Senator Feinstein On The Fairness Doctrine

[EdwardP88]

BRING BACK THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE

[bulrydrdan]

We know what your trying to do. Your trying to take away our Constitution rights for the sakes of public and Government safety.

[rockierambo]

One sided, you think CNN,ABC,CBS, are not one sided! Your kind has slowly destroyed America and one day there will be a pay back. What a great day when Feinstein, Boxer and there ilk will be put on trail for crimes against the American people,

[FireYourJOB]

Mitt Romney Will be PresiDent of the USA in 2013.........

[tom87pate]

Thanks Congresswomen Feinstein!!! We are all idiots and you know what's best for us!!!! Please tell me what I need to cook for dinner!

[PadraikKasier]

Lol, if talk radio really was running the country, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in!

We're in a pile of trouble BECAUSE they didn't listen to people like Rush, Beck, and Savage.

[KingDingaLing090]

Its overwhelmingly conservative because it is dominated by the market place not your liberal media stage on telivision.

HM. Are you saying we should present conservative views on MSNBC CNN ABC, CBS, and all the other liberal dominated media outlets?

FUCK YOU BITCH, America is free, talk radio proves it and you are trying to destroy the last fiber of freedom in the arena of ideas.

How do you violate Californias constitution and funnel hundreds of millions into Mr. Fienstiens contracts?

[KoRnphreak88]

Didn't she just contradict herself dozens of times?

[chiefdancingostriche]

liberal talk radio rocks, not sux.

[jeffmagic32]

Who defines the theoretical center point of the debate? Surely the Communist Party and the KKK have their own take on whatever issue is being discussed. Is it unfair to exclude them?

[osu67]

If the Dems try to do this, it will be political suicide and the last nail in their coffin

[crayhead]

Silly old CUNT..

[jbnwc]

Goodbye free speech; it was nice while it lasted. Hello socialism; Pelosi or Feinstein for Czar!

[Txman1996]

Censorship is what the Fairness Doctrine should be called. Everyone knows thats that Liberal radio sucks. It is s also plain boring!

[SenatorDianeJewswine]

jew scum

[scootar097]

truewealth is whats wrong with this country

[danlyomil]

love you Dianne!

[cowboysarecool]

Trent Lott is a prime example of why Republicans have been on a losing streak.

Lets get rid of "moderate" Republicans and make them join the Democratic party where they belong!

[Auggie56]

Hey Barbara. If talk radio goes down, are you and your husband going back to breaking the law ? They are the ones who blew the whistle on you.

[porto2100]

You may not sink for yourzelf. Vee vill do za sinking for you.

Heil Feinstein (oh the irony LOL).

[meyerphillip2008]

What a bitch! I'm sure they'll welcome all the fair opposing views to America's upcomg wars.

[truewealth]

Feinstein is good. Limbaugh (pill popping limp bag we like to call him is as bad as Hannity and O'Reilly and Matthews) is a rabblerouser as Falwell was (he's in hell now praying for you....). The end of Democaracy will come wrapped with the Bible in a flag. Oh that's right right wingers of fond of saying we aren't a democracy. We need more parties. What is frightening is Obama is installing people more hawkish than Bush.

[Fire8386]

Shut up Feinstein! How are you going to attack free speech? Go back to California!

[CalifSunshine2008]

How dare she tell us what to listen to!!! THE AUDACITY!!!

[CalifSunshine2008]

CAIR is funding the Fairness Doctrine, CAIR has Islamic funding. Run for your burkas ladies!

[Jesto2008]

one sided HA! ya MSNBC isn't? CNN? come on now don't kid yourself. CBS ABC TV is owned by Libs let us conservatives have radio and you can still participate as well but this is a violation of 1st amendmant right.

[netcisco]

Wow, Lot and Feinstein were interviewed on FOX of all places... FOX is soooo one sided, they even allowed them to explain themselves... what the hell if FOX thinking?! They never let libs on this show explain themselves, they never interview both sides of the issue... ever!!! What the hell! hahaha

[Auggie56]

Huh ? They always talk to BOTH sides. You never even watch it, going by what you say here. Fairness Doctrine is anti free speach.

[netcisco]

Auggie56, I was being facetious. I totally agree that the so called "fairness doctrine" is an attack against our first amendment rights. Some people don't realize that they are only attacking radio, and radio is only a facet of several other FCC controlled outlets. It's an obvious ploy to shut the other side up. The funny thing is, it goes against the liberal "free speech" issues they have been preaching to us about since the 60's. Very pathetic in my opinion.

