Will KELOLAND Give Equal Time to Pro-Choice Candidates and Opponents of IM11?
I’m watching the televised Catholic service on KELOLAND. The priest’s homily is exhorting support of IM 11, the abortion ban measure, and asking Catholics to support anti-choice candidates.
I’m wondering if this triggers equal time or fairness doctrine provisions under federal law.
I’m also wondering if the Campaign for Healthy Families and pro-choice candidates will get the same sort of access to the largest and most influential broadcaster in South Dakota.
Nice to know that both Sanford and the Sioux Falls Diocese have their own TV station.
Posted on Sunday, October 5, 2008
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Todd Epp
in S.D. Press, Abortion/Right to Lifers, 2008 Election
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Todd Epp
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Now Todd you know there is no more Fairness Doctrine. They managed to abolish that during the Reagan Administration which in turn helped create the sewer that is talk radio today. An industry infested by the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage,Boortz, Beck and a host of other race-baiting, fact-inventing apologists for the failed polciies of the Gingrich legacy. While they were diverting their sheep-like listners with phony issues like gay rights, choice for women, anti-science and other medieval swill, the boys in Washington were clearing the trees for the Wall Street Greed Express (close relative of the former "Straight Talk Express") to come roaring through.
And here we are today.
As for this morning's mass-perhaps we can examine the hypocrisy of pushing passage of a measure that would rob women of a painful, but sometimes unavoidable option while waving the flag for the Iraq War and giving the governor a pass to kill death row inmates.
All three issues-choice, the war, and capital punishment-are opposed by the Vatican, but only one is enforced. The rest get a wink, the cold shoulder and a silent prayer that nobody notices the monstrous hypocrisy.
Can't forget the swill that is (or WAS?) Al Franken, Jannene Graffolo, Randi Rhodes and all those other yahoos on "Air America"... surprised the CIA didn't sue for copyright infringement on that one!