Not this again.  With Democrats out of control in Washington, the
possibility of the reinstitution of the Fairness Doctrine is getting
stronger and the rhetoric is getting bolder. But this time, it's
getting attention on the state level - the biggest state.

We had honest Abe, now we have dishonest Obama..

Jan 20, 2009 The day the constitution died... RIP.

"Well, a little state control wouldn't hurt anybody," Brown replied.

 <sound of duct tape ripping off roll>

OK,  I'm set now.

Brown's explanation is just so much B as in B, S as in S.  He knows darn well it has nothing to do with "balance."  

It's the censorship of prior restraint. If radio stations won't carry left-wing talk shows because they cost them money, then they'll have to quit carrying conservative commentators! 

It's that simple.

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson

Try it guys. You think we will march like a herd to your drumbeat, but we will march until we are heard in all quarters. Just try it!

My comeback:  Millions of your most productive citizens leaving.  Millions of others coming in to collect benefits.  Rolling blackouts.  Citizens made to serve every want and need of state employees.  Billions in debt.  All of this because "a little state control" has done so much for California in the last decade or so?

I'm sure you'll do at least as well with control of speech as well. 

  We lost the big stimulus battle. Thanks to 3 turncoats. That was a punch in the gut.

  We lost the little battles over Gitmo and bringing terrorists to Justice. That did not hurt so much. Because, now they have to figure out where they are going to put these nasty little thugs and what they are going to do with them once they do. We do not want them here in the U.S. We do not want to send them to other countrie because then they would be subjected to THEIR laws and public opinion. Bush & Co had a pretty good compromise and Uncle Dummy blew it with his decision to follow the ultra left.

  Now we have the mid-sized battle called the fairness doctrine. Democrats do not learn from history nor do the people that vote them in. Otherwise they would know that socialism does not work. They would huge government spending does not work. You are borrowing from future voters to spend on today's voters. Trying to censor your critics does not work. It did not work in Soviet Russia. It did not work with Howard Stern. Remember him? They were attempting to shut him down. Not for left/right issues, but still attempting to get him off the airwaves. He gave them the finger and went to sattellite radio.

  Democrats do not understand natural laws either. One is the law of unintended consequences. Radio will not go to a half liberal loony/half conservative format. They will just go out of business or go to all music AND STILL GO OUT OF BUSINESS. No one listens to music on the radio any more. This is not 1976. There is no TOP 40. Music listeners are fragmented now thanks to the internet, 500 cable channels, and dearth of people with actual talent.

  Meanwhile, we will still get conservative voices. They will move to satellite radio, or the internet, or TV. Hannity already has a show. Beck has a show. I get Levin off his website. I would pay the $60 a year to get Rush off his website. Don't forget the huge amount of written marterial all over teh webs. Including the bestest website ever NewsBusters!

  So I will laugh at a a new fariness doctrine just like I laughed at the Gitmo stuff. GOOD LUCK WITH THAT BONEHEADS. How is that working for you huh? You get the opposition shut down did you? NO? Hmmmm. I wonder why.

  Meanwhile, we need to gear up for the next real BIG battle. Card check. That one we need to fight hard.

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

Sounds like being a little pregnant.  Didn't some guy named Hitler use that same logic.... 

Limit government, not people.

Hey , and when we're done with the radio waves we'll keep going after conservative Christians ,Catholics and Jews.  Because even in church you have to have balance.  Lets see.  Hospitals too.  for every birth an abortion?--balance right?--Yeah this next couple of years are going to be great.    Watch out the 2nd amendment is going down with this guy,  well except for members of ACORN and other Obama brown shirts.--Watch it's coming

"Don't let the bastards grind you down."

Red

Red

First of all since flag burning has been ruled "symbolic" speech, I have a hard time understanding why broadcasting isn't covered under "symbolic" press...........and if not, it is surely speech.  I am aware of all the public airwaves arguments...don't tell me that.  Secondly, the constitution says the government shall make no laws, does it not?  Does it say the government shall make "balancing" laws?  If only the speech/press that you agree with is free, there is no freedom at all.  And thirdly..............I am getting frightened.

Maxine Waters got a pass even from Fox News (well, Shepard Smith, no big surprise there) for saying the word 'socializing'...and then goes on in a roundabout way of saying 'nationalizing' the oil industry last year.

But, that's OK.  Everybody knows Socialism works great everywhere else in the world so it's time for the U.S. to quit living in the stone age and catch up.  Uh huh.

Unfortunately, with the Bush-Paulson bailout fiasco the Communists can always point the finger and say, "Well, wasn't that socialist?"

No.  Panicking because they felt that government had to do something but not knowing really what does not define a Leftist ideology on the part of the Bush Administration. It just shows lack of adherence to Conservative values and faith in free enterprise (albeit a free enterprise system damaged by Communists in Congress).  More of a stumbling than acceptance of Brother Marx.

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

Well, a little state control wouldn't hurt anybody

Oh, really?  Seems to me the a "little" state control (you know, like the union-dominated school system, the subsidies to illegal aliens, the out-of-control taxes, the negative influence of the trial lawyers and the unsustainable cost of doing business due to unreasonable regulation) has absolutely ruined the once-great State that Brown almost ruined in the '70s.

If you have no views of one side, like in certain campaigns if somebody is attacking you, there's got to be some room for the other side

There's plenty of room for the "other" side.  How many frequencies are there on the AM Radio dial?  Liberal talk radio is not an absolute failure because Conservative talk radio has conspired to keep it off the air.  Liberal talk radio is an absolute failure because it sucks...the hosts have not talent, the ideology is intellectually vacant, the content is not entertaining.  Conservative talk radio is simply a superior product.

It's an attempt to balance, not to censor.

No, it's an attempt to neutralize.  Liberal talk radio is garbage.  It's a failure.  It's unwanted in an open market.  The public has decided that, on the whole, it is not interested in Left-wing talk radio.  Liberals have decided that if people choose conservative talk radio over liberal talk radio, the objective is to "level the playing field"...not by improving liberal talk radio, but by siphoning from conservative talk radio.

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill

Blam! Not a Michael Savage fan, but man he spoke the truth to lefty Jerry Brown.