PHIL COLLINS, etc., SUPER HEROS

I confess…I’m pro-planet. I’m pro-Earth. I think we should support Earth, or should I say “The Planet.” Yeah! I guess that makes me a celebrity…or a politician, or a Democrat. Then again, I don’t care about global warming, so I guess I can’t be a celebrity or a politician OR a Democrat! I guess that makes me one of those whack-jobs who, for lack of caring, are going to throw the Earth off its axis, or otherwise end God’s creation as we now know it!

But I really don’t have to care and neither do you. We have countless rock stars needing career jumps to do all the “caring” for us.

They will conspicuously over consume and pollute the joint to do it, but they are acting for me and for you and any others out there, if there is indeed anyone else out there, who doesn’t give a crap!

Today (July 7), Ladies and Gentlemen, we have Live Earth. The global concert, held at eight venues including one on every continent (I guess Antarctica makes for a ninth venue) on this ailing planet.

It will surely be as effective as the other concerts held for various causes with no known intended result. I give you;

Live aid (1985) – Prompted by the Ethiopian famine of 1984/85, to help periled African nations pay their debts to evil Western banks, helping to alleviate starvation in Africa. Much of the money fell into the influence of the Derg military junta which enforced resettlement and “villagification” programs which killed between 50,000 and 100,000 people and displaced at least 3 million. Nice!

Farm Aid – I guess this one was to help keep farmers in subsidies. Apparently a huge success, as $171 billion will be paid (welfared) in direct farm subsidies over the next ten years.

Band Aid (1984) – No more hungry kids in Ethiopia?

Live 8 (2005) – To raise more awareness of issues that plague Africa…and the rehabilitation of aging rock stars’ careers.

Which leads us to…

Live Earth (2007-Today) – This one will stop global warming, I mean, “climate change,” so planet Earth can go on to be planet Earth for future generations of politicians and celebrities.

How about a bake sale for burkas?

How about this one: We can shame and defame our soldiers abroad to help bring about the end to war. Oh, wait a minute, that’s already been taken care of…celebrities, Democrats and more than a few Republicans already have a handle on that cause.

I suppose we could swim to raise awareness for the fishes in order to save the oceans. But sure enough, renowned oceanographer, environmentalist and scientist (and Cheers bartender), Ted Danson declared, circa 1987, that the oceans and the earth, would be dead in ten years if we didn’t drastically alter our lives, raise taxes and commit mass suicide because we are Americans. So whatever he did, it must have worked because last time I was on the coasts, the oceans, at least the two I have ready access to, were alive and well.

I now kneel and thank Almighty God for celebs and politicians, especially Al Gore, Rock Stars and pop white trash, Sheryl Crow. Because of them, we have not yet stolen Planet Earth from God and the cosmos!

On another note, John Edwards is campaigning to raise the minimum wage and put an end to poverty right here in America because haircuts apparently cost $1,200.00.

JD.

PARDON ME?

President Bush commuted the 30 month prison sentence of Lewis “Scooter” Libby yesterday. Big deal, considering he wants to pardon 12 million illegal aliens in the name of "immigration reform.”

I laughed out loud when I heard Hillary Clinton, with Bill by her side, say in response, “This commutation sends the clear signal that in this administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice."

My God, these people are psychopathically amazing!!!

President Clinton pardoned 459 people during his presidency, to his predecessor’s 77 pardons.

Here are a few of the crimes that were committed by the people Bill Clinton pardoned or commuted the sentences for. The whole list is too exhaustive for me to bore you with, but here are some of the crimes:

Conspiracy to counterfeit money, bank embezzlement, tax fraud and nonpayment, auto theft, pushing drugs, mail fraud, firearms convictions, LSD and other drug distribution, bank fraud, falsifying firearms records, insurance fraud, Medicaid fraud, bank robbery, assault with a dangerous weapon, price fixing, blackmail, mutiny during wartime, destruction of military property, forgery of U.S. checks, possession of illegal explosives, conspiracy to damage property with illegal explosives, falsification of union records, transporting illegal aliens, bribery, money laundering, issuing worthless checks, food stamp fraud, illegal campaign contributions, passport fraud, conspiracy to commit racketeering, illegally importing animal skins, conspiracy to aid in prison escape. He also pardoned six Puerto Rican terrorists who were making bombs.

And let’s not forget this personal favorite, of which he was convicted…Perjury!

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In the Sidney Morning Herald on Tuesday, Chee Chee Leung asserted that humans are using too much of the sun’s energy. Because we humans use so much energy, we rob plants of needed energy from the sun, stealing especially from corn production, which we need to make ethanol.

