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Less than an hour ago, the Senate voted on an Amendment introduced by Republican Sen. DeMint of South Carolina called the Broadcaster Freedom Act, which prohibits the FCC from reinstating The Fairness Doctrine. The amendment was attached to a Senate bill granting DC a voting representative in the House. The Senate passed the amendment 87-11, garnering true bi-partisanship from the floor.
Also voted on today was an opposing amendment to the same bill introduced by democratic Sen. Durbin, ordering the FCC to encourage radio ownership “diversity”. This amendment was passed 57-41. A DeMint aide said Durbin’s measure will “impose the Fairness Doctrine through the back door by trying to break up radio ownership.”
It is still unclear whether either amendment will make it to the final bill.
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I watched the voting and debate on C-Span. And took names of those voting against.
Babs
From what I heard on Fox, Conservative talk is by far the leader. Like Fox News. Bet Liberal LOVE that. Except in certain large city markets. Gee, there must be some liberal announcers wanting a job ? I guess free market is not good enough.
If non-conservatives want people to listen, build a better mouse trap. What that means is have a progran the people want and can get sponsors to pay for air time.
I guess time will decide the out come. People, you may be forced to listen to stuff on radio that you don’t want. Or tune out or change channel. Some big cities may have to listen to Rush. It works both ways you know. Which still is good thing for liberals. More conservative stations.
Babs, I am glad you watch C-Span and not the garbage on the MSM. I was watching C-Span while watching my Nephew and he kept calling it boring. I switched it to Fox and CNN and he didn’t say a word about it being boring.
Too bad our government isn’t more fun to watch. I wonder if we could make it more like hockey where senator and representatives can throw their gloves down and have at it. I bet more people would watch.
This is lovely and all, but, just wait. We all knew that Obama would not be this obvious and shut Rush and Friends down with the “fairness doctorine”, However, it will come in the form of regulating broadcast licensing. Instead of ever 10 years we will see stations be forced to re-license every year.
JD: “Too bad our government isn’t more fun to watch. I wonder if we could make it more like hockey where senator and representatives can throw their gloves down and have at it.”
You may just get what your asking for. If you haven’t noticed people are about to pick up pitch forks and storm capital hill! I’m not joking either, I was having lunch a few weeks ago and I saw a Marine, when I went to go pay for his lunch there was a lady who was already engaged in discussion with this gentlemen (who was shipping out to Afghanistan), her husband was a Commander helicopter pilot in the Marines. She was ripping mad at the current administration and let everyone who was seated around her know it. This lady vowed that if this current administration keeps sailing the U.S down the river of socialism she was going to stand on constitutional ave with signs telling the government what she thought. Now that doesn’t sound like much, however everyone sitting in our section of Applebee’s was fighting mad at the government.
If anyone needs a place to stay (excluding liberals) when we storm Capital Hill with our guns and pitch forks, let me know.
CG
o has ignored our armed forces. Not Bush. Budget is what more than 8 % HIGHER. But o will go line by line get rid of PORE. SURE. SURE. SURE. Watch market fall. When Peoples money is gone and inflation comes look out. America will be gone for many decades.
I admit the Senate floor gets dull – that’s why I let the channel run while I’m away from, then use that little rewind feature on my dish and skip through the boring parts.
But as for exciting, it was notable yesterday that just before the vote on DeMint’s amendment, DeMint had a couple minutes to speak, and the Senate wouldn’t come to order to listen to any of it – the gavel must have been banged a dozen times. I thought it was a bad sign for the amendment, then it passed 87-11. Even Dodd and Schumer voted for it. Diane Feinstein, however, voted yea and then immediately changed her vote to nay. Rockafeller voted no as well.
If we’re to really understand the workings of our senate and house, I think we have to turn off the MSM and get it from the horses mouth. And if you have that skip feature like I have on Dish, it makes it not quite so boring. They can really get heated up sometimes, though.
May 26th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
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