Schumer: Talk Radio Needs to be Regulated Like Pornography

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Did you know that talk radio needs to be limited on the airwaves just like pornography?

According to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) it does.

I kid you not.

At least, that's what he said on Fox News Tuesday morning when asked his position on the Fairness Doctrine (video embedded right):

Do you think we should allow people to put pornography on the air? Absolutely not. Particularly on television and radio...The very same people who don't want the Fairness Doctrine want the FCC to limit pornography on the air. I am for that. I think pornography should be limited. But you can't say government hands off in one area to a commercial enterprise, but you're allowed to intervene in another. That's not consistent.

Wow. Can you see where this is going, folks?

Is it still Halloween?


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What a stupendously stupid

What a stupendously stupid statement. Yeah, the Founding Fathers were just as concerned about porn as they were regarding political discourse.

“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)

A Waste of a Harvard Law School Education

I find it hard to believe that Schumer is being anything other than tendentious and deliberately obtuse.  

Still sometimes I wonder, is he  really that addle brained?

 

I remind you that Schumer

I remind you that Schumer is a bare faced liar and political thug.

He was censured by the House Ethics Committee when he was a Congressman in the Democratically controlled House.  What, you ask, could a Democratic Congressman possibly do to be censured by a Democratic House?????  He used his paid Congressional office staff to conduct political campaign operatinos.

This is the same man who recently pronounced that getting Saudi Arabia to increase oil production by 1 Million bbls per day would reduce gas prices 67 cents per gallon at the pump and then at a different time said increasing domestic US oil production by 860,000 bbls per day would have negligible effect on pump prices.

Schumer is a scorch mark in the Congressional shorts. 

Schumer

"Do you think we should allow people to put pornography on the air?"

Pornography is on the air.  Here in NYC the Robin Byrd show is shown on cable access stations for anyone to see.  Is Schumer going to allow conservative programs to only be shown between midnight and 3 am? 

Schumer should be regulated

Schumer should be regulated like porn ... there is nothing he wont do in front of a camera

Dark . . .

Yup.  And now you see why many people that post on Conservative websites use 'Schumer' to denote that 4 letter word for brown, stinky excrement.  No Schumer.

The Most Dangerous Place In Washington

Wasn't it Bob Dole who quipped that the most dangerous place in Washington was the space between Chuck Schumer and a camera?

 

fantastic

More relativism.  It's become increasingly obvious that the left has absolutely no morals, and is not only not able to tell right from wrong, it's doubtful that many of them can tell their left hand from their right hand!

Simply amazing!

The thing that really scares me is that these idiots actually believe their own imbecilic rhetoric!

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

Mighty...yeah, I heard

Mighty...yeah, I heard Schumer say this earlier today...you know the saying, repeat a lie often enough...well, that is what the leftists do, therefore convincing one little part of their destructive brains.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

BT, these people..

...have serious "self importance issues". Everytime I hear Schumer speak, my ears bleed!

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

Somewhere down in the

Somewhere down in the deepest bowels of Hell, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels are grinning widely.

-Dave

I voted. Have you?

Crazy

I know, my jaw dropped when I saw this earlier today. Has this guy even heard of the first amendment? They are so bold now that they are flat out telling everyone they are going to trash all our rights and don't even care.

Repeal the 17th Amendment

Return power to the states.

Sit down Chuck.

Sit down Chuck.

Fantastic Analogy (sarcasm)

I think he summed things up perfectly . . . he made the comparison of liberal veiwpoints to pornography and I cannot argue against that! They are both morally depraved!

Seriously folks, from a business standpoint, the "Fairness Doctrine" is like the federal government telling Coca Cola that they have to distribute and promote the same amount of Pepsi products in Atlanta as it does Coke products because it would be "fair." If people wanted to hear liberal talking points, Air America would be a huge success. The problem with Air America is they have nothing but a hateful, defeatist message and that is not appealing to people. It is not entertaining. Think about it, who likes to hang around people that are always complaining and talking about how bad life is for them?

