Posted on 06/25/2007 8:05:29 AM PDT by flixxx
I put up a turd stand outside the local mall, serving hot, steaming hunks of crap on a stale bun, but nobody ever came. Can’t imagine why.
These people think you can pick up a turd by the clean end...
The only place the fairness doctrine should be implemented is on PBS and NPR so they show a balanced view. Why the government finances left-wing media is outrageous and what is more puzzling is why the GOP did nothing about it when they had a chance.
The “Fairness Doctrine” is the most despicable and blatant attack on free speech that I have seen. The left is hardly even bothering to hide it.
We must watch carefully. If the immmigration bill is again defeated (and I suspect it will be) look for the Democrats to strike while the iron is hot. Several Republicans could be on board for any measure that will stifle talk radio.
Let’s face it: most Washington politicians want only political communication that they can control. They want constituents that they can buy off, and that won’t make too much noise. As I said it is all truly despicable.
pick up a turd by the clean end...
Seriously LOL - never heard this “colloquialism” before...
Well obviously, you need to government to keep your turd stand in business, because people aren’t voluntarily choosing to keep you in business (because they don’t know any better, or are being **gasp** judgemental towards your product).
Obviously, it’s discrimination, not that turds are any less valuable than hotdogs, they’re just being discrimated against, and governmental involvement becomes necessary to fix this discrimination.
You would think tax supported public radio - in every US market 24/7 would be enough... and that's the next thing conservatives have to go after. I'm tired of my tax money supporting liberal "public" radio.
I can't agree. McCain-Feingold is THE most despicable (and unConstitutional) attack on free speech. The "Fairness Doctrine" is, at best, in second place.
Isn't that Campaign Finance Reform? If it is, it is about the XIVth Amend more than anything else.
Leftists (they’re NOT liberal) judge the “fairness” of any system by the outcomes.
It logically follows that people who make dumb behavioral decisions and have bad outcomes are victims of an unfair system, so government needs to step in and fix the problem.
In this case, progressive/collectivist/leftist radio fails because of inherent problems in the system, not because it fails based on its own merits.
What about unintended consequences? The bain of Liberals and “Progressives” everywhere.
If conservatives successfully challenge for equal time on PBS, NPR (government funded, btw), the alphabets, etc., they’d have to devote half their programming to conservative viewpoints.
The amazing thing is that talk radio listeners are involved, informed and interested in national politics. The liberals already know everything because they heard it on the Daly show or from Katie Couric. Since they already know everything they have plenty of time to listen to hip-hop or top 40 stations and have no desire to become informed (even misinformed)by any form of talk radio.
Prior to Fox news, talk radio and FreeRepublic were the only way we ever heard about any of the massive corruption scandals that were occurring in the clintoon administration. I remember listening to C-span and watching Lou Dobbs and believe it or not Chris Matthews because occasionally they would let something slip out.
Sorry, the fairness doctrine will only be applicable to radio. Newspapers and television are inherently FAIR.
The courts won't enforce the "fairness doctrine" except as a one way ratchet to the left.
The prospect of lawsuits will make the alphabets very nervous; they are likely to oppose any revival.
The only way the Marxist progressives are going to get equal air time on radio is if they latch onto conservatives, like the leaches they are.
Or, as was the case with Err America, borrow 800 G's from The Boys & Girls Club of America.
was sippin coffee when I read that........outstanding.......and messy.........lmao
I guess Radio Stations are among those things that Hillery wants to take from us.
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