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Weekly Standard Blog —
... remember when fixing the AMT was too expensive, and Democrats were pay-as-you-go?
You could buy, literally, two whole Quarter Pounder meals a week with your middle-class tax cut.
House begins debate on stimulus, after the public has a whole 12 hours to review the 1,000-page monster, from 10 p.m. to 10 a.m. Transparency!
Krauthammer: It wasn't enough for Gregg to be the Commerce Dept. fish-feeder.
Yes, Democrats do want to monitor and regulate political speech on TV and radio.
Anderson Cooper explains away Obama ...
Friday the 13th Fairness Doctrine Watch
Michelle Malkin —
... Clinton isn’t pleased that conservatives are allowed to express views counter to his on the airwaves, and wants a re-enactment of the Fairness Doctrine. In a preview of an interview with liberal talker Mario Solis-Marich to be aired in its entirety Friday, Clinton complained about the money funding “right wing talk shows” like Rush Limbaugh, and believes we should have “more balance in the programs or have some opportunity for people to offer countervailing opinions.” And nutball Maurice Hinchey: More and more Democrats in Congress are calling for action that Republicans warn ...
Push for Fairness Doctrine escalating
Sister Toldjah —
... CNN has a scary sounding audio of Rep. Maurice Henchey (D-NY) talking about about how the airwaves need “more fairness.” They got one thing wrong in their reporting, though: ...
Dusting the Rocks for Radios
Whiskey Fire —
... about bringing back the Fairness Doctrine. (Contra this story, Maurice Hinchey has been pushing for the FD for a lng time.) Just mentioning it produces all sorts of entertaining yelps, ...
Latest in the 'Fairness' Doctrine Conga Line: NY Dem Rep Maurice Hinchey
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... The Censors are now coming in waves. Today on CNN Radio New York Democratic Representative Maurice Hinchey asserted his desire to reinstate the Censorship Doctrine. ...
Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine
Shakesville —
... opportunity of their simultaneous Congressional majority and White House occupancy to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, which was established by the FCC in 1949 to ensure that broadcasters afforded reasonable access to opposing viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance, and was later tossed out under Reagan, paving the way for the emergence of Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Fox News, and Randi Rhodes, just to name a few. Well, maybe there's some grey matter in D.C. after all: More and more Democrats in Congress are calling for action that ...
Yet Another Democrat Calls For The Fairness Doctrine
Say Anything —
... WASHINGTON (CNN) — More and more Democrats in Congress are calling for action that Republicans warn could muzzle right-wing talk radio. ...
Stimulus Bill Passes The House Without A Single Vote From Limbaugh's Cowed Republicans
DownWithTyranny! —
... Eric Massa (D-NY), in reminding his constituents that President Obama's jobs bill is likely to create at least 7,500 jobs in his hard-pressed upstate New York district went to great lengths to communicate the importance of the legislation itself and to give them the opportunity to understand why he unhesitatingly supported it. Remember, many are hearing Rush Limbaugh, the de facto head of the Republican Party, distorting the provisions of the bill every single day on his deregulated Hate Talk radio show. It's umportant for members of Congress to make sure their constituents ...
BUT I THOUGHT DISSENT WAS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM! Dems Target Right-Wing Talk Radio….
Instapundit —
BUT I THOUGHT DISSENT WAS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM! Dems Target Right-Wing Talk Radio.
A note on the "Fairness Doctrine": Fear is only paranoid if it is irrational
TigerHawk —
... said that it was "sad to watch" conservatives "believe" that the Democratic leadership would make reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine a priority. Well, that sock-puppet of the far right, CNN , must also be "sad to watch" (well, it is, but not for the reasons Benen would supply): More and more Democrats in Congress are calling for action that Republicans warn could muzzle right-wing talk radio. Representative Maurice Hinchey, a Democrat from New York is the latest to say he wants to bring back the "Fairness Doctrine," a federal regulation scrapped in 1987 that would require ...
Lies, Damn Lies, and We’ll Force You to Listen to Them
PoliGazette —
... More members of the Democratic Congress are revealing their desire to re-regulate the talk radio marketplace by breathing new life into the corpse of the Fairness Doctrine. ...
More Democrats Who Supposedly Don’t Want To Bring Back The Fairness Doctrine
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Maurice Hinchey is the latest Democrat to put the lie to the claim that we don’t need to worry about the Fairness Doctrine coming back. Clearly, the Democrats are putting up trial balloons to see how well the public might take to a reintroduction of the Fairness Doctrine. One hopes that they will see those balloons shot down in short order. ...
More Democrats Who Supposedly Don't Want To Bring Back The Fairness Doctrine
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days —
Maurice Hinchey is the latest Democrat to put the lie to the claim that we don't need to worry about the Fairness Doctrine coming back. Clearly, the Democrats are putting up trial balloons to see how well the public might take to a reintroduction of the Fairness Doctrine. One hopes that they will see those balloons shot down in short order. Meanwhile, I loved this retort to Fairness Doctrine fans: Republican Congressman Greg Walden, a former owner of five radio stations in Oregon including a "classic rock" station joked that the Fairness Doctrine is "the musical equivalent" of ...
Fairness Doctrine talk causes far-right heartburn
Political Animal —
FAIRNESS DOCTRINE TALK CAUSES FAR-RIGHT HEARTBURN.... I've been on the Fairness Doctrine beat for quite a while, telling people that Republican hysteria about a possible reinstatement is wildly misplaced. And yet, as several readers have reminded me this week, a growing number of Democrats are talking more about the idea. Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.), for example, told CNN Radio this week, "I think the Fairness Doctrine should be reinstated." Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) both ...
The Return of the Hinchey-Thing
Little Green Footballs —
... Look who’s popping up again to advocate the reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, in order to shut down right-wing talk radio: ...
