How I Could Support the “Fairness Doctrine”
This week we’ve learned that Michigan Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow had proposed hearings on reinstituting the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” in order “to be bringing accountability to the airwaves.”
Basically, she and other supporters of this doctrine (which is anything but fair) favor it as a means to silence the one area of the media where conservatives dominate:Â talk radio.
Tell you what. I’ll go along with her proposal if she goes along with mine, apply this doctrine to university faculties too. Shouldn’t they have some accountability too?
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Dan, is it no wonder that Sen. Stupidcow’s interests are purely for herself and her spouse – who just so happened to be involved with Air America and another (failed) liberal talk show network?
Check it out here: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2009/02/08/censorship-advocate-stabenows-husband-active-left-wing-radio
Typical libtards.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — February 9, 2009 @ 10:39 am - February 9, 2009
I cut my teeth on Superman. The man of steel who would right the wrongs. What a guy.
Then I discovered that there is no one meaning for “justice” and that “the American Way” was a concept that divided us as much as it united us. However, I never thought that we would reach the point where “truth” would become subjective and dependent on political whim.
When Superman appeared in 1938, we were in a protracted depression and the “drums of war” were sounding in the East and the West. Our cities were full of crime and there was economic decay in the small towns and the big cities.
In Germany, the country was being treated to socialist nationalization, massive social organization, reeducation, indoctrination and book burning. Why book burning? Because it is important to control the past in order to control the future in an anti-democratic society. The “ministry of truth” is in charge of politically correct thought.
Orwell is our best recent touchstone for understanding the “fairness doctrine.” But throughout history, Pharaohs, Emperors, Dictators, Oligarchs, Tyrants and Kings have controlled the message and rewritten the past.
When thinking of “the fairness doctrine” one should focus on the word “doctrine.” The job of censor for the public good is not one for a person of high moral compass. If you watch “The View” or Chris Matthews in full shouting mode or Keith Obermann’s Goebbels without the black leather you will how fairness is manipulated. They all focus on action and hope and change. They have no stomach for facts. Facts lead to the old fashioned way of divining truth. Truth is at odds with the fairness doctrine.
Comment by heliotrope — February 9, 2009 @ 10:46 am - February 9, 2009
Pete made my point already about Dangerously Incompetent Debbie (rumored to be on the short bus… er, I mean, short list, to replace Tom Daschle at HHS)… and her husband’s ties to to Air America. So, I am going to address the Orwellian language of calling government censorship of radio broadcasts the ‘Fairness Doctrine.’
Um, it’s Orwellian.
Comment by V the K — February 9, 2009 @ 10:53 am - February 9, 2009
Pete made my point already about Dangerously Incompetent Debbie (rumored to be on the short bus… er, I mean, short list, to replace Tom Daschle at HHS)… and her husband’s ties to to Air America. So, I am going to point out the Orwellian language of calling government censorship of radio broadcasts the ‘Fairness Doctrine.’
This is straight out of Hugo Chavez’s playbook. Combine it with Obama’s power-grab of taking the Census out of the control of the Commerce Secretary and putting it under White House control, and we have a dangerous concentration of partisan power.
Comment by V the K — February 9, 2009 @ 10:55 am - February 9, 2009
Good catch Peter. Her husband is VP of Air America. There’s quite a conflict of interest there but of course, it doesn’t apply since she has a ‘D’ after her name, nor does the fact that he is involved in a prostitution ring.
Comment by Patriot Goddess — February 9, 2009 @ 11:22 am - February 9, 2009
When the policies that you advocate have no rational basis and have been proven over and over to be flawed, one quick way of advancing them is to throttle your opposition’s abilty to present its rebutals. I think this is the only way the Dems know how to conduct public discourse.
Comment by Not Always Right — February 9, 2009 @ 1:20 pm - February 9, 2009
If Republicans/conservatives could get their act together they’d be able to get their views aired on nearly every single television channel/show in existence. Katy Couric et al, PBS et al, CNN et al, would either have to learn how to report without adding their personal political views or be subjected to demands for time for opposing commentary.
And if we let them KNOW in no uncertain terms that that’s our plan if the FD is dug up again, maybe they’d have second thoughts.
Why Republicans/conservatives didn’t use the FD in this manner before is a total mystery to me.
Comment by DoorHold — February 9, 2009 @ 2:31 pm - February 9, 2009
If the Democrats REALLY want a Fairness Doctrine it has to apply to the MSM, both on the air and in print. as well. They should have to have an equal number of conservative reporters and they wouldn´t be in the tank for any candidate. Barak Obama is just a pretty face, an empty suit, and a creation of the media. That was fair?
Comment by Roberto — February 9, 2009 @ 5:57 pm - February 9, 2009
Here in Michigan we’ve lately had YCR protesters attend DebbieStabenow events and hold up signs saying “Welcome BACK to Michigan… finally” and “Glad to See Michigan’s AWOL Senator” and “Leave Dangerously Incompetent in DC”.
Except when the auto bailout was being discussed, Debbie has been incredibly vacant from the political scene –in DC, in the Senate well, in Detroit, in Lansing, in Michigan. Absent. Hiding. Gone. Not around.
Maybe she was embarassed by her husband’s 2007 arrest for soliciting… maybe she just got locked inside a CountryBuffet; we don’t know. But until the auto bailout came along, she wasn’t around the usual watering holes. And for someone with her sized ego and need for worship by fawning hacks, that’s saying a lot.
Maybe the Fairness Doctrine will be her new auto bailout platform? I kind of liked thinking that Michigan only had the burden of Senator Levin.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — February 10, 2009 @ 11:18 am - February 10, 2009
MMatt, I’ve seen pics of Stupidcow and her husband. No wonder he went off to solicit – can you imagine coming home to THAT whale?
Debbie’s the kind of woman that made me switch in the first place.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — February 10, 2009 @ 12:48 pm - February 10, 2009