Pence introduces legislation to block Fairness Doctrine

Michelle Malkin ^ | June 27, 2007

[3AngelaD]

From what I heard on Hannity last night, apparently they are only going to apply it to commercial talk radio. Imagine the pants-wetting that would occur at NpR if they enforced it across the board.

[Loyolas Mattman]

The battle lines have been drawn - the people as represented by the House vs. the President and the Senate.

[randog]

There's your answer--NPR isn't commercial talk radio, so it will be exempt.

[craig_eddy]

DING DING DING...we have a winner for post of the year!

As Rush always says, “The Constitution guarantees youthe right to speak, not the right to be heard.”

[maxter]

Getting out in front of this issue may be the best way to combat it.

[Gabz]

... apparently they are only going to apply it to commercial talk radio.

While that does not surprise me in the least, I do not see how they can possibly do that on a variety of different gorunds.

[gidget7]

Pence is a good man! This is not the first time, by a long shot, he has stood up for what is right. A real Conservtive.

[3AngelaD]

See:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857081/posts

[carolinablonde]

Well, I've been wondering why the "Fairness" Doctrine wouldn't apply to television also.

If the liberals are so in love with it applying to radio, it would seem to me that we could demand that ABCNBCCBSMSNBCCNN be required to air a conservative viewpoint along with their usual liberal tripe.

[airborne]

Like everything else the libs say and do, it applies to everyone else.

They are exempt.

[Eagle of Liberty]

The rules must be monkeyed with by elites who know better in order to achieve equal outcomes.

Yup. Nobody is better or worse than anybody else. Everyone is equal in the eyes of a lib and should therefore live an equal life with equal stuff, well except for those elites who rule over us who would NEVER subject themselves to the same rules that they stick us with.

[Eagle of Liberty]

We could demand equal "fairness" with respect to other media distribution channels, e.g. "public roads". IOW, require that newspapers, magazines, etc. "level the playing field" because they use "public roads" to distribute their content. Same with broadcast TV news--they too use "public airwaves" to distribute their content.

We could but you notice that the only communications avenue being discussed is talk radio. This IS on purpose. No other media will be discussed because all other sources, for now, are considered mainstream by the powers that be. Rush said it best yesterday. If the libs had 90-10 control of the airwaves, they would call it mainstream. The only problem would be that they only controlled 90%.

[kenth]

The Senate holds no allegiance to anyone but the Senate, per the 17th amendment. Sure, they are popularly elected, but that’s the sole connection they have to a representative republic.

[3AngelaD]

That is exactly what I pointed out.

[JSDude1]

this guy used to be a radio host in south central Indiana (still guest-hosts) everyonce-in-a-while!

I call him he next Ronald Reagan (though noone could really replace “the great communicator”).

[JSDude1]

I say since the Senate has been unresponsive to the public during this immigration debate; really shows behind the scenes they never were, they were always beholden to wall-street first. Something the “Progressive” seventeenth Amendment was supposed to “fix”: I say we ‘Repay’ the favor, and “Repeal” the 17th..That would really show ‘em!

[Zack Nguyen]

This is even worse than that great Whore of Babylon, McCain-Feingold. Absolutely disgusting. If this passes, the left are our dictators.