Sunday Funday: Women’s History Month Edition

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Dave Bradley

Look who is a Barbie Doll – giving young women someone to emulate:

from Mattel inc.

Barbie® recognizes all female role models. The Inspiring Women™ Series pays tribute to incredible heroines of their time; courageous women who took risks, changed rules and paved the way for generations of girls to dream bigger than ever before. Barbie® honors longest-serving First Lady of the United States, UN Spokesperson and human rights activist Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. A champion of policies around civil and economic rights, her passionate advocacy was unwavering, even when faced with resistance. Earning the title “First Lady of the World” for her hard work and dedication to humanitarian efforts, Eleanor Roosevelt’s perseverance redefined the role of women in politics and public life. Barbie® celebrates Eleanor Roosevelt and her incredible impact with a fully poseable, collectible Barbie® doll. Created in her likeness and featuring a curvy body, Eleanor Roosevelt Barbie® doll wears a dress with a beautiful Iris print. With displayable packaging, this celebration of Eleanor Roosevelt makes a great gift for Barbie® collectors and kids ages 6 years old and up. Doll cannot stand alone. Colors and decorations may vary.

Two months since the devil left Washington and things are really looking up.

  1. 251 years ago last Friday (March 5, 1770) rumblings of rebellion rocked New England as what early forerunner to the Revolution took place?
  1. What governor is currently being accused in public of several incidents of sexual harassment?
  1. Jury selection begins tomorrow as the city of Minneapolis gears up for protests for whose trial?
  1. Former Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler not only lost her senate seat but also sold her interest in what professional sports team?
  1. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds received a corona virus vaccine from what vaccine provider last week?
  1. Who was the first female SCOTUS judge?
  1. The Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings on what recent major event last week?
  1. Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson pulled what stunt to delay the $1.9 Trillion Covid Relief Bill last week?
  1. Who was the first woman to take a ride in space?
  1. A variant of the corona virus known as what coming from Manaus, Brazil is causing major concern as it reinfects this who have been previously infected?
  1. Daily deaths in the US have fallen from a high of over 4,000/ day to a level now of about how many per day?
  1. “I went to CPAC. That was a problem” quipped what US Senator to explain injuries he sustained from a fall while visiting family?
  1. What group of Iowa workers who were ravaged in the early weeks of the corona virus last year will be getting vaccinated next week?
  1. One of the most influential persons in journalism history, what woman was the publisher of the Washington Post during the Watergate investigation?
  1. Almost 40 years after Ronald Reagan fired PATCO, President Biden released a video in support of what group in Bessemer, Alabama?
  1. President Biden pulled the timeline for vaccination way forward saying that there would be enough vaccines to inoculate all American adults by the end of what month?
  1. President Biden referred to what state level decision as “Neanderthal thinking”?
  1. SCOTUS last week heard cases concerning what fundamental issue of democracy?
  1. What industry rival announced it would help J&J produce corona virus vaccines after a deal brokered by President Biden?
  1. Mr. Potato Head almost never happened as what during WWII and after kept the toy from becoming popular?

My favorite cancel culture moment is when 81 million Americans canceled seasons 5-8 of the Trump Presidency. – Travis Allen

Answers:

  1. The Boston Massacre – Crispus Attucks became what is considered the first death of the Revolution.
  1. Cuomo of New York
  1. Policeman Derek Chauvin who was involved in the George Floyd death
  1. The WNBA Atlanta Dream
  1. J&J
  1. Sandra Day O’Connor
  1. The Trump attempted coup
  1. Had Senate clerks read the whole bill out loud on the senate floor.
  1. Valentina Tereshkova June 16, 1963. You will be happy to know Ms. Tereshkova is still alive.
  1. P1
  1. 2000 – still way too many
  1. Mitt Romney who has been known to often be at odds with more conservative republicans.
  1. Those in the meatpacking industry
  1. Katharine Graham
  1. Workers at an Amazon warehouse trying to unionize
  1. May – pulling it forward 2 months
  1. Texas decision to end mask mandates
  1. Voting rights – especially important as HR 1 was passed and 43 states have introduced voter suppression laws.
  1. Merck
  1. Food rationing during WWII and after. Using a real potato as a toy was really discouraged at that time. 

you have to watch this (2 minutes)!

