{"id":4027,"date":"2009-01-19T13:03:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T18:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4027"},"modified":"2012-01-06T14:13:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T20:13:35","slug":"weekly-counter-romp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4027","title":{"rendered":"Romp Not Lest Ye Be Romped"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note to Twin Cities’ Leftybloggers:\u00a0 Please, please try <\/em>to get your facts straight when you want to try to noodle about with issues I genuinely care about.\u00a0 You might get Haugenned<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fair warning.<\/p>\n

Liberal in the Land of Conservative<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

HOLY CRAP, the Democratic leadership in Congress is pushing the Fairness Doctrine. Who are the magical creatures that can pass a doctrine without nary a bill in existence?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dear LITLOC:\u00a0 Congresspeople, thanks to the miracle of “voices”, the “First Amendment” and “the Media”, can say things outside <\/em>the context of “bills”.\u00a0 For example, they can tell a reporter <\/a>\u201cIt\u2019s time to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine. I have this old-fashioned attitude that when Americans hear both sides of the story, they\u2019re in a better position to make a decision.\u201d\u00a0 That’d be Dick “Turban” Durbin.\u00a0 Bear in mind, he said that without authoring a bill on the subject<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Yet.<\/p>\n

And – just so’s you learn something, LITLOC – let’s be clear; Congress needn’t pass a single bill to reinstate the “Fairness” Doctrine<\/em>.\u00a0 If Obama puts three pro-Doctrine members on the FCC Board, the “Doctrine” can become fact again by executive fiat; no legislation will be needed, beyond confirmation hearings.\u00a0 This, indeed, is the most dangerous scenario for supporters of free speech; Obama (and the smarter Dems) don’t want to pee on the third rail by legislating censorship – but how much political capital do you think Obama will burn getting in the way of an allied bureaucracy doing it for them?<\/p>\n

Seriously, I thought Mitch Berg was supposed to be the smart one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Among conservative bloggers?\u00a0 No. I’m the cute one.<\/p>\n

Compared to Twin Cities’ leftybloggers?\u00a0 In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.<\/p>\n

Do your homework, kids.\u00a0 You’re gonna need to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note to Twin Cities’ Leftybloggers:\u00a0 Please, please try to get your facts straight when you want to try to noodle about with issues I genuinely care about.\u00a0 You might get Haugenned. Fair warning. Liberal in the Land of Conservative writes: HOLY CRAP, the Democratic leadership in Congress is pushing the Fairness Doctrine. Who are the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,55,63,71],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-4027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-center-right-altmedia","category-lefty-alt-media","category-talk-radio","tag-fairness-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25435,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions\/25435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}