Obama's Bait and Switch on the Fairness Doctrine

From the McCarville Report:
"Obama Opposes Return of Fairness Doctrine"

"President Barack Obama is against any move to bring back the so-called Fairness Doctrine, a White House spokesman told Fox News.com. "As the president stated during the campaign, he does not believe the Fairness Doctrine should be reinstated," White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said. The statement comes after recent comments by former President Bill Clinton and other leading Democrats that suggested a move to bring back the doctrine..."

And in other news...

We just won't call it the Fairness Doctrine...
From The American Thinker- Nov. 2008

Obama is on record as saying he does not plan an exhumation of the now-dead "Fairness Doctrine". Instead, Obama's attack on free speech will be far less understood by the general public and accordingly, far more dangerous.

The late community organizer Saul Alinsky taught his followers to strike hard from an unexpected direction, an approach known as Alinsky jujitsu.

Obama himself not only worked as an organizer for an Alinsky offshoot organization, Chicago's Developing Communities Project, but would go on to teach classes in Alinsky's beliefs and methods.

"Alinsky jujitsu" as applied to conservative talk radio means using vague rules already on the books to threaten any station which dares to air conservative programs with the loss of its valuable broadcast license.

Team Obama and the "localism" weapon

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule in question is called "localism." Radio and television stations are required to serve the interests of their local community as a condition of keeping their broadcast licenses.

Obama needs only three votes from the five-member FCC to define localism in such a way that no radio station would dare air any syndicated conservative programming.

Localism is one of the rare issues on which Obama himself has been outspoken.

On September 20, 2007, Obama submitted a pro-localism written statement to an FCC hearing held at the Chicago headquarters of Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.'s Operation Push.

Furthermore, the Obama transition team knows all about the potential of localism as a means of silencing conservative dissent. The head of the Obama transition team is John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress.

In 2007, the Center for American Progress issued a report, The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio. This report complained that there was too much conservative talk on the radio because of "the absence of localism in American radio markets" and urged the FCC to "[e]nsure greater local accountability over radio licensing.

Podesta's choice as head of the Federal Communications Commission's transition team is Henry Rivera.

Since 1994, Rivera has been chairman of the Minority Media Telecommunications Council. This organization has specific ideas about localism:

In other words, it would not do for broadcasters to meet with the business leaders whose companies advertise on their station. Broadcasters must reach beyond the business sector and look for leaders in the civic, religious, and non-profit sectors that regularly serve the needs of the community, particularly the needs of minority groups that are typically poorly served by the broadcasting industry as a whole.

Rivera's law firm is also the former home of Kevin Martin, the current FCC chairman. Martin is himself an advocate of more stringent localism requirements.

It was on Martin's watch that on January 24, 2008, the FCC released its proposed localism regulations. According to TVNewsday: "At the NAB radio show two weeks ago, Martin said that he wanted to take action on localism this year and invited broadcasters to negotiate requirements with him."

FCC complaints as politics by other means

Remember that an FCC license is required for any radio or television station to legally operate in the United States. A single complaint from anyone can significantly hinder a station's license renewal process or even cost the station its FCC license entirely.

Full Article HERE

UPDATE:
Obama to consider the "NEW Fairness Doctrine"....

told ya'
-red

MEMO: To All News Media Outlets

Until further notice, the following subjects are off limits when talking to Barack Obama and/or Joe Biden or even when talking ABOUT Barack Obama and/or Joe Biden.

Official Obama Banned List of News Subjects:
The Obama-Biden Campaign has officially banned the following subjects and will refuse interview access with "the One" to any news agency that violates this ban.

1- Obama's socialist programs, Obama's socialist background and Obama's socialist ties, terms like "spread the wealth" and/or "each according to his ability, each according to his need".

2- Any reference to Karl Marx, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Vladimir Lenin, John Lennon or Stalin.

3- Islam, Jihad, Madrassa, Iraq, Iran or the name "Hussein".

4- Any reference to Obama's radical pastor for over 20 years the good Reverend Jeremiah "God damn America" Wright.

5- Any questions about the fact that 60's radical terrorist bomber Bill Ayers launched Obama's political career from his living room and their continued relationship until just recently.

