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Message from the Left: SHUT UP
Reaganite Republican
2010-03-07 16:19:47
Andrew Klavan explores the libs' primary policy debate platform... -h/t Ed R-Left, liberals, fairness doctrine, klavan, socialism, shut up

Disagreeing With Pete On Reconciliation And Health Care Reform
Capital Gains and Games | Washington, Wall Street & Everything in Between
2010-02-28 13:17:25
Pete's post below on reconciliation and healthcare reform takes a far too strict look at what could and could not be included in a health care reform bill considered under reconciliation rules.Pete's correct that the primary consideration is whether a provision would have an impact on the federal budget. He's also absolutely, positively, no-doubt-about-it correct that the Byrd Rule was created to prevent "extraneous" (that is, having no impact on the budget whatsoever) provisions from being included. I recall one of the things that got Senator Byrd (D-WV) so exercised was

The Secrets of Talk Radio | "Get People Angry"
Country Comes To Town
2010-02-27 14:33:00
Rush Limbaugh once told someone that the secret to success in talk radio is that "you have to get half of the country to hate your guts." A former radio news director has penned a fascinating article for Milwaukee Magazine and Truthout, describing how right-wing radio hosts work to get people angry to boost their ratings.[...] To succeed, a talk show host must perpetuate the notion that his or her listeners are victims, and the host is the vehicle by which they can become empowered. The host frames virtually every issue in us-versus-them terms. There has to be a bad guy against whom the host w

Fairness Doctrine* in Baby Steps...
blonde sagacity
2010-02-26 07:45:00
If the Obama administration can't yet legally pluck Glenn, Rush and Sean from the airwaves...they can at least attempt to use them to push their own talking points.You're gonna love this: An offshoot of the DNC, 'Organizing for America,' has set up a website coaching libs on how to call Conservative talk shows and what to say to various hosts. The first time I went on I was told to call Roger Hedgecock's show, given some tips like this:"Some hosts may challenge your views. Stay calm and firm. Sharing a personal story about how health reform affects you and your family is a great way to show th

Feb 23rd 1927 – the FCC was created
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2010-02-22 17:12:00
Back on February 23rd 1927, Calvin Collidge signed the Radio Act of 1927 and created the FCC (then called the Federal Radio Commission - FRC). This also recognized the broadcaster's right to "free speech" (which was later changed to include the Fairness Doctrine in 1949). Free speech was limited though by stating: "No person within the jurisdiction of the United States shall utter any obscene, indecent, or profane language by means of radio communication." I wonder what they'd say about the material and the various delivery mechanisms available today...

Radio Show Today 1:30pst
Seeing the Forest
2010-02-22 15:23:36
On my regular segment on the radio show The Fairness Doctrine today at 4:30est or so, on WDIS in Boston, I will be talking about today's post Whirlpool Exec Responds: The System Made Us Do It. You can listen by clicking "Listen Live" and there will be a podcast available later. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit Seeing the Forest at http://seeingtheforest.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Whither terrorism'
Heartache with Hard Work
2010-02-21 01:44:04
Kevin Drum, who is one of my favorite daily reads, has a very peculiar post today. The subject is whether Joseph Stack (the crazy IRS bomber guy) is a terrorist. Now, this is not a question that interests me at all, and I've actually been ignoring the debate. But I read Drum because I figured he might have some kind of spin on it. Turns out the answer is yes, but not in the direction I was expecting:Stack doesn't really have a policy he wants changed. He's mad at the government, he's mad at paying unfair taxes, and he's mad at the turns his life has taken. But if, instead of killing people

Of High Treason and Economic Incompetence: The Reagan Years Revisited!
BuzzFlash.net - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash
2010-02-19 22:50:01
When I think about what Ronald Reagan did to this nation, I think of how he struck at and perhaps killed-off a viable labor movement. I think about how middle class families made homeless lived under bridges and overpasses in boomtown Houston. I think about how Reagan, like Bush, waged a phony war on terrorism during which terrorist attacks increased some three fold. I think about how Ed Meese waged a war on porn even as a gay prostitution ring operated right out of the White House. I think about how Ronald Reagan neutered affirmative action, the fairness doctrine, and the industries that had

