Barack Obama supporters claim that Obama's associations with unrepentant terrorists, radicals, crooks and racists don't matter. Jeromy Brown has argued that there's no evidence that any of these people have influenced Obama's political philosophies. Of course, the fact that Obama has been in office only slightly longer than I have (which is never) doesn't seem to bother the Obamaniacs.
Still, I accept that when someone has the most liberal voting record in the Senate that that person probably supports a lot of liberal ideas, including the Fairness Doctrine. Indeed, liberals love the un-Fairness Doctrine and spend loads of time talking about how unfair competition is.
Led by a Muslim Democrat, members of the Federal Communications Commission, and Bill Moyers, Phil Donahue, and Dan Rather, a well-funded campaign to move the media in a more left-wing direction will gather in Minneapolis from June 6-8. Thousands of “progressive” activists are expected to attend...
At the opening session of the conference, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Mn.), the first Muslim elected to Congress, will discuss the “opportunity to wrest control of media access and distribution from the few to the many,” according to the official conference program. This is liberal doublespeak for using the power of the federal government to hand over more media properties to liberals.
However, as the Moyers example suggests, they already have access, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayers, to 350 television stations affiliated with the Public Broadcasting Service. The 860 stations affiliated with National Public Radio are also regarded as reliable outlets for liberal or “progressive” opinion. Pacifica Radio, an openly “progressive” radio network, includes five stations owned by the Pacifica Foundation, one associate station, and 132 affiliates. Pacifica has also received taxpayer funding.
In addition, they have MSNBC, the evening news programs of the three broadcasting networks, and most of the national press.
In Minneapolis, the conference has the support of AM 950, KNTF, “The Voice of Minnesota,” which is a home for Air America Radio, the liberal network that went through bankruptcy and was bailed out by a wealthy liberal family that includes former Democratic politician Mark Green.
The problem, of course, is that more people like listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity than Bill Moyers or discredited Dan Rather. So, like good liberals, if they can't win using the rules, they want to change the rules. If you stupid Americans won't watch and listen to their "enlightened" programs, they'll limit your choice to listen or watch the "wrong" programs.
Which brings us back to Obama and why electing Obama means stifling conservatives.
(I)f Obama captures the White House and gets the opportunity to appoint the FCC chairman, liberals would then have a 3-2 majority capable of bringing back the Fairness Doctrine through administrative action, without the need for congressional approval. A new Fairness Doctrine could be challenged in the courts but the U.S. Supreme Court previously upheld it. In the meantime, as court battles proceed, conservatives could be forced off the air by liberal FCC bureaucrats exercising arbitrary power in the name of fairness.
But, hey, it doesn't matter who Obama hangs with, right?
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