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Fairness Doctrine Archive

Tuesday

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January 2011

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Next Item on the Crisis Exploitation Agenda: Fairness Doctrine

Written by , Posted in Big Government, Gun Rights

Not satisfied with exploiting a mass murder committed by a nutcase – one too crazy to hold coherent ideological views – by disingenuously trying to shame political opponents into submission to the liberal agenda, the left is now moving on even from the easily predictable push for gun control. Trampling over one Constitutional amendment is not enough, so now they’re also using the event as an excuse to once again call for the return of the loathsome and misnamed ‘Fairness Doctrine’.

Leading the charge is James Clyburn, who tried to tie the shooting to the House reading of the Constitution. We need to “rethink parameters on free speech,” he says. My liberalspeak translator informs me that rethinking the parameters necessarily involves regulations designed to shut down conservative speech, because as the left has so deftly proven, conservatives are the only Hatey McHaters hating the place up.

Imagine how bad it would be if the Democrats still had a majority right now. You might not have any rights left by the time a solid Democratic majority was through not letting this ‘crisis’ go to waste.

Thursday

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June 2008

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Pelosi Calls For Censorship Doctrine

Written by , Posted in General/Misc.

Statists do not like being forced to compete in the market place of ideas, and thus will always try to use government to silence their opponents.

At a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor yesterday, I asked Pelosi if Pence failed to get the required signatures on a discharge petition to get his anti-Fairness Doctrine bill out of committee, would she permit the Pence measure to get a floor vote this year.

“No,” the Speaker replied, without hesitation. She added that “the interest in my caucus is the reverse” and that New York Democratic Rep. “Louise Slaughter has been active behind this [revival of the Fairness Doctrine] for a while now.”

Pelosi pointed out that, after it returns from its Fourth of July recess, the House will only meet for another three weeks in July and three weeks in the fall. There are a lot of bills it has to deal with before adjournment, she said, such as FISA and an energy bill.

“So I don’t see it [the Pence bill] coming to the floor,” Pelosi said.

“Do you personally support revival of the ‘Fairness Doctrine?’” I asked.

“Yes,” the speaker replied, without hesitation.

I refuse to be a tool of statist doublethink by referring to this nonsense as the “Fairness Doctrine.” It is pure censorship. It seeks to make speech supported by the market unprofitable by encumbering it with speech the market rejects.