The GOP butthurt. So thick and palpable it's like a big cushy pillow of WAAAAAAAAA.

I oppose the fairness doctrine because it will give right-wing ass-clowns an undeserved air of legitimacy.

Most people oppose it because when it was in force it was abused by both sides, and both sides suffered.

When the Republicans lose their next power base (in the media) much like they've lost everything else, we'll all be glad that they "won" this battle.

Well, some will be more overjoyed than merely glad.

Mordant:

Since the Left is trying its very best to get voted right back out of power, I wouldn't pat yourself on the back too hard.

Eat a bowl of dicks, Dick.

Bildo

Since the Left is trying its very best to get voted right back out of power, I wouldn't pat yourself on the back too hard.

Once again the Right is showing they can out work the Left anyday:

Does anyone even give a shiat about AM radio anymore? In 10 years it'll be dead, completely replaced with podcasting and other forms of streaming.

DamnYankees: Does anyone even give a shiat about AM radio anymore? In 10 years it'll be dead, completely replaced with podcasting and other forms of streaming.

Republicans will probably find a more appropriate medium for their message also. Like writing their ideas on a brick and pitching it through your window at night.

Mordant: Republicans will probably find a more appropriate medium for their message also. Like writing their ideas on a brick and pitching it through your window at night.

That's how I met my second girlfriend at college.

DamnYankees: Does anyone even give a shiat about AM radio anymore? In 10 years it'll be dead, completely replaced with podcasting and other forms of streaming.

Dick Durbin does. Hence, the thread. :)

I remember when ABC ran the miniseries "Amerika" and leftists demanded equal time.

Does anyone even give a shiat about AM radio anymore? In 10 years it'll be dead, completely replaced with podcasting and other forms of streaming.

AM survived FM.

Good.

I still find it ironic that Fox News tries so hard for a "fair and balanced" report as if they were somehow compelled to by the fairness doctrine.

Now how can we spin this against the democrats who overwhelmingly supported banning any possible codified fairness doctrine.

Maybe the libruls want to get rid of the doctrine so they can actively misrepresent two sides of a debate with clear conscience.

BladBoy: Once again the Right is showing they can out work the Left anyday:

I wonder how "the Mouthbreathers in Congress" would poll?

It's unclear whether the amendment will survive as Congress debates the voting rights bill. But the measure served to effectively put the Senate on record as opposing a revival of the Fairness Doctrine.

However, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin also won approval for an alternate amendment that would order the Federal Communications Commission to encourage radio ownership "diversity."

Good ol' Fox News. Nothing like throwing down a good old-fashioned "does not follow" in order to terrify their viewership. Ownership diversity is in no way related to the Fairness Doctrine. But because a Democratic Senator proposed it, and it has the word "radio" in it, they have to present it as a counterpoint.

Break up the radio station conglomerates. Break up the cable conglomerates. That's a start.

I would generally support the Fairness Doctrine, also.

They should bring back the media ownership and ad sales department/news room separation parts.

DamnYankees: Does anyone even give a shiat about AM radio anymore?

Yeah. Anyone who lives further from the next big town than an FM station can broadcast. There's big chunks of real estate out there where you don't really have a lot of use for an FM radio in a car.

And small-town FM stations play "soft hits" and muzak and ads for the local funeral home, so even when you get near a pretty big town, you are still not getting the FM experience you get in, say, *checks profile* New York, where there's a station every two tenths of a MHz.

If the senate has rejected it, why are GOPers STILL whining about it?

Bucky Katt: If the senate has rejected it, why are GOPers STILL whining about it?

Because they don't know how to do anything else.

Bucky Katt: If the senate has rejected it, why are GOPers STILL whining about it?

quickdraw: Bucky Katt: If the senate has rejected it, why are GOPers STILL whining about it?

Because they don't know how to do anything else.

Reading comprehension is your friend.

absoluteparanoia: I still find it ironic that Fox News tries so hard for a "fair and balanced" report as if they were somehow compelled to by the fairness doctrine.

One DOES have to admire the way they tell BOTH sides of an issue. The right and the FAR right. Rupert and Co. would not want to be forced to chance the name of their empire to Fox Editorial Channel, would they?

muck4doo: Bucky Katt: If the senate has rejected it, why are GOPers STILL whining about it?

quickdraw: Bucky Katt: If the senate has rejected it, why are GOPers STILL whining about it?

Because they don't know how to do anything else.

Reading comprehension is your friend.

Bah, the thing by Durbin won't amount to shiat. I understand being concerned about it, as in a "slippery slope" argument, but the Democrats in the Senate, by and large, showed they don't give a damn about the Fairness Doctrine. By my count, more Democrats voted against it than Republicans. Odd, huh?

The amount of whaargarble we all heard about the Fairness Doctrine over the last few months versus the result of this vote speaks volumes about the Republican noise machine.

Myownepitaph: The amount of whaargarble we all heard about the Fairness Doctrine over the last few months versus the result of this vote speaks volumes about the Republican noise machine.

Just wait until the next crisis they face. Their underoos will be knotted furiously once again and the shrill cries of persecution will be all we hear.

