{"id":3991,"date":"2009-01-15T08:55:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T13:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3991"},"modified":"2009-01-15T08:55:21","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T13:55:21","slug":"fairness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3991","title":{"rendered":"Fairness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camille Paglia – no conservative, she – sums up the absurdity of Dem proposals<\/a> to reinstate the “Fairness” Doctrine.<\/p>\n

For starters,they just don’t “get” radio (emphasis sparingly added):<\/p>\n

Radio is a populist medium where liberals come across as snide, superior scolds. One can instantly recognize a liberal caller to a conservative show by his or her catty, obnoxious tone. The leading talk radio hosts are personalities and entertainers with huge rhetorical energy and a bluff, engaging manner…The best hosts combine a welcoming master of ceremonies manner with a vaudevillian brashness. Liberal imitators haven’t made a dent on talk radio because they think it’s all about politics, when it isn’t. Top hosts are life questers and individualists who explore a wide range of thought and emotion and who skillfully work the mike like jazz vocalists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll cop to “Mick Jagger”.<\/p>\n

Talk radio is a major genre of popular culture that deserves the protection accorded to other branches of the performing and fine arts. Liberals, who go all hushed and pious at Hays Code censorship in classic Hollywood, should lay off the lynch-mob mentality. Keep the feds out of radio!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The liberal response is “But President Obama isn’t pushing the Fairness Doctrine”.<\/p>\n

I answer “he’s not President for five more days, and it doesn’t matter; the Democrat leadership in Congress is, <\/em>and I doubt Obama would waste a veto to protect Conservative talk.<\/p>\n

In any case, all of us who’ve spent decades fighting – and lately, winning – the battle for the Second Amendment can tell you; liberty takes eternal watchfulness.<\/p>\n

So we watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Camille Paglia – no conservative, she – sums up the absurdity of Dem proposals to reinstate the “Fairness” Doctrine. For starters,they just don’t “get” radio (emphasis sparingly added): Radio is a populist medium where liberals come across as snide, superior scolds. One can instantly recognize a liberal caller to a conservative show by his or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-talk-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}