Doctrine Feelgood
June 29, 2008 at 3:02 am
Nancy Pelosi’s Congress is taking its lumps these days over an issue that might energize conservatives in the fall elections: the Fairness Doctrine.
Investor’s Business Daily editorial:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi intends to restore the “Fairness Doctrine” regulating political speech — proof that in the Internet Age, Democrats have lost the communications war. … Pelosi would have Uncle Sam again become speech policeman — because in the free market of mass communication, her party’s message is losing.
And Grover Norquist writes in the Financial Times:
Every radio talk-show host and Christian radio and television station knows that if Democrats take complete control, they will restore the so-called “fairness doctrine” that would require “equal time” for opposing viewpoints. The rise of Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio host, was made possible only after that doctrine was abolished in 1987 by the Reagan administration. The talking heads of the secular and religious right have their heads riding on this election as on no other in the past. They will engage with gusto.
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