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2007 Soap Box Archives The Fairness Doctrine? It seems that that some of our senate and congressional members have no more pressing matters to worry about than investigating talk show hosts and trying to reintroduce the Fairness Doctrine. The Fairness Doctrine is a piece of trash that would demand equal time for all points of view, which sounds like a wonderful idea in principal, but in reality is nothing more than a pitiful attempt to put as many liberal talk show hosts on the airwaves as there are conservative talk show hosts. Basically
it is an attempt by Henry Waxman, Harry Reid and their ilk to silence Rush Limbaugh
and Sean Hannity, which is kind of pathetic because Rush and Sean combined have
multimillions of loyal fans where Harry Reid and They have been perpetrating and proliferating an out and out untruth about Rush Limbaugh saying that he slammed the troops which is nothing more than a bald-faced lie. I know because I know the statement he made, referring to some people as phony soldiers, people who claimed to have been in battle and hadn¹t and people who tried to collect false military service claims from the government, some of them in prison now. One phony soldier who claimed to have seen a lot of battle action in the war had washed out of the army in a little over forty days. In other words he never even made it out of boot camp. What's hard to understand is when did Reid and Waxman ever care about the troops, but they think they see a political opportunity to hurt one of their enemies and so they seize the moment. To hell with the truth. The thing about it is that the bomb is going off in their hands. There are no more staunch supporters of the troops than Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and no more staunch detractor than Harry Reid. It's
not that liberal radio talk show hosts have not been given a chance. In fact they've
had their own network, Air America, the problem is that nobody much wants to listen,
so the profit based radio stations won't keep them on I guess the socialist philosophy just goes too deep in Waxman, Reid and company to understand that capitalism is ruled by demand in the market place and there is miniscule demand in the market for the doom and gloom rantings of people who have only questions and no answers and don't seem to like America very much. It's just a fact of life. The Fairness Doctrine is tantamount to making a New York City urban hip-hop radio station play thirty minutes of classical music every hour. What do you think would happen to their listener base? Or what if the fat people demanded equal time with thin people on television or the New York Philharmonic was forced to play Sally Gooden while someone on the Grand Ol Opry had to play the 1812 overture every Saturday night? What if blind people demanded driver's license and women demanded to play in the NFL? Sound ridiculous, so's the Fairness Doctrine. Pray for our troops. What do you think? God Bless America Charlie Daniels October 12, 2007
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