Boortz this morning, as regards the Pence amendment, which effectively block the ‘fairness doctrine”… for a while…
First: Did you know that this amendment only applies to 2008 appropriations? It does absolutely nothing after 2008. So no wonder it passed! Democrats knew that they couldn’t reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine in the current budget anyway! They would have to wait for a Democrat president! Now these Democrats who voted for the amendment, knowing that it was only for the 2008 budget year, can run for office and proudly tell the voters that they stood fast for freedom by denying funding for the Fairness Doctrine!
This amendment, though a strictly temporary positive development for talk radio, cannot prevent re-implementation of the “Fairness” Doctrine. All it does is say that the feds can’t spend any money enforcing it.
Boortz also points out that…
Cliff Kincaid writes that now Democrats are on a campaign to link talk radio to hate crimes. Hate crimes, folks. Democrats, according to Kincaid, have now requested a federal study of … now get this … how “broadcast facilities licensed on behalf of the public by the Federal Communications Commission” have been used to “convey messages of bigotry or hatred, creating a climate of fear and inciting individuals to commit hate crimes.”
If the Democrats get their study … and with them in control of the Congress I think we know how this study would turn out … then they can move against talk radio with the phony “evidence” of complicity in “hate crimes” on the part of talk radio.
I seem to recall urging Congress to eliminate hate crimes as one of the first things I wrote about when this blog started, around 7 years ago. This kind of thing was one big reason why…. because hate speech legislation gives control of pseech to the government… anything at all can be labled ‘hate speech’… and so it will be.
Same topic reading: The New York Post’s Kristen Powers
