Our Venezuelan Congress

Fred Thompson compares the anti-free speech activities underway in Venezuela to the current move in our own Congress to stifle political speech:

I had planned on talking a bit today about Venezuela. The president there doesn’t like the way his media is covering him, so he’s doing away with the free press. He’s established rules on what he thinks is fair, and he’s denying licenses to television and radio stations that don’t play by government rules.

I can’t criticize him now, though. After all, how would it seem for me to complain about another country, when our own congressional leadership is trying to put the same sort of rules in place here? To do so, they’re pulling the Fairness Doctrine out of the dustbin of history.

Read the whole thing for a background on the Fairness Doctrine, and how it will destroy political talk radio if reenacted.