Nancy’s Fairness Despotism
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Fairness Despotism
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Free Speech: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi intends to restore the “Fairness Doctrine” regulating political speech — proof that in the Internet Age, Democrats have lost the communications war.
Forty years ago, Walter Cronkite could declare on the evening news that the Vietnam War was lost, and that’s the way it was. Do Americans want to return to those days by reviving the so-called Fairness Doctrine?
Think of it in terms of consumer choice. You’re on vacation, and you take your family into the $10.95 all-you-can-eat buffet. How would you like it if, when you walk up to fill your plate with lobster and ribs, you find the government has made the restaurant replace those with liver and brussels sprouts?
That’s the approach the Democratic Congress is taking to political speech on the airwaves: You as an American don’t know what’s good for you. If you listen mostly to conservative talk radio, or watch Fox News, then you should be force-fed things you don’t want. (It takes government force because, as the Air America debacle proved, people don’t listen to liberal talk radio.)
Back when the Fairness Doctrine was enforced, radio and TV stations would have to broadcast sleep-inducing lectures by cranky middle-aged ladies, or rants from fringe-group agitators. But today, even the poorest among us can log onto our local public library computer and blog our views to millions.
The most ordinary of Americans this election year have actually used Web cams to appear on national television and ask questions in this year’s presidential debates. There has never been more access to national political discourse. We all enjoy the true fairness of freedom.
Yet Speaker Nancy Pelosi would have Uncle Sam again become speech policeman — because in the free market of mass communication, her party’s message is losing.
Pelosi won’t allow former talk radio host and now Congressman Mike Pence’s legislation permanently banning the Fairness Doctrine to be voted on this year. Why not? “The interest of my caucus is the reverse,” she says.
It obviously is. A discharge petition to bring Pence’s “Broadcaster Freedom Act” to the floor for an up-or-down vote is fewer than 20 signatures away from succeeding. But as of last week not a single House Democrat had signed on.
More than 100 of those lawmakers want their constituents to believe they oppose Washington dictating the political content of the airwaves, when they really only voted for Pence’s one-year moratorium last year — which passed with 309 votes in a Democratic-controlled House.
Americans for Tax Reform is calling them “The Hypocrisy Caucus.” They include Melissa Bean and former Clinton White House operative Rahm Emanuel, both of Illinois, as well as John Barrow and Jim Marshall of Georgia, Dennis Moore of Kansas, Joe Donnelly, Brad Ellsworth and Baron Hill of Indiana, Bart Stupak of Michigan, Tim Walz of Minnesota, Heath Shuler of North Carolina, Zack Space of Ohio, Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania, Lincoln Davis of Tennessee, and Nick Lampson and Ciro Rodriguez of Texas.
Under a President Obama and Democratic Congress, a Fairness Doctrine could mean all three branches of government, plus the media, would be under the iron-fisted control of big-government, anti-national security liberals.
Despite losing the war of words to Republicans on low taxes and strong defense, Democrats would win politically with a law regulating national debate.
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Fucking pinko. Damn you and your constituency, Speaker Pelosi.
June 29th, 2008 at 4:18 pmShe is just a tired old bitch. Lack of O2 in so-called “Green” San Francisco has made her mad as a Hatter. The only thing green in San Fran is your face when you get off the plane.
June 29th, 2008 at 4:26 pmCan’t listen to that crappy music, may be national anthem some day.
June 29th, 2008 at 4:34 pmThis is the most dangerous of anything the libtards could come up with…..The Steyn case in Canada is an example of how it could go….Thankfully Steyn won his case, but he is very high profile….Sites like this could be in serious danger if this passes in this internet age. Unintended consiquences is what the lib specialty.
June 29th, 2008 at 4:38 pmComrade Obama is a Communist and now we know who is going to be in charge of the politburo. Free speech cannot stand in a Communist utopia, everyone knows that only the State truth shall be told.
Fasten seat belts, it’s going to be a rough few years.
June 29th, 2008 at 5:11 pmI would love to kill that bitch. Traitorous marxist bitch who encourages those that want to kill our troops. I want that cunt dead.
I have a family I am responsible for, otherwise my actions would be different.
When the revolution starts we will be able to kill her and her ilk with impunity. I await that day.
June 29th, 2008 at 5:20 pmWhat a whacko this woman is. Just a freaking disgrace to the nation.
June 29th, 2008 at 6:10 pmI say let it all happen. The quicker they attempt to transform this country into either Democratic or Authoritarian Socialism, the quicker we can have our revolution and restore the Republic. The evolution of politics is a never ending cycle. Like the Dinosaurs, it will eventually grow too large to be sustained, and opposing forces will - proving Newton’s 3rd law of physics, metaphorically of course - apply an equal and opposite reaction, obliterating the monstrosity from existence and returning us to a state of political equilibrium.
June 29th, 2008 at 6:17 pmMemo to Steve in NC.
Threatening a member of Congress is a felony.
Your post is beyond the pale.
Remarks like that do no service to the cause of freedom.
June 29th, 2008 at 6:18 pmThere is comong a time when there is going to be a lot less Co2 being exhaled by a group of people in this country, and this “lady” is betting her life she’s got it right..
June 29th, 2008 at 7:37 pm“Democrats would win politically with a law regulating national debate.” And lose their heads in the inevitable backlash.
Millions of veterans are still pissed about the way the D’rats encouraged our enemy and the anti-freedom lefties during VietNam. A life sentence for an old guy is no big deal. My grandchildren WILL live in a free country.
June 29th, 2008 at 7:53 pmNotice how they wouldn’t extend it to the network TV–they would have to give over 50% of the airwaves to counter the leftie domination. She is a tool of the enemies of this nation. When you look up how to recruit spies in the CIA handbook, it tells operations officers to find someone like her, someone who spouts condemnation of their own country and its values..she is a willing tool.
June 29th, 2008 at 8:24 pmActually I did not threaten her. I said I have responsibilities to my family that keeps my personal desire for revenge at bay. At this time.
She is a traitor to this nation.
She has chosen to act against our troops. She has chosen to publicly act against our nation during a time at war. Faced with our success she then credits our enemy for it.
She credits iran with the success of the ’surge’. I wonder how many troops have been killed and maimed by iranian made ieds and mortars, and by iranian funding and support. She supports those that have killed our troops. No other viewpoint is valid.
Personally I have an interest in this bitches demise. I wonder who made the ied that got the humvee my son was driving.
I wonder if the sniper that shot him in iraq was encouraged to continue the fight because they knew that some of the highest members of our government was siding with him by giving aid and comfort by stating that the war was lost and continuing to work to cut off funding.
That is what we know publicly, I wonder what else she has done behind closed doors.
I currently believe that the ballot box is the best answer, but not if truths are kept from public discourse.
Live free or die.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:25 amPelutski is a traitor and a liar. She’s lucky this is 2008 and not 1888, or else she’d have long since been sitting in a jail cell awaiting the hangman.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:34 am@Rexbo
The bitch Pelutski is a traitor and a liar. And Steve made his point well. I don’t believe the ballot box is working anymore…not with this judicial oligarchy that we have and fools like the mindless Pelutski in charge of the House.
It’s time for another Civil War.
BTW, freedom is just that… freedom…nobody has the corner on free speech here and that includes you FNG.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:55 amI vote sand in the vagina
June 30th, 2008 at 5:58 am