On Fox, Morris urges viewers to visit his website so they can call "vulnerable Democrats" and defeat health care bill
February 24, 2010 8:08 am ET
From the February 24 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
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Why were EQUAL TIME and REPLY TIME regulations of the FCC in the first place, for more than forty years?
Because the public airwaves are a public resource, not a private one, and they require a License to broadcast on, and we don't issue those very precious Licenses (precious as in not available to you or anyone you know) so that the broadcaster can use them for their own personal political purposes and for personal attacks.
Why would broadcaster's use of this public resource the public airwaves, by way of an FCC License, why would their broadcasting their own political opinions and even personal attacks, be considered unfair or prohibited?
Because you don't have that same political power and platform, do you, and because if you or anyone else is personally attacked on the public airwaves, you wouldn't be able to defend yourself in kind, could you...
Hence a regulatory requirement for EQUAL TIME and REPLY TIME, if those broadcasters use those precious few FCC Licences for broadcasting their own political opinions or personal attacks, on our public airwaves.
And do know what?
They don't have to do that you know, they can just report the facts, and leave out the opinions, you know... but if they insist on broadcasting their (the broadcaster's) own personal political opinions, then they can allow for EQUAL TIME don't you think, and REPLY TIME in the case of their many personal attacks (which are almost always political in nature).
In a nutshell, what I just described is the true genesis and birth of the Democracy corrupting monster whose foul words and evil deeds are recorded regularly here at MMFA...
That's it, it's the repeal of EQUAL TIME and REPLY TIME that gave birth to the three hundred pound baby rush limbaugh twenty years ago, and to Fox News Channel too, to corrupt our Democracy using our own property, a public resource the public airwaves... and you're SHUT OUT, you can't do the same or even compete or respond, this political broadcast power of the public's airwaves belongs to them NOT YOU!
Sounds fair, and balanced, doesn't it?
I thank you 100% for your post!
Just another EXAMPLE OF BIG GOVERNMENT protecting those of power and scr@wing the rest of AMERICA!
And it's worth adding, that this same deregulation (without Congressional approval) of the public airwaves that turned FCC Licenses into powerful political broadcast tools, also coincides with the corporate consolidation of television and radio broadcasters... true.
Especially regarding radio stations and those holders of FCC Licenses.
In conjunction with this deregulation of the airwaves, came a consolidation of those Licenses from dozens of corporate broadcasters to just several.
The same with television broadcasters, we currently have just five mega corporations having all of the television public airwaves under their control.
It's all bad, and it could be fixed, if our FCC would just start serving our interests instead of the interests of those few corporate broadcasters.
Whose airwaves are the public airwaves anyway?
(That's a 'no brainer', the answer is included in the question.)
Equal Time is a misnomer, equal access and 'sufficient time to rebut' would be more accurate, but either way it was the Fairness Doctrine that supposedly allowed a person to contact their local station and ask to rebut.. however, it had to be a specific claim that was rebutted.
For instance, someone calling WKRP and wanting to rebut the entire Rush Limbaugh Show would have to be denied (under the FD), but they could insist on rebutting a claim made on the show. IF the rebuttal needed the same amount of time as the original claim, it would get that time, but if a serious rebuttal could be made in less time, that would determine the length of the commentary/rebuttal.
Otherwise, the Public Airwaves and the concept of "public interest, convenience and necessity" are correct.
And, besides that, how can anyone watch him speak for very long at a time. That weird thing he does with his mouth when he speaks DRIVES ME CRAZY! LOL!
A bill cannot force americans to buy insurance from the very companies they despise without providing some alternative government run program without facing the full wrath of the american voter for years to come. People are ignorant but not that ignorant - if they see that the gov't is mandating them to buy insurance from wellpoint, they will be steamed at the government and more specifically, the dems and obama for doing so without giving them any other route.
