Senate Approves Measure to Undo FCC Rules

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Senate Approves Measure to Undo FCC Rules

Posted by michael on Tuesday September 16, 2003 @08:11AM from the doesn't-mean-nothin' dept.

fortheloveofjava writes "The Washington Post says here that the Senate voted 55 to 40 today to wipe out all of the Federal Communication Commission's controversial new media rules, employing a little used legislative tool for overturning agency regulations. If you signed the MOVEON.org petition, an image of part of it is visible here with sponsoring senators Senators Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Trent Lott (R-MS)."

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Good news by Brahmastra · 2003-09-16 08:18 · Score: -1, Flamebait

This is great news. I was dreading Fox News spewing their bile everywhere. If Rupert Murdoch is legally allowed to take over all the media, he WILL. It would have been an Orwellian disaster (it's close to it already) if this wasn't voted down.
Re:What worries me most by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-16 08:20 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Bush is a madman.
How do you even pretend to know what he's going to do next?
I'm a Conservative! (A Poem) by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-16 08:32 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Oh, I'm a Republican
I got a small schling
I like to bomb niggahs
and make a lot o' bling

I got a bunch o' friends
in high up places
They helps me get dem
government graces.

You think I'm smart
I just know who's who
I couldn't run a fruit stand
without the red white & blue

I fancy myself
A brilliant tactician
But neither me nor m'buddies
Could even pass basic trainin'

See, I'm above all that
A fightin' and shootin'
I just say "Sic em!"
Then run the other direction

Don't need no history
Don't need no schoolin'
I got my ideology
To keep me a shootin'

Liberals! Faggots!
Commies and queers!
Socialist hippies
Full o' pussy tears!

I'll drop some crap
about Jesus the Christ
You'll buy it all
and vote for me twice

'Fact, Jesus is comin'!
Real soon, now!
So we gotta prop up Israel
That ol' sacred cow

Propaganda's m'friend
But I calls it "fact"
Even though I don't read
'Cept for Chick tracts

Facts? No! Don't need em here!
We're conservatives! We work on FEAR!
Don't like what we say?
Well FUCK YOU, bud!
We'll shove it down yer throat
and tell ya it's good!
Re:Why does the FCC have so much power? by Dielectric · 2003-09-16 08:33 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Follow the money.

1. Who bought the FCC? The Media.

2. Who controls The Media? The Masons.

3. What did The Masons build? Washington DC.

4. What was DC built on? Swamp Land.

5. Who likes stuff underground (oil)? President Bush.

6. Who did Bush put in power? GOTO 1.

This information probably looks all wrong, but that's what the Tri-Lateral Commission wants you to think.
Re:Or, if you happen to European, by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-16 08:51 · Score: -1, Flamebait

"they will glue an "Anti-American" label to your forehead. "

Only if you are from one of those evil-minded countries that allied with Saddam Hussein, such as (Vichy) France and (Nazi) Germany.

Europeans from countries that choose the side of good in this struggle instead of the side of evil are to be rewarded (the Brits, the Poles, the Italians, Hungarians, Spanish, and others).
Wha wha wha! by Eric+Savage · 2003-09-16 09:50 · Score: 2, Flamebait

You mean these "senators", who I hear are sometimes "elected" by the "people", did something in the "interest" of these "people"? What about the sacred rulings of the FCC? I mean come on, the guy who runs that is the son of a general! Plus he had the support of at least two other members of this agency, and all for naught.

This is the last straw, I'm moving to Canada.

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