Collectively, conservative talk radio has tens of millions of listeners. From the syndicated Big Names (Limbaugh, Hannity, etc) to your local guy on the 1,000 watt station, the conservative talk show hosts will scream bloody murder and rally millions of listeners to the cause of exposing the 'Fairness Doctrine' as a blatant, unconstitutional suppression of political speech, aimed at silencing conservative opinion on the radio airwaves by an over-reaching, Democrat political machine in Washington, now drunk with power and acting like Fascists while posing as 'protectors' of 'fairness'.
Not to mention the fact that syndication companies and AM radio station owners will band together to stop the suppression of conservative talk radio, for pure financial survival if not for political ideology. These entities have money and would keep this in court for years.
While I'm concerned about a resurrection of the hated 'Fairness Doctrine", I believe that, ultimately, it would be 'a bridge too far' for Democrats and would fail, while exposing the Obama administration and more importantly, the Democrat party and it's congressional partisans (Pelosi, specifically) as anti-free speech.
I hope the left realizes this and abandons ideas of trying to re-instate the Fairness Doctrine but I fear that they are so besotted with their power (and Obama's lofty poll numbers) that they'll foolishly try - and ultimately, fail.
Good points, thanks.
"While I'm concerned about a resurrection of the hated 'Fairness Doctrine", I believe that, ultimately, it would be 'a bridge too far' for Democrats"[Emphasis added]You mean the institution of socialism on a massive and pervasive scale isn't? America is well and truly "F"ed.