From The American Spectator

Senior FCC staff working for acting Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps held meetings last week with policy and legislative advisers to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman to discuss ways the committee can create openings for the FCC to put in place a form of the “Fairness Doctrine” without actually calling it such.

How atypical of the left. Let’s create something just like the Fairness Doctrine and give it a new name. Maybe that’s because according to a Rasmussen Poll, only “38% of U.S. voters think that the government [fascists] should require all radio stations to offer equal amounts of conservative and liberal political commentary.”

Waxman is also interested, say sources, in looking at how the Internet is being used for content and free speech purposes. “It’s all about diversity in media,” says a House Energy staffer, familiar with the meetings. “Does one radio station or one station group control four of the five most powerful outlets in one community? Do four stations in one region carry Rush Limbaugh, and nothing else during the same time slot? Does one heavily trafficked Internet site present one side of an issue and not link to sites that present alternative views? These are some of the questions the chairman is thinking about right now, and we are going to have an FCC that will finally have the people in place to answer them.”…

I’d like to see them try. Do these political hacks think they can control everything? How is it that only the liberal politicians are asking these questions? It’s simple, they merely want to quash Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly, et al.

“This isn’t just about Limbaugh or a local radio host most of us haven’t heard about,” says Democrat committee member. “The FCC and state and local governments also have oversight over the Internet lines and the cable and telecom companies that operate them. We want to get alternative views on radio and TV, but we also want to makes sure those alternative views are read, heard and seen online, which is becoming increasingly video and audio driven. Thanks to the stimulus package, we’ve established that broadband networks — the Internet — are critical, national infrastructure. We think that gives us an opening to look at what runs over that critical infrastructure. More [here]

I cannot believe that these people are so fucking stupid.

One-party rule, baby. Suppress the opposition. That’s what it’s all about.

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