One Guy's Opinion on the Political Scene By: Jim Herndon
The House of Bureaucrats passed a bill today that senior bureaucrat Dick Durbin authored. You remember Durbin; he is that fair-minded legislator who a year ago called our troops storm troopers, compared the American military to Nazis, and likened President Bush to Hitler.
His bill is an end-run around the (Un)Fairness Doctrine that has been set aside because it is so blatantly unconstitutional. It is an attempt to muzzle conservative talk radio and too Stalinist even for the DemPols. Rather than meet the censorship attempt full on, the bill uses a couple of public communication standards, Local content and ownership diversity, to stifle opposing views from conservative radio.
It is almost too obvious to mention that Durbin and the rest of the totalitarian DemPols have never, and will never, consider establishing fairness among all the other public news and opinion organizations. All these liberal-biased outfits, the Associated Press, all the major newspapers, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and on and on, will continue spreading their left-leaning impression of the news. Talk radio is the Alamo of political discourse, making a stand against the huge liberal outlets that long ago gave up any pretense of balance. MSNBC newsman Chris Matthews demonstrates the state of affairs; he said listening to Obama made a chill go up his leg. On "The Tonight Show," he told Jay Leno that the Obamas "are really cool.”
