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ALERT: DEMINT BILL OPPOSING "FAIRNESS DOCTRINE" EXPECTED TO PASS SENATE BY WIDE MARGIN
FOX NEWS | 2/26/2009 | SENATOR DEMINT

Posted on 02/26/2009 11:53:35 AM PST by kellynla

DEMINT BILL OPPOSING "FAIRNESS DOCTRINE" EXPECTED TO PASS SENATE BY WIDE MARGIN


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 111th; demint; fairnessdoctrine; talkradio
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To: kellynla

This banned nothing! It actually just gives it a new name and more dangerous. I hope that somehow we are far more organized than it seems. I just sit here and wait for the call...but nobody ever does.


61 posted on 02/26/2009 6:52:10 PM PST by Archon of the East (Universal Executive Power of the Law of Nature)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I’d like to give him a lesson in diversity.


62 posted on 02/26/2009 7:25:21 PM PST by Maelstorm (While private sector workers lose jobs, union civil servants get a raise. Only in America.)
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To: Fishtalk
But THIS, ladies and gems, is important. We have got to fight it, along with Rush, by pressuring your local pub and risk mussing head hairs and smearing fine tans, and by giving back what is given. We gotta do the same thing ACORN does is what I’m saying here.

Very well said. If the GOP doesn't want to stand up and be heard, then let them drown. It was shameful the way the GOP and McCain ran their campaign - I never once heard any of them talking up the CRA aspect of the meltdown in Sept when McCain went rushing back to DC to help and Bama said call me when you need help. I knew right then and there it was over for McCain. The GOP always, always wants to take the high road. The GOP has to get the word out about all the shenanigans the RATs have pulled all these years. I fear it is too late as they are already months into their destruction of Free Market Capitalism and the complete CHANGEover of America. I noticed today the WH spokespeople are saying "He said during the campaign he was bringing change so now you have it - what is all the fuss?"
63 posted on 02/26/2009 7:34:23 PM PST by Cheerio (Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Repeal 16-17
Durban's amendment goes after 'station owners 'and will do an end run around Demints bill. What ever happened to Roberts Rules ? Amendments can now be added and destroy the intent of the bill without ever being discussed and rejected prior to the vote????

We saw this in Massachusetts where we ended up having to urge the representatives to vote against a bill that had been "amended" making it opposite to what was intended.

64 posted on 02/26/2009 7:40:25 PM PST by codder too
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To: JenB987
I’d like to see anyone who OPPOSES this tried with treason.

I wouldn't not not-dislike to not see no-one who doesn't not OPPOSE this not tried with un-treason.

Unless I would.

65 posted on 02/26/2009 7:55:24 PM PST by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union, then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: kellynla

ctually, this just REIMPOSES the “Fairness Doctrine” with different words. Read it.


66 posted on 02/26/2009 7:57:27 PM PST by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; justiceseeker93; ..

“Our enemies should know: we will never apologize for being free men...”
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Posted on 02/25/2009 8:32:24 PM PST by Sioux-san
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194278/posts


67 posted on 02/26/2009 8:17:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: portabello77

My, my you are strangely naive if you believe that bull. What a joke. Go back to DU.


68 posted on 02/26/2009 8:23:53 PM PST by kara2008
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To: twigs
Well, if it's any help to you, Mark Levin has been screaming against Durbin's bill for quite some time now, because of the damge it will do to free speech & silencing conservative talk. And Levin, being a smart & fiesty Constitutional lawyer, must know what he is talking about.

So I'd say, we need to fear the Durbin bill & try to crush it by flooding the DC phone lines in opposition. Sneaky Dimwits.

69 posted on 02/26/2009 10:43:40 PM PST by Beloved Levinite (R.I.P. My Beautiful America - Land of the Free & Home of the Brave - 20 January 2009)
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To: The_Reader_David

I think you are wrong. I think Durbin’s bill would allow & encourage *equal time* for Dimwits on conservative talk stations, such as every local station Rush & Co. is on.


70 posted on 02/26/2009 11:00:11 PM PST by Beloved Levinite (R.I.P. My Beautiful America - Land of the Free & Home of the Brave - 20 January 2009)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Bingo! You win the door prize.


71 posted on 02/26/2009 11:02:11 PM PST by Beloved Levinite (R.I.P. My Beautiful America - Land of the Free & Home of the Brave - 20 January 2009)
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To: facedown

He hung the anti Fairness doctrine on the Washington D. C. voting rights bill. Huh? Why vote for this bill it is Unconstitutional! I mean the voting rights bill!


72 posted on 02/26/2009 11:20:26 PM PST by tallyhoe
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To: kellynla; All

Read the article.

However, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin also won approval for an alternate amendment that would order the Federal Communications Commission to encourage radio ownership “diversity.”

A DeMint aide said Durbin’s measure will “impose the Fairness Doctrine through the back door by trying to break up radio ownership.”

The aide called the Durbin proposal “an attempt to break up companies like Clear Channel and hurt their syndications and therefore putting many local radio stations out of business that depend on those syndicated shows for revenue.”

The measure passed by a vote of 57-to-41.


73 posted on 02/26/2009 11:27:06 PM PST by Munz (Infiltrate Interrogate Eradicate NEXT!)
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To: Beloved Levinite

But ‘equal time’ for the left on radio (though not for the right on television) is the ‘fairness doctrine’ that the Senate just voted overwhelmingly to kill. I was responding to the other tactic: ‘localism’. The broadcast industry is not going to sit on its hands an be told ‘no syndicated national programming’ without a fight, so I think ‘localism’ is less of a threat to ‘our’ media than some would make it out to be.


74 posted on 02/27/2009 4:32:59 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Munz

“Read the article”

Newbie, I quit taking orders 39 years ago. LMAO


75 posted on 02/27/2009 5:03:01 AM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: MrB

True, but read the amendment dropped in about “public interest. Just cancelled this out.


76 posted on 02/27/2009 5:05:35 AM PST by Bruinator (It's the Media.............Stupid)
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To: Lazamataz

Now I’m really confused...lol

I read the headline than started reading the comments. My brain felt like a strobe light.


77 posted on 02/27/2009 5:29:26 AM PST by JenB987
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To: portabello77

Just like he opposes nationalization of financial institutions. Just ask Citi.


78 posted on 02/27/2009 6:29:51 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (welcome to the endgame.)
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To: codder too
“To encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership, and to ensure that the public airwaves are used in the public interest.”

This is more frightening than the Fairness Doctrine. It is so vaugely worded that it can be interpreted any way that it suits them.

This just took the battleground and placed it in communities where you will see station owners exposed to a full onslaught of local groups doing the fearless leader's dirty work while the Dems spend time covering their own butts with their “denouncing” of the Fairness Doctrine.

Chris Stigall sat in last night for Savage and he put the ball squarely in the court of the station owners to get on top of this thing.

What a slippery bunch! We're going to have to go over all legislation with a fine tooth comb - which is more than our voted representatives in government do!

79 posted on 02/27/2009 7:24:18 AM PST by MWestMom (Tread carefully, truth lies here.)
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To: MWestMom

I thought this administration was going to be about government transparency?

The American people are almost in the dark as much as our legislators are. How sad.


80 posted on 02/27/2009 10:08:12 AM PST by leonid
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