FCC Nominee Julius Genachowski Opposes Fairness Doctrine

[tropicallanterns]

Goodness, I hope she takes Perry out of office. I know she's a Republican too, but she's by far lesser of the two evils. I don't live in Texas anymore, but I care for my family that lives there though under that awful man.

[smujismuj]

Goodness forbid that our government support "fairness".

[sarcasm]

[aikido7]

This "fairness doctrine" is code for advocating free speech for giant corporations, but not for local people.

Protect (conservative) talk radio & TV from WHOM??

LOL.

[smujismuj]

hutchison has no business representing anyone but her neo-fascist backers

[sixletter]

"Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid."-Dave Barry

landsolo you have proven the point of the scienctists.

The Left's plan to reimplment the Fairness Doctrine is a cynical attempt to destroy conservative Talk Radio and has nothing to do with fairness.

Liberal-Progressives have become Control Freaks who want to control every aspect of our lives.

[mjbyars]

This is b.s. The Fairness Doctrine was NEVER eliminated in 1987. If it was, then NPR would not have tried to look for an opposing voice for one of its radio shows relating to abortion in December.

[Reverendjim1]

@mjbyars Are you kidding??? NPR is "National Public Radio" funded in part by taxpayers and hijacked by Jewish, leftist, Bolshevik, multiculturalist lovers of Leonard Bernstein... NPR's budget is of course much larger than the taxpayers stipend as they use some of the taxpayer money to campaign for more money which many Jewish Bolshevik supporters gladly hand out. Hence, NPR is a leftists media outlet disguised as a neutral Govt agency. Got it?

[Joe402]

Why do Republicans complain about the fairness doctrine wouldn't that be the answer to the "LIBERAL MEDIA" problem?

[Ricalloo]

I thought that at first myself. However, it only pertains to radio, not television and cable. MSNBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, etc would continue to do what they want. Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck, Savage, etc. would be censored by the FCC.

[PatriotTexas]

Kay Bailey Hutchinson is one tough women like Palin.They both have no fear of king ted and his puppet senate.That is the type of person we need watching our backs in the current political stupidity.

[SharkDude1]

Keyword here:  It's a woman. And she seems to be one of those "Man hating women" ..if you know what I mean... Just more proof on why Women should not be allowed into politics. Must be her time of the month...

[cyrs1]

Sweet... glad to see someone still stands for our bill of rights! woooooooo

[landsolo]

the FCC is such a treamendous jackoff.

they are still pursuing janet jackesons tit being exposed and yet allow the same or worse nudity on commercial television.

Hey FCC almost EVERYONE on the world has seen a titty and been just fine about it.

GROW UP!

[creative36]

I really don't like women getting into politics. They are using feminism to change policy in favor of women. This needs to stop. I have always believed men should have some say in what women do.

[EndOfTimesApocalypse]

Obama is the Antichrist in the White House

[Z200a]

And you're batshit crazy.

[zdwade]

the fairness doctrine doesn't make any sense. nobody watched the left side when it was around so its pointless. besides wat about other views gettin equal time, like communism and libertarianism. if were gonna make it fair they should get time to. let the market decide what is needed. plus conservative tv and radio dominate the media not lefty shows. yet we have a dem president, house, and senate. if anything more media would hurt the dems cuz peeps would realize how stupid both parties are.

[antimarxism]

There was a strong move to reinstate the "Fairness" Doctrine, but it lost steam. Even the moronic Leftists realized that giving "both sides" equal time on TV, print, documentaries, etc... would work against THEM.

The Left has found other ways to force their views on radio that won't affect the other forms of media that they dominate.

[Z200a]

* There was a strong move to reinstate the "Fairness" Doctrine *

No, there wasn't. Which is why you can't provide a shred of evidence that there was. You need to learn to distinguish between reality and the sewer of paranoid delusions that swirl around in the heads of conservatives.

