The Fairness Doctrine

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has sent a letter
to House Minority Leader John Boehner
expressing his strenuous opposition to the
reinstatement of the so-called Fairness Doctrine.
The Fairness Doctrine for you who don't know
what it is all about was first implemented in 1949.
It said that radio stations, and later TV stations as
well had to give equal time to opposing viewpoints
on controversial subjects. The FCC repealed the
Doctrine in 1987. This is when talk show hosts
like Rush Limbaugh came into peoples lives.

In his letter, Martin stated, “I have always been,
and remain strongly, opposed to the Fairness
Doctrine. I am on record as supporting legislation
that would have prohibited the FCC from reinstating
the Fairness Doctrine.” Martin referred to a letter
he sent to several members of Congress last year
that read in part, “I see no compelling reason to
reinstate the Fairness Doctrine in today’s broadcast
environment, and believe that such a step would
inhibit the robust discussion of issues of public
concern over the nation’s airwaves.”
Opponents of the Fairness Doctrine say that if it
were reinstated, stations that air conservative
viewpoints would have to give free air time to
liberals. As a result, many stations might choose
not to air the conservative talkers.

Problem here folks is that there has been growing
speculation on Capitol Hill that Democrats will seek
to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine under the guise
that conservative talk radio is disproportionately
dominating American radio. So in other words,
they (the democrats) want the people who are
standing up for America and the rights of the
people to know the truth about what is really
going on in this country, and continually provide
valuable information on the corruption that is a
foot in Washington silenced. The democrats do
NOT want you to know the truth, they want you
to only know what they tell you, say something
along the lines of what Hitler did to eliminate the
press and any freedoms of speech in Nazi Germany.
The people heard only what Hitler wanted them to
hear from his propaganda machine. Shall we call it
modern day Gestapo tactics, or is that label better
left for the I.R.S., or are they just all one in the same.

Martin also wrote that the FCC was considering
the use of local advisory boards to ensure that
broadcasters are fulfilling their obligation to serve
their local communities, but stressed that these
boards “would not regulate the content of the
broadcasters’ programming.” He concluded in
his letter to the Ohio Republican: “I appreciate
your interest in this matter and reiterate that I
share your concern that the Fairness Doctrine
not be reinstated.
One thing is clear: If the Democrats win theWhite
House, expect an all-out attack on talk radio.
Political talk, as we know it, could end. If they win,
Rush, Imus, Savage, Beck, and dozens of other
major hosts will be muzzled by using federal
regulations to control political talk. Leading liberals
in Congress, the Democratic presidential candidates,
and even some Republicans speak openly of their
plans to end conservative talk radio using federal
regulations. Their weapon: a revived Fairness
Doctrine, which would once again require stations
to air divergent points of view, a clever ruse that
makes station owners leery of airing controversial
talk-radio hosts fearing law suits and federal sanctions.
With a new Fairness Doctrine, you could see many top
conservative radio hosts canned.

People, we are guaranteed the right to free speech
in this country by the Constitution, and no liberal
hack has any business trying to take that away.
These politicians are picking and chipping away at
the Constitution everyday and trying to put you
in a socialistic environment where the government
controls your lives and your every movement.
Think about that today as you get up and leave
your own house, while driving your own car, and
going to your own job, wearing your own clothes,
and taking out your wallet to buy your own lunch
with your own money, or at least what is left after
you give the government close to 55% of what you
made last year, and then going home to your own
family, and watching your own TV and playing on
your own computer, or your own Xbox, or picking
a movie out of your own movie collection....do I
need to go on?? People are taking all these things
for granted, and there are those who believe that
the government would give them all these things
if they took over complete control, and took from
those who have worked to earn a life and gave to
those who have not. That's what the Germans
thought when they elected Hitler into power, and
once he had power, no one was safe, no one! I still
have nightmarish visions from documentrys I have
watched of people carrying a suitcase with
everything they owned onto boxcars to be trans-
ported to concentration camps to their ultimate
rewards of slave labor and death. Families never
to see each other again in this world, starved,
beaten, torchered, dismembered......murdered.