Bill Clinton On The Fairness Doctrine

[davitodude]

Rush Limbaugh is entertaining... Damn that guy for hosting a talk radio show that people actually want to tune in and listen to. A different type of demographic watch television and listen to the radio for their news. That's why liberals control television and conservatives control radio. Frankly I think both sides are wrong if they don't follow the constitution.

[patmasta3333]

what happened to the first amendment? 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.

[tom87pate]

I don't understand this. Why can't the liberals and the progressives start up as many radio stations as the right wingers? People will choose to listen to whatever they like.  I don't see why we need government choosing what's on the air.

[mark031878]

fuck these goddamn bastards. i get so angry. its so obvious that this agenda is coming from the elites behind the scenes and it makes me sick. do not worry, one day justice will be done, and these scum will suffer beyond belief.

[chonitin]

you sound like another LOSER republican :)

[mark031878]

nah, I'm just a regular ole Canadian. lol

[wbtaylor1]

As long as he keeps control of the press, he controls the people. He already controls the Networks now, his goal to control the radio and the internet will silence the opposition. Beware America, it's 1939 all over again.

[alogmail]

Fairness Doctrine???

Does that mean I can rebut Couric's BS stories on gun control, abortion, and climate change? LOL

Liberals just want a monopoly.

Talk radio IS equal time.

[Eaglesfaninca]

Your a fucking idiot. There is a difference between a story based on truth, and someones opinion.

[LPLandingZone]

LOL...and you will determine the truth to enforce it??? OK, Mr. Truth

You fool. take your politically correct thought police and shove it up your ass.

You sick control freak.

[Eaglesfaninca]

Okay well if you don't know the difference between fact and opinion I guess you are a lost cause.

Maybe your efforts will be used to educate your self rather than make yourself out to be an example for fox news/ talk radio stupidity

[LPLandingZone]

Go watch some more "unbiased" MSNBC.

Opinion (editorials) and news are two different things. But you confuse "fact", or at least YOUR version of it, with the news.

Your semantics and your need to control the media are colliding.

So your "facts" are the news? Get off your high horse and turn the channel if you don't like it.

[Eaglesfaninca]

Facts can be backed by data /or physical evidence etc. Facts are universal.

Opinions are merely just that. Your own beliefs on the matter.

Not semantics, just definitions.

I do not envy people like you at all. Why do you need to listen to these people anyway? Do you lack the self esteem to think for yourself? Did you know Beck/Hannity/Limbaugh are only High School Graduates?

BTW I do not watch MSNBC. Sorry.

[LPLandingZone]

Oh, so it's people like me?

Well, I'm not a neo-con, that much is for sure...nor do I listen to the neo-con talking heads anymore than Olby.

The one thing I am grateful for is lacking a need to control other people. I'm happy to let people choose...it feels good to be a free thinker and let others have that opp'ty too.

[Eaglesfaninca]

I don't even know if you are responding to me, you seem to be building up this straw man (putting words into my mouth). I want to "control"?

Who is a neo-con talking head?

[LPLandingZone]

Neo-cons (neo-conservatives) are the variety that includes GWB, Cheney, Hannity, Rush, etc. They are heavy-handed interventionists, at home and abroad.

The traditional American conservative (now commonly called paleo-conservatives) were people who respected individual liberties, the Constitution and were non-interventionist.

Liberalism has a similar problem..it seems liberals unconcerned with civil liberties..e.g. Obama on FISA, Patriot Act.

I support free speech, not gov't intervention

[Eaglesfaninca]

You and I probably agree on quite few things then.

Well I was not necessarily a "supporter" of Obama. But what else was there?

[iamcitizenpain]

Just go ahead and try it... "Ammution Accountability Act" is next.

[ST40]

Liberals are too much. These are the people who constantly preach to everyone else about "tolerance" yet they are the first ones trying to shut-up everyone who disagrees with them. They are scared to death of dissenting views. It's pathetic, given how much they preach to everyone else about being tolerant.

[DarcPrynce]

Democrats are the new Nazis.

[firefly4tori]

This has nothing to do with "fairness". Governments are never about fairness. This is simply a way for government to manipulate freedom of speech. You people who voted Obama and his cabinet of crooks into office are going to get what you asked for...change. Only that change will come at a cost. The cost of your freedoms.

[lho3691]

Okay, let's throw out all the laws Congress has passed throughout the years and see how fair life is then.

[brimmster]

Hmmmm is a radio station a business? Do they stay on the air, b/c sponsers give them money, due to the fact people listen to that particular radio show. If thats the case, then when you listen to country music...to be fair we need rap on that station, and to be fair we will need rock as well. This is another form of silencing the people.

[CarribeanBeachbum06]

How about balance on the TV Networks and Hollywood Movies? The Government needs some anti-gay time on primetime to match the pro-gay Hollywood agenda. That is true Fairness Doctrine!

I bet there will be NO takers from the Neo-Lib Left.

They like their monopoly!

[Entropy56]

I hope the Crats try to push this bill.  It will backlash on them like mad.

[sugarugby2]

Time has featured Obama on its cover 14 times since Jan. 1. 2008 Newsweek was close behind, featuring the now-president-elect on 12 of its issues. Time has had 52 issues in 2008, so Obama has been featured on more than one-in-four of its covers, or about 27% of the time.

Hey Billy, while you're at it why not hit all media sources, If you're going to advocate tyranny why not full bore?

[Entropy56]

Good point.

[sugarugby2]

98% of the people in my office do not listen to talk radio they get ALL their news from the MSM and NONE of them are behind this bill in it's current format.

[sugarugby2]

Sooooo Billy, you're under the impression that the American people couldn't/wouldn't have come to their own conclusion on the Spendulus Maximus bill without the help of talk radio?

His statement proves that the left considers the unwashed masses drooling idiots who need to be spoon fed the opinions of which they should how.

The US is now a soft tannery

[ash4122]

so its ok for the mainstream media to be biased but talk radio can not? thats bs and liberals need to take a hike.