[Auggie56]

Thanks for clearing this up.

[jackbelias]

"more of your right wing lies. 71% of America are sick of the right wing lies."

Air America is ok but clearchannel is bad. Air America only has one POV 24/7. They parrot whatever the democratic party says without question. Conservative radio gets its listeners by way of competition and free will. Libertarians, conservatives and Phil Hendrie never needed a law requiring stations to air them. We have CD players for times when hippies are on. Leave our free will alone.

[Nordalh7]

Fairness would be to hang some of these traitor in Congress for treason.

Illegal immigration is an insult to every American, and an insult to everyone in the world that wishes to come to America.

[truewealth]

someday we might have to go there to another Country to survive...be wary and remember the idiots of Nazi Germany and try not to be like them in emotional reactions.

[crazykeyman]

You watch too many disaster movies! Talk about your emotional reactions you watch The Day After Tomorrow and believe a stuuuupid movie based in junk science. Yes and when the heroes had to cross the Mexican border you softly said to yourself isn't that ironic? Well marinade in your stuuupid white guilt. I'm due back on planet earth.

[truewealth]

I watch no disaster films I want none of that in my consciousness. Never been to Mexico. Grew up in So. California now 99.9% Hispanic. They ain't going to Mexico and half are half white and born here so learn racial tolerance. Nevertheless all men are brother. I bet if you had Universal aNOt For Profit Healthcare and a cheap quality place to live you'd be more likely to accept people with different shades of skin.

[crazykeyman]

I'm not for socialized medicine but I will accept the spirit of what you are saying. Lets say that an open border had no financial strain on our country. Then yes I would have less concern about the border. This alone should tell you that it is not about skin color by your own example. You are not thinking logically otherwise you wouldn't suggest this. . I tell you what why don't we compare U.S. border policies with how Mexico deals with her southern border. Then we 'lln talk racism.

[truewealth]

Logic, what's that. No sadly I'm sometimes too emotional but often my intuition is, sadly, 100% correct. Am I really for open borders. I'm living in this question and I love John Lennon. In the reality of future scarcity my fear is an issue. And war comes from it. In the meantime how about that space program. Use up our resources for a few hours in outer space.

[crazykeyman]

oookay I see what I'm dealing with here. Well judging by your answer I see you smoke your breakfast. Good luck with that I guess I'll leave you at your happy place enjoy outer space let me know if you ever meet up with Timothy Leary. Oh no he's outside looking in.

[truewealth]

Actually I did meet him once after he got out of jail and he spoke computer-ese for 45 minutes. Quite interesting. Didn't understand a word. Think he moved on though. It isn't the outer darkness I'm afraid of (tell our Mormon friends) it's the inner darkness to be aware of. Give Palin my best though.

[crazykeyman]

Isn't funny that Timothy Leary used all those resources that you talk about to send his cold dead body into space.

[truewealth]

are G. Gordon Liddy and other brainwashers still scaring little children eating dead rats? Tim Leary tried to do some good (he just did it the wrong way) (drugs are not the answer legal or not). The other smucks just want the sterility of security. He peobably found immortality and has a new body...but I still love the moody blues...

[crazykeyman]

but I still love the moody blues...

Looks like we found common ground there. My favorites are Days of Future Past & In Search of the Lost Chord. truly ahead of their time. BTW don't put me in the same boat as G. Gordon Liddy He's an extremist you take an extreme Conservative and an extreme Liberal and it's hard to tell them apart.

[truewealth]

ok I know you aren't like him no one is he is an anomoly...extreme liberal (could you define that)...some of us are so left we are almost right.

[scarecrow027]

And filing for bankruptcy.

[truewealth]

Feinstein is right!

[jackbelias]

"Feinstein is right!"

If Feinstein wants to get her personal POV out let her try for a radio show. We will tune her out and she will be fired for having low ratings like all of the other socialists. This bill smells like the old soviet communist method of doing business. Ban the opposition, silence them all, and ignore the will of the common people. Radio then gets used by the democrats as a 24/7 advertising tool. No other POV ever heard, just what the reigning democrat thinks. UNAMERICAN!

[netcisco]

Her own words "most people don't know what is in this bill", so you want to pass a bill that nobody really understands or knows about? So let's get rid of talk radio, this way we will know less.

[truewealth]

Please don't think talk radio ever expresses anything remotely like Truth.

