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On Conservative Paranoia
The Anonymous Liberal — Steve Benen is puzzled by the widespread and completely baseless paranoia among conservatives about the prospect of the "fairness doctrine" being reinstated. He links to ...

Manufactured hysteria on right wing radio? I don't believe it!
Lawyers, Guns and Money — This is pathetic. For a variety of reasons I can't quite explain, I listen to right wing radio during my 15-minute drives to and from campus; this is about as much as I can handle before falling into a deep well of boredom, but I take great momentary satisfaction in listening to someone like Mark Levin bring himself to the precipice of a stroke each afternoon as I'm heading home. I haven't spent nearly as much time listening to, say, Limbaugh or Hannity, so I don't know if they've been pounding the non-issue of the Fairness Doctrine as ferociously as he has, but ...

Fairness Doctrine Boogeyman?
PoliGazette — ... Now, however, some are claiming that the whole scenario is a fiction invented by conservatives desperate for a rallying cry after broad defeat in the 2008 elections.  Would that it were so.  Several Democratic members of Congress did in fact state that they supported the return of the “Fairness Doctrine”.  While some conservatives might be fairly charged with having exaggerated the significance of those statements, they didn’t make them up entirely. ...

And There Was Much Wailing
N/A — The Return of the Fairness Doctrine has the right side of the radio spectrum in a fever, even if it is unlikely the doctrine ever will return. Much ado about nothing happening is the order of the day.  The return of the Fairness Doctrine? Obama isn’t for it, And there was much wailing: “As some of the world’s great egotists, it’s not surprising that Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly believe they would be the first political prisoners interned in an Obama administration. ...

And remember, there's a war on Christmas too
Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak - xoverboard.com — Several left-leaning bloggers are pondering why right-wingers are wailing non-stop right now about the Fairness Doctrine, a piece of legislation that does not exist, is not being planned, and will not be presented in any capacity. To which I would like to respond with a cartoon that I did six effing years ago. This isn't really a hard concept. Right-wingers are the opponents of progressives. Progress, you understand, is the act of things improving. Conservatives- people who do not want things to improve- ...

Some call it Fascism
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... brings out the worst in conservatives--paranoia and self-pity. Plus, when the conservative coalition seems threatened, there's no better way to unify the party than scaring up liberal bogeymen. Following Cogan's lead, the echo chamber -- asserting unfounded wingnut paranoia -- popped heads up like a choral version of Whack-a-Mole. [image] Taylor Marsh , Human Events , PoliGazette , Midwest Voices , The Heretik , Newshoggers.com , Washington Monthly , Lawyers, Guns and Money , Matthew Yglesias and The ...