Posts Tagged “Fairness Doctrine”

Fox News is reporting that ABC News is refusing to air opposing ads during ABC’s Obama-fest prime time special next Wednesday.

The prime time special — called “Questions for the President: Prescription for America” — will be a nationally televised event during which Obama will answer questions presented by audience members selected by ABC News. The network has refused to accept advocacy ads during the hourlong show.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele accused ABC News and anchor Charles Gibson of making Obama’s case for “nationalized” health care “without any opportunity for opposing views to be aired.

Obama has in effect, hijacked the network. Take that, Fox!

In a fundraising e-mail aimed at raising nearly $100,000 to buy air time for a counterprogram, Steele said the RNC’s request to add its views to the debate during the special was “flatly rejected” by ABC News.

“What are the Democrats and their media allies afraid of? The truth?” he asked in a fundraising letter to supporters. “That is outrageous! And we will not take it!”

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Since the president’s inauguration in January, ABC’s “World News” and “Good Morning America” have aired stories that feature Obama or supporters of his health care plan 55 times compared to 18 appearances by critics of his plan, according to a Business & Media Institute (BMI) analysis released Wednesday.

Does that surprise anyone?

Meanwhile, American’s seem to be souring on Obamanomics.

Hang on to your hammer and sickle, we’re about to get a dose, as the Obama administration starts it’s own news network.

Reads the print pool report from that day: “After shaking hands with the team’s parents and members of Congress who showed up, the president walked the team over to his basketball court and shot hoops. The pool was held back from the stroll down the drive and around the corner, and couldn’t see the court. Poolers could hear periodic cheering coming from the other side of the bushes.”

Read the TV pool report: “Your Pool was not allowed to go over and shoot POTUS with the team shooting hoops. We protested loudly.”

Now we know why: Obama White House officials decided to do their own media report on the visit, complete with cuts, interviews, and chyrons identifying who’s speaking.

Also, just like a network, they have their own little logo!

It’s perfectly fine, of course, for the White House to put out its own version of events — but is it right to do so by preventing actual reporters from covering something? (Even something like a pickup basketball game).

Do Obama White House officials think their media coverage isn’t flattering enough?

Is the goal to ultimately replace the pesky photographers who film what they want to and not what they’re told to (not to mention the annoying reporters who ask uncomfortable questions about, say, detainee policy and bank bailouts)?

As one blogger noted:

It could just be that the White House doesn’t want press coverage of Obama sans teleprompter. But hey, they have a car company, an insurance company, and some banks. Why not a news network? Maybe Keith Olbermann can be their chief White House correspondent.

Wait a minute….doesn’t Olbermann already work for the federal government?

Sounds like it may be right out of Joseph Goebbels playbook.

Hitler was deeply impressed by Goebbels’s success in turning the small Berlin section of the Party into a powerful organization in North Germany and in 1929 appointed him Reich Propaganda Leader of the NSDAP. Looking back many years later (24 June 1942), Hitler observed: “Dr. Goebbels was gifted with the two things without which the situation in Berlin could not have been mastered: verbal facility and intellect.. . . For Dr. Goebbels, who had not found much in the way of a political organization when he started, had won Berlin in the truest sense of the word.”

Hitler had indeed cause to be grateful to his Propaganda Leader, who was the true creator and organizer of the Fuhrer myth, of the image of the Messiah-redeemer, feeding the theatrical element in the Nazi leader while at the same time inducing the self-surrender of the German masses through skilful stage management and manipulation. A cynic, devoid of genuine inner convictions, Goebbels found his mission in selling Hitler to the German public, in projecting himself as his most faithful shield-bearer and orchestrating a pseudo-religious cult of the Fuhrer as the saviour of Germany from Jews, profiteers and Marxists.

The Fairness Doctrine can’t be far behind. Move over, MSNBC.

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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Camille Paglia’s liberal viewpoint on the Fairness Doctrine.

Worth a listen.

Unless it’s one of their own that’s bitching and whining, like the Obamassiah.

“”You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” he [Obama} told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package”

From FOXNews

Democrats Launch Petition Against Rush Limbaugh After Firing Back at Obama
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee launches an online petition to express outrage at Rush Limbaugh after he said he wanted President Obama to fail.

Outraged I tell, they’re outraged!

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has launched an online petition to express outrage at conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh for saying he wanted President Obama to “fail.”

