Fairness Doctrine

Chucky Boy

Allow me start off by saying this is something all of us should be very concerned about.

As you know the vast majority of the mainstream media is in the tank for Obama. They openly supported his candidacy. As you have in football, Obama has his own built in cheerleaders.....the media.

The prominent people on the right are Cavuto, O'reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Dennis Prager, Michelle Malkin, to name a few....there are others.....but they fail in comparison to the avalanche in the print media, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC. Not to mention Hollywood! Lets face it. The list is endless!

So why am I telling you something you already know?

I'll try to put it in a nutshell. The liberals want to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine. Even the name is a misnomer. This was passed during the Democratic Truman administration. January 5th 1949 Truman delivered the State of the Union message asking for strengthened liberal program characterized as the "Fair Deal."

A quick summary:

FAIRNESS DOCTRINE

U.S. Broadcasting Policy The policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission that became known as the "Fairness Doctrine" is an attempt to ensure that all coverage of controversial issues by a broadcast station be balanced and fair. The FCC took the view, in 1949, that station licensees were "public trustees," and as such had an obligation to afford reasonable opportunity for discussion of contrasting points of view on controversial issues of public importance. The Commission later held that stations were also obligated to actively seek out issues of importance to their community and air programming that addressed those issues. With the deregulation sweep of the Reagan Administration during the 1980s, the Commission dissolved the fairness doctrine.

On the surface the Fairness Doctrine seems.....well fair.

The truth is it is far from it:

This is why liberals want to reinstate it and why conservatives are against it:

(wikipedia)

The Fairness Doctrine has been strongly opposed by prominent libertarians and conservatives who view it as an attempt to regulate or mandate certain types of speech on the airwaves. Editorials in The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Times have said that Democratic attempts to bring back the Fairness Doctrine have been made largely in response to and contempt for the successes of conservative talk radio. 

What's next FOX News?

Isn't freedom of speech a right under the 1st Amendment?

This is nothing more then a blatant attempt by Schumer and is band of bastards trying to suppress what little is left of the conservative media.

He told Megyn Kelly (in a snide way, with a shit eating grin on his face) he supports reinstating the Fairness Doctrine because he wants... "all of the media to be like FOX...fair and balanced."

Want the Fairness Doctrine Schumer? Apply it to Obama Headquaters aka MSNBC and the rest of the main stream media! 

Fairness Doctrine

Edward's back in the news

Edward's has broken 3 months of silence to speak at Indiana University. This speech was arranged before the affair became public. He was supposed to get a fee of $50,000 but the university cut it to $35,000 because he had an extra-marital affair. (If you're going to use those guidelines, the truth be known, he should have to pay the university to speak.)

No cameras were allowed in the auditorium. No TV crews. Students had to submit written questions before the speech. Then Edwards picked the one's he chose to answer. For some inexplicable reason his prior infidelity never came up during the entire speech.

The students and the university got nothing out of it that I could see. Edwards got enough money to pay Rielle Hunter for another two months to keep her mouth shut and prevent her from getting a paternity test. There is no father listed on the birth certificate.

See. I guess some good comes out of everything.

Edward's back in the news

Obama's transitional visit to the White House

This was certainly something for the ages. To start off with Obama pulls up in a Limousine with mag wheels. I said to myself ...don't tell me those wheels are going to keep spinning after he stops. He gets out of the limo with his wife and is warmly accepted by the President and the First lady. Laura hugs Michelle Obama and kisses her on the cheek. I myself was taken back by the warm reception. But then again, say what you will, the Bushes are a class act.

For over a year Obama put him through a Presidential Veg-O-Matic! ...slicing, dicing, grilling, barbecuing, filleting. One remark in particular (and taken completely out of context) was when he said, "Bush's answer to 911 was to go shopping." I could have fried an egg on my head! Yet the reception was warm and inviting at the White House. A class act.

Do any of you remember the transition in 2000 when the Bush's took over the White House from the Clinton's?

Believe it or not this article came from the NYT's

Goaded by skeptical Democrats, the White House provided additional details today of pranks and vandalism that it said had been committed by Clinton administration leaving office in January.

President Bush's press secretary, Ari Fleischer, said: ''Seventy-five telephones had been tampered with. Ten phone cords were cut, rendering those phones totally inoperable.''

In addition, Mr. Fleischer said, the new administration found ''pornographic or obscene messages'' on the voice mail of 15 telephones. As a result, he said, ''The White House determined that we had no choice but to erase all the voice mail messages throughout the White House phone system.''

Mr. Fleischer said the new administration also discovered lewd messages written on the walls of six offices in the White House complex and pornographic pictures buried in stacks of blank paper in several photocopiers.

''In an attempt to deprive the incoming White House of office supplies,'' Mr. Fleischer said, ''the previous administration threw out vast quantities of paper, pens and pencils and three-ring binders, which we recovered.''

Mr. Fleischer said the new administration had to buy 100 new computer keyboards, at a cost of $2,000, to replace equipment damaged when employees of the Clinton administration removed the ''W'' keys, apparently in an effort to express displeasure with George W. Bush.

Reports of the damage were widespread at the time of Mr. Bush's inauguration. But in May, a manager at the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said that accounts of vandalism by departing Clinton administration officials had not been documented. In the last two weeks, Democrats have accused the Bush administration of overstating the damage.

Mr. Fleischer provided a list of the infractions to The Washington Post, which published a story about them on Sunday, and he answered questions about them today.

Mr. Fleischer said, the White House did not compile records of the damage because Mr. Bush did not want to make an issue of it.

Mr. President I have not agreed with you on everything. The bail out being one. But I tip my hat to you. Since 911 you have protected this great country which a lot of Americans have seemed to forgot. I wonder if Obama will be able to make the same claim after his term in office?

Oh...by the way...Did I mention the Bush's are a class act?

Obama's transitional visit to the White House

Can't you just see the lawyers salivating

We are going to prosecute the people that are responsible for the bailout.

Which is on the tax payer dollar. OK no problem.

This is the killer.

Part of the 700 billion is reserved to pay for the legal fees to defend the guilty. So to put it in it's proper perspective, were getting it up the ass twice.

Truthfully, I thought once was more then enough.

Can't you just see the lawyers salivating

Camelot.... no Bamalot

Camelot.... no Bamalot