Comments on: “Bbbbut we’re not trying to bring back the Fairness Doctrine!!!!”

By: KauaiMark

KauaiMark — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:49:45 +0000

Let’s have the government eliminate the yearly call for increasing the H-1B quota, charge $1m for each H-1B visa granted and charge a yearly fee of $100k to keep it.

I predict that companies would suddenly find lots and lots of “qualified” U.S. engineers.

This would be a win/win/win solution. More U.S. workers have jobs, the companies that still need imported workers could hire as many H-1B’s as they could afford and the government gets a new income source to help offset the budget deficit.

(I wonder if “Carbon Life Form Offset Credits” would work in this situation. Quick, get Al on the phone!…)

By: Drewsmom

Drewsmom — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:37:52 +0000

Its not the fault of onservative talk radio that NOBODY wants to listen to the weenie left pinkie radio talkers, they just don’t, period, END OF STORY.

By: forest hunter

forest hunter — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:12:29 +0000

Thank you ST! I wanted it to be seen in all it’s glory. The simps that extract a wage from this kind of bamboozling **** **** need to be horse whipped………. daily if necessary.

By: forest hunter

forest hunter — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:02:45 +0000

forest, I saw your comment after I put up my post about this - just moved your comment to that thread. --ST

By: Tom the Redhunter

Tom the Redhunter — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:26:14 +0000

Great post, Sister. I don’t think there’s any doubt that if or when the Democrats get total power in WDC they’ll tro to implement this monstrosity.

The left has the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, Time, Newsweek, the Associated Press, and academia, and they complain about talk radio?

By: Tom TB

Tom TB — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:57:50 +0000

WABC in NYC has tried left-wing talk show hosts over and over in the years I’ve listened to the station. They have tried a liberal former Mayor (Ed Koch), a liberal former Governor (Mario Cuomo), and a leftist that Ed Koch described as being “to the left of chairman Mao”. If all you can hear is the crickets chirping on call-in talk radio when you hire an Al Franken, the public has spoken with their silence!

By: Great White Rat

Great White Rat — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:09:40 +0000

And of course, the libs are lying when they say they haven't had these plans on their minds for quite a while. James Imhofe heard Boxer and the Hildebeest discussing it three years ago. Best part of the story:

They were outraged by something you said or Rush Limbaugh or somebody said that upset them. They said, â€˜We have got to do something about this, these are nothing but far-right wing extremists. We've got to have a balance, there's got to be a legislative fix to this.'" He added: "As we got off the elevator, I said, â€˜You gals don't understand. This is market-driven and there's no market for your liberal tripe.'"

Well, of course. I mean, when's the last time any liberal understood anything about the free market? But they do understand about controlling and stifling free speech. It's something we should never lose sight of.

By: mikem

mikem — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:49:59 +0000

You got it, NC Cop. Try even hinting at the type of diversity demamds that liberals are calling for in talk radio formats to be applied to ABC, CBS, CNN, NY Times etc. and they would scream bloody murder about Bush’s America regulating free speech.
But you know what. They won’t get what they are demanding, but they will get what they are working at. And that is to further the view of talk radio as an unfair, therfore illegitimate, format for public discussion. Too much of the “wrong” views get through.

By: NC Cop

NC Cop — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:05:19 +0000

Oh, but since the dems are sooooooooo concerned about fairness and balance, I’m sure they will be coming out with some government regulations for all of the print media that is overwhelmingly left leaning. Right?

By: UNCoRRELATED

UNCoRRELATED — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:46:27 +0000

Target: Talk Radio

I’ve had a chance to read the Center for American Self-Destruction’s “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio”. Its a remarkable document really, if for nothing else than its honesty about how liberals view the country and its freedoms The…

By: Radio Ga Ga » The American Mind

Radio Ga Ga » The American Mind — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:10:23 +0000

[...] UPDATE: For a collective that distrusts government power when it comes to war and national security it’s ironic the Left would love to empower the federal government in order to diversity talk radio. Jeff Goldstein [via Sister Toldjah] rants, — which, to “liberals” can only mean one thing: the rightwing noise machine has managed to brainwash the unsophisticated proles, and only by acts of compassionate legislation and forced re-education can the effects of such trailer park indoctrination — maliciously disguised as “freely chosen” or “market driven” — be remedied. [...]

By: Vannek

Vannek — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:58:21 +0000

All of this talk about regulating media outlets was getting me really angry and really depressed until I realized that 90% of the conservative talk programs that I like, I listen to as webfeeds or podcasts. How on earth will any federal agency ever be able to regulate all of the U.S.-based Internet sources, the cable tv channels, the satellite tv channels, etc. let alone the international ones? This is all just a lot of bluster and bravado to make the mental midgets in Congress feel powerful and important.

By: Tango

Tango — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:57:13 +0000

…I can’t imagine anyone with half a brain falling for the line these liars are spewing.

By: Wake up America

Wake up America — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:28:15 +0000

In the News and Blogs: 6/22/07

Hot Air, Sister Toldjah and Maggie’s Notebook all have damn good thoughts and words, as well as new information about the supposed “fairness Doctrine” and those behind the effort to bring it out of the trash and back into our future.