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Posted on Monday, July 02, 2007 at 9:58 AM by Robby Roberts
Well, I harp that Liberal Democrats only support free speech when you have something to say that they agree with. Well, they are now trying to PUSH their agenda on the public.
Let me ask you, do you think PRIVATE Industry had the right to run it’s business the way it want’s to, not how the government says it should? Do you understand how radio works when it comes to making money?
Radio makes its money from those annoying things called “Ads” you hear. Advertisers PAY to have their commercials heard. So, that means that they pay to have them played when they know people are listening. The more popular a program, the more valuable the advertising slots during that program. If a radio station want’s to make money, it has to run programming that is popular and that people will listen to so that advertisers will want to PAY for ad time during those programs.
Now, back to my rant about Liberal Democrats pushing their point of view… You see, about the only media that the Liberals do not RULE is talk radio. Conservatives rule there. (See my link to Rusty Humphries on the side) Why do Conservatives rule there? Because people WANT to listen, advertisers KNOW this and pay big money for radio stations to run their ads during Conservative talk programs. This does not happen with the Liberal radio shows. Just look at “Air America” – the so called network for Liberal talk radio. It went bankrupt. They could not pay the bills and bounced checks. WHY? No one was listening and advertisers knew it and no one wanted to pay for ad time.
Well, Liberal Democrats have a plan to FORCE privately run radio stations to air Liberal talk, regardless of what the LISTENERS want to hear. This plan says that, if they run an hour of a Conservative during prime time, they have to run an hour of a Liberal. They call it “The Fairness Doctrine.” This is just as bad as Liberals that say you should not keep score at a little league ball game because it’s not fair to have a winner or looser.
How about this crap? They “claim” that the Patriot Act has stomped all over freedom in the name of safety (it hasn’t). Yet they have NO PROBLEMS stripping OUR RIGHTS to push their agenda.
A LIBERAL guest on Fox News this morning asked a Conservative guest why he was afraid of “The Fairness Doctrine.” What I WISH the Conservative had said was “Why ar you afraid of letting the PEOPLE CHOOSE what THEY WANT to hear instead of thinking you have to FORCE your point of view on them.”
Now, some of you may be asking “What’s so wrong with giving equal air time?” Well, I’ll tell you. Radio stations that are FORCED to run an hour of Liberal talk for every hour of Conservative talk are going to get tired of loosing ad revenue during the Liberal hour. And let’s not forget that there are more than 2 political views. What about Libertarians and the Green party? Radio stations could be FORCED to go from 3 hours of PROFITABLE Conservative programming to just ONE hour of Conservative and 3 hours of alternate views (Liberal, Libertarian & Green Party). Three hours of programming they would not be able to GIVE AWAY ad time in. And, as long as they are FORCED to run it if they run Conservative, then they are going to DROP ALL OF IT. They’ll change up their programming, thus SILENCEING the Conservative voices. Liberals don’t care if their talk radio get’s cut as well, after all they have CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC and most of the major print media to spew their venom in. All that matters to them is SHUTTING UP the Conservative point of view.
“The Fairness Doctrine” would let them STRIP the Conservatives of their rights to FREE SPEECH on PUBLIC AIRWAVES!
I’ve ranted long enough, let me turn it over to someone else-> "The Un-Fairness Doctrine"
Just remember, Hillary says it's OK for the Government to take away things for the common good (BTW - that's called Communism....)
