Posted on 07/03/2007 3:00:52 PM PDT by sdnet
Three Republican Senators, John McCain, John Thune, and Norm Coleman have stepped forward to introduce the Broadcaster Freedom Act, as questions linger about comments attributed to Senators Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer regarding re-imposition of the so-called Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters. The Fairness Doctrine is viewed by many on the political left as a way to muzzle or silence conservative talk radio.
The battle for control of talk radio is on.
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John McCain? Anti-FreeSpeech John McCain?
He’s one of the ones trying to stop the Anti-FreeSpeech Fairness Doctrine?
Is he schizoid?
Imagine the FCC having jurisdiction over this webpage, YouTube, and video cellphone cameras...
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Senator McCain. I would do one better. Eliminate all federal funding for NPR & PBS as well as require all Newspapers and TV outlets to abstain from promoting candidates or issues.
Good for McCain. Not going to help him much, but, as wrong as he can be ... he is generally a man of principle. He believes what he believes, and votes that way, regardless of the polls or who he allies with. He HAD to know that his immigration stand was political suicide - yet he took it anyway, (presumably) because he thought it was right. I respect that.
He won’t, and shouldn’t, win the primary ... but I do respect him, even though I often disagree with him.
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The fairness doctrine is and continues to be for station created content. If the station gets content from elsewhere, they are not subject to the fairness rules.
Which means this excludes virtually everything BUT Air America which specifically leases stations to broadcast it’s created programs. (Like anything else, a liberal bright idea not thought through.)
Only on days ending in ‘y’.
I thought all this was shot down Friday.
it still amazes me that all the RICH, HollyRAT useless eaters are SOOOOOooooo cheap... that they can't put up enough scratch for a few radio stations. it's beyond my comprehension. unless they've listened to leftradio too... and found it as UN-LISTEN ABLE, as the rest of America has.
The FCC can kiss my hairy white arse.
Again, the libs cannot win on the issues so they take it where they can, either the courts, or by 'legally' eliminating the competition.
First, the Senate hasn't passed that bill (or amendment) yet. Second, this is now couched as a budgetary matter, which means it's effective for one year only.
It's a start, of course, but the lefties have hardly been ''shot down''.
Time to beef up security at the broadcast stations.
Time to invest in pitchforks and torches...nah, scratch that, we're not 19th Century central European peasants...more ammo and some good hemp rope.
It does surprise me that McCain is part of this...maybe he's a schitzo, maybe he's finally realized that he's on the wrong side of Freedom. Whatever the reason, I hope that this passes.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I don’t trust anything with McCain’s name on it, because he’s nuts!
Only for a year...bad ideas never die in D.C.
Of course there is a blueprint for government control of broadcast content. The National Socialist Party in Germany in the 1930’s established a ministry of propaganda to ensure “approved” content. Very effective as I recall.
The mass of conservatives will follow conservative talk radio to the satellites or to clandestine stations located outside the U.S.
Anything John McCain has any dealings with should be read very very closely, small print and all. I wouldn’t trust him to write a letter to Santa.
Liberals are too late. The truth is out. Toothpaste cannot be put back into the tube. Liberals have lost it.
It’s incredible how liberals hate America and Americans.
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