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The Unfairness of Reviving the Fairness Doctrine

March 5, 2009 - 12:09 am - by Donald Kent Douglas
Dick Hertz
2009-03-05 11:59:54

Why do conservatives hate their fellow Americans so much? Why are they so afraid? Is it the combination of ignorance, arrogance, and misplaced self-confidence?
Case in point. Fairness Doctrine is not even on the radar of the Obama Administration. Righties insist that it is. But it’s not. Some lefties and centrists wish it was an option, or that Clear Channel didn’t own all the radio stations. Sad fact: only poor people listen to the radio anymore. Middle class people have ipods, tape decks, and cd changers. Most people aren’t interested in talk radio anyway, except maybe long haul truckers. How can the industry call attention to itself? Right wing persecution fantasies! Now the righties are all in a tizzy because they have convinced themselves of their own conspiracy theory that is so fiendishly clever that Obama must be some kind of super ninja man.
IN the meantime, the memos that the Bush II administration were going to use to crush our constitution under the heels of its Gucci shoes have been released, revealing that the real conservatives are frikking royalists who want a king. That’s conservative!