Are you still convinced the global warming crowd doesn’t use junk science?

Looking at Michael Moore, there is more than a small chance that he will be stricken by illness sooner, rather than later. Do you think Michael will go abroad for medical help?

Just Wondering,
JD.

ETHANOL - A CORNY IDEA

It’s so hard to understand how our gutless, pandering and sometimes just plain ignorant elected officials can continue to push this ethanol scam with a clear conscience.

The promotion of this disastrous “alternative” to fossil fuels is costing you and me a fortune. Consider the increased prices of just a few of the products and commodities affected by mandated increases in corn production for the manufacture of ethanol.

Ethanol policies have driven the price of corn up to as high as $4.50 a bushel last week, from what was typically $2.00 to $2.50 a bushel.

More expensive corn drives up prices on many products we use. You would think that the higher prices would benefit farmers, but companies that produce seed, like Monsanto, have raised seed prices by 66 percent. Of course this helps all you shareholders in Monsanto stock, and good for you.

I’ve written about the evils of ethanol several times in these blogs but feel compelled to bring it up again once in a while because it eats at me so. As I’ve mentioned before, when President Bush mentioned ethanol during his State of the Union speech in January, I cringed. I knew, as many of you did, that gas prices would be up the next day and continue to climb. And they did. What other prices have soared as a result of the ethanol obsession?

Have you wondered why beef prices are as high as they have gotten? How about the increase in milk prices that we all screamed about? Shoot, let’s just think about the additional premium on land because of the ridiculously low yield of corn producing ethanol per acre.

So land, fuel and corn go up. Again, beef and milk prices. What else does corn effect? Poultry, pork, sugar (prices already controlled by artificial supports and tariffs), sweet goods, anything made with high fructose corn syrup, cheese, butter, all products made with any of the above, soft drinks, ice cream…the list goes on and on.

Were you paying attention to the tortilla riots in Mexico City last February?

How about taxes? On top of the federal and state taxes you pay on gasoline, let’s consider the following:
Ethanol blenders -- gas stations and suppliers – receive 51 cents a gallon in tax credits so ethanol can be competitive with gas. In other words, ethanol is so inefficient and expensive to make, we taxpayers have to give the companies 51 cents a gallon in tax credits to bring the price down enough to compete with gas.

There is a 54 cent tariff on imported ethanol, to make sure we can’t buy it cheap from other countries.

We taxpayers gave $340 million in subsidized loans to build ethanol plants, thanks to Jimmy Carter. The plants aren’t competitive enough for private industry to make money, so we taxpayers buck up to build them for someone else to make money on the product we support.

Make your head spin? Does mine!

We taxpayers contributed $70 Million in corn to ethanol producers, via Ronald Reagan’s Department of Agriculture.

The 2005 Energy bill mandates that gas companies buy ethanol. We force companies to buy this stuff because they wouldn’t touch it otherwise.

The current mandates have increased food prices by $14 billion dollars, according to a recent University of Iowa study, and our Democratic Congress wants to increase mandates by seven fold.

Because of mandates that compel gas companies to buy ethanol, prices on ethanol went up, raising gas prices by another 30 cents.

On performance: Ethanol is one third less powerful and efficient as gasoline so a gasoline and ethanol blend will get you fewer miles to the gallon than gasoline. So ethanol prices have to be artificially depressed (again with your tax dollars) to be cheaper than gasoline in order to get you comparable mileage for the same money.

It takes a lot of energy just to make the stuff. You have to grow the corn which means plowing, planting, fertilizing, watering, harvesting, grinding, soaking, distilling and trucking, since you can’t run ethanol though pipelines like gasoline.

Geez! And why is it we don’t want to drill for oil in this country to tap some of the biggest reserves on earth? Oh, that’s right, a super ignorant electorate that believes what these politicians are telling us.

I’m exhausted and depressed, and that’s just a little teeny bit of the story.

JD.

PARIS DUMB - LARRY DUMBER

Rules being considered by the New York City Mayor’s Office of Film would ban people from using cameras in the City for more than half an hour. This would include people standing in line to visit sites such as the Empire State building. The Mayor’s office claims the ruling is targeted at filmmakers but tourists carrying cameras could be a target.

The rule prohibits the use of a camera for more that thirty minutes in a single location, defined as within 100 feet of the original shooting area. The rule is intentionally vague, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union. To use a camera for thirty minutes, one would have to obtain a permit from the City and carry $1 million dollars in liability insurance. The new rule would take effect toward the end of August.

