Fairness Doctrine

Barack Obama has only been President for a little over 2 weeks, and already, nut-job liberal senators are talking about instituting the "fairness doctrine". Ok, just one nut-job liberal senator, Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), but she claims she has talked to others about this.

For those who don't know, the fairness doctrine, in its simplest sense says that for every hour a radio station plays the Rush Limbaugh show, they have to play an hour of some crappy liberal host that no one wants to listen to. And I'm not making it up, they are crappy. That's why they all fail, while the top 3 most listened to radio shows are, Rush, Hannity and Glenn Beck.

Here's why I don't think this will happen:
1) The broadcast stations won't go for it...they have to make a living and they won't be able to sell advertising for crappy shows that no one listens to.
2) Talk Radio will get the word out. While the drive-by media (the fairness doctrine doesn't apply to them) ignores this, talk radio won't, and if enough people get ticked off, Senators and Representatives who want to keep their jobs will not support this.
3) It's an infringement on the 1st Amendment. I'm probably a bit naive, but somewhere in this country, the Constitution still has to count for something. At least I'd like to hope it does.

What this really is, is an attempt by some Democrats to silence the last real opposition to what they want to do. Talk Radio is the only force in this country that can inform the people about what's really going on in Washington. The drive-by media isn't going to do it...they're too busy carrying water for the democrats. Talk Radio is the only reason anyone has looked into this "stimulus" bill, and while it's still going to be a giant waste of money, talk radio forced some in Washington to take a hard look at it, and remove some of the pork.

Talk Radio is good for this country. If we ever have a day when the "news" media actually reports the news without spin, there will be no need for talk radio to exist.