Audio: Levin on the Fairness Doctrine: “The Stalinists are at the gate.”
posted at 12:30 pm on June 22, 2007 by Bryan
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Nobody lays down a rant like Mark Levin. The clip below is his opening monologue from last night, re talk radio, the Fairness Doctrine and why liberals are resorting to government action to get liberal talk radio off the ground (by taking conservative talk radio off the air). It’s Great One gold.
On his blog, Levin also exposes who was behind that Center for American Progress report on talk radio, urging ownership restrictions and fines etc for airing too much popular conservative talk and not enough unpopular liberal talk:
Well, well … the author of the Center for American Progress report attacking conservative talk radio — Paul “Woody” Woodhull — just happens to be financially and professionally involved with two liberal talk radio programs — Ed Schultz and Bill Press. See here and here.
Nothing in this report discloses Woodhull’s conflict of interest. You’re led to believe that the findings were unbiased and untainted. It now turns out that the author has a direct financial interest in using the government to dismantle conservative talk radio.
Isn’t that something. Their actions aren’t so much in the public interest as in their own interest.
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I listened to that last night and couldn’t believe it. Welcome to the brave new world.
PRCalDude on June 22, 2007 at 12:43 PM
All I want to know is this:
Why would this come as a shock to anyone with half-an-ounce of conservative-type common sense?
Liberals are almost exclusively motivated by three things: Power, money, and guilt (usually in that order). Once you start from that assumption, liberal behavior makes sense.
gryphon202 on June 22, 2007 at 12:51 PM
I’ll see your Fairness Doctrine and I’ll trump it with the Second Amendment.
there it is on June 22, 2007 at 1:00 PM
(I always pictured Levin- from his voice- as a pointy-nosed guy with jet black hair, like the actor Rip Torn.)
There’s no chance any ‘fairness doctrine’ will be coming.
The net sidesteps it.
profitsbeard on June 22, 2007 at 1:00 PM
In other words: Standard Operating Procedure.
Nail. Head.
KelliD on June 22, 2007 at 1:05 PM
Levin rants are awesome.
Bad Candy on June 22, 2007 at 1:07 PM
And he’s right, the Leftists really are trying to storm the gates. That’s gonna be huge if they do bring the Fairness Doctrine back from the grave. The consequences of that would be massive.
Bad Candy on June 22, 2007 at 1:11 PM
Bryan, I never thought a guy from Texas could be such a fan of the most New-Yorky of talk radio hosts. Great post.
My wife and I don’t allow our children to use the word “suck” in our house. I think the common use of the phrase, “That sucks!” is all too frequent and vulgar. However…
If my boy ever gets a radio gig and goes on a Levin-inspired rant about how “Liberal radio sucks! The hosts of liberal radio suck! They’re not a commercially viable enterprise because they all suck!”….
Damn, I’d be proud.
Anton on June 22, 2007 at 1:12 PM
I love this guy.
infidel4life on June 22, 2007 at 1:23 PM
I actually disagree with Mark on why liberal talk radio doesn’t do well. My opinion is that they don’t do well because liberals can get their fix from all other media outlets. They don’t need to go to radio to listen to someone support their point of view. They just need to open a paper or turn on the TV…
Babs on June 22, 2007 at 1:42 PM
“Her Thighness”
That cracks me up, every time.
Kensington on June 22, 2007 at 1:51 PM
Babs is right.
We can’t let this topic die down – this is one of the most dangerous endeavours the left is set to impose – Venezuela…
Unfortunately the public at large is not (yet) fully aware of the initiative and its dire implications. Even the left, the thinking one, s/b alarmed.
Entelechy on June 22, 2007 at 1:57 PM
Having said what I said… I recently wrote an email to someone trashing talk radio and tried to explain that talk radio is meerly a mirror. Do you really think Hannity or Levin could prattle on and on about something no one else was interested in and still keep its listenership???
How blinded do you have to be to think that?
Do you think Allah could keep posting about some obscure topic that touches no one and have people click through day after day? Of course not.
