Do you support the fairness doctrine?
If you do, you are against the first amendment. And you are a socialist because you want the government to have control of everything. Please, go live in Venezuela or Cuba and we'll see how long you stay there. This country sacrificed millions of lives in order to preserve these unique rights! By the way - if you don't know what the fairness doctrine is, it is a plan to make all radio stations 50% liberal and 50%conservative. It was the the most unpopular president's idea originally (Jimmy Carter). It is just the liberals anger over the fact that they have no popular radio stations.
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I do NOT support the Censorship Doctrine!!
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No its just liberal cry baby legislation and a waste of money for the tax payers. Advertisers will not pay for stuff no one listens to and the tax payers Will have to pay for it.
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No. I am totally against the 'fairness doctrine', and it makes every hair on my old gray constitutional head stand on end!
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Let them try this crap! This Will Be Our Boston Tea Party!
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Absolutely not. Welcome to National Socialism. That was my Father's War...
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It will not only go after talk radio but it will also go after Christian programs. If the Dems don't care about that I have absolutely NO use for any of them. To stand back and let YOUR President attack Christians and not do anything is beyond abhorring !!!!!!
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You pretty much hit the nail on the head, the problem is we have a liberal president and a liberal house. They cannot stand that there are those out there that express opinions that disagree with them. Look at the hate expressed toward Rush. I heard a person on the radio today that called into a conservative talk host and accused him of bias and slander for playing audio clips of various liberals and pointing out where they had lied. The host did not paraphrase, he played the actual audio and he was called the bad guy. The fairness doctrine is a joke and by its name is a lie, it is fascist, if it is pushed through (which there is a good chance it will) you better hide your books!
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When we had it, it meant that if you allowed one candidate in an election to go on a show broadcast on the public airways you had to allow the opposing candidate the same amount of time. It had nothing to do with say Rush Limbaugh talking on the radio because Rush is not a candidate. There were also penalties for saying things without proof. Which I am definitely in favor of. Equal time for McCain would have surely helped Republicans during the Democratic primary. I do not know if I am against it since we have no idea what it would be. There has been one sentence said about it by one Democrat and months of the RNC telling people that Democrats plural want it. It is not even clear if the one Democrat really wanted a fairness doctrine back. They just said it one time. Maybe it was a joke. I think the whole thing is just designed to increase contributions to the RNC. They send me an email asking me to donate so that they can run advertisements in congressional districts. I donated to Bush's first campaign so now the RNC is just relentless with me.
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.Well, sales (commercials) determines a lot. Even if they do have a fairness doctrine no one would listen, look at all the liberal talk show host that have failed, the libs can't take a hint. It want pass, I can't see CBS, NBC, ABC having a conservative talk show host giving an opposing view. Liberal wennies
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If one supports the "Fairness Doctrine", then they must also believe that: Because the airwaves are owned by the "People," the government must control the content of political discussion; Because the airwaves also include television, wireless networks, and satellite transmissions, then the content of the communications must also be monitored & controlled; Because the public streets are owned by the "People," then the government must control the content and destination of vehicles that travel upon them (including newspaper delivery vehicles); And because printing presses use soy bean oil & pigments considered to be hazardous waste that can be dispersed into the environment, then, they too, must be controlled by the government. It ain't gonna stop with AM Talk Radio, Virginia...
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NOPE!!!!!!!!!!! It is anything BUT fair.
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