Remember that if you’re planning a trip later this year to the Peoples Republic of New York, headed by Chairman Bloomberg.

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A poll conducted June 23-25 by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research found that 52 percent of Americans wouldn’t consider voting for Hillary Clinton. And they say the good news is never printed!

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Congratulations, once again, to the American public for voicing their disgust with the Bush-Kennedy-McCain Immigration Bill, so loudly that it’s dead. Huge kudos for the true Voice of American! That’s how a Republic is supposed to work.

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I’ve never liked Larry King, not even for one second. I’ve never seen the value in that buffoon as far as journalism, talk show host or public personality of any kind is concerned. And he validates my feelings every time I see him or his show.

Well, the other night when he interviewed one of my favorite celebri-tards, Paris Hilton, I saw a reason worth sharing. Here are three of the questions he asked the white trash of white trash:

1. “What hotel chain is your family associated with?”
2. “They say you have the same name as a city in France. What city is that?”
3. “Did you ever have dinner with Stalin?”

I SHIT YOU NOT!!!

I thought she was the dumber of the two, now I know better.

JD.

WHITEWATER GRIFTING

Remember Whitewater? I’m not talking about National Geographic’s piece on the Colorado River. I’m talking about the Bill and Hillary Whitewater. Yeah, that one. The one that was investigated ad nauseam during the Clinton Presidency.

Well, I’m tired of people telling me that it was nothing. So I’m thinking as long as Hillary Clinton is running for the presidency, in the interest of folks understanding what kind of person she is, this might be a good time for a little review.

Once upon a time there was this big, dopey, hillbilly crook named Jim McDougal. Jim had a great investment idea and presented Bill and Hillary with an opportunity to earn huge returns on the order of 20 percent a year.

Jim wanted to purchase 230 acres of land on the White River in the Ozark Mountains and subdivide it to sell lots as vacation sites. The Clintons thought it was a great idea. So, although they never put any money into it, Hillary, as an attorney, played an important role in it.

This was no regular real estate plan. The plan was to sell lots to elderly and middle-class families. When these people bought a lot, they received no deed, just a simple purchase agreement. The small print at the bottom said “In the event the default continues for 30 days…payments made by the purchaser ‘shall be considered as rent’ for the use of the premises.” So no one who was purchasing the property actually took ownership until the last payment was made.

If a buyer missed just one month – happens to the best of us over a several year period – all the money paid into the property to that point became rent and they would have no equity at all.

Here are a couple of examples as cited by Peter Schweizer in “Do as I say…:”

Grain elevator operator, Clyde Soapes invested a $3,000 down payment and made payments of $244.69 per month, making thirty-five payments. He suddenly fell ill with diabetes and missed a couple of payments. The Clintons took possession of the land and resold it to another investor for $16,500. After the new investor missed a payment, the Clintons resold it again.

More than half of the people who bought lots in Whitewater, according to Schweizer, missed a payment or two and then lost their land without getting a dime of their equity back. These people were teachers, farmers, laborers and retirees.

Monthly payment checks were sent to Whitewater Development Corporation in care of Hillary Rodham Clinton. In 1982, Hillary herself sold a home to a man who went bankrupt and then died. She took possession of the home and resold it for $20,000.

Punch line? In an “amazing feat of moral dexterity,” as Schweizer puts it, she cosponsored the Predatory Consumer Lending Act, claiming that mortgage fees are too high. (By the way, the law does not outlaw the type of scheme she was involved in.)

Now, you wouldn’t want your used car salesman to have that kind of a background. Yet, some of you want to elect her President of the United States?

I guess next year we’ll see if being ruthless and mean can get you the presidency in this day and age.

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Congress has voted to reenact automatic pay raises. Their pay will be increased every year to adjust for the cost of living unless they vote to block it. Like that’s going to happen!

This Congress, with a 14 percent approval rating, lowest in history, rewarded itself with a $4,460 raise bringing members to $170,000 per year. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is paid $212,100. And what a fine job she does.

JD.

Postscript to yesterday’s blog: Turns out the call made by Mrs. Edwards to the show “Hardball” to berate Ann Coulter, was a set-up…staged by MSNBC. I’m shocked!

CELEBRITY DEATH MATCH (Mrs. Edwards vs. Ms. Coulter)

Former Senator and current wimp John Edwards has taken to hiding behind his wife’s skirt and using her to address Ann Coulter on his behalf. Mrs. Edwards called into Chris Matthews’ show “Hardball” on Tuesday to ask Coulter to halt the attacks on her husband.

