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Quote of the Week: Republican Congressman Greg Walden
IHateTheMedia.com ^ | 02/17/09

Posted on 02/17/2009 12:02:09 PM PST by slomark

Republican Congressman Greg Walden, who once owned a classic rock radio station in Oregon, put the Fairness Doctrine in perfect perspective when he said it’s “the musical equivalent” of “every time we’d play a classic rock song we’d have to play a polka.”

And here, for your entertainment pleasure, are two videos showing you exactly how that would work.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fairnessdoctrine; gregwalden; polka; rock
Great way to illustrate the Fairness Doctrine!
1 posted on 02/17/2009 12:02:09 PM PST by slomark
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Sly Stone, followed by the 6 Fat Dutchmen. Yike !


2 posted on 02/17/2009 12:08:00 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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Isn’t that an oxymoron?
Bring on the polkas. I was hoping this was a good quote but was disappointed.


3 posted on 02/17/2009 12:13:10 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
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Greg Walden is the one politician from Oregon that I am proud to say represents me. Every time I here him talk he makes sense. I hope he runs for Governor here. I think he could beat TaxandGougeMe who is a complete imbecile.


4 posted on 02/17/2009 12:14:08 PM PST by mickey finn
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Why is “play the polka” an oxymoron?


5 posted on 02/17/2009 12:20:47 PM PST by slomark (www.IHateThemedia.com)
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Love to see the Gansta rap stations being required to play bach, beethoven and old time fiddle music. The christian station forced to run muslim and bahai programs. These pols are all brain dead.


6 posted on 02/17/2009 12:40:13 PM PST by scottteng (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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“Love to see the Gansta rap stations being required to play bach, beethoven and old time fiddle music. The christian station forced to run muslim and bahai programs. These pols are all brain dead.”

Love to see NPR cover scientists that explain why global warming and Algore are the biggest fraud ponzy scheme ever invented, that Muslim fanatics rally want to kill us, that US forces, in Iraq and abroad, are not a bunch of cold blooded killers, and have freed 50 million people in the last 8 years, that Democrats do have to actually pay their taxes, or they will go to jail and not be promoted into high positions in the Obama administration, and that Obama was most likely not born in the US, and has not shown anybody his birth certificate.

7 posted on 02/17/2009 1:08:10 PM PST by mickey finn
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Don’t get no better than Wierd Al Yankovic polkas..


8 posted on 02/17/2009 1:15:09 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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Didn’t someone do Stairway To Heaven as a Polka?

Gotta say, I loved Weird Al doing the theme to The Beverly Hillbillys as Money for Nothing WITH cartoon animation!


9 posted on 02/17/2009 1:44:21 PM PST by Peet (<- A.K.A. the Foundling)
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>>Stairway To Heaven as a Polka?

Swing, if you will.

Tiny Tim with Brave Combo.

Also on the disc, a ChaChaCha version of Hey, Jude.


10 posted on 02/17/2009 1:46:34 PM PST by swarthyguy ("We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds," ISI Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha)
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>>ChaChaCha version of Hey, Jude.<<

O.K. thank you. I’ll have to find that disk. Sounds as demented as “When Pigs Fly” which has Don Ho singing “Shock The Monkey”.

Demented can be very funny...

P.


11 posted on 02/18/2009 4:32:13 AM PST by Peet (<- A.K.A. the Foundling)
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