Posted on 02/14/2009 11:20:37 PM PST by Righting
DOBBS: Former President Bill Clinton today speaking out on balance in the media and calling back the Fairness Doctrine, the former president talking with radio talk show host Mario Solis Marsh (ph).
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VOICE OF BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well you either ought to have the Fairness Doctrine or we ought to have more balance on the other side. Because essentially, there's always been a lot of big money to support the right-wing talk shows. And let's face it, you know Rush Limbaugh is fairly entertaining, even when he's saying things that I think are ridiculous.
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DOBBS: Now, the former president calling for the Fairness Doctrine would only imply, of course, to broadcasters. It's interesting he's not calling for fairness or a Fairness Doctrine for "The New York Times," "The Washington Post", the "L.A. Times," or ABC News, CBS News, NBC News. Isn't that odd that he would only be interested in so-called fairness for radio?
Obviously as a radio talk show host, as an American citizen, as a journalist, you know I think the former president is out of his cotton picking mind and needs to go away on this issue and the sooner the better. This idea that the government would decide what is balanced broadcast and fair broadcasting is purely a censorship doctrine. There is no other way to look at it. Purely a censorship document and hopefully we won't get to a point that we'll have a central command economy and nation, anytime soon.
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Dobbs, another useless RINO. Hey Mr. RINO, the Democratic Party is way over that way (looks west to see San Fransisco)
“cotton picking mind”?
Man, Lou doesn’t hesitate to tell you how he feels.
He is correct though...to say only radio...leaves people thinking that this is the only area to be “fixed”. If you toss the Fairness Doctrine onto the fire...most of us will readily identify NBC, CBS, MSNBC, ABC, CNN, the AP, and dozens of other networks for issues. There will be 40,000 complaints per day, and we will have congressional meetings around the clock to explain why this network was hit but this one wasn’t.
I think the best fairness doctrine...is this little switch on your radio...you click it on, if you like the show, and you click it off, if you don’t. Thats mostly fair, and 100 percent balanced.
Agreed!
That’s the same mentality that got us in this mess. GWB is less evil than Gore or Kerry. McCain is less evil than Obama. This mentality creates the perfect breeding ground for RINOs.
Dobbs, another useless RINO. Hey Mr. RINO, the Democratic Party is way over that way (looks west to see San Fransisco)
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You make no sense. Dobbs is pointing out the “Unfairness” of the Unfairness Doctrine.
Exactly why I (posted) quoted him here on FR.
Dobbs was blasting Clinton, not agreeing with him. I’m unsure what his party affiliation is.
Likely it's an Obama/Ayers objective, and (impeached and disbarred) Bill Clinton agrees with the premise, so he's willing to carry out the assignment.
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Dobbs’ opposition to illegal immigration and open borders has put him on the list of censorship.
Potok made the claim on “60 Minutes” that Dobbs was a fear monger and that “The impression you get [from watching his CNN program,] pretty strongly I think, day after day, is that sort of all 11 million illegal aliens are bringing leprosy, they’re bringing crime, they’re bringing all these terrible things to the United States.”
Potok said that Dobbs’ comments gives people “the go-ahead to say that, you know, ‘These are a group of rapists and disease-carrying people who are coming to, you know, essentially destroy the culture of this country.’”
Stahl quibbled with Dobbs about a claim that immigrants were responsible for bringing leprosy into the U.S., but the issue wasn’t really whether he got a fact right or wrong or even whether he was an “advocacy journalist.” The clear implication was that Dobbs was somehow encouraging hatred or violence against illegal aliens and was therefore guilty of “hate speech.” Potok served no other purpose than to imply that Dobbs was a Don Imus-type character, not worthy of being given air-time.
Dobbs:Also ahead illegal aliens suing an Arizona rancher who caught them on his property and Democrats killing one of the most effective programs to fight illegal immigration, we're going to be right back.
Dobbs is not giving up on the subject of Illegal Immigration.
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DOBBS:
Now, the former president calling for the Fairness Doctrine would only imply, of course, to broadcasters.
It’s interesting he’s not calling for fairness or a Fairness Doctrine for “The New York Times,” “The Washington Post”, the “L.A. Times,” or ABC News, CBS News, NBC News. Isn’t that odd that he would only be interested in so-called fairness for radio?
Obviously as a radio talk show host, as an American citizen, as a journalist, you know I think the former president is out of his cotton picking mind and needs to go away on this issue and the sooner the better.
This idea that the government would decide what is balanced broadcast and fair broadcasting is purely a censorship doctrine.
There is no other way to look at it. Purely a censorship document and hopefully we won’t get to a point that we’ll have a central command economy and nation, anytime soon.
Censorship Doctrine, that is what is would be.
If they attempt to do this, it should also apply to television so that the major MSM have to give equal time to alternate views.
Not sure what RINOs have to do with this discussion?
Trolling?
The “Censorship” Doctrine needs to become a household name, similar to the “Porkulous” Bill. Every time the so-called “Fairness” Doctrine is discussed, it should be countered with this or something similar.
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