[netcisco]

That's not the point. The point is that we can't allow the government the power to limit what we want to listen to on the radio, truth or no truth. If I wanted to sit and listen to Air America all day then I have that choice. If I want to sit and listen to conservative talk radio all day, then I should have that choice. Instead, the government wants to shove it down my throat, I don't agree with it.

[truewealth]

actually the word is fairness; yes you can listen to all the lies you want until they take the lives of 3000 people at the WTC and 4000 Americans in Iraw and 1 Million innocent dead Iraqi's. At that point it is like yelling fire in a crowed theatre...radio dj's who helped some gal die from too much water are criminals...period. And so is 90% of the Republicans in office and fox news. I don't listen to radio ever.

[netcisco]

Spoken like a true progressive. If you don't listen to the radio then why do you care what I listen to or watch? What's it to you? Why are you so concerned with talk radio? What about Television? They should extend this to CNN and MSNBC as well. Can you say Keith Olbermann? It's funny that you complain about FOX, Rush, Hannity and others when you have hacks on CNN and other shows that only give one side of the story.

[netcisco]

truewealth, and you have your own right not to listen to Fox or to the radio. You also have the right to express your opinion. The fairness doctrine removes that right, and it only attacks radio... doesn't that make you question the motivation behind it? Whether you are liberal or conservative, this petty bill should make you question where we are going in the good old US of A.

[truewealth]

Since no one is trying to mess with the Conservative (what a laugh they aren't) talk radio to spew it's unending lies and half truths the point is old and moot. No one is going to take away your right to speak your side of an issue. I accidentally listened to the radio yesterday and all I heard was a racist rabble rouser make stuff up that simply was not true. You really want this sort of crap on the airways? I believe in freedom of speech. Thank God for Maddow to balance that bs.

[netcisco]

Truewealth: Again, you have your opinion and I have mine. I believe Olbermann and Maddow are a couple of hacks, but they have every right to express their opinion, just like conservative talk radio has theirs. I would never force you to listen to conservative points of view, but this is what Feinstein is proposing. It's okay to disagree; it's not okay to take away a fundamental right. I believe we can agree on that.... maybe.

[truewealth]

OK but as stated the issue is over, no one is trying to stop talk radio from it's endless stream of made up lies. No one is trying to force you/a.m. radio to show the other sides. Stop beating a dead hores. Mute. Done. No problem. People are getting wiser about radio & mosters like O'Reilly since they aided and abeted WAR in Iraq.

[noliberals123]

Liberals want the "Fairness" Doctrine because there is NOT a large demand for liberal radio. They are whining because they cannot get away with their extreme liberal policies since they are always called on it by conservative radio.

[lindazimmer]

When do you need to go against Talk radio?

When you plot to gut the middle class of jobs.

When you plot to move most of the wealth into fewer richer hands in the USA.

When you continue dumbing down the educational system by idiot consultants to have the excuse to move in Indian programmers into American jobs.

When you share(Ind/J) secret business info to know WHEN to trade stocks.

When you plot to money control politicians.

When you figure out the emotional outlet will be Talk Radio.

[QuartuvLarry]

The dollar is uncomfortably democratic to these politicians. Nobody is forced to listen to Rush or Hannity; we are not victims of Rush & Hannity. We CHOOSE to listen to them. We the PEOPLE speak with our money. Only the truly short-sighted think that the sole concept of money is for spending. Air America bombed because we chose not to listen to them. Now they want a free ride down our throats.

[Backpackr3]

This Feinstein is a menace...as are most Demrats. Is there anything that the Demrats dont want to try and control? Isnt this the same Feinstein who recently stepped down from a Senate Military appropriations committee for steering millions and millions of dollars in government contracts to her husbands companies? Yet we hear nary a word from any Demrat on investigating that...and they want us to believe they give a rats ass about "fairness"? Give me a break you stupid Libs.

[jackbelias]

"Is there anything that the Demrats dont want to try and control?"

Nope! They regulate your smoking, alcohol consumption, hobbies, firearms, and even your speech. They exist only to micromanage lives. They want to be all powerful, free will disgusts them. Remember Joe Horn? He shot 2 illegals in his yard when they charged at him. Liberal news claimed he shot them in the back while running away in the neighbors yard. They want all stations to themselves so they can lie to us freely.

[netcisco]

The funny thing is they want to regulate smoking but not ban it compeletly.... follow the money. If smoking is so bad for you then why don't they outlaw it? Both sides are guilty of this pandering. It's laughable.