Coulter has been quoted widely in the left-stream media as saying on Good Morning America, that she wished John Edwards had been killed by terrorists.

This is a misquote. And when the actual quote is put into its proper context, she didn’t wish that at all. But I’ve checked as many sources as I could this evening and couldn’t find one that quoted Ms. Coulter accurately.

So I went to the source; a clip from GMA showing the actual interview. This is what went down, and what was said:

She was citing Bill Maher’s suggestion in March that “people wouldn’t be dying needlessly” if Vice President Dick Cheney had been killed in Afghanistan in an insurgent attack. And Maher was NOT joking.

What happened was she was commenting, in response to questioning, on her calling Edwards a “faggot” (which is also a misquote) and the firestorm her remark caused.

So she referenced Maher’s remarks about Cheney, and commented on the fact that no one seemed to have a problem with him saying that. “So I learned my lesson and If I’m going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”

If you can’t see the tongue-in-cheek in that, then buck up and go buy yourself a little sense of humor and stop at the spa for a little skin thickening. Or, take your pills!

And while you’re at it, you might want to donate a couple cans of Man to the Edwards campaign.

Again, I couldn’t find one mainstream outlet quoting her in context. Yet not a word about His Idiocy, Bill Maher!

JD.

FEELING CHARITABLE?

Fundraising is a very lucrative business. Many non-profit charities pay a lot of your hard-earned and well meaning dollars to for-profit companies that are in the business of separating you from your wallet. Fundraising is often the biggest expense for some charities and the combination of fundraising and actual administrative expenses, such as salaries for employees, advertising, building and infrastructure overhead (all paid to people and entities that exist to make a profit) whittles your donation to its intended cause to a fraction of what you thought you were giving.

Take heed and do a little research before forking over your chips to some ne’re-do-well with a friendly pitch and nice brochure featuring pictures of beaming or disheveled children.

Below are some causes you may want to reconsider before you write that check.

American Christian Cause: 51.1 per cent of your donated dollar is used for administrative and fundraising expenses for “Promulgating Christian Views.” Net assets? They’re over two million dollars in the hole.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP): Only 47 cents of your well meaning dollar actually goes to “Making democracy real in the United States since 1909.” President and CEO Bruce S. Gordon is paid $320,975 annually for such efficiency.

Association for Police and Sheriffs: Next time you get a call from this fine institution, note that 91.9 cents of every dollar you donate goes to the people making the calls.

The Committee for Missing Children: 86.6 cents of every dollar goes to fundraising expenses. CEO David C. Thelen earns $79,999 per year for his exemplary services.

Detroit Public TV – WTVS: When you answer that annoying barker who comes on in the middle of the first decent program you’ve seen on public television since the last fundraiser, remember this when you reach for the checkbook for this government sponsored network, over 45% of that check will never make it to its intended cause to “Educate, Entertain, Inspire.” President and General Manager, Steven R. Antoniotti, is being paid $309,306 for his performance.

Corcoran Gallery of Art: Enjoy the arts? Enjoy this. 65.7% of your “gift” to promote the arts at this Gallery will never make it past fundraisers and administrators. David C. Levy, Director and President, will take $677,125 of it.

Nine of the ten charities that spend more than 65 percent of your donated dollars on fundraising fees are charities that supposedly benefit children and police officers.

Non-profit is BIG business!

JD.

A FOOL AND A TOOL

“Bitter old fool,” is the perfect description of former Vice President and current sore loser, Al Gore. He has never even come close to getting over his narrow defeat to G.W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election. He writes books deriding his former opponent and the Administration; hogs enough camera time to make Chuck Schumer jealous, and makes a shameless career of just being shameful.

One of the saddest figures in the political arena, Gore still leaves the door open to a presidential run in 2008.

He’s a man who has “politically compromised the long-term credibility of environmentalism,” according to Camille Paglia of Salon.com.

She also pegs him as the “Phantom of a thousand accents. Telegraphing his supercilious condescension to whatever audience he’s trying to manipulate.” You’ve seen his fake accents kick in when he’s mimicking whatever type of crowd he’s pandering to(a la Hillary).

A New York Post article quotes Bill Clinton, when asked by political blogger Andy Ostroy: “Do you think Al Gore’s going to run?” Bill replied, “Someone’s got to fizzle. If someone fizzles, then, yeah, he could enter the race. He’s got plenty of money, his own money, to do it.” Ostroy went on to predict Obama will fizzle by September and Gore will toss his hat into the ring.