Plataforma del Tea Party
El Opinador Compulsivo
2010-02-18 12:59:00
Está en preparación el "Contrato Desde America", los puntos de la plataforma del Tea Party, seleccionados de una lista de miles por medio de encuestas online. Aca los pongo traducidos porque me parecen muy interesantes y en varios casos replicables para la Argentina (año verde).Enmienda constitucional para obligar a tener un presupuesto balanceado y mayoría de 2/3 para cualquier aumento de impuestos.Derogar permanentemente todos los aumentos de impuestos programados para el 2011Requerir que los proyectos de ley en el Congreso se publiquen 7 días antes de cualquier votación, y que todos l

Contract FROM America
Right Klik
2010-02-17 15:56:00
Have you been following this' I first heard about the Contract from America from Glenn Reynolds:Though the name may remind some of Newt Gingrich's Contract with America, this is something very different.It's a set of ideas developed via an interactive Web site, where voting determines which elements are most important. And it's not a top-down contract consisting of promises made by leaders to the voters -- it's more in the nature of a contract of employment from the voters, which politicians may choose to accept, or look for alternative employment.This is basically a crowd-sourced party platf

Dave Johnson: News Flash: Nations Compete
Campaign Donors : Fundrace 2008 - Huffington Post
2010-02-15 20:00:51
I have a regular spot on the radio show, The Fairness Doctrine, currently in Massachusetts but going national. The show has a liberal and a...

News Flash: Nations Compete
Seeing the Forest
2010-02-15 19:58:11
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF. I have a regular spot on the radio show, The Fairness Doctrine, currently in Massachusetts but going national. The show has a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit Seeing the Forest at http://seeingtheforest.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The Time Machine
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello
2010-02-14 12:54:00
Déjà vu Here's what was news one year ago today .... (Yup, I save 'em all) Congress Gives Final Approval to $787 Billion Stimulus... Democrats muscle it through... WORLD TO STAY IN SLUMP Wreckage, remains being gathered at NY crash site... 'Significant Ice Buildup'... Steep Turn Before Fatal Crash... BRITISH AIRWAYS jet with 71 aboard crash-lands... Justice Dept. Probing Campaign Donations From Lobbying Firm; New Infor on Murtha Investigation... The Prince of hypocrites: Charles embarks on

"A Simple Way to Data Mine"
EconomPic
2010-02-13 17:20:00
James Altucher has an article in the WSJ titled 'A Simple Way to Beat Hedge Funds' in which he discusses the 4x2 system:I’ve traded this system for years, and even though it has no fancy chaos theory, it works. Basically, if a stock falls in price for four days in a row (for instance, after a bad earnings report) chances are the selling is done. Within four days, everyone’s seen the news, everyone’s had a chance to sell and most of the sellers have probably already sold.He reports the following cumulative performance from 1992-2009.I had no problem with the article (the idea is creative,

Fairness Doctrine Unleashed
The Observatorium
2010-02-13 00:28:00
Down in Virginia, the pro-choicers are incensed again; this time it’s because pro-lifers have a license plate and the pro-choicers don’t. So, in the interest of leveling the playing field, pro-choicers are demanding the Virginia legislature give them a plate, or they’ll sue.Of course they will."We really don't feel like a license plate is the place to be promoting a political agenda," Tarina Keene, executive director of NARAL's Virginia group told the Los Angeles Times, but the organization is promoting one anyway because pro-life advocates have one.So, you see, it’s not political: NA

A Top Ten Worst List
Honor and Dishonor
2010-02-10 20:56:00
Read-em and weep: Juan Cole's Top Ten Worst things about the Bush Decade. His intro:Here are my picks for the top ten worst things about the wretched period, which, however, will continue to follow us until the economy is re-regulated, anti-trust concerns again pursued, a new, tweaked fairness doctrine is implemented, and we return to a more normal distribution of wealth (surely a quarter of the privately held wealth is enough for the one percent') It isn't about which party is in power; parties can always be bought. It is about how broadly shared resources are in a society. Egalitarianism is

Might Stuart have a point'
Beers with Demo
2010-02-09 20:43:00
Doesn't look like comedian turned senator Al Franken is planning a return to NBC's "Saturday Night Live" anytime soon.In his opening remarks about the proposed Comcast-NBC deal at a hearing held by the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, Franken (D-Minn.) ripped into the deal and the risks it could present to not only consumers but media competition as well. Franken, who was a regular on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" for years and also had a short-lived sitcom on the network called "Lateline" in the late 1990s, dismissed the claims made by Comcast and NBC Un