6- Joe Rezko, real estate, shady land deals, corruption, pay-ola, slush funds, kickbacks.

7- Plagairism, Gaffes or lies.

8- Campaign and tax money spent with Joe Biden's "family" businesses.

9- ACORN, voter fraud or Mickey Mouse.

10- Any use of the words "surge", "victory in Iraq", Radical Muslims, Muslim, Islamic Fascism, liberty, free speech, freedom, abortion, immigration, taxes, capitalism, free enterprise or conservative thought.

UPDATE:
11- There will be no further mention of LA Times article written by Peter Wallsten in April, where Obama was said he was a "friend and frequent dinner companion" of Rashid Khalidi, who from 1976 to1982 was reportedly a director of the official Palestinian press agency, WAFA, which was operating in exile from Beirut with the PLO." or the VIDEO of Obama praising Rashid Khalidi that the LA Times admits it is sitting on.

A lesson In Censorship From The Left

Ready again Class?
Okay boys and girls, today we are going to discuss "free speech".

Oklahoma Lefty, about whom I have expressed great respect for his courage and position on the war, has spent considerable time here in my comments sections trying to convince me to censor my words, thoughts, opinions and views of the left. (See Pinheads For Peace) He condemned me for using words that he deems inappropriate like "moonbat" for instance and has worked tirelessly to make the point that unless I use words and methods that he (dave) approves, then all my points are moot and not to be taken seriously.

Amazingly at the same time, he posts a story accusing bloggers like me of censorship because I require approval before comments are published here primarily due to spam ads. A glance at the comments section in "A Tale of Two Paynes" and numerous other posts shows clearly that I do publish comments that are critical and hateful of myself, conservatives and Bush in particular and in no way censor mere opinions.
Lefty goes to great lengths to condemn censorship when it fits his needs (defending other lefty's) while at the same time trying to *supervise my manners and thereby censor what I write and post here at Red S Tater !

Olahoma Lefty points to definition #2 HERE which says... "Any person who *supervises the manners or morality of others" as his example of MY censorship (by approving comments before publishing) which in fact is exactly what HE is doing by attempting to "supervise my manners" regarding comments I make about liberals and Democrats on my own blog.

And just where does Dave attempt to *supervise my manners and thereby censor free speech?
In the very same comments section that he accuses of censorship of "free speech"... of course. LOL
It's subtle, it's nuanced (of course) but none the less, Dave reprimands me for not blogging to his standards (repeatedly) and discredits me, ...then praises me in a couple of posts (and gives me credit) where I made an extreme effort to meet dave's standards, (even though in one of them I do describe liberals as communists, musta slipped by) then has the nerve to accuse ME of censorship!
Classic hypocritical rhetoric from the left.
Supporting free speech as long as THEY get to decide what speech is free.

Nice job dave, you illustrated perfectly how censorship works for the left. Calling Bush every name in the book is free speech, but asking a Democrat even a tough question...
("...don't tase me bro') much less calling them "moonbats" and "America haters", is considered a Zappable offense... especially in the liberal blog-o-sphere.

I have not advocated censoring the left, in fact I post and re-post their comments to help them get their message out. I figure the more people who know what these moonbats are saying, the better off we all are.

Meanwhile, we have a college professor teaching his personal Bush-hating moonbat politics in the classroom at the University of Central Oklahoma (a clear and rather obvious violation of inappropriate usage of free speech) and what do we hear from Oklahoma Lefty? (Cricket noise)

Perfect, ...thanks Dave.

And this, boys and girls on the same day that liberally biased Columbia University is welcoming Jew hater/Bush hater/America hater Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to their campus to speak after liberal students at Columbia attacked the founder of the border patrol group "The Minutemen" on stage less than one year ago disrupting his speech.
Classic.

UPDATE: 9/25/2007- Now I learn that Oklahoma Lefty (dave) has been sneaking around copying comments from the Red S Tater comments sections and posting them on a blog where he knows I am not registered, do not frequent and do not post... since Jan 2007 thus not giving me the opportunity to respond or comment. More classic stuff.

Class dismissed, no running in the halls ...and have a nice day.

-red s tater
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