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Hinchey apparently didn't get the memo dude. :roll:Originally posted by: MovingTarget
Originally posted by: Doc Savage Fan
So the crux of your rebuttal revolves around what a subjective term means to you ("systematically"), a simplistic stereotype that reflects a simplistic world view, and a perception that any reaction to FD is all the usual right wing FUD regardless of Hinchey's stated actual intentions. Your logic defies me.Originally posted by: MovingTarget
Originally posted by: Doc Savage Fan
And the left is not bringing this up systematically? Dude...did you read the article? Hinchey's the one who brought up the subject and voiced his intentions to make the Fairness Doctrine part of a bill later this year and...God forbid... the right had the odasity to react? What are you saying...they should just STFU until it's actually brought up in Congress? Yet it's OK for Hinchey to freely express his opinion and any reaction to his intentions "is really a right wing attempt to circle the wagons through the usual FUD". Hitting the bottle a little early today?Originally posted by: MovingTarget
Originally posted by: Doc Savage Fan
Maybe if the left wouldn't keep bringing it up then the right wouldn't react to it and invoke their 'scare tactics' (lol)....just a thought.Originally posted by: MovingTarget
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The topic of the fairness doctrine has been beaten to death here. There has been an increasing drumbeat of support for reinstating it, but I'm not sure if that is anything more than rumor at this point, manufactured or not. Hell, there was an article recently about former president Clinton saying it should be reinstated. Stories about person X,Y,or Z supporting the FD seem to come out every few weeks. Until Congress holds hearings on the issue or the FCC mentions it, it is largely a moot issue, more suited to scare tactics by the right.
The right seems to be bringing this up systematically while those on the left have not. They have power to do so right now, but they do not. There will always be some that support the FD, but that has a snowball's chance in hell of even being brought up for official debate. This is really a right wing attempt to circle the wagons through the usual FUD. Like I said, when it is announced that it will be brought up in Congress, then it will be an issue. Until then, nothing to see here...
Systematically? No, as anytime the FD has been brought up by those on the left it has been individuals expressing support for it, but not actually advocating for someone to go ahead and reinstate it. It is way more of an issue for Rush et. al. than it is for the lefties. The right has been hammering on the FD for quite some time before this, even before this congressional session. They have cried 'wolf' one too many times for me to really take such claims seriously, even as a supporter of the FD. It has a snowball's chance in hell of making it beyond a mere motion in either house right now.
No. There are many legitimate reactions to the FD, as are arguments against the concept of the FD. However, I dismiss this particular story as something new as a patturn has emerged over quite some time with right wing idealogues crying wolf when they know damn well it isn't going to be brought back. It is dead. Kaput. The only purpose it has served is to rally Rush's listeners. Every other week it seems there is yet another blog touching off yet another FD debate that we have already had ad nauseum. Until something happens beyond what we have already seen, it won't hold any water with me.
