Sunday, July 08, 2007
A liberal agin' the Fairness Doctrine?
John Seigenthaler, chairman emeritus of the Tennessean and founder of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, says there's nothing fair about the Fairness Doctrine:
"The idea of any agency of government deciding what is 'fair' in the news media is silly on its face, as well as unconstitutional. It makes no sense."
Read the entire article here.
While I admire Seigenthaler for coming out agin' the Fairness Doctrine, I wonder why he and other liberals must fill their seemingly rational commentary with little left-wing bombs (Tennessean columnist Larry Daughtrey is a little-left-wing-bomb master). For example:
● According to John Seigenthaler, conservative radio talkers like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are "right-wingers," yet liberals ain't liberals. No, people on the left - nay, people from the "center" leftward - should be should be identified as "progressives." Please. The only folks I hear touting the word "progressive" these days ain't in the center of anything. Indeed, the only folks I hear identifying themselves as progressives are the loons at MoveOn.org and DailyKos, and elected loons like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
● Quoth Seig: "The Supreme Court ... put George Bush in the White House." Let's think back to what was transpiring when the U.S. Supreme Court got involved in the 2000 presidential election: The Gore campaign had convinced the Florida Supreme Court to order recounts in a handful of Gore-friendly counties, and each of the cherry-picked counties were using wildly divergent standards to count votes. If Al Gore had done the right thing and conceded a vote he wasn't going to win fairly, the U.S. Supreme Court wouldn't have had to rule - correctly rule - that the final Florida recount ran afoul of the Constitution's "equal protection" provisions.
● Seigenthaler just has to alert his readers 'bout this quote from U.S. Rep. David Obey (D-Wisconsin): "Rush and Sean are just about as important in the scheme of things as Paris Hilton." If Rush and Sean are so f'ing unimportant, why've Obey and his comrades been so up in arms about 'em? Hmm, John?!
