Posted on 10/22/2008 10:45:30 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
The clip of interest (click on link) is 2 minutes 7 seconds long.
Senator Bingaman (D-NM) Comments on the Fairness Doctrine.
October 21, 2008
From the site: NEW MEXICO SENATOR JEFF BINGAMAN COMMENTS ON THE JIM VILLANUCCI SHOW ABOUT THE FAIRNESS DOCTORINE AND HOW IT COULD AFFECT YOUR LISTENING AT 770 KKOB.
I worked in radio when the fairness doctrine was in force. This was before talk radio. The bottom line was we HAD to sell airtime to any candidate at the lowest price on the rate sheet.
So my question is: If I bought a 30 minute block and espoused conservatism the only thing the station would be required to do is sell a 30 minute block to a liberal. Am I right?
If I am, Rush could “buy” 3 hours of time from every station and pay them what they would have earned selling ads. He would collect all the money he makes selling ads. If the liberals wanta’ cough up the money the stations wouldn’t mind one bit.
Kudos for the summary! Kudos and thanks!
You don't understand -- to the bureaucrats that will be making decisions on what is balanced or unbalanced, NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN are viewed as the balanced standard to which all other networks and programs should strive to emulate.
Jack
I’m not as worried about the practicality of silencing conservative dissent as I am about
THE DESIRE TO DO SO.
OK, you saying I should take tongue from cheek?
But that is the coming war, isn’t it?
if hussien wins the best thing the rats could do is follow through on this, follow through on gun control and follow through on federally funded abortions...the backlash from American’s will be swift and fierce against them....
sadly I’ve given up on hoping the majority of today’s GOPers will take the fight to the rats- the rats will have to implode and this is a way for it to happen....
Well in the 70’s when FM was taking off and their was nothing left to listen to on AM but a few AM morning drive shows and farm reports you could by a radio station for 25 cents on the dollar. This during the Fairness Doctrine.
Today after the repeal of this “Doctrine” in 1987 a whole new industry has grown to proportions never imagined at the time.
No wonder they hate it!
Rush is talking about this thread NOW.
Rush talking about this now.
If Obama wins socialism will be the least of our problems.
opps, by = buy, purchase.....
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They are fearful of SUCESS.
Thanks Rush for talking about this Senator. :)
Not exactly. It’s a directive that the station MUST be “balanced”, not that they have to provide the airwave. They can do that already.
Because there will be an angry backlash.
Did Rush just talk about this?
Rush has just pointed out there were 125 talk radio stations before Ronald Reagan had the old Fairness Doctrine repealed. Today there are more than 2,000. (Sorry, didn't catch the specific number on that).
The discussion was at a higher level and more intelligent in those days than it has become since.
Puleeze.
Their main weapons are massive voter fraud and propaganda supplied by their operatives in the Newsmedia, and one of their most effective tactics is to demoralize and discourage the opposition. Their strategy is to seize the Presidency for Obama and a supermajority in both houses of Congress, then to pack the Supreme Court and the rest of the judiciary.
If they succeed, they will silence dissent, pack the voter rolls, and establish radical changes in laws, via legislation and court decisions, that will assure them unlimited and endless power. They do not envision a socialist state. Their objective is the establishment of a communist police state on the model of contemporary China or the Soveit Union under Stalin. Dissent will be silenced, dissenters neutralized. Corruption will be rampant. The ruling oligarchy will live in splendor and luxury and will wield enormous power.
We must defeat the Democrats at the polls.
Many good citizens who have not declared themselves publicly will vote against the Democrats and the coup d’état that they intend to stage. Many have been intimidated already into silence. The question is whether our votes will overcome the massive voter fraud that is underway.
We must refuse to be discouraged or demoralized, and we must work to prevent our fellow citizens from becoming discouraged and demoralized. Get out the vote! I think that we will succed in preventing them from achieving their objective, but we must be sure to defeat them--and by honest endeavors--at the polls.
Get out the vote.
Be sure to vote.
They are fearful of SUCESS.
Yeah, cause success breeds independence from government intervention.
Hey Jeff,
Divine destruction is headed your way. You have brought your judgment out of your own mouth.
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