Mordant: Myownepitaph: The amount of whaargarble we all heard about the Fairness Doctrine over the last few months versus the result of this vote speaks volumes about the Republican noise machine.

Just wait until the next crisis they face. Their underoos will be knotted furiously once again and the shrill cries of persecution will be all we hear.

The next crisis? Every single farking government action is a farking crisis since they lost.

and it's only the beginning. They are determined to spend the next 4 years shooting away the bloody stump that's all they have left after shooting themselves in the foot all this time. After Palin gets done with them in 2012 it will actually get even worse though.

Hooray! Scratch one issue off the list.

Bucky Katt: If the senate has rejected it, why are GOPers STILL whining about it?

Who is whining about it again?

I can already hear Rash Limpballs...

THIS IS A LIBRUL ATTEMPT BY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY TO FIND A BACK-DOOR INTO THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE

Mordant: Republicans will probably find a more appropriate medium for their message also. Like writing their ideas on a brick and pitching it through your window at night.

They have to stick to the technology that their supporters embrace.

Maybe Fox News will start a clandestine analog broadcast network to reach all the idiots that didn't get a converter box.

"Though President Obama remains opposed to any effort to renew it and the Federal Communications Commission claims it is not in any talks to revive the policy, a few Democrats have voiced strong support for the media control policy in recent weeks."

Who are these few Democrats?

The first amendment is overrated anyways. Way to go Senate!

BladBoy: Bildo

Since the Left is trying its very best to get voted right back out of power, I wouldn't pat yourself on the back too hard.

Once again the Right is showing they can out work the Left anyday:

Also from Gallup recently:



Who the hell thinks the economy is in "excelent" or "good" condition?

These polls are stupid, so are people who believe them.

Jane you ignorant slut.

soy_bomb: The first amendment is overrated anyways. Way to go Senate!

Ok I'll bite... What exactly is the first amendment issue here?

paygun: Who are these few Democrats?

Some site called 'RadioInk.com' claims that

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Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) are on record as supporting the return of the Fairness Doctrine, with Stabenow saying she thinks hearings on the topic of "accountability" are likely. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has also said she'd like to see the doctrine back in place. No legislation to bring it back has been introduced, however.

How meaningful is it in the age of internet news? *shrug*

I think Republicans are thinking about re-instating slavery.

Why would anyone want to do this? Because this way they could disenfranchise a large, reliable Democratic voting block.

I know they aren't actually saying this, or anything...I mean, that would be crazy. But the policy used to exist, and if it were to come back today it would favor them politically.

So I think we can see that the GOP is solidly in favor of reinstating slavery.

1. control the media
2. take away the right to bear arms
3. do anything you want

Korovyov: How meaningful is it in the age of internet news? *shrug*

Not only that, but it's Nancy Pelosi. How anyone can take that moron seriously is beyond me.

Repeal the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Problem solved.

Skleenar: So I think we can see that the GOP is solidly in favor of reinstating slavery.

Who needs slavery when they already control the media.

Skleenar: I think Republicans are thinking about re-instating slavery.

Their followers already have battered wife syndrome.

For those of you too young to remember, Rush Limbaugh spent about fifteen minutes of every single show in 1993 and 1994 whining like hell that the Democrats were going to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine any day now and silence his pilonidal trap.

Didn't happen. Not going to happen. Supporters of that are in the minority of the Democratic party, let along the entire legislature.

Lawnchair: For those of you too young to remember, Rush Limbaugh spent about fifteen minutes of every single show in 1993 and 1994 whining like hell that the Democrats were going to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine any day now and silence his pilonidal trap.

I remember.

Although I think it would be wrong in principle, I'd love for it to happen just so I could listen to him. He wouldn't be able to contain himself, he'd be so happy, while trying to act all offended and oppressed on air.

Wow RAR's going to be so DISAPPOINTED....

paygun: Although I think it would be wrong in principle, I'd love for it to happen just so I could listen to him. He wouldn't be able to contain himself, he'd be so happy, while trying to act all offended and oppressed on air.

Right about now, I think that the worst thing the Democrats could do to the GOP and their propagandists is to just let them talk, uninterrupted, for as long as they want to.

rohar: Who the hell thinks the economy is in "excelent" or "good" condition?

This guy does.



So does this guy.

Republicans are against it for the sole fact they're in power.

They can not seriously tell me if it was 92% to 8% democrat (which is how it is currently in the other direction) that they wouldn't be whining.

They already biatch and complain about the 'liberal media' even though everyone but Maddow and Olbermann on tv are conservative, News Corp has a near monopoly on news, and the radio is 90-10 republican over democrat. Imagine if there actually WAS a liberal media. The republicans would shiat themselves to death.

It's about giving the other side a voice. They don't like that. And frankly, it's childish and stupid.

I hate these riders. The bill should pass on its own merit. farking Congress. SCREW YOU GUYS!

paygun: Although I think it would be wrong in principle, I'd love for it to happen just so I could listen to him.

Why let principles get in the way of a good ol' American rectal violation??

rohar: Who the hell thinks the economy is in "excelent" or "good" condition?

These polls are stupid, so are people who believe them.


The silence is deafening, don't you think?