It's New, BABY!

Apparently, a few people still read this blog. That’s a few more than I thought. So, tonight, I write this blog in your honor. You unnamed few. Seriously, I won’t tell anyone you’re reading my blog. You can keep reading.

Ahhh…what to write about? Illegal immigration would be the obvious pick. Do I want to be obvious, though? Sometimes obvious is good, but, tonight, is not sometimes. It’s tonight. And, since the immigration bill is dead, at least for a few years, we can talk about that some other time.

The Fairness Doctrine. The lib’s new Golden Child. Now that they don’t have to convince us that Americans won’t wash dishes and mow lawns, they can cram the Fairness Doctrine down our throats. It’s a big one, so they’ll have to use both hands and put some elbow grease into it.

The idea is this: They don’t like what talk radio is saying right now, since it’s predominantly (90%) right wing. To restore order, they want to have equal time on all radio programs to voice their “side” of any story they choose.

For example, Rush Limbaugh has Ann Coulter on his show. They take 5 minutes to discuss some political issue; the war in Iraq. They say that they stand with Bush on Iraq and don’t want to have the soldiers brought home until our military leaders on the ground tell us that the Iraqi Police and Military branches will be able to keep order. A MoveOn.org lefty doesn’t agree. He wants to blame Bush for Saddam, Iraq, and the end of the TV series Knight Rider. Under the rules of the proposed “Fairness Doctrine”, anyone who disagrees has the right to call and demand equal airtime on that program to discuss their views on the topic.

First off. Sponsors pay for advertising spots to keep these shows on the air. Sponsors pay big bucks to be put in spots during popular programs because they will receive the most exposure with those, obviously. If any schmuck can call in and take up time on a nationally syndicated program to voice their retarded opinion, the ratings will go down. Millions of people choose those shows because they like the host, Rush, or Michael Savage, or Matt Drudge…not some jackass sitting at home at his computer wearing a tin-foil hat in his Mom’s basement. Without sponsors, no money. No money, no show. It’s free radio folks. Don’t know if you noticed that. You don’t have to pay monthly to listen to AM radio, they make money through sponsors. That’s it. That’s how it works.

Secondly. Why aren’t they talking about fairness on TV? Hardball with Chris Mathews? Keith Olbermann? I don’t see them wanting to give equal air-time to conservatives who want to call in to disagree with Keith. Why is it only radio? Because radio is dominated by Conservatives and the Right. TV and Movies are dominated by liberals and Hollywood (pretty much the same thing).

Look, people. The Fairness Doctrine is nothing but the left wanting to shut up conservative radio. They’re pissed off because Heir America didn’t pan out, so now they’re going after Rush and others. They don’t want to come on the show and debate politics and make their voice heard, they just want talk radio to stop pointing out what should be obvious to everyone else. There is no debate with Liberals. They know they can’t stand up to the truth, so they want it blotted out. Too late. The gig is up. The Fairness Doctrine will never happen.

Besides, aren’t there more important things to be legislating than this? Like why can’t we get more than 2 miles of border fence built in 2 years? We can send men to the moon, but for some reason we can’t get a freakin fence built on our border? Let’s figure out ways to enforce laws we have, that would be cool, right?


Whew. That rant felt great. A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Good stuff. More to come.