Event: "The Crisis in Journalism - What Should the Government Do'"
The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog
2010-02-09 15:36:14
I was just reading this interesting Broadcasting & Cable interview with Steven Waldman, senior advisor to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, who is heading up the FCC's new effort on "The Future of Media and the Information Needs of Communities in a Digital Age." The FCC's Future of Media website says that "The goal of this project: to help ensure that all Americans have access to vibrant, diverse sources of news and information that will enable them to enrich their families, communities and democracy." In the interview with B&C, Waldman promises that "we are not in the business of pr

Fairness Doctrine | The New Republic
chaosMonster (The Mind of Bob 2.0)
2010-02-08 09:22:00
The irony is that, for much of the last year, Republicans have been scaring the bejeezus out of seniors by telling them that Democrats were out to destroy Medicare. But the Roadmap makes clear that it’s not Democrats who seek massive, disruptive changes to the program. It’s the Republicans. If the coming engagement between the Republicans and President Obama help the public to understand that reality, extending the debate might actually be worth it.Fairness Doctrine | The New RepublicBlogged with the Flock BrowserRobert Hooker supports these messages. Kind of.

Fairness Doctrine
The New Republic
2010-02-08 00:00:00
The idea that Republicans haven’t had a chance to present their ideas on health care reform is a bit mind-boggling. Five separate congressional committees had hearings; each chamber had floor debates. That’s hundreds of hours the GOP had to talk about health care, all of it in public view and televised on C-SPAN. And that’s not even including all of the unofficial channels at the Republicans’ disposal. Generally speaking, the party of Rush Limbaugh and Fox Television doesn’t struggle to get across its message.

Celebrity Endorsements-Henry Waxman for Men's Warehouse
fousesquawk
2010-02-05 13:10:00
Hello out there all you peon constituents. This is Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) on behalf of Men's Warehouse.You know, when you go to work in the Capitol everyday to pass important legislation, like the Fairness Doctrine, it's important to look your very best. That's why I buy all my suits at Men's Warehouse.Looking good is especially important when your having your picture taken next to beautiful people like Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi as history is being made, for example, when we are passing monumental government health care.I especially need to look my be

Constitutional Courts Are A Threat To Liberalism
RedStatesUSA.com - The Majority, Silent No Longer
2010-02-05 05:37:39
By: Christopher G. Adamo The reverberations from Republican Senator Scott Brown’s Massachusetts election had barely subsided when an even greater shockwave was sent throughout the liberal world. On Thursday January 21, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision that overturned major pillars of the McCain/Feingold campaign finance “reform” act, thereby reestablishing the ability of the people to express themselves freely during election time, and thus to publicly hold Washington accountable for its actions. Of course such an outrage against the Ruling Class can never be al

Cass Sunstein, The Fairness Doctrine and unconstitutional subversion
Patriot's Corner
2010-02-05 02:08:00
Cass Sunstein'; I know of him, and it is not good. He has proposed some pretty wacked out ideas but the worst of these is his support for the ineptly named 'Fairness Doctrine.' This would suppossedly level the playing field for talk radio, the internet and other avenues of communications. the left has been batting this one back and forth for years. Look for Obama, handle by Sunstein, to make a push to try and ram this through and torpedo free speech and our first amendment. But doing thngs legally and Constitutionally has never been a worry of the Obama administration. One only has to look at

ON THAT SUPERBOWL AD…
Have Coffee Will Write
2010-02-03 11:40:37
[Update--1140: She who Writes Like She Talks provides an important link. I should have written this earlier, but I this is a perfect example of why we should reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine and the Equal Time/Access standard for all, and I do mean all, non-commercial speech on all, again, I really do mean all, forms

Warning - ObamaNet: The Coming Online Censorship
ARRA News Service
2010-02-03 09:52:00
by Chris Slavens, ALG News: Perhaps the Obama administration and Democratic majority overestimated their ability to sell the American people on proposed radical changes to our political and economic systems, as the federal health care takeover has ground to a near halt, and an increasing number of administration officials are being exposed for far-left statists with a sinister, unconstitutional agenda. But those in power show no signs of being bothered by something as trivial as the will of the people, and could very well continue down a planned path of disaster, moving on from health care to