[VoodooMagicMan]

I think all media should be fair, so lets give 1/2 time to each side on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSN, FOX and all the Major New papers now that would be fair. What do you Libs think about that? If people wanted to hear LIBS Air America would still be on. You can't stop or win a debate fairly so you have to cry like little Wussies! Waa Waa Waa!

[carRamRod04]

"In my view talk radio tends to be one sided. It also tends to be dwelling in hyperbole, it's explosive, it pushes people to extreme views without a lot of information."

I wonder if she'd apply the same assessment to Sicko or an Inconvenient?

Typical clueless liberal.

[truewealth]

Beware Lott he should not be back in office. Limbaugh is pure propaganda and bs and should never be believed. This is funny two evils fighting...maybe there is hope. Talk radio IS one sided. Emotionalism is how Hitler manipulated the masses to do wrong like Cheney/Bush. Fox news is a propaganda rag too like NETWORK ever see that film? Never believe anyone find out for yourself what is true.

[seanarther]

Wrong, truewealth. Limbaugh and and Fox News is NOT propaganda because by definition, propaganda is content that is compelled by the government. Fox News would fold and disappear tomorrow if there was no one listening.

[truewealth]

People are listening but they are listening to pure pure bs and propaganda and the way we got Iraq and Bush. This is propaganda by those who run the government -- the power behind. Wake up!

[netcisco]

You wake up, you can't force me to listen to liberal talk radio. I do my own research on government, I don't need liberal or conservative talk radio to tell me what to believe. You can't force people to listen to 50% liberal and 50% conservative talk, that is what the BS is all about. We have the freedom of speach, this also gives me the freedom to listen to what I want, when I want. I have the power to do my own research on the issues.

[truewealth]

I am not telling you what to listen to or not but I wish people would do their own research. To be honest I was talking about media in general I had no idea radio was as bad as it is. Most of the apcre on TV is just to keep people stupid or sedate.

[seanarther]

I figure I'd better post this comment before the 1st Amendment is repealed: Senator Lott and Senator Feinstein, you can take the Fairness Doctrine and shove it up your fat fucking asses. The voters send you to Washington to represent their interests and you repay them by proposing legislation that would presume to decide what they listen to and how much?! You're both a disgrace to offices you hold and anything positive you have ever done in the Senate is tainted by this Orwellian proposal.

[patsagainstrats]

I listen to Rush, but rarely to Hannity. You're right, I rarely hear Rush address abortion issues. He did get in rather deeply to stem cell research before the '06 midterms, however. Personally, I don't really care about either issue. Perhaps this is one reason why Giuliani polling so well.

[unknownunknowns]

There's a "Reply" button to respond DIRECTLY to my comment, just to let you know.

[patsagainstrats]

Coservative talk radio wouldn't be so popular if you saw more of a political balance on network news, or in the print media.

[unknownunknowns]

I'm not for regulating content but you don't exactly have to be conservative to make it a success. Look at KFI AM 640's Bill Handel. He bashes the left and the right everyday. Have you noticed that Rush and Sean rarely talk about abortion. It is a matter of choice.

[VoodooMagicMan]

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

>>>The First Amendment<<<

[hellotommy]

censorship!

[ResurrectionOfCG]

What the hell is wrong with Lott?!?

If Congress doesn't like the criticism they can put up or shut up. These are voters than listen to Talk Radio. They are basically trying to tell everyone what opinion to have. Government control of the media must not be allowed. This is how despots rule.

[carRamRod04]

I thought 'government shall make no law....'?

Read the Constitution, bitch!

[KCtheKat]

This is part of the plan to keep us dump, poor and defenseless. Heaven forebid if free speech was left unchecked by the government. This is where the government starts telling us what and how to think.

[Starcatcher969]

No Trent your BULLSHIT said it all ! What you are saying is that your pig did not have enough lipsick to get entry into a DOG SHOW now you want to put a saddle on it and enter the same pig in a horse race!

[crazykeyman]

Doesn't this seem like this could come back to bite Libs in the ass. Talk radio is only one medium. I'm sure they wouldn't like their precious Jon Stewart Show messed around with. Seems these liberal morons are not looking at the big picture.picture

[Starcatcher969]

Yes it has and I am very happy about that .. but given the rope libs will hang themselves every time... they are their own form of birth control: Its like Robin Hood.. Steel from the rich give to the poor sooner or later there are no buffalo to hunt...Then who are you going to play hero to? They read your book and now YOU (ROBIN) are the rich you have painted your own target on your ass:)