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White House: President Obama Opposes Reinstating ‘Fairness Doctrine’
After murky statements by Obama’s chief henchman David Axelrod and other administration cronies in recent days about whether the president supports bringing back the censorship doctrine ‘fairness doctrine‘, it looks like we finally have an answer:
President Obama opposes any move to bring back the so-called Fairness Doctrine, a spokesman told FOXNews.com Wednesday.
“As the president stated during the campaign, he does not believe the Fairness Doctrine should be reinstated,” White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said.
I’m certainly willing to take the president’s word that he doesn’t support bringing back the ‘fairness doctrine’ but we all know the left-wing kooks in congress tend to go off the reservation and pursue their own agenda even if it runs counter to his holiness president Obama.
Fairness Doctrine Talk — Again
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said today that he’s joining with Nancy Pelosi to strongly support the reactivation of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.” Hoyer says he’s interested in “ensuring the availability of fair and balanced information to the American public.”
That’s a pretty laughable statement coming from a left-winger. What he wants to ensure is that liberals control every facet of the media. Liberals can’t stand the fact that conservatives dominate talk radio even though liberals dominate network news, print news, and most of the Internet.
No one is preventing liberals from being on the radio. If they’re able to attract listeners they’re as welcome as anyone else on the air. The problem is that the vast majority of liberal radio shows fail, because they can’t get an audience and therefore can’t get advertisers. The market dictates who has a radio program and who doesn’t. Hoyer wants to force people to listen to left-wing radio even if they don’t want to, and it’s downright un-American.
Hoyer said it’s unlikely that anything relating to the Fairness Doctrine would reach the House floor this year.
Pelosi In Favor Of Bringing Back “Fairness Doctrine”
John Gizzi over at Human Events had the opportunity to speak with Nancy Pelosi yesterday. Gizzi asked her what she thought about Rep. Mike Pence’s bill to kill any future “Fairness Doctrine” proposals once and for all. She said his bill would not see the light of day and would not be allowed on the floor for a vote.
Pelosi went on to say that she’s in fact a strong supporter of bringing back the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.” For those who don’t know what the Fairness Doctrine is, let me briefly explain.
The Fairness Doctrine was ended under the Reagan Administration, but liberals have dreamt of bringing it back for decades. What it did was force radio stations to give equal time by law to opposing viewpoints. Meaning that if a radio station allows Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh to have 4 hours of air time, then by law that same radio station would have to allow a 4 hour block of time for a left-wing radio show as well.
The reason that’s completely insane is that it destroys the concept of free markets. Why should a radio audience be forced to listen to something they don’t want to? Right now the free market dictates who’s on the radio. If a liberal can attract listeners he/she is more than welcome to have a radio program.
Liberals want the Fairness Doctrine because they can’t get an audience on their own. So now they want the government to step in and force people to listen to what they have to say.
The irony here is that liberals control every single medium except talk radio, so it should be conservatives who want more “fairness.” But conservatives aren’t interested in the government telling anyone else what they have to listen to.
It’s pretty amazing that left-wingers aren’t content with owning the print media, network news, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, and a large chunk of the blogosphere.
-Chris Jones
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