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06-29-2007, 10:20 AM
‘Fairness’ for Kerry: A liberal lock on the airwaves
By Howie Carr
Boston Herald Columnist
Friday, June 29, 2007
So now Sen. John Kerry wants the Fairness Doctrine reinstated for broadcasters because the media “have been able to squeeze down and squeeze out opinion of opposing views.”
I agree, Liveshot. It’s just terrible the way some pompous, blue-blooded PC politicians are able to get an absolute free ride in the press from their fellow pompous blue-blood media barons for 30-plus years.
As a matter of fact, Sen. Kerry, if I were drafting an indictment of the unfairness of political coverage in the media, you’d be Count One.
Remember 2004? Talk about lack of fairness - that phony Dan Rather “60 Minutes” story about George Bush in the Texas Air National Guard.
Utterly false, debunked within hours, but because it was supposed to help Kerry, it was picked up and splashed across the front page for days by The New York Times [NYT] and the Boston Globe. In fact, days after this latest Jayson Blair-like outburst was debunked as total falsity, the Globe still ran a headline on the front page screaming that it was true, even though the copy below the headline admitted that it was nothing more than another dirty trick from the mainstream media.
How about when Kerry was between heiresses, practically living in his car, and his lame-o media buddies described his travails as “the wandering years.”
A more accurate description: the Kevin Federline years. There’s nothing sadder than a gigolo who has yet to track down his next aged ex-golddigger.
“These are the people,” Kerry said of the talk-show hosts, “that wiped out one of the most profound changes in the balance of the media.”
He neglects to mention that his team had a network, too, Air America, which failed because nobody wanted to listen to it.
But Air America’s crash-and-burn was understandable, because liberals already had their own radio network. It’s called NPR.
Here’s how it works. If you don’t like “talk radio,” you don’t have to listen, and you don’t have to pay for it. If you don’t like NPR, you don’t have to listen, but you do have to pay for it. How’s that for fairness, Sen. Kerry?
How come no one outside Massachusetts ever heard about the “16-point buck” he claimed to have had between the crosshairs on the Cape? How about how he claimed to have run the Boston Marathon but couldn’t recall the year?
What about the condo flipping? What about the Bob Brest Buick? Or the fact that George Bush actually got higher grades at Yale than Kerry? What about all his free rides on the Florida S&L bandido’s private jet back in the early ’90s., pre-Mama T? How come most voters still don’t know any of these stories?
Where’s the Fairness Doctrine when you really need it?
Yeah, we need the Fairness Doctrine all right. The liberals are so outgunned, after all. The conservatives have Fox, and the liberals’ only recourse is on CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, AP, NPR, PBS and *******.
Fairness? The Senate grandees shut down their phone system on Capitol Hill yesterday so they wouldn’t have to endure the pleas of the plebeians not to let 30 or 40 million more illegals swarm across the border. So much for those “conflicting views of public importance” that Kerry claims to care so much about. No, Kerry et al. only care about radio. In a way, it would be great if they succeeded - at least if you own stock in one of the satellite-radio companies. The return of the Fairness Doctrine could save both XM and Sirius. And then there’s Internet radio. Did you know that Wi-Fi is now available in some rental cars?
It’ll be tough extending the Fairness Doctrine to the Internet, Sen. Kerry. Because the talk-radio yahoos are going to demand the same freedom of speech as, say, ****ographers.
Source: (http://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1008800)
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By Howie Carr
Boston Herald Columnist
Friday, June 29, 2007
So now Sen. John Kerry wants the Fairness Doctrine reinstated for broadcasters because the media “have been able to squeeze down and squeeze out opinion of opposing views.”
I agree, Liveshot. It’s just terrible the way some pompous, blue-blooded PC politicians are able to get an absolute free ride in the press from their fellow pompous blue-blood media barons for 30-plus years.
As a matter of fact, Sen. Kerry, if I were drafting an indictment of the unfairness of political coverage in the media, you’d be Count One.
Remember 2004? Talk about lack of fairness - that phony Dan Rather “60 Minutes” story about George Bush in the Texas Air National Guard.
Utterly false, debunked within hours, but because it was supposed to help Kerry, it was picked up and splashed across the front page for days by The New York Times [NYT] and the Boston Globe. In fact, days after this latest Jayson Blair-like outburst was debunked as total falsity, the Globe still ran a headline on the front page screaming that it was true, even though the copy below the headline admitted that it was nothing more than another dirty trick from the mainstream media.
How about when Kerry was between heiresses, practically living in his car, and his lame-o media buddies described his travails as “the wandering years.”
A more accurate description: the Kevin Federline years. There’s nothing sadder than a gigolo who has yet to track down his next aged ex-golddigger.
“These are the people,” Kerry said of the talk-show hosts, “that wiped out one of the most profound changes in the balance of the media.”
He neglects to mention that his team had a network, too, Air America, which failed because nobody wanted to listen to it.
But Air America’s crash-and-burn was understandable, because liberals already had their own radio network. It’s called NPR.
Here’s how it works. If you don’t like “talk radio,” you don’t have to listen, and you don’t have to pay for it. If you don’t like NPR, you don’t have to listen, but you do have to pay for it. How’s that for fairness, Sen. Kerry?
How come no one outside Massachusetts ever heard about the “16-point buck” he claimed to have had between the crosshairs on the Cape? How about how he claimed to have run the Boston Marathon but couldn’t recall the year?
What about the condo flipping? What about the Bob Brest Buick? Or the fact that George Bush actually got higher grades at Yale than Kerry? What about all his free rides on the Florida S&L bandido’s private jet back in the early ’90s., pre-Mama T? How come most voters still don’t know any of these stories?
Where’s the Fairness Doctrine when you really need it?
Yeah, we need the Fairness Doctrine all right. The liberals are so outgunned, after all. The conservatives have Fox, and the liberals’ only recourse is on CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, AP, NPR, PBS and *******.
Fairness? The Senate grandees shut down their phone system on Capitol Hill yesterday so they wouldn’t have to endure the pleas of the plebeians not to let 30 or 40 million more illegals swarm across the border. So much for those “conflicting views of public importance” that Kerry claims to care so much about. No, Kerry et al. only care about radio. In a way, it would be great if they succeeded - at least if you own stock in one of the satellite-radio companies. The return of the Fairness Doctrine could save both XM and Sirius. And then there’s Internet radio. Did you know that Wi-Fi is now available in some rental cars?
It’ll be tough extending the Fairness Doctrine to the Internet, Sen. Kerry. Because the talk-radio yahoos are going to demand the same freedom of speech as, say, ****ographers.
Source: (http://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1008800)
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