over yet, folks. Those 2004 Senate gains are up for grabs in 2 years.)
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