That’s wonderful. Here’s a guy who knows within a couple of tenths of a degree what the temperature will be in the year 2050, but can’t seem to grasp the Florida vote count of his own election in 2000. A fine addition to the stable of contestants we’re already forced to endure.

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Michael Moore’s film “Sicko” appears to be resonating with people, at least where I live in Southeastern Michigan. The great people of the “Gimme State” salivate wildly over the idea of another government program paid for by you and yours truly.

I speak, of course, about government medicine, or “universal healthcare,” as is the more popular euphemism. If we could only take the Lifetime and Sports sections out of the newspapers and introduce some folks to a book or two, possibly one or two of our citizens would see, or at least think about, the pitfalls of such a socialistic idea. Or they could talk to a few Canadians while on one of their many jaunts to the Casinos or strip clubs of Windsor, Ontario and get their take on how wonderful that system is.

I have close relatives living in Canada and enjoying dual citizenship. One of them works at a hospital near Toronto. They aren’t impressed with that system. I have a close relative who is a refugee from Canada and even though living in this country and giving birth to a beautiful baby, while not insured, finds our system far superior to the Canadians’.

Maybe if our entitlement minded friends thought about giving up another 25 percent or so of their gross paychecks, then that would give them pause.

Now think of a healthcare system that runs as beautifully as the Veterans Administration…only without the outside help. Healthcare, brought to you by the same gang that can’t run government schools and educate and graduate our children, yet they demand more and more and more and more money.

Let’s hand over a few hundred billion dollars more to a government that mismanages and wastes money on anything that will buy them a vote. A government that gives billions of dollars to farm conglomerates, to produce too much food, so the government can buy it and destroy it, artificially keeping food prices higher than they should be.

A government that manages a postal system that runs television advertising with your tax dollars to convince you to use a service that is paid for with your tax dollars, perpetuating the government cycle.

And you see the Democrats in Washington falling all over each other to treat Moore like a potentate who has actually done something positive for society. The only way his documentaries could be positive for our society is if we actually had enough educated and intelligent people in this country to stand up and see them as a reminder of what will happen to us if we aren’t diligent.

The ignorant damned pandering, politicians… these people make me sick. Take some more of our money and mismanage it you idiots. Throw a few more billion dollars into a government program that will collapse under the weight of itself. Anything to get elected, I guess.

I wonder if Moore has a Michigan address this time so he can skirt the higher New York taxes. Don’t forget, he abandoned his New York penthouse address just before the release of “Bowling for Columbine” and changed it to Michigan for that very reason.

And those were just a couple of the more pleasant thoughts I had today. I need an aspirin.

JD.

LET BLUE DOGS LIE

Blue Dog Democrats are supposedly the conservative answer to the Democratic Party. They like to say they break from the liberal wing and represent a more centrist appeal. They come from conservative leaning districts where they have to pretend they’re not Democrats so they can compete in an election. Simple pandering, but with a twist that fools a lot of folks.

Let’s say the Democratic National Committee wants to pick up a seat in a district which traditionally votes for Republicans. So we have something like the 2006 elections coming where the Dems justifiably smell blood so they target a Republican seat. Drag out the Blue Dogs. Don’t have one in the local kennel? Then become one…make one. Tell everyone you’re a Conservative Democrat. Go for the gold and win.
Now the electorate, sufficiently persuaded, elects a Democrat.

Let’s examine where Blue Dogs lie. Their official Web site offers us their agenda which supposedly is a more conservative agenda than their “liberal” brethren. Here are some of their positions:

- Opposed to abortion
- Opposed to gay marriage
- Opposed to gun control
- Opposed to child pornography (who isn’t?)

Then they get right back into their leftist groove.

- On climate warming: The sky is falling and we lowly humans are pulling it down. Citing the usual “any dopes in liberal universities who call themselves scientists,” regardless of their credentials, who will be used as a weigh-in on the debate – make that proof – that we are killing a whole planet in this whole universe.

- On loss of manufacturing jobs: So what? The economy matures; we can’t stay in the industrial age forever. Should we have remained farmers after the agricultural age? Aren’t we better off with farm conglomerates growing, processing and improving the quality, and lowering the price of, your food? We need people to engineer those processes. People are better educated now and have moved into an urban environment where the manned assembly line is and was. We have machines now to do the assembly work. Time to move into information, service, science, engineering, whatever the most demanding fields are. It’s called progress. A lot of people just don’t like progress until they can look back at it.

