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Hot Air » Top Picks: Stabenow: Hey, let’s hold hearings on bringing back the Fairness Doctrine
Patterico's Pontifications: Another Senator Calls for Fairness Doctrine Hearings — You Know, the Ones the L.A. Times Said Nobody Was Asking For
The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney: Dems Push, Yet Deny Radio Censorship Effort
Stabenow: Hey, let’s hold hearings on bringing back the Fairness Doctrine
Hot Air » Top Picks —
Stabenow: Hey, let’s hold hearings on bringing back the Fairness Doctrine posted at 7:33 pm on February 5, 2009 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Nothing to worry about. Just another figment of your paranoid wingnut imagination , same as it was when Pelosi mentioned it and Durbin mentioned it and Bingaman mentioned it and Schumer mentioned it. I’m trying to game out the politics but can’t get a good read. On the one hand, it’d thrust people like Limbaugh into the middle ...
Another Senator Calls for Fairness Doctrine Hearings — You Know, the Ones the L.A. Times Said Nobody Was Asking For
Patterico's Pontifications —
L.A. Times headline to James Rainey column, November 14, 2008:
Impose a mandate on broadcasters to balance their political views? That would be onerous indeed. But memo to Rush: Nobody’s asking for that.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Febuary 5, 2009:
BILL PRESS: Yeah, I mean, look: They have a right to say that. They’ve got a right to express that. But, they should not be the only voices heard. So, is it time to bring back the Fairness Doctrine?
SENATOR DEBBIE STABENOW (D-MI): I think it’s absolutely ...
Dems Push, Yet Deny Radio Censorship Effort
The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney —
... At the same time, however, the left is engaged in a game of doublespeak, as they repeatedly attack conservatives for "making up" the controversy. It will never happen, they claim, so why are those on the right so worked up about it? ...
Bob Cesca: President Obama Is Literally Driving The Republicans Insane
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... enormously popular president who is confounding conventional wisdom while building a working consensus among American voters, the Republicans appear to be reflexively coughing up the most intellectually violent chunks of hooey on record.
They're screaming about fear-mongering, even though we had eight years of this.
They're screaming about fiscal responsibility, even though we had eight years of this.
They're screaming about free speech, even though we had eight years of this and this and this. ...
Paging James Rainey
Patterico's Pontifications —
Yet another memo to the L.A. Times media columnist, who told us nobody is pushing the Fairness Doctrine: meet Tom Harkin.
By the way, the Bill Press Washington Post op-ed (discussed at the first link) is worth reading if you need a good laugh. It’s a little fantasy piece about how the public would just love to listen to liberal talk radio — and would tune in to such programs in droves — if it weren’t for those nasty stations that just don’t want to make any money.
Dream on, Billy ...
The Fairness Doctrine “False Alarm”
Nice Deb —
... Markos Moulitsas: “The right is using it as a straw man to build hysteria and opposition to the incoming Democratic administration and Congress, but there are zero serious efforts to make it happen.” ...
Obama Appears To Circumvent Rush Limbaugh's Op-Ed
The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney —
... At the same time, however, the left is engaged in a game of doublespeak, as they repeatedly attack conservatives for "making up" the controversy. It will never happen, they claim, so why are those on the right so worked up about it? ...
