'Fairness' Gives Way To Censorship

Ever notice how very few lefties are interested in rational discussion of issues? Ever notice how few liberals are even capable of rational discussion of issues? Ever notice that they will make fun of their opponents or endlessly repeat the same lies? Their response to Palin was to make endless jokes hunting and Eskimos, repeat the lie that she had banned books or that she had said that she could see Russia from her house. The same lies and jeers over and over again with nary a one of them having an original thought to contribute: like they all read the same newsletter in place of reason or originality. They shun reasoned discourse and just want an endless repetition of the same silly jokes and the same silly lies. The article I've quoted from below describes the latest assault on the possibility of them ever having to listen to anything from outside their echo chamber. Ever notice how angry and more irrational they become when hearing anything that doesn't fit their shallowand twisted world view?
And they have attached a pretty word to this travesty: 'diversity,' A pretty word and something that has its place. But I like 'democracy.' They are trotting out diversity to stifle the free speech and openness of democratic sunlight. The more government control of speech there is the less sunlight there can be. And democracy dies without sunlight as surely as humans will die without air.
The reminder is a couple of excerpts from a post by Seton Motley on NewsBusters.


the Left means to destroy Conservative and Christian talk radio by other means.
Because another rider was added via a party-line 57-41 vote.  Written by Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, S.160's Purpose is "To encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership, and to ensure that the public airwaves are used in the public interest."
the Left means to destroy Conservative and Christian talk radio by other means.
Because another rider was added via a party-line 57-41 vote.  Written by Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, S.160's Purpose is "To encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership, and to ensure that the public airwaves are used in the public interest."
One tremendous problem with this amendment, with the Censorship Doctrine itself and in fact with virtually every aspect of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s broadcast licensing requirements is that they are all completely nebulous.  President Barack Obama's FCC can interpret these regulations in any direction it wishes, which more than likely bodes poorly for free speech on the radio.
And the worst part of the Durbin Amendment is the possibility that Obama's FCC may now be empowered to prematurely pull the broadcast licenses of radio stations they deem as failing to meet these new "Fairness" Doctrine-esque guidelines.  Several lawyers who do this for a living see this rider's wording as amorphous enough to allow for this interpretation.  
This would be absolutely devastating to talk radio.  Stations currently carrying Conservative and Christian talk would be perpetually under the FCC gun - never knowing when the regulatory hammer would fall and crush their businesses.  They would feel tremendous pressure to change formats so as to be able to stay on the air. 
And no one would be able to justify the tremendous expense of getting into talk radio if their lifeline - their broadcast license - could be pulled capriciously at any time.
These licenses would then be awarded to more "diverse" owners who show a greater desire in meeting the Obama FCC's definition of the "local" and "public interest."  You know, ACORN activists and MoveOn.org hosts who couldn't cut the mustard on National Public or Pacifica Radio.
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The Durbin Amendment solves the Left's "Fairness" Doctrine dilemma.  It gets them what they want - radio free of Conservative and Christian talk - without the political baggage of carrying the "Fairness" Doctrine name. 
For them, a rose by any other name still smells as sweet if it serves to silence the opposition.