[3AngelaD]

Needs to be stopped.

[kromike]

Now if we could only clone Mike Pence and sweep out all the pro-terrorism-via-amnesty RINOs...

[airborne]

Perhaps if the liberal networks practiced some voluntary “fairness”, their ratings wouldn’t be in the toilet.

[gunservative]

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”.

[Sybeck1]

Pence needs Lugar’s job.

[rbosque]

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.

[MrB]

In a free market, fairness should be determined based upon equal opportunity, not equal results.

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.

[Cicero]

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.

[vajimbo]

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.

[cricket]

This 'Havana radio' style bill must be stopped. People need to realize this is nothing more than communist style, 'government radio'; and not the dissemination of 'free information' but a closing down of 'free market' information.

It is outrageous; but am concerned that it has gotten 'this far'; and we now how a fresh harvest of 'head-bobbers' out there.

[randog]

So the dems want to "level the playing field" with respect to "public airwaves"? This could be fun if it passes; for instance:

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.

[rocksblues]

What I don't understand is how the Dems are going to restrict this only to talk radio.

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?

[maxter]

Getting out in front of this issue may be the best way to combat it.

[gidget7]

Pence is a good man! This is not the first time, by a long shot, he has stood up for what is right. A real Conservtive.

[Zack Nguyen]

This is even worse than that great Whore of Babylon, McCain-Feingold. Absolutely disgusting. If this passes, the left are our dictators.