Senator Talks Up Fairness Doctrine Again: Assault on First Amendment Set to Begin

Senator Shumer is talking about the Fairness Doctrine again, setting the stage for the Democrats to begin their legalized assault on the First Amendment.

He was on Fox News on Tuesday and did a word play on Fox's own motto: fair and balanced. He said that the Fairness Doctrine would bring fairness and balance to the AM dial, balancing conservative shows with liberal ones.

Let's be frank.

Liberal talk shows are money-losing propositions for radio stations, while the conservative ones rake in the cash, and have tremendous staying power. Why should the radio stations be forced into such a money-losing proposition by carrying liberal talk-radio on an equal footing with the conservative ones?

Conservatives are afraid that since liberal shows are money-losers, that they would cut back on conservative shows as well in order to avoid the flak and fines that the FCC would be required to impose, as well as limit the damage to their bottom lines that liberal programming would bring.

Senator Schumer also said that those who opposed the Fairness Doctrine also wanted to limit the amount of pornography on the air. His argument makes no sense from a literal standpoint. Pornography isn't seen on radio.

And he's made no argument for more of a conservative viewpoint on TV news stations, such as CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, or NBC, or more liberal viewpoints on Fox News. Senator Shumer and his friends have targeted radio exclusively. That fact alone makes the Fairness Doctrine unfair.

Air America Radio Host Suspended for Anti-Hillary Rant: Ho-Hum

A liberal radio show host was caught blasting Hillary Clinton with some very bad words, and has been suspended. Yippee skippee. I'm so excited that I'm bored out of my mind.

Oh, did I say that out loud?

I wonder if this Air America host will get the Imus treatment, or if she'll be back on in a few weeks. That's the only part of this unfortunate situation that I'm interested in. Her choice of words WERE really bad, and that she did it at a work-related event was just plain stupid.

NBC Unable to Strike a Deal With Rosie: This is Not a Bad Thing

Liberal network NBC/MSNBC/NBC Universal was unable to strike a deal with super-liberal Rosie O'Donnell on a new talk show that would have gone head-to-head with CNN's Larry King Live and the higher-rated Fox News shows. Some are sad; I am not.

Though I would have enjoyed Rosie vs. Trump III, I don't think that those back-and-forth insults between the two egomaniacs are worth giving her a platform to spew her venom again. Her tenure at The View (which I don't watch) required a "suspension of belief" (to quote a friend of hers) in some of the things that she said. The recaps of her outrageous statements and outright lies were bad enough, and I'm glad that she got out of the news.

The management team at NBC would be smart to keep Rosie out of the mix; NBC is screwed up enough as it is, without her help.