The scariest thing in this interview is the "check card" bill in my opinion. Connecting the dots, what you have is a scheme for unions to increase membership by intimidation and federal take over of businesses that don't tow the union line. Read about it and get informed; we are in for a rough ride if the Democrats are allowed to have their way. Even McGovern is saying this same thing . . . that is truly scary!

Zeig Heil!  Here they

Zeig Heil!  Here they come!  They're coming for your wallet, and your freedom. 

 

Joe Biden caliber of gaffe

Is it still Halloween?

No, I think it must be April 1st. Nobody could possibly believe that nonsense. Schumer (D-idiot) most be trying to fool someone.

Chuck Schumer is a

Chuck Schumer is a dangerous thug and a subversive criminal.  He needs to be cut off at the knees.  Reid and Chuckie Schumbag must be the RNC's main targets for defeat in 2010 (though Schumbag will be harder to defeat in ultra-blue New York).

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

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fitz...I could not agree

fitz...I could not agree more...every time I see/hear either of the phony scumbags I want to throw up...I hope you are right about us getting rid of them...they have a lot of power in both states, Reid gets away with a lot, if he were up for reelection right now, I do not think he would make it, his numbers are way down in Nevada I heard on some show yesterday.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Reid really is the

Reid really is the vulnerable one in the next election cycle.  He's mouthy, yet inarticulate.  He's a bitter, corrupt, partisan sleazebag up to his neck in the kind of land scandal that should have disqualified "That One" long ago.  He's a condescending pinko in a red state...and disproportionately powerful.  In truth, he is the prize scalp in 2010.  I think Chucky Schumbag is virtually untouchable...but I'm putting all my electoral energy into clipping him in the midterms.  Take a shot, Rudy!

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

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and it begins

*sigh*

Political Speech is Porn....

Chuckie Schumer wants us to equate Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" with "SWANK" magazine. He is hoping his uneducated constituents can't distingush between Political Speech and watching dirty movies or pics of naked people having sex.

I just hope that the next time I rent a porn flick I don't hafta sit through fifteen minutes of Pat Robertson between scenes for balance..

Comrade Schumer

Comrade Chucky has spoken. He is a Comrade Obama surrogate. Heil Barry! Ala Barry! Barry is a strange combination of communism, Naziism, and Islamo-fascism. Any way you look at him (if you can stand it), you see the downfall of America as we've known it. Sad.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

chucky is an idiot..talk

chucky is an idiot..talk radio is free speech and so is porn..neither well ever be eliminated ..EVER...if you don t like the radio,don t listen..if you don t like porn,don t watch

 These socialists like

 These socialists like Schumer and Pelosi and Moran have been working behind the scenes for decades.

Their goal is unchecked unaccountable tyranny.

Schumer can taste it.

NOLI PUGNARE ME OCCIDERE

I saw this story elsewhere

I saw this story elsewhere and was wondering when it might appear here, where I can voice my opinion.

 

This is such garbage. Ya want fairness?? Get your own freakin station that
doesn't fail as miserably as air america has. Don't ride on the coat
tails of some successful entity because no one really wants to hear
your lack of substantial views and poor talking points.

schumer is a snake, you can see it in the slits of his eyes.

No way, no how, if there's anything that can be done to oppose this, I'm there.

schumer

What a tool!!!!

What else needs to be said?

If I hit "post comment" after typing

what I think of Chuck Id be regulated right off this sight!

Fairness Doctrine Violates the First Amendment

Does anyone really doubt that the Fairness Doctrine is unconstitutional?  The major justification for the Fairness Doctrine as a limitation on the First Amendment was based almost entirely on the scarcity of the airwaves for radio and television. With cable tv, satelight tv & radio, and of course the internet, this justification no longer exists.

I suspect the current Supreme Court would strike down the Fairness Doctrine if the FCC ever tried to reimplement it. The 4 conservative judges would clearly strike it down, and I suspect Kennedy and Breyer would join them.  I may be wrong here, but I believe that even Ruth Bader-Ginsberg has expressed doubts about the validity of the Fairness Doctrine. 

Are you sure?

Freedom of Speech does not give you the right to be heard.

Howard Stern left the regulated airwaves for the freedom of satellite. His free speech costs satellite subscribers.

