Chuck Schumer and the fairness doctrine

Schumer's words from the interview: "Do you think that we should allow people to put pornography on the air, absolutely not, particularly on television and radio?"

The very same people who don't want the fairness doctrine, want the FCC to limit pornography on the air.......but you can't say that government hands off in one area to a commercial enterprise but you're allowed to intervene in another, that's not consistent."

No, Chuckie, pornography is not appropriate for commercial TV or radio. But the government has no place regulating the discussion of politics and political views, even if they are not yours. Its one hell of a logic leap to say that commercial talk radio, which is devoid of nudity and sex, is similar to pornography.

Here's why Schumer has a bug up his rear-end. Conservatives have traditionally done well in talk radio. Schumer wants to stiffle political discussion and debate (not pornography) because much of the programming is at direct odds with Schumer's liberal politics. When is Schumer going to call for the application of the fairness doctrine to cable TV news? CNN, CNNHN, MSNBC - all liberal. That unequal distribution of viewpoints on cable TV news apparently isn't "pornographic" to Schumer. Now that's not consistent.

Radio and TV stations play what makes them money. Its called the free market. Leave it alone.

Here's to the death of the fairness doctrine!

Is liberalism a mental disorder?

First Michael Savage claimed that liberalism is a mental disorder. Now we have Dr. Lyle Rossiter who has come out with a book entitled, "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness."

Stories regarding this book came up on WorldNetDaily and a while ago on Townhall.com and News Blaze.

Here are a few quotes from the WorldNetDaily Article:

"Rossiter says the kind of liberalism being displayed by the two major candidates for the Democratic Party presidential nomination can only be understood as a psychological disorder."

"The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind," he says. "When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious."

Dr. Rossiter is a Forensic Psychiatrist from the Chicago area and his credentials are impressive.

While I'm sure Dr. Rossiter's book is a great read, I'm not sure I'd learn anything that I don't already know.