Posted on 11/13/2008 10:19:41 AM PST by NCjim
This proposal was percolating even before Obama’s election. Bush does share some of the blame for appointing a weak FCC chairman.
Bush has nothing to do with this, and stop listening to the communist “disinformation police”. The FCC is an independent agency...the only thing causing this is the Obama announcement of his appointment who will favor a return of the Fairness Doctrine or some other censorship doctrine.
No doubt these are the same DC bureaucrats that have plagued most of the Bush years. Remember all the State Dept and pentagon leaks about the war. Even though they can be called part of the Bush administration, they are doing whatever they can to undermine conservatives at every turn. These career government workers are mostly liberal and probably over-joyed with the election results.
Umm, who gave the government ownership of the airwaves? The authority certainly isn’t in the Constitution.
Have they banned Orwell in schools yet?
I hated having to read it (the book “1984”) , but man I am SO GLAD I did, because I recognize so much of it in real life occurring RIGHT NOW.
Brave New World is here, Aldous Huxley was right too.
H...F...whatever it takes.
Great.........you’ve made my day.
“AM radio would have to re-invent itself or go out of business”. Sorry, you made me laugh with that one! In my part of the country, (Southwest) AM radio has been re-invented. It’s mostly all Mexican stations now. Only God knows what they chatter on about, but the music.........how much bad accordion does anyone really need in the course of a day.
First ammendment repealed?
Is Obama in office? Does Obama have any power over the FCC? Then this is being moved forward by the BUSH admin, and it belongs squarely at the feet of that fascist Jorge W Bush.
just wait...
Well, current rules cap the local programming. And while you are correct, it could to some extent, it is just not a tool that can be used to backdoor the Fairness Doctrine.
Now rolling back media consolidation? THAT is backdooring the Fairness Doctrine.
Why should Bush care about Conservatives? They are no longer necessary to his political career and he is not one of that breed, anyway, and believes them to be non-compassionate hence his need to describe himself as a “compassionate” conservative.
If bush pre-empts Hussein in order to get the “credit” for it then IT IS CORRECTLY LAID AT HIS FEET!
The liberals at the FCC want to pin this on Bush.
Not just “no”
“H3LL NO”
What has happened to George W Bush? He’s lame ducking his Presidency at a very bad time for a Republican to lose his cajones. Or spine of steel, if you prefer.
Where’s the Dubya of 09/12/2001??? Where did he go?
I am so disappointed in him right now. He didn’t help McCain and Palin and I think he could have done so.
Anyway, as the man said, we’re screwed.
Now had me that electrical screwdriver that has a reverse, please, and plug it in. Biden’s probably got a loose plug or two, just plug it in there.
IF the local community demands Rush Limbaugh 24/7 and the EIB network is able to provide, then the community has been satisfied.
The implication is there is a 50/50 split. The truth is never fair.
The fact that franken had to downgrade to a senate run after his radio gig failed says it all. In fact he can only win by stealing an election.
Looks like Presidente Arbusto is reaching across the aisle again.
local AM programming will be killed by these rules... what kind of an audience would infomercials and Aunt Mildred’s Recipe Hour attract? I expect in the near future to be able to get conservative talk radio only from beyond the Obama Curtain by short wave and AM radio stations broadcasting from Canada and Mexico
...a new rule being proposed by Bush's FCC that would represent a threat to the unfettered marketplace of ideas on talk radio...
...another Orwellian-named government effort to dictate the content of radio and TV news and opinion has been hatched by the Bush administration’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
You'll have to explain further why this is not AT BUSH'S FEET.
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