“Jobs, health care, our place in the world — the stakes for our nation are high and every American needs President Obama to succeed,” the petition reads. “Stand strong against Rush Limbaugh’s Attacks — sign our petition, telling Rush what you think of his attacks on President Obama.”

How about they just get back to worrying about the ills of this country?

What a bunch of fscking cry babies.

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…get up off your ass and go to work!

Obama last night: “It can’t happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.”

Mmmm..

And here’s a partial list of his promises from a speech he gave last week.

“eliminate income taxes on Social Security for seniors making under $50,000″;

“give homeowners and working parents additional tax breaks”;
not increase taxes on anyone if they “make under $250,000; you will not see your taxes increase by a single dime –- not your income taxes, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains tax”;

“end those breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas”;

“give tax breaks to companies that invest right here in the United States”;

“eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses and start-up companies that are the engine of job creation in this country”;

“create two million new jobs by rebuilding our crumbling roads, and bridges, and schools — by laying broadband lines to reach every corner of the country”;

“invest $15 billion a year in renewable sources of energy to create five million new energy jobs over the next decade”;

“give a tax break to 95 percent of Americans who work every day and get taxes taken out of their paycheck every week”;

“reopen old factories, old plants, to build solar panels, and wind turbines”;
build “a new electricity grid”;

“build the fuel efficient cars of tomorrow”;

“eliminate the oil we import from the Middle East in 10 years”;

“lower premiums” for those who already have health insurance;

“if you don’t have health insurance, you’ll be able to get the same kind of health insurance that members of Congress give themselves”;

“end discrimination by insurance companies to the sick and those who need care the most”;

“invest in early childhood education”;

“recruit an army of new teachers”;

“pay our teachers higher salaries, give them more support. But … also demand higher standards and more accountability”;

“make a deal with every young person who’s here and every young person in America: If you are willing to commit yourself to national service, whether it’s serving in our military or in the Peace Corps, working in a veterans home or a homeless shelter, then we will guarantee that you can afford to go to college no ifs ands or buts”;

“stop spending $10 billion a month in Iraq whole the Iraqis have a huge surplus”;

“end this war in Iraq”;

“finish the fight and snuff out al Qaeda and bin Laden”;

“increase our ground troops and our investments in the finest fighting force in the world”;

“invest in 21st century technologies so that our men and women have the best training and equipment when they deploy into combat and the care and benefits they have earned when they come home”;

“No more homeless veterans”; and

“no more fighting for disability payments.”

We’ll be watching with baited bated breath.

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From the Onion:

Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job

WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation’s broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, “It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can’t catch a break.”

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Now that’s funny stuff.

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Barack Obama laughs off charges of socialism. Joe Biden scoffs at references to Marxism. Both men shrug off accusations of liberalism.

But Obama himself acknowledges that he was drawn to socialists and even Marxists as a college student. He continued to associate with Marxists later in life, even choosing to launch his political career in the living room of a self-described Marxist, William Ayers, in 1995, when Obama was 34.

Obama’s affinity for Marxists began when he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles.

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully,” the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in his memoir, “Dreams From My Father.” “The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”

Obama’s interest in leftist politics continued after he transferred to Columbia University in New York. He lived on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, venturing to the East Village for what he called “the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union.”

“In search of some inspiration, I went to hear Kwame Toure, formerly Stokely Carmichael of Black Panther fame, speak at Columbia,” Obama wrote in “Dreams,” which he published in 1995. “At the entrance to the auditorium, two women, one black, one Asian, were selling Marxist literature.”

Obama supporters point out that plenty of Americans flirt with radical ideologies in college, only to join the political mainstream later in life. But Obama, who made a point of noting how “carefully” he chose his friends in college, also chose to launch his political career in the Chicago living room of Ayers, a domestic terrorist who in 2002 proclaimed: “I am a Marxist.”

Also present at that meeting was Ayers’ wife, fellow terrorist Bernardine Dohrn, who once gave a speech extolling socialism, communism and “Marxism-Leninism.”

Obama has been widely criticized for choosing the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, an anti-American firebrand, as his pastor. Wright is a purveyor of black liberation theology, which analysts say is based in part on Marxist ideas. More here.

Let’s tally this up. He’s smitten with Marxist and Socialist, starts his political career in the living room of a domestic murdering terrorist, attends speeches extolling socialism, communism and “Marxism-Leninism.

Wake-up America, before it to friggin’ late!

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