Just finished watching. Went a little long, but said things which needed to be said.
Rush may need to transition back to TV to overcome the “Fairness Doctrine” if it is restored to radio.
Thank God for Rush.
Rush may need to transition back to TV to overcome the “Fairness Doctrine” if it is restored to radio.
Please God, that won't be necessary. The First Amendment doesn't add any rights to the Constitution (everything within it is implied in the Constitution without it) - but what it does do is to make government action touching the rights of speech and publication, touching the rights of religious practice and freedom, or touching the rights of assembly and political criticism of the government into suspect activities. Just as SCOTUS has held that the government has to avoid the appearance of racial discrimination, it should and, with the retirement of one of the 5 justices who upheld McCain-Feingold probably will, treat any action having the effect of reducing the ability of the people to hear criticism of the Democrat majorities in Congress as presumptively a violation of the Constitution. And all Democrat criticism of Limbaugh - which is plentiful in the record - merely makes the constitutional case against tampering with his ability to broadcast the stronger.Note that it is not merely the right of Rush to speak and broadcast which is the issue - it is the right of the people to (subject to the usual terms that they buy enough Select Comfort mattresses to sustain Rush's "confiscatory advertising rates") listen to him if they wanna which is the central issue. And that means that we the people have standing to sue the FCC the instant it moves to subvert the independence of Rush's stations' ownership. And when we do, we should demand as a remedy that NPR carry Rush's program nationwide - commercials and all!