Some Fairness

This blog and many other conservative blogs have written about the potential damage of The Fairness Doctrine being reintroduced and passed. Our liberal commentators have brushed our concerns off saying that no one really wants to pass it. It looks like they will have to find another argument.

From Foxnews.com comes word that a U.S. Senator is ready to start the process.

""I absolutely think it's time to be bringing accountability to the airwaves," Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., told liberal radio host Bill Press last week. She said she expects hearings soon on reviving the policy, which was introduced in 1949 and abolished in 1987."

The article goes on to mention that Stabenow's husband has been an executive at several (probably failed) liberal talk radio groups. She has a not only a liberal bias, but a financilaincentive to pass this legislation.

The Fairness Doctrine is not a well known concept among the American people. Heck, even Congressional candidate Kay Barnes had no clue what it was. It is something that a liberal Congress could conceivable slip into a bill in the dead of night, and no one would really understand. Not only is the process scary, the end result would be horrific.

Liberals don't seem to want you to be able to decide what you want to listen to. They believe you need to be forced to listen to ther side, and if you are, you will agree with them. They can't even concieve that radio listeners and television viewers already have decided. And they can't stomach that those listeners and viewers have sided with Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and other conservative voices.

If Stabenow holds hearings on The Fairness Doctrine you can expect an outcry from all media. Hopefully, someone will listen.

Comments

[Boatswain Mate]

There must not be enough listeners that have sided with the Rush type talkers to win elections for the Republicans or the folks the self-appointed conservative spokes-people shill for. Clinton won twice, Gore won the popular vote, McCain got the 08 nomination, Democrats won in 06 and 08. I don't recall any talk radio when Reagan won, how did he do that without Rush? Do people really depend on these ex-disc jockeys to tell them how to vote?

[Michigander]

Do Nothing Debbie Stabenow's husband also got caught just over a year ago hiring a hooker and having sex with her at a suburban Detroit hotel.