re: #53 Eclectic Cyborg

Yes, back when the GOP actually had those amazing things known as spines.

The GOP never had a spine. They will do whatever evil they can get away with. The only reason the GOP backed away from Nixon was because back then legally the media could not provide a 24/7 firehose of lies in support of a particular politician.

The elimination of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 has been the single-most calamitous and damaging legal decision since Dred Scott. This decision freeing media companies from any sort of fact or balance-based reporting directly bred Rush Limbaugh and then led to the creation of Fox News and the current alternate (fake) reality 35% of this country lives in. Facts are no longer facts. They are just things created by whoever is in power.

It takes no spine to lie when entire industries now are based on lying. The Fairness Doctrine was not perfect, but certainly better than the current shill-enabling sewer dump we call a media.