Posted on 01/15/2007 4:37:16 PM PST by BlueJ7
You mean he's a pilot fish for The Swimmer?
Progressive=Communist!!!!!!!!
No talk radio?
What will I do all day, work?
This may very well be the most dangerous, long term, aspect of "teaching the republicans a lesson" this last election. These people require the government and the courts to mandate what they can't get the voter to accept.
I hope someone is keeping a list.
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If a radio station has hit on a format that has listeners coming back day after day, or has listeners keeping their station on, that is the CHOICE OF THE LISTENERS!
Liberal radio stations, liberals hosts, have tried and failed virtually every time because of one reason: THE PEEPLES TURN THEM OFF!
There is no one that I am aware of that is forced to either listen to radio or forced to pick a particular channel or show.
Broadcast frequencies are limited; printing presses are not. That's the legal -- and practical -- underpinning of the Fairness Doctrine.
That just may be one of the most assinine reasons for the Fairness Doctrine that I have ever heard and recent history proves its fallacy. If we truly needed the Fairness Doctrine, the proof would be that networks like Airhead al-America could never get on the air because there are no frequencies left.
Well, Airhead al-America did get on the air, coast to coast, and FAILED because the stupid PEEPLES turned them off.
Here is the bottom line on the Fairness Doctrine: Liberals know that talk radio is one of the two outlets for news (the other being the Internet) that can actually get the truth out about them.
Liberals fear the truth. In fact, they fear it so much that most of them cannot even admit they are liberal, or if a liberal politician, they can rarely, if ever, campaign on a liberal platform.
Want proof they fear the truth? Well, the fact that they are attempting to silence conservative talk radio is pretty telling.
The Fairness Doctrine would cause most stations to drop or drastically cut back on shows like Rush, Savage, Hannity, and others. If a station is airing 3 hours of Rush, 3 hours of Hannity and 3 hours of Savage, they would then have to air 9 hours of liberal hosts that would cause their listeners to change channels or turn the radio off.
This would result in a dramatic downturn of advertising revenue. So, it would be easier, and make economical sense, to either drop the conservative shows, or change the stations format completely.
That is exactly what the liberals want.
I dont like 'the fairness doctrine' (its an infringement of free speech), but so is the FCC's hardline on indecency, so Id be glad if they actually did do something about that.
And I have to give credit where credit is due, Kucinich did vote against the indecency bill (or whatever it was called).
Just a thought. If such a broadly defined law were to pass, does it not mean that our courts could be jammed with freepers, et. al., suing CNN for their obvious biased reporting of "controversial" issues without giving the other side?
Could not such a law backfire seriously on the liberals?
Stop Radio Affirmative Action Now! If there was a market for progressive talk it would have emerged by now.
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Demonstrably untrue in practice. Air America had plenty of broadcast outlets, in both major and small markets. They all failed in the market because nobody cared, nobody listened, and they could not sustain themselves.
What this Socialist Idiot is doing is admitting that his ideas and beliefs can not compete in a free and open environment.
So naturally, if free speech fails for him, it must be suppressed and controlled.
As someone wiser than I said:
People who call themselves "Progressive" are Socialists who haven't got the guts to call themselves "Socialist".
People who call themselves "Socialist" are Communists who haven't got the guts to call themselves "Communist".
People who call themselves "Communists" are mass-murders who haven't got the guts to call themselves "Mass Murderers".
Dennis Kucinich is the biggest twit to ever grace the Capitol building.
I can't be sure, but I believe that in the past, because 'News' is always fair on neutral, news was except.
I know, please don't gag, it's just the way it was then.
See, now. That's the problem as the Dims see it.
The public isn't demanding anything from the Left.
Thus, using Leftist thought processes, it must be shoved down our throats.
Liberal and Commies need to clear the decks of Conservative forums before Hillary starts her run for the White House.
Dose this include the Lame stream media all so.NYT,LATIMES and ect.
I am NOT from Cleveland, I am NOT from Cleveland, I am NOT from Cleveland...
...Just try it!
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