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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #25 on: February 18, 2009, 10:43:07 PM »
You silly, silly naive people. "I support Obama on this".  :whatever:

Here's what I posted at NCAABBS:


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Obama doesn't support it, or so he says. He does, however, support the localization of stations. I.e. forcing local stations to only air local content. You know, can't have too many people getting to message out about what they're actually doing in Washington. Afterall, we peons should all be happy and content with getting the truth from NPR about Washington, who's ran by Democrats, who pay NPR's salaries.

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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #26 on: February 18, 2009, 10:45:23 PM »
why bring it up then?
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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #27 on: February 18, 2009, 10:46:52 PM »
Quote from: Tess Anderson on February 18, 2009, 05:00:30 PM
He's going to use localization and minority ownership rules to revive it and call it something else. It took far too long for him to issue this statement, I think he wants Congress to do his dirty work again.

I don't care what he says, he lies.


I'm inclined to agree - HOWEVER - at the same time - I can see him leaving thing unchanged so that he can use conservative talk radio as a scape goat for all his failures. 
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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #28 on: February 18, 2009, 11:29:41 PM »
Quote from: Crazy Horse on February 18, 2009, 08:38:27 PM
The messiah doesn't support because he doesn't have to.  All congress has to do is make a regulatory thingy in a bill and it's law..........he can say "I" don't support it, yet I feel sure he hopes his lackey's in Congres do

for all we know, it was in that 1,100 page stimulus bill that no one read.
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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #29 on: February 19, 2009, 05:30:49 AM »
Quote from: 5412 on February 18, 2009, 08:51:15 PM
Hi,

Having taught the subject of Negotiations all over the world for better than 30 years I am very wary of this news.  There is an age old negotiating technique called, "Make a deposit before you take a withdrawal". 

Basically you give in on something that was not important to you, or you felt you had little chance of winning to cause your opponent to relax a minute and create the illusion of being fair. 

I suspect there is just a matter of time before the other shoe drops and we damn sure better be prepared.  In other words he earns no credit points for conceding the obvious.  Americans were not going to take kindly to stifling free speech, who is he kidding??

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5412

Great point. The Fairness Doctrine is simply too controversial to ever be enacted. Obama does not want to be seen as an extreme left-wing loon. He wants to spend his political capital in other ways. I am not sure what those other ways are, burt watch his appointment to replace Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He/she is likely to be a nightmare.
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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #30 on: February 19, 2009, 07:10:43 AM »
Do the backroom, communist, democrats really want liberal loons on the air spouting their BS agenda to the public?
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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #31 on: February 19, 2009, 08:33:36 AM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on February 19, 2009, 07:10:43 AM
Do the backroom, communist, democrats really want liberal loons on the air spouting their BS agenda to the public?

No, they don't.  However they do want to silence the conservative point of view which resonates with listeners.
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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #32 on: February 19, 2009, 08:46:18 AM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on February 19, 2009, 07:10:43 AM
Do the backroom, communist, democrats really want liberal loons on the air spouting their BS agenda to the public?

Yes.  Because the American Socialist Democrat believes that when their party or their ideas lose...it's because they didn't try hard enough...or go the left enough.

The Democrat Party believes that the ONLY reason that everyone in America doesn't share their vision of a shining Poliboro on the hill is because of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.  If they could only muzzle those two...Utopia would arrive.

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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #33 on: February 19, 2009, 09:57:33 AM »
I don't believe it. As much as Obama and the Dims have brought up Limbaugh's name the last month... I really don't believe it. Liberals already control major newspapers, all of the network and cable news media sans Fox, mags like Time and Newsweek, not to mention the majority of colleges and universities. They control 95% of the media and they want more.

And I hear the alien Congresshumanoid from Hollywood wants to apply the FD to the Internets? Any left wing kook can start their own blog or site to beat up on the Republican minority already. This is just nuts.
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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #34 on: February 19, 2009, 10:07:42 AM »
The University of Missouri "Mizzou" in Columbia, MO, is not terribly far from where I live. Mizzou happens to have one of the leading journalism schools in the nation and it's a hallmark of the entire university.

You ain't seen moonbat till you've seen the campus of Mizzou. Moonbatism runs amok here and it's appalling in its completeness.

Travel 5 miles outside Columbia (which isn't large) and it's a completely different political animal.

But if you think that moonbatism isn't being taught in journalism schools, you haven't seen this particular one.

It's downright scary.

