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Title: Stabenow: Dems May Hold Talk Radio “Accountability” Hearings
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URL Source: http://www.infowars.com/stabenow-de ... radio-accountability-hearings/
Published: Feb 6, 2009
Author: Kurt Nimmo
Post Date: 2009-02-06 10:56:31 by christine
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Views: 206
Comments: 24
Democrat senator Debbie Stabenow has told nationally syndicated talk host Bill Press she will push for talk radio “accountability hearings” in order to impose government-mandated “balance” in the radio marketplace. According to the Gladwin, Michigan, senator the airwaves are “dominated by one view” that “overwhelms people’s opinions — and, unfortunately, incorrectly,” and said that “right-wing conservative talk hosts” are “trying to make people angry and saying all kinds of things that aren’t true and so on,” Radio Ink reports on February 5. In other words, according to Stabenow, the American people are unable to formulate their own opinions and the government must do this for them. In order to facilitate this process, the Michigan senator pledges to “pass a standard” based on the revoked Fairness Doctrine. She will “bring these [radio network] owners in and hold them accountable” to an undefined “community interest,” that is to say the politically motivated interests of supposed “progressive” Democrats irate over the fact so-called “conservatives” have dominated the airwaves for more than two decades. Stabenow has adopted Obama’s “accountability” rhetoric for her plan to limit the First Amendment rights of talk radio broadcasters. During the election, Obama called for accountability on the part of Wall Street and Washington in regard to the supposed financial industry bailout bill. “You know, we had something called the Fairness Doctrine, back until the eighties when it was removed, where where you had to have balance… and I think something that requires that in a market with owners that have multiple stations that they have got to have balance – there has to be some community uh, interest – balance, you know, standard that says both sides have to be heard,” Stabenow told Press. Before hosting a “left-leaning liberal” nationally syndicated talk radio program, Bill Press was the chair of the California Democratic Party from 1993 to 1996. He is receptive to Stabenow’s proposal to subject radio broadcasters to “accountability hearings.” In 1986, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that the FCC was not required to apply the Fairness Doctrine. In August 1987, the FCC abolished the doctrine by a 4-0 vote. The FCC stated “the intrusion by government into the content of programming occasioned by the enforcement of [the Fairness Doctrine] restricts the journalistic freedom of broadcasters … [and] actually inhibits the presentation of controversial issues of public importance to the detriment of the public and the degradation of the editorial prerogative of broadcast journalists” and deemed the ruling unconstitutional. On January 28, 2009, FCC Commisioner Robert McDowell told the Media Institute in Washington that it is “hard to tell if current calls for its return will gain traction or not. On the one hand, recently several prominent members of Congress have called for its restoration. Still others are strongly opposed to its revival.” McDowell also said any attempt to revive the Fairness Doctrine would face an uphill battle in the courts. The Fairness Doctrine was on the minds of at least two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the January 15th confirmation hearing for Attorney General-Designate Eric Holder, who was subsequently confirmed. Both Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions asked Holder pointed questions about reinstating the doctrine. As Michael G. Franc reported for NRO on January 23, Holder was at best evasive in answering questions. “The bottom line is beware,” Franc warned, “and stay tuned to your favorite talk radio host for further details!” “I have already had some discussions with colleagues, and, you know, I feel like that’s going to happen. Yep,” Stabenow assured Press.
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#1. To: christine (#0)
The NEOCONS and NEOCOMMIES can dry up for all I care. They will go after the patriots on air with a vengeance. Most people I listen to will be driven underground.
4um Traitor Most people I listen to will be driven underground. we know that's the goal.
The new word is Neo Marxists. Start using it. Pass it on.
The new word is Neo Marxists. Start using it. Pass it on. Neo Marxists working with Globalist Banksters = death and destruction. Time to deal with them both, starting with the G Bs ?
4um Traitor we know that's the goal. No point in naming them but let's just say we won't be hearing "911 was in inside job" ever again.
4um Traitor who do you listen to who is a patriot? when do they come on? I'd love to listen to some real patriot radio.
I don't listen to talk radio at all anymore.
I think I'm safe in saying that what happens to Limbaugh/Hannity isn't normally of interest to us. However, to silence them via this legislation puts our heads firmly on the chopping block. In fact I'd guess that we represent the true threat to power (simply by using our 1st) moreso than these neocons do. So, don't start the celebration prematurely. Just my opinion.
I heard some Michael Savage last night. Sometimes he is ok.
Savage is right on some issure, wrong on others, but his accent, coupled with anecdotal Bronx, NY stories, is a treat for me :P
For starters, Alex Jones. The list is very long..
4um Traitor He's hit or miss for me. He's a bomb-bomb-bomb 911 Official Story® guy. He skirts the NAU, etc. His bi-polar outbursts are funny tho. ;-)
4um Traitor we won't have a choice soon
4um Traitor And that is the key. The fascists will force us to listen to their crap.
