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RUSH: This is Trace Gallagher at the Fox News Channel just a moment ago.<\/p>\n

GALLAGHER: We just heard from the White House spokesman saying that Barack Obama, the president, in fact does not support bringing back the Fairness Doctrine. If you\u2019re not up on this, the Fairness Doctrine is basically where a lot of Democrats have said, ‘You know, if Rush Limbaugh gets three hours of radio every day then a Democrat should also get three hours of radio on that station to make it fair and balanced, to have both sides of the story.\u2019 The president says he does not support bringing back the Fairness Doctrine.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I wouldn\u2019t read anything into this. Of course they\u2019re not going to bring back the Fairness Doctrine. They\u2019re going to call it something else. They\u2019re going to use a series of contrivances. They will use ownership restriction, ownership rules. They will use local content rules. The Wall Street Journal, two days ago, asked me for an op-ed on this. I submitted the op-ed this morning. It is an open letter to President Obama asking for clarity and definitive answer on — on censorship of the media. Now, I\u2019m wondering. I am just wondering if somebody along the line did not leak my op-ed and the White House heard of it coming and they want to preempt its publication.\u2019 <\/p>\n

At the next break, I\u2019m going to fire off a note to the people at the Journal, because there is an expiration date on every Obama statement. He can say today he doesn\u2019t believe in it but then something of an emergency will come up in another day or two, in a week, and force him to change his mind. Now, the FCC, he\u2019s got a lot of people working on this. ACORN is gearing up to enforce the same type of restrictions on broadcasting that the Fairness Doctrine would require. They\u2019re not going to call it that. They are going to go for it. As I\u2019ve told you, I\u2019m reluctant to talk about this, because I don\u2019t want to sound like a victim. I don\u2019t want to sound like, ‘They\u2019re coming after me! They\u2019re coming after me! (crying)\u2019 but they\u2019re going after any area there is dissent. They\u2019re even going after the Internet. The Obama administration people are talking about the unfairness and the imbalance and the lack of a ‘filter\u2019 on the Internet. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just talk radio. They\u2019re not going after cable TV; they\u2019re not going after NPR; they\u2019re not going after broadcast TV; they\u2019re not going after newspapers or magazines. They are focusing on talk radio. The very idea that he says he opposes the Fairness Doctrine? But he doesn\u2019t oppose the results of the Fairness Doctrine. He is in full-fledged support of what would happen if the Fairness Doctrine were ever re-implemented. But I just have to ask myself — and I spent a lot of time on this op-ed and the publication date scheduled for tomorrow. And outta nowhere, out of nowhere, on Fox, some spokesman says Obama\u2019s not even considering it? Why now? I mean that didn\u2019t come up at the housing meeting today. It didn\u2019t come up in Denver yesterday. It hasn\u2019t come up on Air Force One. Where did it come up from? I didn\u2019t tell anyone. I mean, I told, you know, a couple friends that I was going to write this thing. It\u2019s fascinating stuff going on there. The intrigue, ladies and gentlemen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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