[antimarxism]

Z200a, unfortunately with the advent of internet, Google, YouTube, archives, etc.. it is no longer feasible for Leftist moron shills such as yourself to revise history. A simple search of "fairness doctrine democrats" on any of these typical venues and your idiotic point is destroyed.

[Z200a]

Getting a lot of hits by searching for those words proves that there have been a lot of wingnuts bloviating about the imminent restoration of the Fairness Doctrine, but does not prove your original point, that "there was a strong move" to reinstante it.

We both know there was no such "strong move," and again, that's why you haven't a shred to evidence to support your claim.

Just because you wet your pants with fear doesn't mean there is an actual threat.

[antimarxism]

Z200a is the kind of guy that gets caught in the act, in bed, cheating on his wife, BY his wife, and says "It's not what it looks like!"

"Down the memory hole" liberal revisionist trolls, such as yourself, are out of work these days. You're exposed by simple Google/YouTube searches that take a matter of seconds.

[Tetragrammaton8]

Great. Not that there was ever a real movement to reinstate it. Can conservative radio pundits shut up about it now?

[skmelanie]

No no no. Everyone on the right is AGAINST the Fairness Doctrine. Sen. Hutchison and Genachowski are on the same page here.

[knoose]

Does anyone notice whats going on here?

She stated "as you said in my office...and can you confirm it.."

Then he suddenly totally denounced it, almost in a sickening way.

So what she said was jsut some bogus lie or he was changing his story up.

Either way something is odd with both situations.

[music2myear]

She said "In my office" (which means not recorded, not official). What he said in her office was that he did not support the fairness doctrine.

She then asked him to reiterate "for the record" (to make it official) his statement.

He reiterated, confirming her description of what he'd said in her office.

Go watch it again.

She said he'd told her he was against it, and then he confirmed that he was indeed against it in no uncertain terms.

This is a good thing. A very good thing.

[exacerbatedtaboo]

I hate Kay Bailey Hutchinson. She is Bush with a twat. Everytime I've wrote her over an issue she always sided with the Bush Administration instead of her constituents. I agree with what the FCC nominee actually said. But I know that cunt Kay doesn't agree with him. Fuckin whore.

[duhCider]

"She is Bush with a twat."

Isn't that redundant?

[exacerbatedtaboo]

Never really thought of it but I guess that could be construed as redundant. I should have said something like. Kay Hutchinson is Bush with a twat...Hmm..How would you have said it? I'm sure you would have used better language but I can't find it in my to do that when talking about her. I really hate that woman.

[duhCider]

i would have said: "The Fairness Doctrine is a well-thought-out policy arising from the ashes of fascist Europe and the horrid echoes of Hitler and Mussolini" but "Bush with a twat" is okay, too.

[BMovieWackiness]

Hello young lady at 0:15

[skmelanie]

I'm a little-l libertarian and I say fantastic. All of this has come about because of conservative dominance in talk radio, but you would think more liberals would be against the Fairness Doctrine as well, seeing as they are the more prominent side of every other medium besides radio.

[deckertone]

I'm a right-winger! And I will say Good! That's the way it should be

[imaginepeace63]

libertarians don't support the fairness doctrine.

[ScottBrown666]

@imaginepeace63 Libertarians don't support anything that might induce fairness.

[leftofcollegestation]

Wait a minute...all of my conservative friends have told me that President Obama is going to reinstate the "Fairness Doctrine."

[music2myear]

The current leadership in Washington (congressional and certain people inside the administration) have made comments supporting the fairness doctrine.

It's not a major point of Obama's policy by any means, and I think with enough vocal opposition it will never be brought up by him.

[tonyrich300]

I wonder what the right wing will say about this?

[music2myear]

According to Gallup 40% of people in America call themselves what you would term "right-wing".

[leftofcollegestation]

There is a difference between being conservative and being "right-wing"

[JMHamilton1]

Ok, ok.

[Organjic]

wow, nice! Maybe he'll end the FCC aswell...