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Coming to a Frontline Worker Near You:

Posted on March 6, 2021 by Dave Bradley

Caps on the Value of Their Lives

“These are the frontline workers who keep America moving – who keep Iowa productive.” – New Accountable Iowa Video. 

Imagine for a moment this terrible nightmare: A police officer is directing traffic at the scene of a minor fender bender. A distracted driver is checking Twitter on his phone and hits the officer, who is thrown nearly 40 feet from the impact. The police officer – husband and father of two young children with his life and a promising career ahead of him – dies instantly.

After the funeral and all the heartache that follows, the family finally has their day in court. A citizen jury reviews the facts in the case, carefully assesses the monumental loss to the family, and votes unanimously to award appropriate damages.

“Sorry,” says the judge in the case, “our state legislature has capped the value of your husband’s and your father’s life in cases like this.”

The family and the jurors are devastated and furious. The distracted driver’s insurance company, on the other hand, is elated.

As we conclude in the latest video from Accountable Iowa:

“Leave those decisions to Iowa juries, not politicians. Ask your legislator to vote no.”

Join the fight to protect the value of your life, the lives of our frontline workers, and all Iowans from overreach by politicians and their corporate backers. Repost this video on social media and then tell your legislators that you oppose any effort to force a one-size-fits-all, government mandated price on life.

Accountable Iowa

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Stealth Civil War Already In Progress

Posted on March 6, 2021 by Dave Bradley

While many might look at the Governor Greg Abbott’s action in Texas ending the mandate for folks to wear masks and the accompanying order that all businesses can reopen 100% as orders that affect Abbott’s Texas only, some of us view it differently.

Wearing or not wearing a mask during a pandemic – A FREAKING PANDEMIC OF A PLAGUE THAT IS HIGHLY DEADLY – has been transformed from rather only the public health issue that it should and has instead become a symbol of the political diversion within this country. On one side now considered to be the right, decisions are often made not because they are logical or in the public interest, but because they ‘troll’ or essentially upset the political enemy.

During a pandemic, it is logical and in the best interest of EVERYONE within our society to wear a mask since masks have been shown over and over and over again to be a scientifically provable way to stop the spreading of the virus that is the cause of the pandemic. The opposite is also true, that not wearing masks is one of the leading reasons why the virus is spread. 

Any logical person would therefore agree that the power of the state should be behind stopping the spread of the virus that is causing the disease that is killing people at a high rate. To do anything else is wrong and should be criminal. But it sure would troll the political opposition and create one more fissure in the body politic. No doubt, trolling the political rivals was much more in Governor Abbott’s mind than was any of the other reasons he claimed for ending the mask mandate and opening business.

In the long run, creating the environment in which customers get sick and lose trust in the business community will have to e very bad for business. But just for the short run, Abbott can claim feel victorious as his opposition screams about how wrong what he did is.

There are also long run consequences to what Abbott is doing. Oh, BTW, Governor Tate Reeves in Mississippi is also joining Abbott in this effort. First off, Abbott’s actions will cause the virus to continue to be spread across the country and the world. As people move in and out of Texas their chances of getting infected and passing the virus on are greatly increased. So ending the pandemic in the country and the world will be greatly slowed, possibly even halted depending on how many refuse to get vaccinated.

Secondly, there is a major amount of people who selfishly and unpatriotically will be refusing to be vaccinated. Couple these folks with Abbott’s ending the mask mandate and reopening businesses and a perfect laboratory for the vaccine to not only spread, but to mutate will be established. 

Micro organisms like viruses are amazing creatures. They can reproduce quickly and like all creatures, their nature has them creating mutations to help them adapt so their own chances of survival are enhanced. Over several generations of viruses – which may take only a few weeks – they may mutate to a state where they are no longer affected by the current vaccines. Then we are back at square one. 

