Posted on 06/27/2007 7:32:29 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
Now if we could only clone Mike Pence and sweep out all the pro-terrorism-via-amnesty RINOs...
Perhaps if the liberal networks practiced some voluntary “fairness”, their ratings wouldn’t be in the toilet.
Liberals can’t compete in the marketplace of ideas, so they have to suppress and censor and crap all over the First Amendment in the name of “fairness”.
God bless, Pence, who truly understands the first amendment!
Pence needs Lugar’s job.
Yes!
Do you or anyone else know, if he has endorsed anyone for POTUS yet?
As an aside, do you notice how our reps are now stepping up more than the senators?
If the left felt that way about “fairness”, they can start with PBS, NPR, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, BBC, Rueters, AP, Pravda, Al Jezera, and all other programs and shows used as propaganda tools for the left.
And herein lies the conflict of visions. Conservatives believe in equal opportunity, ie, the same rules for everyone, and those who play within those rules in the best way, succeeds, others fail. Leftists look at the outcomes - some succeeding, and some failing, and see systemic problems with the rules. The rules must be monkeyed with by elites who know better in order to achieve equal outcomes.
a) Free speech cannot be government regulated and remain free.
b) The media are currently 95% liberal and 5% conservative, and this so-called Fairness Doctrine aims to shut down the 5%. Is that fair? I don’t think so.
“Fairness”, as we all know, will be a one way ratchet to the left.
Time to load up on XM Radio stock and short anyone who owns AM stations that Rush et al are on now. If this goes through, they’ll all take the Howard Stern “banishment” and laugh all the way to the bank. Those knotheads pushing this have no idea that the genie is out of the bottle and there are too many holes in the information dike for them to plug with their fat fingers.
It is outrageous; but am concerned that it has gotten 'this far'; and we now how a fresh harvest of 'head-bobbers' out there.
Appearantly.
Yup. Lugar is a burned-out, tired old loser, who DOESN’T GET IT.
Mike Pence needs to sneak wording into this bill that negates McCain-Feingold and put the dems in a position of voting against freedom of speech if they dare.
We could demand equal "fairness" with respect to other media distribution channels, e.g. "public roads". IOW, require that newspapers, magazines, etc. "level the playing field" because they use "public roads" to distribute their content. Same with broadcast TV news--they too use "public airwaves" to distribute their content.
If an ABC/CBS/CNN/FOX/NBC TV reporter can state their political/personnel opinion why wouldn't they have to also give equal time to an opposing point of view?
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