Comments on: Audio: Levin on the Fairness Doctrine: “The Stalinists are at the gate.” http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/ The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast network Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:44:29 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Liberal Quicksand » Blog Archive » The Stalinists Are at the Gate http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-497710 Liberal Quicksand » Blog Archive » The Stalinists Are at the Gate Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:11:08 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-497710 [...] http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/ [...] [...] http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/ [...]

]]> By: Jo's Cafe http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-495005 Jo's Cafe Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:02:04 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-495005 <strong>Weekend Specials 6/23-24...</strong> Weekend Specials from Jo’s Cafe ...... Weekend Specials 6/23-24…

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]]> By: cmdrsubfleet http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-494240 cmdrsubfleet Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:36:29 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-494240 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. 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.

]]> By: Jaibones http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493896 Jaibones Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:12:53 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493896 I am feeling the love. Homage! I am feeling the love. Homage!

]]> By: Freelancer http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493846 Freelancer Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:48:46 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493846 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. 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.

]]> By: Kralizec http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493834 Kralizec Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:42:39 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493834 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. 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.

]]> By: ScottyDog http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493823 ScottyDog Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:36:07 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493823 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. 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.

]]> By: Kralizec http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493805 Kralizec Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:26:03 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493805 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 <em>every year</em>. 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? 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?

]]> By: omnipotent http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493758 omnipotent Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:04:09 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493758 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? 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?

]]> By: DCA http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493725 DCA Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:48:39 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493725 <blockquote>Kensington on June 22, 2007 at 1:51 PM</blockquote> Hillary "Rotten" Clinton. I think this one has a little more traction. Just for the sheer fact it rolls off the tongue so easily.

Kensington on June 22, 2007 at 1:51 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.

]]> By: V15J http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493714 V15J Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:45:54 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493714 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. 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.

]]> By: TheBigOldDog http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493633 TheBigOldDog Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:12:40 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493633 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. 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.

]]> By: Babs http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493511 Babs Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:12:08 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493511 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... 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…

]]> By: Entelechy http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493494 Entelechy Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:57:49 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493494 <blockquote>They just need to open a paper or turn on the TV… Babs on June 22, 2007 at 1:42 PM</blockquote> 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.

They just need to open a paper or turn on the TV…

Babs on June 22, 2007 at 1:42 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.

]]> By: Kensington http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493490 Kensington Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:51:13 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493490 "Her Thighness" That cracks me up, <em>every time.</em> “Her Thighness”

That cracks me up, every time.

]]> By: Babs http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493480 Babs Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:42:24 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493480 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... 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…

]]> By: infidel4life http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493454 infidel4life Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:23:41 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493454 I love this guy. I love this guy.

]]> By: Anton http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493439 Anton Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:12:40 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493439 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. 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.

]]> By: Bad Candy http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493437 Bad Candy Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:11:06 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493437 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. 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.

]]> By: Bad Candy http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493434 Bad Candy Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:07:55 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493434 Levin rants are awesome. Levin rants are awesome.

]]> By: KelliD http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493428 KelliD Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:05:14 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493428 <blockquote>Isn’t that something. Their actions aren’t so much in the public interest as in their own interest. </blockquote> In other words: Standard Operating Procedure. <blockquote>gryphon202 on June 22, 2007 at 12:51 PM</blockquote> Nail. Head.

Isn’t that something. Their actions aren’t so much in the public interest as in their own interest.

In other words: Standard Operating Procedure.

gryphon202 on June 22, 2007 at 12:51 PM

Nail. Head.

]]> By: profitsbeard http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493423 profitsbeard Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:00:54 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493423 (I always pictured Levin- <em>from his voice</em>- 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. (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.

]]> By: there it is http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493420 there it is Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:00:04 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493420 I'll see your Fairness Doctrine and I'll trump it with the Second Amendment. I’ll see your Fairness Doctrine and I’ll trump it with the Second Amendment.

]]> By: gryphon202 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493411 gryphon202 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:51:19 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493411 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. 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.

]]> By: PRCalDude http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-493402 PRCalDude Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:43:45 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/22/audio-levin-on-the-fairness-doctrine-the-stalinists-are-at-the-gate/#comment-493402 I listened to that last night and couldn't believe it. Welcome to the brave new world. I listened to that last night and couldn’t believe it. Welcome to the brave new world.

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