Will Obama Revive the Fairness Doctrine?

National Review Online/ The Corner ^ | January 23, 2009 | Michael G. Franc

[Delacon]

ping

[anniegetyourgun]

“the one” will have to find ways to silence his detractors. He’s a control freak.

[Sarah Barracuda]

There is no doubt in my mind they would bring it back, its in liberals nature, they want to silence everything that isn’t a liberals point of view

[arthurus]

He and the Democrat Congress may go for the Fairness Doctrine but more likely to be successful and likely to be tried is a "community content" thing reqưiring radio stations to have their programming subject to veto by a group of "local citizens" that will be almost always leftist activists or at least mushy folks who don't like to hear anything negative about things or people that run things. Conservatives have jobs and don't normally have time for such things.

[Joiseydude]

I would think pretty soon since zer0 commented today that you can’t let Rush stall the $825 billion bailout bill.

[JimSEA]

“the one” will have to find ways to silence his detractors

HOLDER: Senator, that's a toughie. I've not given an awful lot of thought to. If I could perhaps submit an answer to you in writing,

They will have to get something in place that will also cover the Internet before they start the criminal trials of the Bush Administration. Don't want to have people conflicted in their thinking, you know.

[malkee]

Here’s where we can only hope the U.S. Supreme Court has the cojones to uphold the first amendment — and the broadcasters forced to drop Rush have the cojones to sue.

[Delacon]

I thought you might be interested in this. I don’t think there is a fairness doctrine ping list on the FR master ping list. There should be one since there is a real chance that any fairness doctrine policy might touch the internet and Free Republic. If there isn’t one out there already and one of the old war horses on FR doesn’t want to do it, freepmail me and I’ll start one. We need one now more than ever.

[Jeff Gordon]

Obama has said that he would have been five points ahead if Fox News did not exist. Of course he is going to want to revive the “fairness” doctrine.

[mel]

There goes am radio down the tube also

[philman_36]

He could've given those non-answers at the hearing! Waiting didn't do anything to clarify his response.
What a perfect little bureaucrat. He'll get the position since he's so good at answering something with nothing.

[truthguy]

Two Points
1. Holder=Snake
2. If "Fairness Doctrine" goes forward how will MSNBC be affected?

[Trod Upon]

It won’t. Only conservative opinion is controversial. Obama thinks so, so it must be true.

[Red Steel]

Obama has said that he would have been five points ahead if Fox News did not exist. Of course he is going to want to revive the “fairness” doctrine.

And I would posit that Obama if the media told the truth about you, you would have been 25 points behind.

[coydog]

Then FR might have to relocate to servers in Panama like Free Dominion did.

[Delacon]

“And I would posit that Obama if the media told the truth about you, you would have been 25 points behind.”

And a liberal would ask you “What’s your point”? ;)

[NeoConfederate]

Whatever happened to the old liberal saying “if you don’t like something, change the channel?”

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Obama invoked Rush’s name today when speaking about ‘those seeking to delay the stimulus bill.’ I cannot recall President Bush publicly criticizing a commentator or journalist by name.

Obama doesn’t have the balls to say it to his face. For that matter, Obama doesn’t have the balls to speak with Rush or Hannity face to face.

He will slip up sooner rather than later and the entire nation will see him for what he is—a Chicago thug.

[malkee]

Here is Specter's contact form. All freepers, especially Pennsylvania freepers, should write him.