Former President Clinton Calls For Restriction of Free Speech on the Radio

Former President Bill Clinton thinks we need more balance on the airwaves. He has even called for a return of the 'fairness doctrine' which would allow the federal government to regulate the content of radio programs to their liking. In the liberal dominated media, radio is the one area of media that conservatives do dominate. With the exception of the Fox News Channel, nearly all of the television news media holds a liberal bias, which was apparent with their love affair of Barack Obama during the 2008 election and leading up to the inauguration.

Liberals have the same opportunity to create their own radio programs, and they have done so in the past it is called Air America and it has failed miserably. Conservative radio hosts such Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Neal Boortz and Mark Levin succeed on the radio because they have a large following of listeners not because the government has created a doctrine so they can be on the air. President Obama finds these radio hosts so threatening that he actually goes after them in his speeches and at rallies, instead of concentrating on his elected conservative opposition.

Senators Stabenow and Harkin have also called for the government to regulate the ideology of the airwaves. President Bush has had to deal with the liberal media for for 15 years since he declared his candidacy for Governor of Texas in 1994, and has not once called for the regulation of free speech in the media, even during the 2004 election when CBS and Dan Rather knowingly reported a false story regarding President Bush's National Guard service.