but...but...but...
That would take the only wind out of the sails of the leaky ship that is the current GOP!

Er....we are over 10 trillion dollars in debt, the FAirness Doctrine would have far less impact on your life than the debt already does. Distraction for stupid folks, that is all.

so what will the rightwingnut pants pissers have to evacuate their bladders over now?
Pirates?

so what will the rightwingnut pants pissers have to evacuate their bladders over now?

abortion rights (that aren't threatened)
bridges falling down (one fell)
how much their neighbor pays in taxes(who does better)
wage increases for nothing
free health care (well, free for them)
their neighbors car
their neighbors flat panel

wait, no, that would be northguy.

Somolian Pirates.

Can't have the Somolian Pirates hijacking the CIA's shipment of enriched plutonium to Iran can we?

Those Pirates might sell the stuff to terroists or someone. Not to mention disrupting the CIA's money flow such that they will not be able to fund more domestic spying or the next shipment of cocaine or heroin from Columbia.

Nope. That would be as bad as allowing rebuttals to our talk shows.

The New Republic. Whores.

Ahhhhhh........NeoCon Paranoia. So amusing to watch.

But, but, but they claim the media is liberal!

So the fairness doctrine would benefit the right.

Right?

These fears are entirely baseless,

Just like all the rest that these radio blowhards spew. More empty fear for an empty headed audience.

fairness doctrine....that means more liberal sites....dumb idea.

Let's give King-elect Showbama a chance. One must feed and clothe the messiah in order to enter the kingdom of government.

Ouch, the entire right-wing PWNED by Mistakurz #8

What else would blowhards like Rush and Hannity do if they didn't have strawmen to point at to keep their sheep in line by screaming, "we'll save you from THEM"

Last time I checked their prepositions about the heaven on earth GOP rule would be didn't work out so hunky dorey.

Do they have any new plausible ideas? Didn't think so. They do have Gulfstream jets and tens of millions of dollars from fooling their listeners they'll save them from the boogieman - whoever current and/or next one is.

I was waiting to see if the liberal inquisition euphemised as 'Fairness Doctrine' was going to be commissioned under Obama.

Maybe the liberal messiah is not that vindictive, after all.

"the liberal inquisition euphemised as 'Fairness Doctrine'"

*Sigh*

Yet another idiot who has no idea what the Fairness Doctrine entails.

The idea of forcing liberal viewpoint on a legit conservative radio program sounds close to 'inquisition' to me.

"The idea of forcing liberal viewpoint on a legit conservative radio program sounds close to 'inquisition' to me." TAKITEZ

What? And saturating the public airways with right wing extremist propaganda for the past twenty years isn't?
Hate radio is out of control, filled with lies, and intolerance. The fairness doctrine is not the answer, however. The answer is pulling the plug on media consolidation. It's time to break oup the media cartel.

Right?

#8 | Posted by Mista Kurtz

No.

FD applies only to political opinion (not broadcast news) and is limited to public airwaves.

Regardless, I agree with this headline. It ain't coming back.

Well if the FD was forced on to internet providors, then the drudge report would have to have counter view points to all you knuckle head haters.

Not coming back? We will see.

what happened to air america?the liberal answer to rush.

"Well if the FD was forced on to internet providors, then the drudge report would have to have counter view points to all you knuckle head haters."

#19 | Posted by DavetheWave at 2008-11-24 07:33 AM | Reply | Flag: Stupid is as stupid does

"...then the drudge report would have to have counter view points to all you knuckle head haters."

YEAH! Then the Drudge Retort would have to counter view points by allow rightwingnuts to post their views.

Rightwingnuts like semtex111 and davethewave and...

Oh, wait a minute!

Hans

So, this week it's the fairness doctrine and next week it'll be The War on Christmas.

Don't you people have real issues to be concerned with?

what happened to air america?the liberal answer to rush.

Plenty of reasons exist as to why conservative talk dominates liberal talk.

IMO the biggest reason is that a perception (an accurate perception IMO) of liberal bias exists for the MSM. This creates a natural market for a counterpunch of sorts. Conservative talk fills that market.

Don't you people have real issues to be concerned with?

how about the deficit,social security,medicaid and medicare,obamas fix for the deficit more spending and don't even bring up the other three.

What both parties agree on is that their legitimacy and motives can never be questioned. That's far more important than which particular personality wins a particular election. Ads and debates define personalities while avoiding deep questions and meaningful changes in policy. It is always taken for granted that the motives of our momentary enemy is suspect if not evil, but never ourselves.

When we design, buildand detonate weapons of mass destruction its for a good reason. Burning, maim and kill millions of people its for a good reason.

When he monopolize commodity trading with our currency, train South American execution squads, enslave Africans and Asians, assassinate foriegn leaders, permit the rich to exploit our legal system, and divert our wealth to the Oligarchy, its for a good reason.

Our mass media is incapable of grasping this issue, let alone reporting fairly on.

The Fairness Doctrine is an example of good intentions gone awry.

The Wizard of Oz, like the Emperor's New Clothes, is a story about ourselves.

Rush Dumbaugh paranoia...

Don't you people have real issues to be concerned with?
Posted by semtex111

I did this weekend. But I didn't wait for the Goverments help; I grabbed the plunger and took care of it.

The only ones who don't like the aspects of the fairness doctrine is the neocon republicans because they are the only one standing to lose something. They are not interested in fairness.

What both parties agree on is that their legitimacy and motives can never be questioned. That's far more important than which particular personality wins a particular election. Ads and debates define personalities while avoiding deep questions and meaningful changes in policy.
#26 | Posted by nutcase

Important enough to be posted twice.

