Comments on: Bill Clinton: Hey, you know what we need? The Fairness Doctrine

By: unclesmrgol

unclesmrgol — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:14:21 +0000

Hey Bubba, go find another intern or something, you’re irrelevant in case you haven’t heard…….. adamsmith on February 13, 2009 at 10:56 AM

He's trying, but they don't seem to be biting (so to speak)

By: “Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, told Press Wednesday that the Fairness Doctrine is needed not to remove any conservative voices, but to ensure that there are a few liberal shows on the air.” « PurpleSlog

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:25:18 +0000

[...] Update: Bill Clinton want the Fairness Doctrine too (noted by HotAir). [...]

By: jay12

jay12 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:03:26 +0000

By the time it actually happens, the Democrats will have the majority of Americans begging for the Fairness Doctrine’s implementation.

By: adamsmith

adamsmith — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:56:43 +0000

I think to be truly fair, Fox News and all Conservative Radio Shows should get taxpayer money like NPR does…

Hey Bubba, go find another intern or something, you’re irrelevant in case you haven’t heard……..

By: unclesmrgol

unclesmrgol — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:06:46 +0000

Bill could do the talk show circuit himself… I’m betting he could support an entire network if he went on the air.

The airwaves are a marketplace of ideas, and Air America didn’t die because we conservatives killed it — it died because its own target audience didn’t give it the numbers it needed to survive and grow. So now the owners of the dead cow want to give us half of it and take away half of our quite healthy Bossie.

Typical Democrats, and true to the meme: What is mine is mine and what is yours is mine too.

By: try again later

try again later — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:33:38 +0000

Does this include The President Weekly Radio Address??

Billy the Kid saids it best.
You can come in here on your legs, but you’ll go out on your backs, Billy the Kid guarantee ya that.
No sneakin’ up on me this time. We’ll go man to man, see who’s the better fel–

…..C’mon, fuckstick!

By: anniekc

anniekc — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:18:10 +0000

America will pay attention if they think their favorite shows will have to be censored- This opens up cans of worms that have the potential to cripple the entertainment industry. AND, if they dare try to limit the “fairness” to the radio airwaves, it’ll be the supreme court that ultimately decides the case and good luck hiding it from America then.

By: Mark Garnett

Mark Garnett — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:03:01 +0000

anniekc on February 13, 2009 at 8:58 AM

I really don’t think enough Americans care… It’s NOT about Rush or Mark or Hannity or Fox… It’s about freedom and the ability to speak out… It’s not talk radio, it’s us and so many don’t see the danger. I think we’re screwed.

By: anniekc

anniekc — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:58:33 +0000

Old Bill is such an attention whore! He knows what buttons to push in order to get some press. Of all the socialist plans that the Dem’s want to enact, this ‘fairness doctrine” is the worst- it WILL show them for exactly what they are, and there’s a good bit of society that won’t stand for it. Obama is certainly capable of signing it into law, but the price he’ll pay will be devaststing to his popularity, and we know how he loves being loved.

By: marklmail

marklmail — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:52:31 +0000

Here’s censorship. Keep you D in your pants.

By: jeanie

jeanie — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:41:47 +0000

Bill wants an opportunity to see if he can co-opt Rush’s place on the air waves. He has nothing to do and it looks good to him.

By: unseen

unseen — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:40:08 +0000

the truth? the dems can’t handle the truth. they have to outlaw it.

By: petefrt

petefrt — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:34:28 +0000

Sure,and after we apply the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ to broadcast TV networks, we’ll apply it to every single educational institution that accepts federal support.

By: Mark Garnett

Mark Garnett — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:09:56 +0000

Ok, this tin-foil-hat-wearing-Birther-far-right-wing-nut is waiting for an apology…

Still waiting…

(knock-knock) Is this thing on?

To all of you that have said and defended this Messiah, said to get along, said we need to be supportive, said we need to wait and watch as he moves to the center…

(sticks tongue out and gives a rasberry) I told you so!

This loon is a radical, Obama is a liar, he is an empty suit and a REAL and CLEAR and PRESENT DANGER to America, the Constitution and our rights and freedoms. Any question now?

