Posted on 06/25/2008 8:24:42 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi: I Want to Bring Back 'Fairness Doctrine' Photo of Ken Shepherd. By Ken Shepherd | June 25, 2008 - 10:38 ET
Over at HumanEvents.com, John Gizzi has House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on the record saying that the Democratic caucus, far from being agnostic on the so-called Fairness Doctrine, is actually interested in resurrecting it. What's more, Pelosi herself wants to bring back the policy that could literally silence conservative talk radio.
From his June 25 article:
At a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor yesterday, I asked Pelosi if Pence failed to get the required signatures on a discharge petition to get his anti-Fairness Doctrine bill out of committee, would she permit the Pence measure to get a floor vote this year.
"No," the Speaker replied, without hesitation. She added that "the interest in my caucus is the reverse" and that New York Democratic Rep. "Louise Slaughter has been active behind this [revival of the Fairness Doctrine] for a while now."
Pelosi pointed out that, after it returns from its Fourth of July recess, the House will only meet for another three weeks in July and three weeks in the fall. There are a lot of bills it has to deal with before adjournment, she said, such as FISA and an energy bill.
"So I don't see it [the Pence bill] coming to the floor," Pelosi said.
"Do you personally support revival of the ‘Fairness Doctrine?'" I asked.
"Yes," the speaker replied, without hesitation.
Conservative leaders including Media Research Center President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell have called for an up-or-down vote on ending the "Fairness Doctrine" once and for all.
For more on that, read this related NewsBusters piece.
—Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters
Obama would definitely sign that. McCain might.
Well shut my mouth...
Yep, the agents of “tolerance” love to practice censorship.
Does anyone know if Rush has a plan to deal with this?
When you can’t compete, control the market instead and make up your own rules. Typical sleazy democrats.
So, the Dems want to nationalize oil companies, and shut down outlets with opposing political viewpoints.
Nothing Stalinist here, no sir.
(sarcasm)
If we cannot speak, we will act.
Censorship, pure and simple.
Bring the fairness doctrine to the schools and we’ll talk.
If the Second Amendment goes tomorrow, the First will be soon to follow.
Isn’t this a two way street?
The dems place the First Amendment before all others. Free speech, my ass!
Satellite radio. Internet streaming. If Rush switched to satellite, sales of sat-radios would skyrocket.
Oh, he'll deal with it. All of talk radio will deal with it. There has never been a public backlash like the one this issue will raise.
If in fact this unconstitutional monstrosity is revived, I predict sales of satellite radios will go through the roof . . . and the conservative talk that will flourish there will make today's commentators seem like George McGovern in comparison. After all, then they will only have to answer to subscribers, not advertisers (who are susceptible to boycotts, etc.)
Pure communist bullcrap.
What abunch of a-holes these creeps are.
They won’t let us drill, and they stifle our speech.
I hate them.
"Yes," the speaker replied, without hesitation.
My FRiends, perhaps you agree that the upcoming election is the most critical we've yet faced.
If Obama is elected with a veto-proof majority in the Congress, the Marxist, (actually, make that STALINIST) Pelosi Dems will surely ...
(a) Wreck this great country, and ...
(b) Ensure that they will be "re-elected" in perpetuity.
So, the Dems want to nationalize oil companies, and shut down outlets with opposing political viewpoints.
::::::
It is pure Stalinism, without any doubt. Pelosi and her band of “hammer-and-sickle” thugs, want to suppress free speech which CARRIES THE TRUTH about their repressive, socialist agenda. Pure and simple. Under a transparent blanket of PURE FRAUD, the so-called “FAIRNESS DOCTRINE” is a flat-out attempt to squash the First Amendment and any political dissent. Not much different than the old Soviet Union, is it?
He'll go to satellite (along with other conservative talkers), and that industry will boom. Commercial AM radio will cease to exist, except for Latin music stations, and sports-talk radio.
Satellite radio. Internet streaming. If Rush switched to satellite, sales of sat-radios would skyrocket
Yup.
http://www.wjbo.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=119442&article=3872758
Enraged Voters Are Taking Action
Currently one recall effort has already officially begun, and another is in the works.
I hope a bill to reinstate the fairness doctrine never makes it to the floord of the House and Senate, but if it does, I will be one of what I imagine will be millions of conservative demonstrators protesting at the National Mall.
I would almost like to see that demonstration happen, but I’d naturally prefer that it never becomes necessary. But can you imagine what a sight that would be?
I’m sure the Speaker will be re-introducing the Alien and Sedition Act as well. But only if Obama is elected.
