{"id":130,"date":"2009-02-17T15:33:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T15:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lynnvsekulow\/2009\/02\/what-dost-thou-feareth.html"},"modified":"2009-02-17T15:33:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T15:33:25","slug":"what-dost-thou-feareth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lynnvsekulow\/2009\/02\/what-dost-thou-feareth.html","title":{"rendered":"WHAT DOST THOU FEARETH?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jay, I know that my good friend Bill Press did get 2 United States Senators (that would be, out of 100) to say they’d consider a return of the Fairness Doctrine.  Some liberal commentators<\/a> wish he hadn’t even asked. However, I’m still trying to figure out what it is you fear would happen if it did come back?<\/p>\n

Do you think that your show on Salem would have to be “balanced” by an hour every day featuring the Rev. Eugene Robinson <\/a>(or worse, me)?  Do you think that Sean Hannity would have his lips sealed with candle wax for half of his time on Fox so that some Alan-Colmesian figure would speak in his place?  Nothing like this ever happened when the Fairness Doctrine was in place before.  Why would it now?<\/p>\n

This is the same kind of tempest in a teapot that Senator James DeMint tried to use to defeat the “stimulus package” (as if he would have voted for it ever anyway) as a abridgment of the right of student groups to meet in college buildings.  There are enough real differences between people like us that we don’t have to manufacture additional pseudo-crises.  By the way, the St. Petersburg Times <\/u><\/a>newspaper recently examined DeMint’s claims about and found them, in their words, “false”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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