The bogeymen that are coming to take their guns and ammo away.

Right wing men. They're pussies. Nothing more or less.

I'm old enough to well remember what the news media was like when the Fairness Doctrine was in place. I do wish the Dems would restore it. It would be a tremendous tool to open the airwaves to more than just the corporate media message they have shoved down our throats for the past 30 plus years. Bring back the Fairness Doctrine. It didn't censor anybody, it just added voices to the debate.

It's about proactively silencing any objection to the next four years worth of slime.

The only place I saw the Fairness Doctrine come up was on Theroot.com. It must have been linked to some right wing blog because there were 20 crazed irrational "free market" posters to anyone with a concern about media consolidation and potential abuse.

I know in LA, the city gov has not licensed or collected taxes on billboards for over a decade becasue the billboard companies threaten to run ads against city council members. THere was a big LA Weekly story about it. Just an example of how media companies can leverage politics.

...the push to censor talk radio is such a huge conspiracy that everyone involved knows to keep their mouth shut and deny everything. It's just like the conspiracy to confiscate all guns, the conspiracy to outlaw Christianity, and the conspiracy to turn US sovereignty over to the UN. So many people deny it because so many people are in on it!

Right wing talk radio's appeal is making the listener feel important by giving them information (true or not) that other people "don't want you to know". The idea that they are fighting against entrenched power to "spread the word" is just advertising: Our screeds are so good that "they" don't want you to hear them.

Interesting that the Fox News motto is "Fair and balanced" you the Right fears the Fairness Doctrine which brings balance.

I think that says it all about Fox's motto.

Haven't they also been bitching about the supposed liberal media since, well, since forever? If the media really was liberal, wouldn't a new Fairness Doctrine benefit conservatives?

President Obama has said he isn't going to touch the 'Fairness Doctrine.' So, who cares?

But this brings up a larger question: If the right wing isn't doing obviously so slanted, why are they so afraid of a fairness doctrine?

Why are they so afraid of exposing an opposing opinion? Or, could it be that old Rush and company are just full of crap after all?

And to paraphrase them, if they ain't got nothing to hide, why are they so worried?

The Dems not only don't intend to try to reinstate the fairness doctrine, they don't even know what it was. Of course the idea that bringing it back would "hush Rush," is nonsense. It would just require outlets that broadcast his show to balance it with something with a liberal slant.

But this, like so many other things is simply not a subject for debate in this ironclad two-party political system of ours. Think of all the things the parties agree on and about which there is consequently little or no debate. The level of defense spending, Israeli policy, the war on drugs, single-payer health, "free" trade, Cuba policy, the Patriot Act, etc. and now the fairness doctrine are just a few of the things the political system is incompetent to address because the parties basically and broadly agree. All other opinions are considered either unserious or simply too dominated by special interests to ever see the light of day.

It's not because the issues aren't important and it's not because other opinions aren't valid or at least worthy of discussion. It's just that the two parties are immune to any thinking but their own and that of certain powerful lobbies.

Until liberals start refusing to vote Democratic, expect more of the same.

You're assigning logic to right-wing thought... shame on you!

But, seriously, let right-wing radio bitch and moan as much as they want about the Fairness Doctrine; they can even take credit for defeating it. Meanwhile, Congress and the President can work on things that actually, ya know, matter, like healthcare reform, global warming, our foreign policy mess, etc.

Judging by the results of the election, I think it's in the left's interests to keep Rush blathering to the dwindling pool of the faithful as long and loudly as possible. After all, he's the self proclaimed "conservative leader" of the hysterical right wing. He's putting his still considerable weight behind "cleansing" the Republican Party of "RINOs", while consoling his tattered dittoheads with reassurances that the only thing they need to do in order to become the "winners" they're all so frantic to see themselves as is to get MORE right wing. If anything, we should aid him in those efforts.

I mean... It worked so well in the last two elections.

They will clean up all your talking in a manner such as this;

They will make you take a tinkle when you want to take a piss

And they'll make you call fellatio a trouser-friendly kiss

It's the plain situation! There's no negotiation!

With the fellows at the freakin FCC!

They're as stuffy as the stuffiest of the special interest groups.

Make a joke about your bowels and they order in the troops

Any baby with a brain could tell them everybody poops!

Take a tip, take a lesson! You'll never win by messin'

With the fellas at the freakin' FCC

And if you find yourself with some young sexy thing

You're gonna have to do her with your ding-a-ling, Cause you can't say penis!

So they sent this little warning they're prepared to do their worst

And they stuck it in your mailbox hoping you could be coerced

I can think of quite another place they should have stuck it first!

They may just be neurotic Or possibly psychotic They're the fellas at the freakin FCC!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es-e91_EzMc&feature=related

ps. evidently the actual clip of the video cannot be posted due to copyright laws