This is what the Country and the Conservatives will face if they let obama get elected....people better get off their fannies and fight for Mccain
Well, since McCain was behind the unconstitutional McCain-Feingold bill I am sure he would have no qualms about the unconstitutional fairness doctrine.
They pass this, and the civil war is on.
Dragging, and kicking perhaps, but they will come.
The point is that few would "see" the sight post-"fairness" doctrine.
The Stalinists are waaay ahead of us on that one.
He’ll go to satellite (along with other conservative talkers), and that industry will boom.
:::::::
Two pieces of advice: Buy stock in XM and Sirius, and keep your powder dry...
Agreed it if they choose to go this route, we should demand it apply to ALL media, radio, tv.
Big whoop. This is a non-issue. They can bring back anything they want, but they can’t roll back the clock on technology, and with all the channels available today, there is no barrier to any flavor of Free Speech. Just grandstanding BS by the Dems.
That should stop most of the stupid speculation around here about Rush wanting Obama to win for the sake of his show.
If you don’t support a doctrine with the word “fairness” in it, you hate children. You don’t hate children...do you?
May I presume that Stretch wants to include newspapers and broadcast news stations in the “fairness”?
And it's all built on a legal fallacy. The “Fairness Doctrine” assumes that IDEOLOGIES have rights, not people.
Broadcasters want to make money. They do so by selling ads, and they can charge more if more people listen. Therefore, they broadcast what PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR.
Pelosi’s plan basically tells a segment of the population that they can't hear what they want, but instead must listen to the government line - something familiar to people who have fled Castro's Cuba, I'm sure.
It is absolutely disgusting that any significant portion of the electorate would ever support this. Maybe the only way to kill it would indeed be to “fight fire with fire” and apply the same rules to the MSM news, newspapers sold on government-owner property, like train stations (after all, the space there is a finite resource), etc.
Let's hope this garbage sinks the Dems again. Too many people want to give each party a chance to govern, again as if it's the parties who have rights. It's THE PEOPLE who have rights, and if one party has sunk so far that it deserves permanent exile from office, so be it.
Seriously, Rush would be the last to go. Stations could make more money with three hours of Rush balanced by three hours of dead air with commercials scattered through each than they could with six hours of bland sports/home repair/cooking/music/other non-controversial programming. Replacing the three hours of dead air would only lose a little bit of rating when switched to three hours of liberal BS. The first to go would be the remaining local talkers and the lower to middle rated syndicated shows.
Look up the Progressive Caucus - Our Very Own Fifth Column, right here in Congress.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6497
Until 1999, worked in open partnership with Democratic Socialists of America
The Progressive Caucus is an organization of Members of Congress founded in 1991 by newly-elected House Representative Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont), the former mayor of Burlington and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which describes itself as “the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International.”
Know your enemy.
Won't this apply to sports-talk radio? The NY sports-talk station will have to give equal time to Red Sox fans...right? ;)
Does anyone know if Rush has a plan to deal with this?I would like to see Rush start voicing support for it and DEMANDING time on ABC/NBC/CBS/etc.
We could start a rating website, based on the political rating systems, that rates very media figure. Then promote the site to all the conservative outlets. Google bomb it to the top of a search for "fairness doctrine".
And think for a moment, what has brought the
‘Fairness Doctrine’ front and center again? There are also Republicans who want to see it passed.
The Senate Amnesty Bill.
The web & talk radio temporarily stopped it cold!
I agree! It’s about time we got some Conservative balance to those Liberal Freaks like Limbaugh, Hannity, Levine, Plante, et al.
Stuff like this has to really sting the ‘there’s no difference between dems and GOPers’ crowd.
It’s amazing that anyone could have such poor judgment and such a profound lack of clarity to be unable to distinguish meaningful differences in the USA’s major political parties.
You can bet that Pelosi & Co. are imagining it. Visions like that are the reason that liberals are scared to death of the outcome of the Heller case. Not that they really think "crazed gun owners" are going to start shooting people -- even though that's the MSM argument they propound -- but because they don't like the idea of people being able to resist indoctrination and slavery with armed force.
“We can’t just say we’ll buy satellite radios and forget it. That is a defeatist remark. We must fight this. No compromise.”
Hey, I’ll fight it. You bet I will. But if it ends up that satellite radio is the only way to get Rush (and Sean, and Dennis Prager and Hugh Hewitt) in the car, I’ll buy one in a heartbeat.
A switch of the EIB Southern Command from Miami to the Bahamas and internet streaming could be in the offing.
What, are you surprised? Libs HATE free speech - especially when it questions/criticises them.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.