Forcing sub-prime mortgage loans onto private sector businesses and banks worked out so well for America, our federal government is about to do the same with the broadcasting industry via The Fairness Doctrine. Let me explain.
Never mind the fact that sub-prime borrowers were sub-prime for a reason (they couldn’t afford home ownership) and there was already a rental marketplace that affords people like them a comfortable way to live. No, compassion and diversity idolatry dictated that all should have homes, and the subsequent mortgage meltdown dictated that all Americans would pay the price.
Similarly, we’ve got no-talent, sub-prime liberal broadcasters that have tested the marketplace of ideas with their viewpoints on public airways and flat-out failed miserably. Just with the mortgage mess, there’s a renters market, so to speak, for liberal broadcast dogma already—National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service—but our government wants to force onto the private marketplace that which proved to suck on it already (Air America remember).
Liberals already have National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, Hollywood, Main Stream Media television and newspaper outlets, public schools, and universities to broadcast their ideology. Conservatives chose to target the last remaining institution that wasn’t already entrenched and inaccessible to conservative thought and have dominated the airwaves as a result.
So, liberals feel threatened enough by this one tiny chuck of media influence that they feel they must silence it. We must be fair they blather, so anybody with a microphone and a broadcasting dream should get airtime.
The only logical outcome of implementing such a doctrine is conservative viewpoints would get a 50% reduction in airtime forced upon them, and the radio stations would loose money on the other 50% which was filled with ineffective liberal claptrap. Radio stations would loose money, face bankruptcy, and be tempted/forced to ask for bailout money.
Once that happens, liberal politicians would make sure nobody in broadcasting owned a jet, or spoke any form of conservative hate speech, least they get their licenses revoked.
Say no to broadcasting welfare and the Fairness Doctrine.
Be kind to no-talent, sub-prime broadcasters. Convince them that they suck well before the need for a Fairness Doctrine bailout arises.
This is an exclusive article for The Terry Anderson Radio Show.
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Rush,
So what’s the next strategic move for the world of rational thought/logic, does it morph into some platform on the internet? I don’t see regular radio surviving this onslaught and satellite radio has its financial problems. Its almost like all this has to go underground, like the Russian economy after the USSR collapsed.
Speaking of illogical, I saw Tony Danza on Hannity’s show the other night and while he was accusing Hannity of using “slogans” I noticed the verbiage he used was almost a direct quote from that great political philosopher known for his eloquence and intellectual insight…David Letterman…”…I just have a brain, that’s all” (in regard to his political opinions about the Bush years and conservative policies). How is this guy walking around loose? Years ago, one of my relatives made disjointed illogical remarks like that and was almost committed to a mental ward!