Pelosi Backs The "Little Dick Doctrine" AKA The New And Improved Fairness Doctrine

The introduction last week of the Anti "Fairness Doctrine" bill we covered weeks ago that was a lame attempt to lay cover for a little gem quickly identified by blogs and radio hosts as a trojan horse which actually contained a hard to disguise new and improved version of the supposedly scrubbed "Fairness Doctrine" and replacing it with what I call the "Little Dick Doctrine" or the "Turban Durbin Special".

The primary gist of the little Dick provision went like this for those who missed it

The primary text of the Durbin amendment reads:

SEC.9 FCC Authorities. (a) Clarification of General Powers. – Title III of the Communications Act of 1934 is amended by inserting after section 303 (47 U.S.C. 303) the following new section:

SEC.303B. Clarification of General Powers. (a) Certain Affirmative Actions Required – The Commission shall take actions to encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership and to ensure that broadcast station licenses are used in the public interest. …

It' s terribly offensive to me and millions of others that they even tried to slip this lame piece of unconstitutional garbage, couched in a bill proporting to permanently shelve it's namesake, (only a week after Barry the Boob sent out this fraudulent trial balloon to throw the dogs off the scent per se by proclaiming through his own Scott McClellan, Robert Gibbs, that "he wouldn't support the re-institution of the so called "Fairness Doctrine") was a completely intentional kick to the groin by cocky democrats to all their pro free speech and dissension opponents meaning you and I essentially.

These audacious crooks are now beginning to think they can get away with just about anything after shoving through the treasonous Stimulus bill without Americans storming and taking down the Capitol Building which they were quietly expecting after such a blatant assault on America's constitution.

So having been more successful than they ever dreamed so quickly and painlessly achieved, the west coast Super Skank known as President in waiting San Fran Nanny Pelosi has now come right out and admitted as such saying basically"Ok you caught us, so yes, we're coming after Free Speech on the airwaves and talk radio is in our crosshairs" and she said it right here to CNS news just to make sure we gun and religion clinging rednecks get the word straight from the queen of jacks ass's mouth....."here we come again America and you're free speech and thoughts are the target this week."

Here's Senator Jim Demint who was the only one to really speak out forcibly regarding this piece of shit legislation at the time it was brought a few weeks ago

Speaker Pelosi Backs Senate Amendment to Regulate Talk Radio:

CNSNews.com - (CNSNews.com) – Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told CNSNews.com on Thursday that she supports an amendment to a Senate bill that would force the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to “take actions to encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership and to ensure that broadcast station licenses are used in the public interest.”

The amendment’s language is viewed by many media experts as a means to regulate conservative talk radio, particularly popular programs such as the Rush Limbaugh Show and the Sean Hannity Show, among many others.

House Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.), a former radio broadcaster and one of Congress’ biggest opponents of the Fairness Doctrine -- an FCC regulation removed in 1987 that forced broadcasters to grant equal airtime to opposing political viewpoints -- told CNSNews.com that the amendment is a masked attempt to restore the Fairness Doctrine.

The amendment, sponsored by Senate Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and attached to a bill (S.160) that would grant Washington, D.C., a vote in the House of Representatives, was approved by the Senate last Thursday in a party line 57-41 vote.

When asked whether she supports Durbin’s amendment, Speaker Pelosi said, “Certainly, I support Mr. Durbin in most things.”

“Diversity in media ownership is very, very, important,” said Pelosi.

Minutes after the passage of the ‘Durbin amendment’ last Thursday a separate amendment that would ban the restoration of the Fairness Doctrine, which was proposed by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), was also attached to the same D.C. voting rights bill and passed by a vote of 87-11.

But Pence told CNSNews.com that Durbin’s amendment would mandate a “stealth Fairness Doctrine.”

“Its clear to me that Democrats, having failed in their frontal assault on talk radio in America through the Fairness Doctrine, are now shifting strategy to a form of regulation that is essentially the Fairness Doctrine by stealth,” Pence said. He added that he is not surprised Pelosi has endorsed Durbin’s plan.

“It should come as little surprise that Speaker Pelosi, who openly supports returning the Fairness Doctrine to the airwaves of American, would support a new version of it,” Pence told CNSNews.com.

But Durbin said last Thursday that his amendment should not be equated with the Fairness Doctrine.

"No one is suggesting that the law for the FCC says that you can give this license to a Republican and this one to a Democrat and this one to a liberal and this one to a conservative,” said Durbin at the time. “When we talk about diversity in media ownership, it relates primarily to gender, race and other characteristics of that nature."

Meanwhile, the amendment, which passed the Senate riding on the D.C. voting right’s bill, now goes to the House where Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he thinks Republicans may be able to muster the votes to stop it.

“I think as we get into the appropriations process you will see us continue our effort to make sure the Fairness Doctrine is not put back into place,” Boehner told CNSNews.com at his weekly press conference on Thursday. “And I do believe the votes are in the Congress to make sure that happens.”

The primary text of the Durbin amendment reads:

SEC.9 FCC Authorities. (a) Clarification of General Powers. – Title III of the Communications Act of 1934 is amended by inserting after section 303 (47 U.S.C. 303) the following new section:
SEC.303B. Clarification of General Powers. (a) Certain Affirmative Actions Required – The Commission shall take actions to encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership and to ensure that broadcast station licenses are used in the public interest. …

The amendment is nearly identical to a policy position outlined by the White House that says:

“Encourage Diversity in Media Ownership: Encourage diversity in the ownership of broadcast media, promote the development of new media outlets for expression of diverse viewpoints, and clarify the public interest obligations of broadcasters who occupy the nation's spectrum.”

Similarly, the Center for American Progress, headed by former Obama transition leader John Podesta, published a report that called for new “localism” and “ownership diversity” regulations to balance conservative talk radio with progressive talk radio.

The report, “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio,” concludes with the following recommendations:

“[A]ny effort to encourage more responsive and balanced radio programming will first require steps to increase localism and diversify radio station ownership to better meet local and community needs. We suggest three ways to accomplish this:
-- Restore local and national caps on the ownership of commercial radio stations.
-- Ensure greater local accountability over radio licensing.
-- Require commercial owners who fail to abide by enforceable public interest obligations to pay a fee to support public broadcasting.”

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