“Trust Us”: Liberal Bureaucrats For Fairness!
ARE WE REALLY GOING TO HAVE FEDERAL OPINION-HALL MONITORS FROM THE MINISTRY OF SPEECH RATIONING?
Steynagain:
The battles hard won two and three centuries ago are having to be re-fought in some of the oldest settled democracies on the planet.
There are stages to the enervation of free peoples. America, which held out against the trend, is now at Stage One: The benign paternalist state promises to make all those worries about mortgages, debt, health care go away. Canada is at Stage Two: When the populace has agreed to become wards of the state, it’s a mere difference of degree to start regulating their thoughts.
Eventually, despite the smiley-face banalities, the tyranny becomes more naked. Undercover constables dine at curry restaurants on Friday nights to monitor racist remarks by customers. A Telegraph columnist is taken to a police station and questioned over a joke at a rally. A Dutch Member of Parliament is banned from entering the country. [...]
And then comes Stage Three, when the enforcers no longer need even to keep up the pretense…
Doug Ross has this from Politico:
Today, radio host Mario Solis Marich asked former President Bill Clinton if it was time for “some type of enforced media accountability.”
“Well, you either ought to have the Fairness Doctrine or we ought to have more balance on the other side,” Clinton said, “because essentially there’s always been a lot of big money to support the right wing talk shows and let face it, you know, Rush Limbaugh is fairly entertaining even when he is saying things that I think are ridiculous….”
Clinton said that there needs to be either “more balance in the programs or have some opportunity for people to offer countervailing opinions.”
You mean opportunities besides ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS, NPR, Pacifica Radio, Air America, Ed Schulz, The NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, TIME, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, etc., etc., etc.?
“enforced media accountability”? They really seem to be getting serious about the Censorship Doctrine. Obama has identified Rush as the enemy and, per Alinsky, the minions are falling in line.
These people are control freaks. They already control every network but FOX–but they just can’t stand it that one network escaped from the Liberal Plantation! Obama has this bizarre FOX-fetish and Rush-fixation. Can’t anybody say anything without your permission, you freaks?
Liberals already have a radio network: its called “NPR”. I’ll say it again: if government could do fairness, the NPR would be the fairest of all. Instead, it’s a reliable Democrat house organ. You want fairness on the radio? Then stop making Republicans pay for NPR.
Maybe you’d have more listeners if your ideas weren’t so hinky. Can’t you people win without cheating for once? And will we ever know?
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