11-23-2008, 07:06 AM
Or does it?
Chuck Schumer makes it abundantly clear in an interview with Fox News that the incoming Democratic Congress intends to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, commonly known in conservative circles as the "Hush Rush Act". Talk radio is the only remaining medium in which conservative thought is largely uncontested. Hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, and Michael Savage disseminate their views openly and are largely alone on the dial. The Fairness Doctrine demands that for every hour of talk radio by a host of one political persuasion, the station must give an hour for the same price to a host of the opposite political persuasion. Stations are concerned that having to allow liberal hosts to broadcast will cut into their profits. Notwithstanding the fact that liberal talk radio hosts have a much smaller audience, Chuck Schumer (D-NY) thinks that it's only fair to shut up conservatives on talk radio. After all, we regulate porn, don't we?
That argument is entirely fallacious. It boils down to the idea that if the government can regulate anything, it can regulate everything. Just because we let the government inspect meat in supermarkets doesn't mean that we let government inspect the meat after it enters our kitchen. Furthermore, it likens political speech and discussion to pornography. While I realize that conservative political theory is looked upon as smut by the majority of Democratic officials in Washington, sending the message that political speech can be regulated just as we regulate the pornography industry does no favors for the average American's perception of Washington. When these creeps have nothing better to do than track down rogue conservative talk radio hosts and accuse them of corrupting the minds of our citizens with aural bestiality, it's a good time to start considering your voting options for 2010. The prospects of the Fairness Doctrine's passage are very good with the new Democratic majority and Congress as well as the Democratic president.
Crossposted from ageofpericles.blogspot.com
Chuck Schumer makes it abundantly clear in an interview with Fox News that the incoming Democratic Congress intends to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, commonly known in conservative circles as the "Hush Rush Act". Talk radio is the only remaining medium in which conservative thought is largely uncontested. Hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, and Michael Savage disseminate their views openly and are largely alone on the dial. The Fairness Doctrine demands that for every hour of talk radio by a host of one political persuasion, the station must give an hour for the same price to a host of the opposite political persuasion. Stations are concerned that having to allow liberal hosts to broadcast will cut into their profits. Notwithstanding the fact that liberal talk radio hosts have a much smaller audience, Chuck Schumer (D-NY) thinks that it's only fair to shut up conservatives on talk radio. After all, we regulate porn, don't we?
“The very same people who don’t want the Fairness Doctrine want the FCC [Federal Communications Commission] to limit pornography on the air. I am for that… But you can’t say government hands off in one area to a commercial enterprise but you are allowed to intervene in another. That’s not consistent.”
That argument is entirely fallacious. It boils down to the idea that if the government can regulate anything, it can regulate everything. Just because we let the government inspect meat in supermarkets doesn't mean that we let government inspect the meat after it enters our kitchen. Furthermore, it likens political speech and discussion to pornography. While I realize that conservative political theory is looked upon as smut by the majority of Democratic officials in Washington, sending the message that political speech can be regulated just as we regulate the pornography industry does no favors for the average American's perception of Washington. When these creeps have nothing better to do than track down rogue conservative talk radio hosts and accuse them of corrupting the minds of our citizens with aural bestiality, it's a good time to start considering your voting options for 2010. The prospects of the Fairness Doctrine's passage are very good with the new Democratic majority and Congress as well as the Democratic president.
Crossposted from ageofpericles.blogspot.com
