“Won’t that mean we can demand that the MSM gets balanced with more conservative views?”

I have bad news for you. Those Who Know Best believe that the MSM is already balanced, or slightly right-leaning, believe it or not. They would see no reason to make any adjustments towards a balance that they believe already exists. That would be true for broadcast and print media. It is only talk radio, where the socialists are getting clobbered, that they find unfair.

I tell you a truth. When a socialist uses any variation of the word FAIR, grab your wallet with one hand and your Constitution with the other, because they are after one or the other.

But while we scream about the Fairness Doctrine, we have allowed a thousand other, smaller versions of the same crime to go unchallenged.

- Every law made by Congress that entitles one American to the money confiscated from another American.
- Every dollar of foreign aid to a nation that doesn’t consider us an ally (some would say EVERY dollar of foreign aid, period).
- Every attempt of government to create or control the operations of business.
- Every federal law that criminalizes non-criminal activities.
- Virtually every word of the current tax code, which creates special classes of citizenry both for greater and lesser tax-grabbing, as well as the criminally progressive tax rates.
- Untold other pieces of shinola with which our faces are slapped regularly, and we aren’t even aware of it.

conservativecaveman quoted the Declaration of Independence, specifically paragraphs dealing with the human right to revolt against a non-benevolent government. How close are we?

If there was a real market in every-day America for the Liberal message, no “doctrine” would be required. Substantial amounts of citizens would demand it; and it would appear as if by magic.

So far, without the Fairness Doctrine, the liberal message has been left to dangle in the breeze until some upstart jumps in and funds it. Then, it just withers away because it’s sinply NOT POPULAR with the American people.

The very idea that the Federal Government should introduce “fairness” into a market where the people have repeatedly spoken against the message the Fed wants to “promote” ought to raise red flags. You simply cannot force people to listen to or read what they don’t want to hear or read. Not in this country. The average, hard-working American doesn’t care to hear how they must cough up more tax money for Free Loading Scum or trees. They care about increased taxes (if needed) going towards things like national defense, and protecting American interests.

Am I speaking for a lot of people? Yes I am. Why? Because the trend bears witness. The liberal message of “never swing a fist, give what’s yours to others” just doesn’t fly with Americans. Contrary to our current “society” dictated to us by our “betters,” the average American knows what domestic causes are just and knows a punch in the snot-locker of the “international community” is sometimes justified.

I’m tired of “elected officials” who have never scraped a day’s hard labor off their backs determining what is “best” for my friends, my family, society in general and me personally . We (The People) need blue-collar representation at all levels of the Federal Government. Someone who isn’t afraid to stand up on the House or Senate floor and say, “That’s a bunch of bullshit, sir/ma’am!” We need blue-collar courage in the two greatest fights we are currently facing. First, the resistance against global jihad. Second, the resistance against our own government.

Who gets to decide?

Who defines which minutes count towards “conservative” speech vs “liberal” speech?

Who gets to decide which position is the “liberal” one and which the “conservative one? Or which one is “republican” and which “democrat”?

What about topics or policies that are reviled by both camps?

whatthecrap on June 27, 2007 at 6:49 PM

u for got the tribal indian view

pmoshields on June 27, 2007 at 11:24 AM

Bravo, first quote is right on!

As for the “fairness doctrine,” I’d just like to say, obvious liberal MSM hypocrisy argument aside, an old saying that my father likes to use…Life isn’t fair, A Fare is what you pay to ride the bus, kid.

Just a little reminder…….

What an interesting Pandora’s box this would open.

In the weeks leading up to the 2006 elections, I remember listening to Neal Boortz warning that the Democrats would try to bring back the Fairness Doctrine. The Fairness Doctrine, enacted in 1949, was a regulation by the FCC that forced radio sta ……..

The “fairness doctrine” is another attempt by the Socialists to destroy the free-market concept of supply and demand … with emphasis on demand. It’s an Orwellian term, calling for the suppression of Conservative thought.

Because Air American’t, the Socialists will.

William Amos on June 27, 2007 at 1:31 PM

That is rhetorical, right?

The Fairness Doctrine was removed during the RR years. Not exactly sure of the history. Heard his son Michael talking about it yesterday.
Left wing radio doesn’t work because the facts usually aren’t on their side. When someone calls up with facts to question what they say, the response is mostly derision, silence or in the case of Air America bankruptcy. It’s a consumer driven market, and Dims don’t like that. Their guys can’t compete, unless they buy the airtime. Which reults in Chapter 11.
It’s like when you watch hannity and Colmes. You know how Colmes tries to make his point by being snarky? It usually fails and either gets you angry or laughing at him. same concept

We rally round the family

Drtuddle on June 27, 2007 at 2:50 PM

..with a pocket fulla shells.

If the Fairness Doctrine goes through, we riot.

We rally round the family

If the left is sincere about their position on the fairness doctrine they would hold a dem presidential debate on Fox.

Isn’t Hugo doing that now?

This restricting free speech thing doesn’t sound so good to me.

I doubt it would stand Constitutional challenge.

Kerry’s just grasping at straws to get exposure and can’t help himself.

That’s not really fair. Kerry’s global warming book touches on all sorts of issues that Al Gore overlooked.

And his transforming robots movie coming this fall may look like Transformers, but it’ll be smarter and better.