Monday, November 17, 2008

The Fascist Docrtrine?

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Here is comes. A new, but equally fascist wrinkle in 'Bam's attack on dissent.

And he's started already!

The Gunslinger
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  1. JD17/11/08 1:47 PM

    It would hurt but not kill talk radio. We need to fight it but here in Boston the two daytime talk radio folks are local, not syndicated. We have syndicated folks for morning drive and at night so it would have an impact but I bet we can fill the slots with local folks if they try this to kill Talk Radio. I think the Fairness Doctrine would do far more damage since you could not go to locals to fill the time, you have to go to liberals and that would kill the income of the station and eventually the format.

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  2. tjones17/11/08 4:42 PM

    It would be an obvious attack on Free Market Capitalism (radio stations are there to make money,advertisers like the most listeners to hear their ads,etc.).Would love to share JD's optimism re:local voices (as syndicated hosts like Hannity,Limbaugh,O'Reilly get on my nerves,and stopped listening to them...too predictable...but I enjoy Michael Savage,quirks and all)----unfortunately, the voices wouldn't be "local" and truly representative,but over-representation of Leftist/whiny horseshit-purveyors,since handing out the airwaves would STILL be up to spineless local pols who jump if someone says "Boo-yah!" I'd have no problem with "localism" if it were TRULY localism (I remember when local radio music staions would play regionally-popular hits and every local station had it's own specific Bozos,kiddie shows,programs,etc.),but it does sound like the usual tactic to let those who complain the loudest get the microphone.Regular folks will just switch to a fishing or football channel,unless they SUBSCRIBE to freely-chosen channel to fulfill their info-needs,like...oh,the Internet or satellite.Of course,"Posey-Toes" and his allies will attack those next,being that "everything" is in the "public interest",and THEY have all the answers.I HATE CONTROL FREAKS,whatever the packaging! I just ask that it's a voluntary thing,y'know? And it never is,when Government is involved in micro-managing...

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  3. Anonymous17/11/08 4:48 PM

    Sounds like we need to start complaining the loudest.

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  4. tjones17/11/08 5:17 PM

    Got a feeling complaining will be done,mostly in local,county,and state levels,with a schmatter of using lawsuits."Big" thinking hasn't worked,as History should've informed us it wouldn't.Trusting "alleged" conservatives in DC didn't work-they drink the water,there,and 90%turn into,frankly,jerk-offs,running toward the camera when the red light goes on,rather than being honorable Statesmen.I keep going back to Brookhiser's books on the Founders.THERE's dis-proof of Evolution Theory!

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  5. tjones17/11/08 5:34 PM

    As a philosophical diversion (or not),it seems to me we're going thru a change re:Nation/State into...what? Back to Feudal,or has it gone too far into One World/borders-don't-matter paradigm,or will it become something else? I HOPE it's something else,and a political system evolves that doesn't trample over the Individual Human Spirit,which thus far has rescued us from our Follies,so far...

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  6. JD18/11/08 12:14 PM

    tjones. . . I think we are going to see an eventual fall and quite possible a second American Civil War to fix things. . . I just don't know how long it will take. . . or how ugly it will be.

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  7. The Gunslinger19/11/08 2:46 PM

    jd, if we can't hit the brakes on this speeding train, I don't see another option if freedom is to endure.

    "How did it come to this?"
    --Théoden of Rohan, The Two Towers

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