I find it funny how the republican right are all screamin and whining about the fairness doctrine and raising a shit fit about what they are going to lose but continue to whine about it being a liberal media.

If it was so liberal they would be happy because it would force the fairness their direction.......oops, guess that little delusion is getting thrown out with the bath water.

Tedbaxter:
NO, the Right doesn't have real issues to be concerned with. Lately, everything is based around strawmen and social wedge issues. Talk about promoting a culture war!

The griping by the Far Right is just as an attempt to cast themselves as Victims to their listeners so they hang in there and keep contributing.

Meanwhile, the real victims are the Americans who had to endure their mis-rule for 8 years and are now stuck with the bill for it.

The only ones who don't like the aspects of the fairness doctrine is the neocon republicans because they are the only one standing to lose something. They are not interested in fairness.

Don't fall prey to the words themselves - "Fairness Doctrine". When applied it effectively kills the opinion talk format; a format where conservative political opinion 'coincidentally' has a huge advantage.

I find it funny how the republican right are all screamin and whining about the fairness doctrine and raising a shit fit about what they are going to lose but continue to whine about it being a liberal media.

If it was so liberal they would be happy because it would force the fairness their direction.......oops, guess that little delusion is getting thrown out with the bath water.

#31 | Posted by moneywar

You CLEARLY don't understand what the Fairness Doctrine is, if you actually stand by the bullshit I just re-produced.

FD is limited to political opinion and is further limited to opinion broadcasted on public airwaves. It doesn't apply to news broadcasting, sports talk, or any other venue. Think about that for a moment. A CBS news broadcast may have a 5-minute political roundtable discussion. As long as their group of opinion-givers is well-rounded, they fulfill the FD requirements. Their news reporting is completely off-limits. Political talk radio is exclusively opinion and therefore the entirety of a show is subject to FD jurisdiction. This means an equal amount of time is REQUIRED for opposition viewpoint, even though it is economically unfeasible for a given radio station. In short, FD makes a political-talk format economically non-viable. This means that most stations will simply drop the format altogether in favor of a different (non-political) format which isn't subject to FD regulations.

The Democrats are more than happy to sacrifice bit players like Ed Schultz and Alan Colmes in order to censor power-players like Rush and Hannity.

The term "Fairness Doctrine" is a play on words. A politician could propose re-instituting segregation, but if they called it "racial fairness" would you say "OK" just because the term sounded good? Any attempt to reinstitute FD is simply an attempt to shut-up conservative political opinion by the Democratic party.

I won't even bother going into what a logistical nightmare the enforcement of FD is - that's a seperate issue.

But, but, but they claim the media is liberal!

So the fairness doctrine would benefit the right.

Right?

#8 | Posted by Mista Kurtz

The MSM IS liberal and this is proven by their own admissions. Every poll ever taken on journalists or those in the cable news media shows them to be overwhelmingly liberal. If you didn't notice that the MSM was completely in Obama's corner during the campaign you are either blind and deaf or very intellectually dishonest.

The whole point of this is...

IT'S NOT COMING BACK!!!!! GET IT?
Cheezus of Nazereth on a cracker-you idiots have MUCH bigger things to worry about.

Conservatives are always whining that the media is liberal. Couldn't it also be that Conservatives represent such a backwards, nonsensical perspective that the highly-educated and highly-informed segment of the population gravitates away from that opinion? You hardly ever heard the "flat Earth" perspective voiced on PBS or the Discovery Channel; the reason is that such opinions have been proven wrong. The jury has delivered a verdict on Supply-Side, free-market capitalism as well as the Bush Doctrine; both are overwhelming failures.

Perpetuating the liberal media myth is an important element in neocon mind control. Simply repeat over and over again that everyone who disagrees with you is a liberal and the sheep will follow.
The sheep are so conditioned to fear the word liberal that they can be manipulated to believe anything.

and one of the first things to ensure this REALLY DOES HAPPEN is to keep telling us that it wont
we know how to read you leftists like a book with PICTURES even...

lull us into thinking its going to be allright and then you will just change the definition of 'fairness' and then you will try to tell us that it NEVER HAPPENED

just wait and see

Couldn't it also be that Conservatives represent such a backwards, nonsensical perspective that the highly-educated and highly-informed segment of the population gravitates away from that opinion?

That's fucking retarded.

"Anybody who disagrees with my worldview must be stupid." is what your comment is tatamount to.

Actually, I believe what it was tantamount to was "America Delivers Stunning Loss To Republican Party".

Which is why you guys have your panties so bundled right now.

Perhaps we're just tired of the patently absurd ravings like "Obama is a terrorist who weren't born in the US" and "They hate our freedom" and "It's all the Dems fault!" and "Just wait and see!".

It all sounds so damn ridiculous in light of the reality that Bush and Co. (Neocons? Reaganites? Corporate Whores? Give it a name...) have handed us. Ah well. Enjoy your irrelevance.

It amazes me at the utter ignorance of the leftist bloggers on this site. Not only do they show lack of knowledge on subjects on here, just as in the video on the ignorance of Obama voters, but they are nothing more than lying name calling whiners, who if they disagree with you, don't discuss it but yell and name call and try to shout people down. That shows the true ignorance of theses people. The fairness doctrine is already being discussed in the halls of Congress for re-enactment and the person who wrote the article is either naive, ignorant or just like the mainstream media, wants to deceive people. Try searching news articles and find out how many in Congress want to bring it back, instead of telling your lies and deceit here. You whiners really need to get jobs, get off welfare and then get educated, because your blogs are pitiful. It is a shame that your party has emasculated you, removing your pair, and turned you into such feminine cowards.

Liberals are good at whining! You got a point there, Ozark.