I’m waiting…

The gaol of the radical left, and Obama is the leader, has been to silence ANY oposition, any voice… To villify the Conservatives, kinda like here at HotAir… Real hard core Conservatives have been warning ALL of you moderates and centerists that this President was not to be trusted or given any honeymoon. He is a radical with designs on the destruction of America as we know it… He lied about Caterpillar and the CEO’s comment, he lied about the NO Pork in the Porkulous… He has violated his own “rules” by allowing lobbiests… Nothing he has said has been real or truthful EXCEPT that he intended to CHANGE America.

I’m waiting for all the moderates and centerists and big tenters to WAKE THE F-UP… You better get on board the CONSERVATIVE train before we have no train to ride and no rights to speak! We can not negoitiate nor can we will go along with this abortion of America, our values and our core. Those that have talked of moderation should, by now, see this POS for what he is… A lying, radical leftist.

I want my apology’s… Conservatives have not been wrong. Moderates have… This is real, we can no longer be called wing nuts or alarmists. Face the facts folks, your the ones who have been wrong to trust this Messiah.

By: Obama & Dems: Put your dreams away… | The Anchoress

Obama & Dems: Put your dreams away… | The Anchoress — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:43:49 +0000

[...] we read that Bill Clinton, desperate for some attention, is joining in on the cheap “end free speech as we know it” campaign that is distinctly the province of the left – the “tolerant” people who would censor a [...]

By: johnnyU

johnnyU — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:33:04 +0000

How about Christian radio? Will a Satan hour be required?
Why they feel they need to undo the last 40 years is beyond me. Its not going to fix anything in a world that is much differant than 40 years ago. Obviously the Republicans didn’t have a fool-proof running-hold on things or they’d still have the hold, so what are the Dems afraid of, the Repubs getting it back again? Right now the LibDems are their own worst enemy. They’ll implode pretty soon. They are starting to bite at each other. Its the working people who are having to keep going to work every day and monitor this friggin mess.

Remember, fairness doctrine isn’t going to just hit radio, there’s Internet now to be regulated. Google, are you ready to kiss the goverments ass if you aren’t already?

By: dthorny

dthorny — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:00:53 +0000

By fairness, does he mean we can all attack 22 year old interns with a cigar, deny it at tv interviews, lie under oath, commit perjury, take illegal money from overseas donations, open a self-serving library and then write a bloated memoir?

Their version of fairness is there vision ONLY.

By: jcila

jcila — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:44:57 +0000

All of these God damn liberals know
that the only way the word is getting out
about aLL and i do mean ALL of their corruption
is through talk radio..

But i say as soon as they try it
We may have a civil war on our hands…

As the only way to take back control of these idiots
may be by FORCE>..

By: NoLeftTurn

NoLeftTurn — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:30:35 +0000

Why in the world is Slick shilling for this clown? Didn’t he accuse him of being a racist? You can accuse Clinton of many, many things, but being racist is not one of them. Obviously he’s still smarting over the regular beatings he got on talk radio for his eight years in office. Get over it already, Bill. It’s not good for the ticker to have all this pent-up resentment.

That said: Bring on the balance! First up, we replace that cow Joy Behar with someone who can help Elisabeth Hasselbeck tag team the others.

By: Now Bill Clinton wants the censorship, err Fairness Doctorine! Wheres Monica when we need her? | Fire Andrea Mitchell!

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:08:08 +0000

[...] Yet another figment of your overactive wingnut imagination. I always wondered if that Inhofe story about Hillary and Barbara Boxer kibbitzing about Fairness was true. Hmmmmm. Exit question: If Billy Jeff is so concerned about this, why didn’t he push it circa 1993? Click the image to listen. [...]

By: HawaiiLwyr

HawaiiLwyr — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:57:06 +0000

and funded too

By: HawaiiLwyr

HawaiiLwyr — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:56:45 +0000

ok RE: the Fairness Doctrine – NPR goes first, lets do something to fair and balance that government finded lefty program.

By: maverick muse

maverick muse — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:42:16 +0000

Remove the gag on session debate in Congress. Allow Republicans their Fair Share Doctrine of Equal Time free speech in formal Congressional deliberations of proposed legislation!

By: gstrickler

gstrickler — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:41:36 +0000

Clinton is right. We need more balance on the airwaves. The conservatives need to have their time on television, especially public television and NPR, seeing how we, the taxpayer funds it.

Of course, I guess we could return to the “old days”. Lets see, now. Where is that radio program that tells me how to fix my lawnmower?

By: tbear44

tbear44 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:39:27 +0000

Ol’ Bill is getting a little senile already! Maybe he’s been hanging with Jimmy Carter.