This is what threatens those that wish to put their liberal agenda forth. There are people, millions of us, out there that are willing to wade through the commercials to hear someone analyze events in a manner to which we have some similar basis of thought.
I actually tuned into Air America a number of times to see what was up. As my mother used to say when I caught her watching the 500 club “I am checking up on the enemy”.
Yeah, Air America went down in flames (and, what happened to Al Gore’s TV network???). No one wanted to hear their condescending tripe. Not on the radio anyway. If you want to hear that crap go home, eat dinner and tune into MSM TV or crack open a newspaper…
Babs on June 22, 2007 at 2:12 PM
When Liberals can’t compete they always want to change the rules.
Like some children, when they can’t win the game they grab the ball and run.
They embrace Darwin but despise the concept of survival of the fittest in practice.
They despise meritocracy because deep down inside they know they are inadequate.
TheBigOldDog on June 22, 2007 at 3:12 PM
I haven’t listened to him much since the day he blamed the Republicans loss on the conservative base for staying home.
His rants are all very similar. Same phrases but in diffferent order.
V15J on June 22, 2007 at 3:45 PM
Hillary “Rotten” Clinton.
I think this one has a little more traction. Just for the sheer fact it rolls off the tongue so easily.
DCA on June 22, 2007 at 3:48 PM
Satellite radio would make a killing if the Fairness Doctrine (what a f*cked up name too) were reinstated.
Maybe those businesses are helping push it through?
omnipotent on June 22, 2007 at 4:04 PM
The Americans will not be safe in the enjoyment of their liberties as long as their “federal” government has $3,000,000,000,000 to throw around every year. The intrusion and regulation that accompanies that sort of annual buying power is too much for liberties to readily withstand. The Americans and American States have already given up too much to the “federal” government, and “We are often more obligated by favors granted than by favors received.”
Moreover, the public and private persons who agitate for restrictions on the Americans’ liberties do so, in part, because they don’t have any fear that they’ll suffer for it. They must find even New Hampshire’s motto unthreatening in the mouth of their contemporaries: “Live free or die.” In the mouth of the American revolutaries, it seems it must have meant, “Live free because you killed your would-be masters, or die trying.” But when was the last time anyone got so much as a slap for trying to abridge an important liberty of the Americans or a power of their state governments?
Kralizec on June 22, 2007 at 4:26 PM
Levin’s commentary is great.
Too bad we do not have elected leaders that can take on the Stalinist politicos in the DNC the same way.
ScottyDog on June 22, 2007 at 4:36 PM
It’s rich that John Halpin, one of the authors of the paper sponsored by the Center for American “Progress,” is listed as having expertise in “grassroots organizing.” He doesn’t seem to have a problem advocating restrictions on the liberties of other grassroots organizers.
Kralizec on June 22, 2007 at 4:42 PM
The reason this is so terrorizing to the left is in the naturally interactive nature of the New Media.
The Old Media is all one-way communication. Newspapers and Television news tell you what happened and what to think about it. They craft the message, they package the format, and they control the delivery. The Old Media’s increasing bias is the largest factor in its current failing trend, the only thing holding it together is the entrenched “brand loyalty” among the elder demographics.
Talk radio allows the recipient to respond, and the volume of responses indicates the value of the content. Rush, Hannity, Savage, Boortz, Levin, Ingraham EACH have a higher listener volume than all the “significant” liberal talk shows COMBINED, and there can only be one reason. What they say is agreed to by those listeners, the message and the messenger resonates with the beliefs and feelings of those responding.
You can’t take away my 1st Amendment while I still have the 2nd Amendment.
Freelancer on June 22, 2007 at 4:48 PM
I am feeling the love. Homage!
Jaibones on June 22, 2007 at 5:12 PM
Everyone here talks about everything but the obvious solution. It is almost time to remove them against their will. And the Constitution provides for it.
cmdrsubfleet on June 22, 2007 at 8:36 PM
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