UPDATE JUNE 22, 2007: We hear today that the conversation recounted below was actually overhead by Senator Inhofe about three (3) years ago. According to Senator Inhofe, he has told this story often…and now we know that, at least, three (3) years a…..

I never listen to terrestrial radio anymore.

Barbara Boxer supports Fairness Doctrine. And blast from the past Deano and those “out of control” conservative radio stations!

Hillary Rodham Clinton said IN 1998 during a meeting with reporters said that “we are all going to have to rethink how we deal with” the Internet because of the handling of White House sex scandal stories on Web sites.

Clinton was asked whether she favored curbs on the Internet, after the DRUDGE REPORT made headlines with coverage of her husband’s affair with a White House intern. “We are all going to have to rethink how we deal with this, because there are all these competing values … Without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function, what does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation?” she said.

Hillary Clinton Continued:

“I don’t have any clue about what we’re going to do legally, regulatorily, technologically — I don’t have a clue. But I do think we always have to keep competing interests in balance. I’m a big pro-balance person. That’s why I love the founders — checks and balances; accountable power. Anytime an individual or an institution or an invention leaps so far out ahead of that balance and throws a system, whatever it might be — political, economic, technological –out of balance, you’ve got a problem, because then it can lead to the oppression people’s rights, it can lead to the manipulation of information, it can lead to all kinds of bad outcomes which we have seen historically. So we’re going to have to deal with that. And I hope a lot of smart people are going to –”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1491134/posts

She’s a hankerin on seeing that radios get eeeequal time with Liberals.

Hot Air, Sister Toldjah and Maggie’s Notebook all have damn good thoughts and words, as well as new information about the supposed “fairness Doctrine” and those behind the effort to bring it out of the trash and back into our future….

CliffHanger on June 22, 2007 at 3:02 PM

I didn’t mean to imply that the intent of the song was appropriate to this situation, merely that the words were.

calbear on June 22, 2007 at 2:50 PM

To add a little context, when Elvis says “they”, he’s not referring to government. He’s referring to the corporations that control the airwaves.

I think he might be a proponent of government control if it meant that corporations might lose their monopoly – that is, if his music would still get air play.

From ABC’s Jake Tapper:
Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okl, claims he overheard Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, and Barbara Boxer, D-Calf, chatting about how out of control talk radio had become.
“They said we’ve got to do something about this,&#8…

They’re saying things that I can hardly believe.
They really think we’re getting out of control.
Radio is a sound salvation
Radio is cleaning up the nation
They say you better listen to the voice of reason
But they don’t give you any choice
cause they think that it’s treason.
So you had better do as you are told.
You better listen to the radio.

It would be interesting if we tried to apply the “Fairness Doctrine” across the board. Just include ABC, NBC, CBS, NY Times, LA Times, Time etc. and wait for the screaming to start.

If the idea of government interfering with profit driven free enterprise for political gain wasn’t so over-the edge this whole thing would be funny.

Either they were all joking around or else Hillary’s sinister Clintonian conspiring is much clumsier than I’d imagined.

I’ll take door #3 – they thought that with Cave-A-Lott jumping on the censorship bandwagon, that they had Inhofe as well.

There’s nothing fair about the fairness doctrine. There’s nothing fair about paying for radio or TV. I have to pay for TV because I’m so far from any stations to receive a decent signal.
Plus I have to answer to a higher authority, my wife. If she can’t see American Idiot Idol, then I’m toast.

Today in the Good ol’ USA, just swap in “Liberals” for Soviets, and “CNN” or “CBS” for Pravda and Isvestia, and the parallel isn’t comforting.

The difference, of course, is that our own mainstream media “freedom fighters” would be active and enthusiastic accomplices who wouldn’t need to be coerced or threatened.

Perhaps even the Prez himself would support some sort of Fairness Doctrine Part Deaux if it meant passing amnesty.

Who doubts he would sign it? It would just be McCain-Feingold, Part II, except that this time the President probably wouldn’t express any ambivalence before infringing on the free speech rights of the citizenry.

I don’t understand where he’s coming from anymore. Maybe I’m just coming down with a case of BDS, but I find myself wondering sometimes whether the rumors about him drinking again might be true.

Anyway, they’ll have some important allies on the Republican side such as Trent Lott, Lindsay Graham as well as others who just want us to STFU.

Perhaps even the Prez himself would support some sort of Fairness Doctrine Part Deaux if it meant passing amnesty.

I think the video is still available here.

Hillary: im in ur radio wavez killin ur showz

Boxer: lol, pwnd

This is a disgrace, and if you go to any of the big lefty blogs, they’re rabidly in favor of “network neutrality”- you know, since conservatives dominate talk radio, it must be some kind of corporate / government / Jooo conspiracy that must be fought.

It’s hard to imagine it passing, but were Hillary the President, she’d clearly sign it with full support of Pelosi, Boxer, Reid, etc. Lott would probably be on board too.

Today in the Good ol’ USA, just swap in “Liberals” for Soviets, and “CNN” or “CBS” for Pravda and Isvestia, and the parallel isn’t comforting.

“Scatch a liberal, and you’ll find totalitarian underneath.”