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Was never on better display than in that interview.
We now see a bipartisan attack on freedom of speech that goes uncondemned by a major journalist. We see bipartisan arrogance, blaming the idiot voter for being so stupid as to listen to that darn radio, instead of what the governing class tells us.
And where was Chris Wallace, asking how Sen. Feinstein was doing now that she is not directly helping to steer defense appropriations to her famnily business?
Oh, that's right: He did not ask any tough questions.
And Chris, by the way - the issue is not that talk radio is the market place. It is that talk radio is people speaking freely. You know, that freedom thing.
That two Senators openly endorsed government censorship and are answered by deafening silence from all the media excepting the target of the censors tells us we are in deep decline.
The corruptness of the NYT, etc., which used to stand for freedom for all, is now standing for freedom to have its message dominate.
A curse on all of their houses, from our lazy, inept, self-absorbed congress, to the WH, so blody-mindedly wasting its time forcing down a bilge filled immigration bill, tot he corrupt press just waiting on big brother to tell them what to do, to the seditious twits of the left lusting after defeat.
We are setting ourselves up for the biggest fall in our history. One that will make the Depression and Civil War look like child's play.
Who was that idiot inthe early 1990's that asserted 'history was over'?
I only wish it were so.

The idea that the federal government could somehow apply "fairness" to speech is so unAmerican it boggles the mind.

They make the claim that people with money own the radio stations and decide what over the air ways - exactly how is there possibly anything wrong with that?

How would they feel about a blog fairness doctrine where they are forced to ration their whines, lies and distortions?

and just like with the issue ad's if this were to be passed by congress it will be shot down by the Supreme Court.

was our most precious freedom, the market place of ideas, who ever knew of truth to lose out, the voice of the people, I will defend to the death etc, we must tolerate even the most heinous speech, we will always have our freedom if.

You mean all this was bull----? And from people who call themselves Liberals, have I been duped?

But I thought all along the threat was from the Radical Right, those extremists who wanted a moment of silence in the schools, tax cuts, school choice, "takings" protection, and other manifestations of Hate, oh, and incipient fascism. The Radical Right who would divide us, can you imagine, in a nation of 300 million people where everybody should speak with one tongue and do as they're told.

I guess life is full of surprises.

"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville

Surely he came to the defense of talk radio and strongly opposed the Fairness Doctrine...right?

The Fairness Doctrine, what ever the hell that means ( kind of like hate-crime legislation to me alot of goofy non-sense that further divides people, has nothing to do with the Progressives' inability to attract any kind of an audience.

My God, they are about as entertaining as a gum-scrapping, but far less necessary. 'Here, try on these hairshirst; they're sure way to beat the heat and humidty of Chicago in July! Bobby Rush gives them away - SEIU pays for them! Kids Love 'EM!' Yay-Zoo Crees-Tay!

This (FD, II) is another attempt by the Gold Plated Jerks
( Jerques in some circles) in public life - the Progressives - to get Legislation to make people think that they are relevant.

Progressive, you are LOUD, but dull, generally cranky and always silly.

Pat Hickey

I'm with you guys on this (and I'm a liberal.) One of the biggest problems the press has is false equivalency, making the two sides of any issue seem in balance even if they aren't. (For example, this is a big part of what makes the press present intelligent design as a viable alternative scientific perspective to evolutionary theory.) Legislating this tendency seems like a pretty bad idea.

It doesn't sound like there's a lot of evidence that the 110th Congress is going to be pushing on this. She was complaining about talk radio, and politicians have the same right to complain about people who disagree with them that regular Americans do. I am disappointed that she would answer a question on the Fairness Doctrine with anything but an unambiguous no, however.