Morris and Rush on Obama’s censorship plans
From Rush’s site, Rush comments on a recent Dick Morris article:
Morris: “[H]e will use the expansive powers of the Federal Communications Commission to impose ‘local’ control and ownership of radio stations and to impose the ‘fairness doctrine’ on talk radio. The effect will be to drive talk radio to the Internet, fundamentally change its economics and retard its growth for years hence.”
Rush’s comment:
“I firmly believe this is going to be attempted, but not under the words Fairness Doctrine. I have seen the Obama White House website where they are going to attempt to effect this. And they are going to do it, Morris is right here. They will do it with something called a local content rule, diversity of ownership rules changes, and public interest regulations and requirements, which will mandate on local broadcasters that they do certain things in the public interest. It will be a stealth way and they’ll put it in a stimulus bill, they will put it in an omnibus spending bill. There won’t even have been any debate on it; nobody is going to know it’s going to happen. It will be in one of those things that no senator or member of the House can read because it’s too large and the focus will be the stimulus getting us out of this rotten economy, and that’s how they’re going to go about implementing the Fairness Doctrine. And make no mistake they’re going to do it.”