The Return of the Hinchey-Thing
Look who’s popping up again to advocate the reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, in order to shut down right-wing talk radio:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — More and more Democrats in Congress are calling for action that Republicans warn could muzzle right-wing talk radio.
Representative Maurice Hinchey, a Democrat from New York is the latest to say he wants to bring back the “Fairness Doctrine,” a federal regulation scrapped in 1987 that would require broadcasters to present opposing views on public issues.
“I think the Fairness Doctrine should be reinstated,” Hinchey told CNNRadio. Hinchey says he could make it part of a bill he plans to introduce later this year overhauling radio and t-v ownership laws.
This idiot was featured at LGF back in 2005, when he came out with a bizarre conspiracy theory that Karl Rove planted the fraudulent CBS memos, a delusion enthusiastically embraced by the left. Then he changed his story to say that they were planted by Jeff Gannon. Thankfully, I don’t think he ever got to the bottom of the terrible secret.
Cox and Forkum created this cartoon to immortalize the Hinchey-thing, when the troglodytes at Democratic Underground whined that Hinchey was being attacked by “flying monkeys from the dark side:”
Frank says: