Obama To Re-Appoint Pro-Fairness Doctrine Commissioner To The FCC
Reagan gave this guy, Rivera, the axe back in the 1980’s, leading to the FCC deregulation that allowed for the rise of conservative talk radio.
Now [Hussein] Obama is looking to put him back at the FCC.
source: http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2008/11/obama-appoints-radical-media-activist.html
Henry Rivera, a longtime radical leftist, lawyer and former FCC commissioner, is expected to lead the push to dismantle commercial talk radio that is favored by a number of Democratic Party senators. Rivera will play a pivotal role in preventing critics from having a public voice during Obama’s tenure in office.
Rivera, who resigned from the FCC nearly a quarter-century ago during the Reagan years, believes in a doctrine of “communications policy as a civil rights issue”.
His exit during the Reagan Administration paved the way for the Fairness Doctrine’s repeal when the late president appointed Patricia Diaz Dennis in 1986 to fill out the rest of Rivera’s term. Had this not occurred, talk radio as we know it today would not exist.
That gives Rivera’s new task a great deal of personal urgency: it’s a late-career, second chance opportunity to shut down opposition voices that have been allowed to flourish since his depature from the commission.
In particular, Rivera is known for his push for more minority broadcasting ownership, but this issue has largely been rendered obsolete as former commercial broadcasting empires teeter on the brink of bankruptcy.
Rivera’s first opportunity to eliminate commercial talk radio will occur in June 2009, as the term of Republican Robert McDowell expires and he can be replaced with a pro-Fairness Doctrine Democrat. That will give the commission a three-vote Democratic majority, though the final two seats must remain in Republican hands.
If they can strong-arm one of the three Republicans into leaving early, this can be implemented even sooner.
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It was a Hussein Obama campaign lawyer that was threatening television stations which ran an NRA ad with FCC regulator action.
It was the Hussein Obama campaign that tried to shut down Milt Rosenberg’s radio show when he had National Review’s Stanley Kurtz on to talk about Hussein Obama’s connections to Ayers, the proud American terrorist.
And now it’s president-elect Hussein Obama himself trying to mute any opposition.
This is very dangerous.
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Read about the "Fairness Doctrine":
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Regulation/EM368.cfm
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Change we can believe in.
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