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The Fairness Doctrine fight is not over

Submitted by Soren Dayton on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 19:43
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Adam Theirer, a scholar at the Progress and Freedom Foundation, notes that the Fairness Doctrine was part of a regulatory paradigm being pushed by the left and, in particular, the group Free Press. This fight is not over. Adam's piece is worth reading:

Of course, the radicals at the (Un)Free Press weren’t about to let one of the Left’s old favorite regulations go so away without asking for something in return.  One of the reasons that Silver and Ammori are suddenly willing to give their blessing to the Doctrine’s burial is because they want to get on with the more far-reaching agenda of micro-managing media markets using a variety of less visible regulations.

Indeed, in their paper, Silver and Ammori go to great pains to try to show that the Fairness Doctrine supposedly has nothing to do with all the other regulations that they want Congress and the FCC to continue to enforce, or even expand.  These goals include media ownership restrictions, diversity mandates, local programming regulation, and so on.  Recognizing that the Fairness Doctrine was not only ineffective but also a useful tool for many on the political Right to whip their base into action, the Free Press moved to preemptively divorce their other pet projects from the Fairness Doctrine.

It’s a brilliant tactical move by Free Press; lull Limbaugh and other conservatives into a deep sleep by throwing them the bone of a Fairness Doctrine win, and then push a far more radical regulatory agenda through the back-door once they’ve stopped paying attention.  Of course, these things cannot be as easily divorced as the Free Press radicals want us to believe.  The Fairness Doctrine was just one part of a much grander regulatory paradigm that so-called progressives have pushed for under the banner of “public interest regulation.”

 

 

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Number one priority

Submitted by lgm on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 20:31.

Rush Limbaugh is the de factor leader of the Republican party.  His number one priority is keeping himself on the air.  This makes the fairness doctrine the top priority of the Republican party.  Why else would they bellyache about it so much when it is not in danger?

Bullshit

Submitted by Progressive Tra... on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 23:53.

n/t 

Touchy

Submitted by lgm on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 08:48.

Conservatives play the victim.  America hates Christians (all 44 Presidents were Christian).  The main stream media is biased (one whole network, Fox, is dedicated to conservativism, 90% of the Washington Post columnists are conservative, and 130% at the Wall Street Journal).  The liberal movement is the creation of a few rich evildoers like Soros and Streisand. 

Liberals want to drive Rush Limbaugh, brave freedom fighter and teller of truth to power, off the air - - - not.

Up is actually down. Until further notice.

Submitted by artigiano on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 21:51.

Recognizing that the Fairness Doctrine was not only ineffective but also a useful tool for many on the political Right to whip their base into action, the Free Press moved to preemptively divorce their other pet projects from the Fairness Doctrine.

So for weeks we've heard every single right wing talker warn us daily and quite loudly that not only was the reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine the plan of the left, but that it was immeninent, and it's effect would be devastating to conservative radio.

But now following the overwhelming passage of the DeMint ammendment in the Senate, the exact opposite is the "truth" they would have us believe?

God, you people  on the right have become a ridiculous parody of every stereotype we on the left ever held about you.

Reminds me of how the week after the election the right was telling us that Obama won because he ran with all these conservative plans and ideas, when the week before the election the same people were calling him a dangerous socialist.

Is there ever a lie so unbelieveable that you won't try to sell it?

The once-serious,

Submitted by Cristiano on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 10:59.

The once-serious, intellectually-based Conservative Movement Goldwater Sohbet, Buckley and  Reagan founded has been turned into an entertaining, three-ring circus full of clowns, freaks, and web tasarım animals, and Rush is the headliner, entertainer, and ringmaster. 

No way I want the Fairness Doctrine to stop this:  A very wise man once said "Never get in the way of a man falling down the stairs."

Lets see

Submitted by NextRightNando on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 21:54.

The Fairness Doctrine was repealled 20 years ago.

Obama says he is not interested having it reinstated.

The new Senate has voted 87-11 to ban its reinstatement.

But yet The Next Right wants to fulminate against the Fairness Doctrine.

What's next: firm opposition to Soviet domination of Eastern Europe??

 

By your logic...

Submitted by stanolshefski on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 01:11.

There are no earmarks in the stimulus or omnibus, because Obama said there wouldn't be any.

Your liberal buddies (Durbin, Kerry, Harkin, et al) keep talking about bringin the fairness doctrine back every few months, because they can't stand conservative talk radio. That's the only reason anyone on the right talks about it.

Go troll somewhere else.

Show me one earmark in the stimulus bill

Submitted by NextRightNando on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 08:54.

Show me one earmark in the stimulus bill. The omnibus bill was written when? Given that it seemingly now takes 60 votes to get anything through the senate, where are the other 57 votes going to come from?

Rush Limbaugh at CPAC

Submitted by Jim Dandy to th... on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 23:30.

...The gift that keeps on giving.  I say we encourage Limbaugh to stay on the air for as long as he feels the need to keep on putting his "message" out.

An d then tonight we had Hannity tell us that the new Chair of the RNC, Michael Steele, reached out to Rush to tell him how sorry he was for correcting a CNN reporter who told him point-blank this weekend that Rush Limbaugh was the head of the GOP.  Steele spoke up and said that HE was the head, and that Rush was an "entertainer" who sometimes was "incendiary" and "got ugly",  so I guess he knew he better reach out and do a little grovelling, if he knew what was good for him.

Hope Rush is really rough on him for awhile, it looks like an example has to be made.

The once-serious, intellectually-based Conservative Movement Goldwater, Buckley and  Reagan founded has been turned into an entertaining, three-ring circus full of clowns, freaks, and animals, and Rush is the headliner, entertainer, and ringmaster. 

No way I want the Fairness Doctrine to stop this:  A very wise man once said "Never get in the way of a man falling down the stairs."

Patty-cake

Submitted by Progressive Tra... on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 23:56.

Go read the text of the speech:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_030209/content/01125106.gues...

That was one hell of a speech.

 

Thanks a lot, you fucko, for putting me in the position of defending Limbaugh.

I feel dirty now. 

You're welcome

Submitted by Jim Dandy to th... on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 08:46.

..you little scumbag.

LOL!!

 

My favorite part

Submitted by NextRightNando on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 09:00.

 We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an inarguable truth that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life. [Applause] Liberty, Freedom. [Applause] And the pursuit of happiness. [Applause]

Except, of course, this is from the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution, and the word "Freedom" is not in the original. Rush Limbaugh, Defender of the Constitution, doesn't know what is in the Constitution.

 

tell me you're joking

Submitted by xc1148 on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 08:53.

is this "the next right" or "the current right in its quest to obsess over trivial issues 80% of americans couldn't care less about during a recession with two wars going on"?

 

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