stopbush (1000+ posts)
Fri Jan-22-10 05:00 PM
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Why Not Re-enact The Fairness Doctrine To Deal with SCOTUS Decision?
We had that in place until Reagan threw it out.
Re-enact it. Make it apply to all political free speech, including commercials.
If a corporation wants to run $1B of negative TV ads, then the network running them must offer the opposing side $1B worth of free time to respond.
Assuming the FD could be re-enacted, what are the drawbacks to this as a strategy?
Dear DUmmies, the SCOTUS decision was based on Constitutional law, your pet hacks in Congress can't undo it with a statutory change.
Idjits.
Because the SCOTUS ruling pretty clearly makes the fairness doctrine unconstitutional.
Really? How so? I would really appreciate your explanation and be able to pass it along.
Really? How so? I would really appreciate your explanation and be able to pass it along.
Here's a quote from the opinion: "When government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he may or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful." Excellent point, justices -- and it applies equally to talk radio. Let me read this again to you. "When government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear..." That means Fairness Doctrine. "You can't listen to Limbaugh! He's controversial. He's got a monopoly, and you can't trust him. The Supreme Court says, "You can't censor anybody on that basis. It's unlawful." They struck it down
Something Rush said... reading from the decision.
Why Not Re-enact The Fairness Doctrine To Deal with SCOTUS Decision?
Ummm...maybe because even when the Fairness Doctrine was in effect...it wouldn't have affected what SCOTUS ruled on?
The Little Goons always seem to think the "Fairness Doctrine" is a one-way street. I cannot figure out where they get that idea.
Everything in their thought process has to conclude with a benefit to them.
They probably think they can come out winners of Global Thermonuclear War.
Shall. We. Play. A. Game.?
They probably think they can come out winners of Global Thermonuclear War.
Shall. We. Play. A. Game.?
Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-22-10 05:10 PM
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11. Could Obama do it as an executive order?
n/t.
sigh ::)
doesn't an Executive Order only apply to the Executive branch of government? Of course a DUmmie wouldn't know that.
Executive Orders (EOs) are legally binding orders given by the President, acting as the head of the Executive Branch, to Federal Administrative Agencies. Executive Orders are generally used to direct federal agencies and officials in their execution of congressionally established laws or policies. However, in many instances they have been used to guide agencies in directions contrary to congressional intent.
Not all EOs are created equal. Proclamations, for example, are a special type of Executive Order that are generally ceremonial or symbolic, such as when the President declares National Take Your Child To Work Day. Another subset of Executive Orders are those concerned with national security or defense issues. These have generally been known as National Security Directives. Under the Clinton Administration, they have been termed "Presidential Decision Directives."
Executive Orders do not require Congressional approval to take effect but they have the same legal weight as laws passed by Congress. The President's source of authority to issue Executive Orders can be found in the Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution which grants to the President the "executive Power." Section 3 of Article II further directs the President to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." To implement or execute the laws of the land, Presidents give direction and guidance to Executive Branch agencies and departments, often in the form of Executive Orders.
http://www.thisnation.com/question/040.html
Ya know what? I hope, hope, these elite bastards just keep up the over the cliff asscapades!
The sooner the American people realize they are nothing more than Castro or Chavez, the better!
Agreed, and hopefully soon. It will put the party in the position of returning to (somewhat) sanity or going over the cliff.