Marc2b
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Popeye1250 said: quote:
think Fargle has a crush on Ann Coulter. C'mon Fargle, you want to "DO HER" don't you? I’d do Ann Coulter – but only if I can put some duct tape over her mouth first. farglebargle said: quote:
Well, until there's a return to the "Fairness Doctrine", "News" outlets can broadcast any sort of crap they want, without regard to their obligations as SLAVES OF THE PEOPLE. No. News outlets cannot broadcast any sort of crap they want. They are restricted by what the public wants to listen to. The so called Fairness Doctrine is anything but. Because of the demand for equal time (i.e. "you must broadcast our crap that has proven incapable of surviving in the free market") broadcasters, in order not to waste valuable (money making) time on crap people won’t tune into, shy away from anything that might prove political enough to evoke the Fairness Doctrine. The result is less, not more, political speech on the airwaves. It is not a coincidence that the number of talk radio shows exploded after the Fairness Doctrine was abolished in 1987 because broadcasters could now put on hosts that people actually wanted to listen to without worrying about being forced to give equal time to shit people didn’t care about. HaveRopeWillBind said: quote:
People don't like Edwards much but got upset over Coulter's comment, yet no one got upset over Marr's comment concerning Cheney. Seems to show that no one likes Cheney. (Not even his wife or daughter cared enough to call Marr on it.) Or maybe they just decided not to dignify his remarks with a response. Commentary: Ann Coulter is very intelligent but totally lacking in scruples. She knows what buttons to push to rile people up and in the process make gobs of money. This makes her no different than many other so called pundits on both the left and the right. The ideology such people espouse is irrelevant (I said it before and I’ll say it again, the Left and the Right are mirror images of each other), their lack of decency is what should earn them social ostracism. Humor and satire have their place in politics but decency demands limits.
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