That's why you wind up with so many left-wing zealots in the media. They are started on the Kool-Aid while in school and can't seem to shake the habit.

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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #35 on: February 21, 2009, 11:16:34 PM »
I believe that anyone who does not believe that the dems want to reenact the "fairness" doctrine - I believe that you lot are deceiving yourselves with wishful thinking - kinda like the same wishful thinking that got a lot of you to vote for Barry in the first place.  Damn fools. 
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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #36 on: February 22, 2009, 01:30:00 AM »
Quote from: PoliCon on February 21, 2009, 11:16:34 PM
I believe that anyone who does not believe that the dems want to reenact the "fairness" doctrine - I believe that you lot are deceiving yourselves with wishful thinking - kinda like the same wishful thinking that got a lot of you to vote for Barry in the first place.  Damn fools. 

well,that is a huge statement.

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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #37 on: February 22, 2009, 02:03:23 PM »
Quote from: PoliCon on February 21, 2009, 11:16:34 PM
I believe that anyone who does not believe that the dems want to reenact the "fairness" doctrine - I believe that you lot are deceiving yourselves with wishful thinking - kinda like the same wishful thinking that got a lot of you to vote for Barry in the first place.  Damn fools. 

I highly doubt that anyone that posts here voted for Barry.
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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #38 on: February 22, 2009, 03:31:52 PM »
Quote from: Hawkgirl on February 18, 2009, 04:47:55 PM
Hmmm....anything positive Obama does just makes me more suspicious.  What's he up to?  Asskissing for votes?

No. He is either smart and knows what it would do to their side as well as ours or he is a sneaky little rat that will let nasty pelosi and the others do the work and take the blame for getting it passed. There is so much room under the Big ears bus.
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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #39 on: February 24, 2009, 09:06:17 AM »
Quote from: rich_t on February 22, 2009, 02:03:23 PM
I highly doubt that anyone that posts here voted for Barry.
You'd be surprised how many people voted for him who should have known better!
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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #40 on: February 24, 2009, 09:13:48 AM »
Quote from: rich_t on February 22, 2009, 02:03:23 PM
I highly doubt that anyone that posts here voted for Barry.

We have a MODERATOR here who did.
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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #41 on: February 24, 2009, 11:49:34 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on February 24, 2009, 09:13:48 AM
We have a MODERATOR here who did.

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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #42 on: February 24, 2009, 05:10:32 PM »
Quote from: FGL on February 24, 2009, 11:49:34 AM
get a rope!

Screw that...............get some fuzzy handcuffs and a riding crop :naughty:
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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #43 on: February 24, 2009, 05:11:44 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on February 24, 2009, 09:13:48 AM
We have a MODERATOR here who did.

Oooops...  I forgot about that one.
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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #44 on: February 24, 2009, 06:21:22 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on February 24, 2009, 05:11:44 PM
Oooops...  I forgot about that one.
I'll be awaiting your apology with baited breath. :p
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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #45 on: February 24, 2009, 06:54:14 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on February 19, 2009, 10:07:42 AM
The University of Missouri "Mizzou" in Columbia, MO, is not terribly far from where I live. Mizzou happens to have one of the leading journalism schools in the nation and it's a hallmark of the entire university.

You ain't seen moonbat till you've seen the campus of Mizzou. Moonbatism runs amok here and it's appalling in its completeness.

Travel 5 miles outside Columbia (which isn't large) and it's a completely different political animal.

But if you think that moonbatism isn't being taught in journalism schools, you haven't seen this particular one.

It's downright scary.

That's why you wind up with so many left-wing zealots in the media. They are started on the Kool-Aid while in school and can't seem to shake the habit.



Yes!  Mizzou is a PERFET example.  I am in North KC, moved from southern california.  It seems that those college town mentalities basically bled through even a more conservative orange county because there was no real change from city to city.  Encountering Columbia is a perfect example of how within the collegiate community the liberalism is rampant and yet only minutes out of town in "real life" there is a more realistic view on politics etc.
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Re: White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
« Reply #46 on: February 24, 2009, 06:57:35 PM »
I agree with the consensus.  It isn't going to be the fairness doctrine.  He can't support that in it's definition, etc.  BUT...he will take ideals from it and either appoint boards to regulate local or regional media outlets or do something that will get around any sort of image of the fairness doctrine.  That will be the "technicality" in which he will be able to control certain arenas he is hell bent on controlling. 

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