Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Pelosi Jumps on Fairness Doctrine Bandwagon

Filed under: Media, Looney Left by Chad at 4:40 pm CDT

Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Oz) has already stated he’s all for bringing back the Fairness Doctrine which would in fact end all political debate on talk radio both liberal and conservative, but it appears that when Kucinich is not trying to find out if the Bush Administration blew up the World Trade Center in an effort to start a war with Iraq (even though Afghanistan was first you loons) he’s drumming up support with Democratic Party higher-ups.

The American Spectator reports none other than Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Steny Hoyer (D-MD), you might remember those two for presenting an “alternative democratic foreign policy” to the leadership of Syria and the Muslim Brotherhood, are on the path towards trying to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine over this summer.

“First, [Democrats] failed on the radio airwaves with Air America, no one wanted to listen,” says a senior adviser to Pelosi. “Conservative radio is a huge threat and political advantage for Republicans and we have had to find a way to limit it. Second, it looks like the Republicans are going to have someone in the presidential race who has access to media in ways our folks don’t want, so we want to make sure the GOP has no advantages going into 2008.”

Allow that quote from a senior advisor to Rep. Pelosi sink in for a minute.  Pelosi’s advisor is essentially saying the American consumer doesn’t deserve to have a choice when it comes to talk radio, because when we do we make the wrong decisions based upon Pelosi’s own ideology.

Air America has largely failed while conservative talk radio continues to steam on.  Why is that?  Judging by the only valid polls available, elections, it’s more than safe to conclude a liberal talk radio show would have a large audience if such a station or show was given the opportunity to succeed.  Therefore, aren’t we really just concluding Air America had no chance to succeed?  The money poured into the network and the incredible press the station achieved before even being launched though suggests otherwise.  It was therefore an issue of content; content the American consumer quite obviously didn’t want to hear.

But Pelosi, through the words of a senior advisor for, has decided for the American consumer the the U.S. government should expand into the airwaves and further regulate the industry, as if regulations already in place are not stringent enough, because we aren’t hearing what she wants us to.

It strikes me as completely ironic that it is the left-fringe of the Democratic Party, who has tried to remake fascism into a right-wing totalitarian government forgetting the very founding philosophies of fascism as an intolerant socialist system with an emphasis on government regulation laid out by Benito Mussolini, is now doing their best to do, well, just what Mussolini’s fascist dream did in Italy circa 1930.

You see, Pelosi isn’t concerned with candidates from both of the major United States political parties having access to media, and there’s little question which party is held in higher regard in most publications and television studios across this great nation, rather Pelosi is concerned a Republican candidate for the Office of the President will have “access to media in ways our folks don’t want.”

The correct way to counter that is to present an alternative viewpoint and debate the issues, not to silence that outlet with government regulation.  Instead Pelosi just seeks to silence all her critics, leaving behind the entire idea of being ‘liberal.’  It’s a good thing the American Left has decided a rebranding was in order to ‘progressives.’  While there’s nothing exactly progressive about government regulation, it is also far from liberal.  True liberals would be outraged.

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    I am literally in disbelief!! This land cannot survive under one tyrannical government, one sided radio, one sided FDA regulations, one sided politicians-its all for the left, the liberal and the lunatics-
    We Americans do not want to be told what to think, what to hear, what to say and what to see. Fairness act is NOT fair to anyone. That is one of the problems with the
    educational systems. The young generation is taught what the “powerful” people want them to learn.
    I’m asking for fairness to ALL not just one side.
    dee jay

    Comment by Dee Jay — Tuesday, August 7, 2007 @ 5:46 pm CDT

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