- On failing public schools: Who wants that? But the Blue Dogs want to increase the number of minorities graduating from college by granting in-state tuition rates to undocumented aliens. What the hell? My Michigan, American born children can’t get that in Arizona, why should law breaking illegal aliens who aren’t paying taxes, won’t assimilate to American culture or even speak the language have it? And why should I have to pay for it? Why should you have to pay for it? We (you and I who are gainfully employed and legal) have to pay for whole extra Spanish speaking curriculum and education departments to host illegal aliens who are helping themselves to benefits we don’t get!?

- On the high cost of prescription drugs: Screw with the very drug industry that cures our ills and keeps us alive. Drive it out of America where they can pay taxes elsewhere and charge us even more. Then we can slap tariffs on their wonder drugs to hike the prices even further. And run jobs out of the country and lower the quality of our healthcare to save a couple of bucks. Research is by far the most costly ingredient in your life saving medicine. Do you really want to cripple it or run it out of our Country?

- On hidden banking fees: More regulation. We don’t need another law, we need you to read your bank statements and contracts and be responsible for yourselves. If enough people descent, banks will be forced to clean up their act. This concept is called capitalism.

- On the war on poverty: They’re letting John Edwards define this one. That means absolutely nothing will be done, but Edwards may win an academy award for convincing some idiots that he actually walks that talk.

- On Labor Unions: They’re apparently all for the right to organize, but not for the right to work. Both laws should be in play.

- And they’d like to prohibit gambling over television and internet. How about taxing it and letting adults be stupid?

JD

WHY FREEDOM, WHEN YOU HAVE THE LAW ON YOUR SIDE?

Two organizations, the Center for American Progress and the Free Press, concluded that talk radio is too conservative and something has to be done about it. The former organization is run by former Clinton Chief of Staff, John Podesta. Forget free market forces, capitalism and democracy, it’s time to round up some broadcasters and legally knock some fairness into their collective heads.

In a report called “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio,” they’ve come to some scary conclusions (for them). According to their research, 92 percent of total weekday talk radio programming is conservative. In the top ten radio markets, 76 percent is conservative.

The two most frequently cited reasons are the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 and simple Consumer demand.

Their “conclusion is that the gap between conservative and progressive talk radio is the result of multiple structural problems in the U.S. regulatory system.”

Yeah, that’s right, it’s not regulated enough. They want to control ownership. Think now…they want more ownership by minorities and women. So their answer is to force certain ownership and deny it to white guys? And they’ve got the chutzpa to call some Americans Nazis?! Of all the ignorant…

So they make more than a couple proposals in their report, including;
1. Restore local and national caps on the ownership of commercial radio stations.
2. Ensure greater local accountability over radio licensing.

In other words, “Require commercial owners who fail to abide by enforceable public interest obligations to pay a fee to support public broadcasting.”

They go on to say “The ‘repeal’ of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 gave station owners and hosts free reign to fill their programming with ideologically conservative content.”

Another one of the terrible truths this group dug up was that “The demands of the marketplace favor
Conservative shows and audiences over progressive ones.”

Something’s got to be done about that! We can’t have Americans deciding for themselves who to listen to.

Free reign in America? God forbid! Evil station owners, who pay hard-earned money for the right to broadcast, have the temerity to put the content of their choosing in their programming! That content of choice, by the way, would be the content that earns them the most money. That content is apparently what the listening audience and sponsors want on the air, and are willing to pay to support. So if the Libs have their way, station owners will see their own version of political Kristallnacht. If the Democrats win the White House and continue to hold a majority in Congress, you can probably count on it.

They’re giddy to discover that the Fairness Doctrine was never formally repealed. The FCC did announce in 1987 that it would no longer enforce certain regulations under the umbrella of the Fairness Doctrine. So the easy thing to do would be to compel enforcement of the FD.

By the way, where is the analysis of the three major networks and 19 of the 20 major newspapers? All liberal. How about some analysis of our very own, taxpayer funded, Public Broadcasting Service?

Where are the free-speech liberals who are incensed that we can listen in on terrorists talking to their ilk abroad, in the interest of national security (legal wiretapping)? Yet we should silence American talk radio?

The most recent Gallup poll taken from June 11 to June 16 puts Americans’ approval of Congress at 14 percent, its lowest rating ever. With creeps like Reid and Pelosi running the show, ech! It’s no wonder.

And of course they’re blaming the Republicans. “Put a Democrat in the White House and maybe we can get something done.” Oy!

JD.