HOT AIR: "Obama administration no longer issuing denials on Fairness Doctrine"

WE ARE WITNESSING THE REBIRTH OF STALINISM:

ED/HOT AIR:

Remember when the Left laughed at conservatives’ concerns over the Fairness Doctrine? Barack Obama already said he opposed the reimposition of the FCC rule, they said. After all, Obama’s campaign gave this definitive statement in June 2008:

“Senator Obama does not support re-imposing the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters,” said press secretary Michael Ortiz in an e-mail to B&C late Wednesday.

ED CONTINUED:

Today, Chris Wallace interviewed David Axelrod and asked him directly about the Fairness Doctrine — and suddenly the White House adviser got a lot less definitive:

WALLACE: Will you rule out reimposing the Fairness Doctrine?

AXELROD: I’m going to leave that issue to Julius Genachowski, our new head of the FCC, to, and the president, to discuss. So I don’t have an answer for you now.

That’s hardly a denial, as Politico’s Michael Calderone notes:

Lester Kinsolving, the conservative radio host, has twice asked Robert Gibbs about it in the briefing room, and each time, the press secretary didn’t reveal the administration’s position.

VIDEO HERE AND AT HOT AIR.

• THIS IS HOW STALINISM STARTS FOLKS.

• THIS IS MUCH MORE THREATENING TO FREE SPEECH THAN ANYTHING CHIMPY MCBUSHITLERBURTON AND EVILKARLROVE EVER DREAMED OF.

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