And so I’ve studied this and have, as expected, some thoughts.
My own two fine Democratic Senators voted FOR the Demint bill and voted FOR the Turbin bill.
I ask them, so what’s it gonna be?
What the Dems are doing here is going on record as being AGAINST the fairness doctrine, not because they will fool Rush Limbaugh and the like. The conservative talk show guys will be ranting over the attempt here to have it both ways.
Voting FOR the Turbin bill gives an opening for community groups, much like the infamous ACORN group that they may bastardize the wording (as they did with the Community Reinvestment Act)to squelch our free speech.
But they vote FOR the Demint bill that they may fool those who DON’T listen to talk radio that ...hey, lookit here, I voted AGAINST reinstating the fairness doctrine, don’t accuse me of being against free speech.
They learned well with that CRA thing and now all they gotta do is have ACORN go out and protest that WLOC is not giving us guys a chance to talk. The quasi-ACORN groups can then harrass the local radio shows to total distraction until they, in exasperation, just shut down Rush, Hannity, etc.
Of course, heh, that door swings both ways.
What’s needed here is for the pubbies, yes those with the fine suntans and head hairs that never budge from their appointed places, to get out and TEACH the public what’s going on here.
It’s not going to be easy but Rush et al can’t do this. Rush’s audience already gets it.
And the pubs, lord they hate to mess up their tans and head hairs and to cast aspersions on the motives of their Dem colleagues presents them from calling them “my friend”, gets them some head hair mussing pressure from the MSM, and often gets them uninvited from the best DC cocktail parties.
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.