After the Democrats got their pee-pees wacked by a 308-115 vote in the House to block re-instatement of the Fairness Doctrine a few months back, many supporters of the Doctrine have steered clear of referencing the same while still talking about accomplishing the same ends.
Of course, this all started this past summer when the racists and nativists in this country gloriously rose up and shut down the efforts to pass the Rube Goldberg Amesty Act. Typical of the confoundment that people out in America were actually paying attention to what was going on was Republican Senator Trent Lott who infamously quipped: “Talk Radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem”. This quote best summarized the condescension and imperial nature of many in Congress.
Now, the Democrats are upset with Talk Radio because, quite simply, no one listens to Air America. And because no one listens to Air America and others of its liberal ilk, they can’t get their message out or find anybody to carry their water. Apparently, owning the print media and 95% of television just ain't good enough. Further, these attempts to re-implement the Fairness Doctrine are proof positive of just how much the Democrats feel Old Media moves the needle anymore.
Typical of dancing around the Fairness Doctrine landmine is General Wesley Clark who was on Tucker Carlson’s MSNBC show last week (transcript can be found here). Clark was using the wholly- fabricated-to-justify-their-ultimate-ends Rush Limbaugh “phony soldiers” brouha-ha to justify cutting off public funding to people that don’t say nice things about the military. And when pressed by Carlson whether it would be exclusive to public or private entities, Ol' “Crazy Eyes” Clark (by our reading) didn’t differentiate when he suggested that he’d like to see Congress decide what is naughty and what is nice.
Of course, this all started this past summer when the racists and nativists in this country gloriously rose up and shut down the efforts to pass the Rube Goldberg Amesty Act. Typical of the confoundment that people out in America were actually paying attention to what was going on was Republican Senator Trent Lott who infamously quipped: “Talk Radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem”. This quote best summarized the condescension and imperial nature of many in Congress.
Now, the Democrats are upset with Talk Radio because, quite simply, no one listens to Air America. And because no one listens to Air America and others of its liberal ilk, they can’t get their message out or find anybody to carry their water. Apparently, owning the print media and 95% of television just ain't good enough. Further, these attempts to re-implement the Fairness Doctrine are proof positive of just how much the Democrats feel Old Media moves the needle anymore.
Typical of dancing around the Fairness Doctrine landmine is General Wesley Clark who was on Tucker Carlson’s MSNBC show last week (transcript can be found here). Clark was using the wholly- fabricated-to-justify-their-ultimate-ends Rush Limbaugh “phony soldiers” brouha-ha to justify cutting off public funding to people that don’t say nice things about the military. And when pressed by Carlson whether it would be exclusive to public or private entities, Ol' “Crazy Eyes” Clark (by our reading) didn’t differentiate when he suggested that he’d like to see Congress decide what is naughty and what is nice.
Congress? Great. You know there was a reason Major League Baseball kicked steroid testing into high gear a couple-three years ago after Congressional hearings. The warning of ".. if you don't do something about it, we will..." sent a panic through the owners and commissioner Bud Selig who knew that they had done enough damage to America's Pastime and didn't need it ruined completely by Congressional meddling.
Yeah, the irony of a Democrat talking about how horrible it was for Rush to say bad things about members of our military knocked us over with a feather, also. But in case some of you forgot, here are the leading lights on the Democrat side opining on the military: John Kerry, Dick Durbin (long transcript but Dick equated alleged actions of U.S. troops in Iraq with those of Nazis among others), John Murtha and Ted Kennedy who is such a miserable SOB he isn’t worthy of digging around for the quote which was in reference to the Abu Ghraib prison opening under new (George Bush’s) management.
All this to say: similar to Amnesty legislation that got beat down the first time, the Fairness Doctrine and its evil spawn are going to keep coming back in different guises with different but decidedly more flowery and palatable language. The more they deny it, the less we believe them.
Yeah, the irony of a Democrat talking about how horrible it was for Rush to say bad things about members of our military knocked us over with a feather, also. But in case some of you forgot, here are the leading lights on the Democrat side opining on the military: John Kerry, Dick Durbin (long transcript but Dick equated alleged actions of U.S. troops in Iraq with those of Nazis among others), John Murtha and Ted Kennedy who is such a miserable SOB he isn’t worthy of digging around for the quote which was in reference to the Abu Ghraib prison opening under new (George Bush’s) management.
All this to say: similar to Amnesty legislation that got beat down the first time, the Fairness Doctrine and its evil spawn are going to keep coming back in different guises with different but decidedly more flowery and palatable language. The more they deny it, the less we believe them.
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Instead of blaming Talk Radio for the demise of the Immigration, I think that the Democrats should have gotten out there and presented a good article by article explanation of the bill to the American public. There were so many wonderful features such as “States must give illegals in-state tuition,” that could have been embraced by the public. Just bad strategy. Dad
Daddy-O, Unfortunately, there were many Republicans (too many) in bed with the Democrats.
To your point, though... I agree. If the illegal-enablers were just able to present their case in a fair and balanced manner, the outcome would've been different. Bring back the Fairness InDoctrination!!!
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