FREEDOM ISN'T FREE !!!

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.

Absolutely, LK.

The Fairness Doctrine and the FCC's regulation of obscenity are two totally different subjects.  Schumer is deliberately misleading people by comparing the two.

Freedom of speech does not give you the right to be heard, but it does give you the right to express your political viewpoint free from government interference. Last I checked, the Supreme Court required most government regulations of speech to be "content neutral."  By it's very nature, the Fairness Doctrine violates this requirement because it requires content to be analyzed for its viewpoint. 

and the constitution never

and the constitution never gave the federal government the power to form the fcc

Be Afraid!

They actually do believe this nonsense. If they can squash the voice of opposition in this country, then their power is assured for years to come. How do you think they maintained power for 40 years from the early 1950s till 1993? Note: the fairness doctrine was introduced in 1949 and revoked in 1985. Get the correlation? Tyranny feeds and thrives on ignorance.

The Bolsheviks gained power by the "uprising of the downtrodden masses" as it is recorded in history which ultimately led to the formation of the USSR. But as any discerning person knows, it was certain manipulating personalities who yoked the discontentment of the so-called downtrodden masses to do their bidding. See how it is done? Hitler did it the same way.

Why do you think Obama wants to form a national security force as well funded as the military? Perhaps because the military, comprised mainly of freedom loving souls, won't follow him to do an unconstitutional thing.

"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." Acts 16:31

Get ready if Obama wins,

Get ready if Obama wins, and if Democrats get a filibuster proof majority, we are going to see the beginnings of a truly Despotic Regime.

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"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." ~ Ayn Rand

Idiot

Comparing political speech to pornography?  My God. 

 

Wait, porn is

Wait, porn is regulated???  Then why is it you can get it in magazines, several channels on television at any time of day (both soft and hard), videos, stores, San Francisco, LA.  Heck maybe he's right...have talk radio regulated like porn.

www.theholyrosary.org

"There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we can not resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary."  -Sister Lucia

TICK TOCK

The countdown is on - it's only a matter of time until the Democrats punt the First Amendment - they've been waiting for years to do this. This is only the beginning - it's going to be a very long four (or God help us!) eight years!

Time to buy stock...

time to buy stock in XM Radio and other "pay radio" providers.  No one is taking my Rush Limbaugh away.

This is telling

Clearly, most right thinking people, those who have children or try to put themselves in the place of a parent realize that you can't monitor your kids 24/7, nor would you want to.  Kids need some autonomy.

The main purpose to regulate pornography is to keep it away from kids.

So, Chuck Schumer is saying that the best thing to protect kids is to regulate Pornography, then regulate what information they are allowed to hear.  

In reality, though, liberals would rather the airwaves be awash in unregulated porn, and by extension, anything that stands against God, Jesus, and the Bible.  But do want to regulate what Conservatives say/do.

 

Can I call him and Arse Pick

Can I call him and Arse Pick around here? ?  I don't hear anyone complaining...I guess I'll take a chance. What an Arse Pick!!

Regulated like porn?

"The very same people who don't want the Fairness Doctrine want the FCC to limit pornography on the air."

I wonder what this idiot is promoting, ID checks for radio audiences?

Obama: My job is above my pay grade

This is like a nature

This is like a nature documentary where the retarded, weak, unpopular gorilla finally gets to take over and flex his muscles after the REAL alpha male is killed unexpectedly.

He couldn't have waited til tomorrow to start threatening? What a pu--y.

This is why...

we are at where we're at. Slowy eraditcating the belief in core principles responsible for this nations strength and prosperity

Ignorant people have ceded their voice to men incapable of rational thought.

What sort of reasoning did this man use to construct this argument?

Who are the people who believe this man has their best interests in mind?

Is this a matter of stupidity or dishonesty? Not good either way.

I urge all New Yorkers to

I urge all New Yorkers to contact Charles Schumer, telling him you're against bringing back the Fairness Doctrine.

I've got a better

I've got a better idea...run Rudy, run Peter King, run someone, anyone who can defeat the criminal Chuckie Schumbag in 2010.  Time to put the target on his back. 

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

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