Ready for 4um Radio? Anyone?
What would be far more interesting would be for the FTC, not to be confused with FCC, to force the five or so Zionist media conglomerates which own everything to be busted up a la what T. Roosevelt's administration did to Standard Oil.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
This is funny! “Accountability” Hearings ??? These traitorous _____________ (I already used up my 1 f-bomb today) are responsible for destroying this country and they are worried about talk radio? LMAO! I look forward to the "“Accountability Hearings" we will have for the traitors that survive our wrath.
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files Anyone? Yes but I must qualify this response. I remember an attempt to do the same on FR. Agitator and BobJ. Both despicable men if you ask me. So the idea has left a bitter taste in my mouth but I do support the concept. I think there is a conservative radio thing going already. Perhaps hitching our boat to something already existing would be easier than reinventing the wheel?
Exactly.
I'm heartily sick of the rhetoric that comes from this nest of vipers. Like schizophrenics, words have meaning to them only when they utter them and bear no relationship to reality. These bitches have a lot to learn about “accountability". _______________________________________________________________________________ Woman in prostitution case gets 5 days in jail BY KORIE WILKINS • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • February 6, 2009 In tears, the Westland woman accused of accepting money for sex from the husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., began serving five days in jail Thursday for violating the terms of her probation. Alycia Martin, 21, was sentenced in August to 6 months of probation on a misdemeanor trespassing charge after she was arrested in a prostitution sting in February 2008 at a Troy hotel. Police allege Martin performed oral sex on Tom Athans, Stabenow's husband. Athans was not charged in exchange for his assistance in the case. According to court officials, Martin had not showed up for mandatory drug and alcohol testing since September. Her pro bono attorney Frank Cusumano Jr. repeatedly has said Martin, who makes less than $100 a week working in a fast food restaurant, could not afford to pay for the testing. "My car breaks down every other day," said Martin, shortly before she was led away by an Oakland County Sheriff's Office deputy. "There's nothing I can do. I can't walk here. And I don't have money for gas most of the time." But 52-4 District Judge William Bolle said it didn't seem Martin was going to be able to comply with her probation. Cusumano said Martin, who dropped out of high school in ninth grade and has been on her own since she was in her late teens, is working to get her GED. "Alycia will get through this," Cusumano said. "She'll serve her time. I don't know why he'd throw her in jail, but it underscores the whole thing. There is a disparity between wealth and poverty." Contact KORIE WILKINS at 248-351-5186 or kwilkins@freepress.com. (emphasis added) Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. And exactly who was the 'victim' in this case? Ninety-five percent, or more, of our laws suck.
The prostitution victim in this case is doing quite well, thank you. The viscious prostitute that assaulted him is paying her debt to society. Let's hope she's learned her lesson. /s
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. A political group I have been working with is actually looking into buying a micro station to hit our local area. This is also another option.
That animated .gif is the funniest thing I've ever seen posted here.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#2. To: Rotara (#1)
They will go after the patriots on air with a vengeance.
#3. To: Rotara (#1)
NEOCONS and NEOCOMMIES
#4. To: Old Friend (#3)
NEOCONS and NEOCOMMIES
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#5. To: christine (#2)
Most people I listen to will be driven underground.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#6. To: Rotara (#1)
They will go after the patriots on air with a vengeance. Most people I listen to will be driven underground.
#7. To: Rotara (#1)
Most people I listen to will be driven underground.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss — The Who
#8. To: All (#1)
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#9. To: Jethro Tull (#8)
#10. To: Old Friend (#9)
#11. To: winston_smith (#6)
who do you listen to who is a patriot? when do they come on? I'd love to listen to some real patriot radio.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#12. To: Jethro Tull, Old Friend (#10)
Savage is right on some issure, wrong on others, but his accent, coupled with anecdotal Bronx, NY stories, is a treat for me :P
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#13. To: farmfriend (#7)
I don't listen to talk radio at all anymore.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#14. To: Rotara (#13)
we won't have a choice soon
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss — The Who
#15. To: farmfriend, all (#14)
#16. To: christine (#0)
#17. To: christine (#0)
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#18. To: Jethro Tull, christine, rotara, original_intent, lodwick (#15)
Ready for 4um Radio?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss — The Who
#19. To: farmfriend (#18)
Perhaps hitching our boat to something already existing would be easier than reinventing the wheel?
#20. To: christine (#0)
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Democrat senator Debbie Stabenow has told nationally syndicated talk host Bill Press she will push for talk radio “accountability hearings”
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#21. To: randge (#20)
#22. To: lodwick (#21)
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www.righttokeepandbeararms.com
#23. To: Jethro Tull (#19)
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss — The Who
#24. To: PSUSA (#17)
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