Senator Stabenow: Legislation for The Family

Senatrix Debbie Stabenow D(unce)-Michigan has come out in support of the highly controversial "fairness doctrine".

The what?

Fairness Doctrine: a principle that says, if one side of an argument is going to present a viewpoint, the other must be given equal time on the public airwaves. Sounds good right? Well, if people were all good it might be (and socialism/communism/etc would work). But here's the rub: the principle effect would be to kill off issues-based talk radio.

How?

There are folks out there who hate the fact that conservative talk radio informs the people what their Elected Heroes are up to, because then the Loud People get agitated, contact their representatives, and kill off all the really juicy leftist stuff before it even gets out of committee. How are we ever going to get away with all the things we want to do, if the People know we are trying to do it?.

So they listen to the talk radio shows. Under the unFairness Doctrine, they hear something they don't like and call and protest. Then some whiny [deleted] gets to go on the air and rant. Nobody wants to listen to a whiny [deleted] who can't string a sentence together, so the people turn the channel. This happens a few thousand times and radio advertisement ceases to be effective and program directors shut off the conservative syndicated talkers in favor of local or non-political programming. The main source of information for some of the Loud People is cut off, and the leftists get busy playing while their constituents try to find out what is happening.

But why is Stabenow coming out in favor of the Censorship Doctrine? Oh, certainly it is purely in the interest of fairness and not related to the fact that Tom Athans (her husband) is elbows-deep in left-wing talk radio. You know, the kind of radio that fails commercially everywhere it is tried, because no one wants to listen to it. No conflict of interest is possible, when it is for the greater good, comrade!