This part of the bill is why the house is absolutely dying for a reconciliation process ao they can pass this bill and then, alter the bill in the future to ensure adequate reforms are passed. Without a promise of reconciliation or somehow passing more regulation in return for the house passing this bill, they will not vote for it. I love how this moron is arguing that it is too extreme and that is why the house will not pass it when it is abundantly clear that it is the senate and not the house that seems incapable of reform or genuine legislation to regulate an industry. Of course, the house can pass this but do they want to do that at the expense of forcing their voters to buy from those they loathe without adequate cost controls in the bill. And the answer is not without a second round of reform and/or the passing of a strong public option via reconciliation also known as a MAJORITY - what real democracies need to pass things.
I love how we pretend we are capitalist only until we need to bail out the richest financial firms in the world with taxpayer money and we pretend we are a democracy until a majority wants to pass real regulatatory reform and then, we REQUIRE 60 votes. Its beyond frustrating, the senate is inept, corrupt and will take down the entire country if they cannot reform themselves. Since they can't seem to reform anything else, I am highly skeptical that they will able to change their own ways.
Go to his web site!
Get the names of the "Vulnerable Democrats" and send them our SUPPORT!
These are the folks we need to Encourage!
Arizona:
Harry Mitchell (Phoenix suburbs) Call (202) 225-2190!
Gabrielle Giffords (Tucson) Call (202) 225-2542!
Ann Kirkpatrick (most of rural Arizona, NE part of state) Call (202) 225-2315!
California:
Jerry McNerney (Stockton and Pleasanton) Call (202) 225-1947!
Colorado:
John Salazar (Pueblo) Call 202-225-4761!
Connecticut:
Jim Hines (Fairfield County) Call (202) 225-5541!
Florida:
Alan Grayson (Orlando) Call (202) 225-2176!
Illinois:
Bill Foster (Dixon, Batavia, and Geneseo) Call (202) 225-2976!
Indiana:
Baron Hill (from Kentucky border up to Bloomington) Call (202) 225-5315!
Michigan:
Mark Schauer (Branch, Calhoun, Eaton, Hillsdale, Jackson, Lenawee & Washtenaw counties) Call (202) 225-6276!
Gary Peters (Oakland County) Call (202) 225-5802!
Nevada:
Dina Titus (Las Vegas) Call (202) 225-3252!
New Hampshire:
Carol Shea-Porter (Portsmouth, Manchester, Lakes Region) Call (202) 225-5456!
New York:
Tim Bishop (Suffolk County) Call (202) 225-3826!
John Hall (Northern Westchester) Call (202) 225-5441!
Bill Owens (Plattsburgh up along Vermont border to Canada) Call (202) 225-4611!
Mike Arcuri (Utica and south central NY) Call (202)225-3665!
Dan Maffei (Syracuse) Call (202) 225-3701!
North Dakota:
Earl Pomneroy (at large) Call (202) 225-2611!
Ohio:
Steven Driehaus (Cincinnati west to Indiana border) Call (202) 225-2216!
Mary Jo Kilroy (Columbus and west to Indiana border) Call (202) 225-2015!
Zach Space (Dover, Zanesville, Chillicothe) Call (202) 225-6265!
Pennsylvania:
Kathy Dahlkemper (Erie) Call (202) 225-5406!
Patrick Murphy (Bucks County) Call (202) 225-4276!
Christopher Carney (NE Penn) Call (202) 225-3731!
Paul Kanjorski (Scranton, Wilkes-Barre) Call 202-225-6511!
South Carolina:
John Spratt (rural SC between Columbia and Charlotte) Call (202) 225-5501!
Virginia:
Tom Perriello (Charlottesville, Bedford, Timberlake, Martinsville & Danville) Call (202) 225-4711!
West Virginia:
Alan Mollohan (Wheeling, Morgantown) Call (202) 225-4172!
Nick Rahall (Huntington) Call (202) 225-3452!
Wisconsin:
Steve Kagen (Green Bay) Call (202) 225-5665!
Let’s get busy to save health care in America!