What Abbott, Reeves others like them such as Kim Reynolds who has also rescinded a mask mandate in Iowa, have done is given the virus a huge helping hand in the lateral War that we are conducting against it. The reasoning behind aiding and abetting the virus is not to save people or end the pandemic, but to troll their political opposition. 

This is unconscionable, yet it is a tactic to sow division in this country and keep any possibility of Americans actually working together to come to sensible solutions to mutual problems. Other mutual problems that those on the right are continuing to exploit for their divisiveness include voter suppression, the melding of state and religion and tax breaks for the rich that lead to economic break downs.

Political leaders on the right continue to pursue policies that actually hurt and kill Americans and lead to divisions rather than treat all Americans the same. They do so almost as initial skirmishes in what many on the extreme right believe some day will turn into a full blown Civil War.

Interestingly, the majority of folks on both sides have similar wish lists for their government such as universal health care, but the continual exhortations particularly from politicians and media on the right have blunted those desires and turned the current national divisions into a “my tribe versus your tribe” situation.

Much like the soldiers in the original Civil War, those enlisted as the soldiers in the current iteration are not those who have deep investments, but those who are being exploited and continually fed a “My Tribe above all else” propaganda. They are consuming such propaganda at great cost to themselves. They were the people who provided the bodies for Donald Trump’s insurrection January 6th. Many are now looking at ruined lives while the instigators look on from the safety and comfort of their homes.

Similarly as the soldiers in this skirmish catch and die of Covid-19, we see instigators like Donald Trump once again getting a vaccine in secret so the soldiers can’t see that he really couldn’t care less about them, but  will not take the risks himself.

This is only starting.

tip of the hat to democraticunderground.com

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Iowa Progressive Candidates Should Adopt The Three W’s: Wages Water And Weed

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Trish Nelson

Prairie Dog

Published with permission from the March 2021 issue of  The Prairie Progressive, Iowa’s oldest progressive newsletter. The Prairie Progressive is  funded entirely by reader subscription,  available only in hard copy for $12/yr.  Send check to PP, Box 1945, Iowa City 52244. Click here for archived issues.

The great minds of the Iowa Democratic Party are busily engaged in post mortem debate following the debacle of 2020.

Our paid professionals have an array of excuses at hand: the pandemic prevented personal contact, the derecho depressed turnout, the Republican Party sued the election commissioners of our bluest counties, polling failed to foresee a surge of Trump-energized voters.

Some strategists blame the influence of Fox News and the nationalization of issues. Most of this year’s odious legislative initiatives in Iowa were generated by ALEC, not by Iowa voters: near-elimination of early voting, a one-week waiting period to receive unemployment benefits, reinstatement of state executions, removal of gender identity as a protected class in the state civil rights code, ad nauseum. None of these proposals were campaign issues. All of them are on the national Republican agenda. Outside the state Capitol, few Iowans have asked for them.

Then there are the consultants who believe that Democratic candidates lacked a meaningful, appealing message. Hatred of Trump clearly wasn’t enough. Nor was fighting the opioid epidemic, expanding gun-owner background checks, or getting dark money out of politics.

The Prairie Progressive weighs in on the side of messaging. We propose a platform for progressive candidates to push in 2022: The Three Ws.

Wages. Before its identity became muddled, the Democratic Party won elections as the champion of the working class. Raising the minimum wage should be a no-brainer as a top priority for a winning campaign. It polls well in all age groups, it is just and moral, and it supports efforts to attract entrepreneurs and tech companies to Iowa. All those highly-skilled and well-educated managerial types the state hopes to attract will need a decently-paid workforce to support them. Among our increasing embarrassments is the fact that a state as regressive as South Dakota has a higher minimum wage indexed to inflation. A winning candidate would also talk about wage theft and wages without benefits for thousands of hard-working Iowans.

Water. Also a no-brainer. Iowans voted to improve the state’s water quality but didn’t provide the money to do it. Our state’s regulatory system is no match for the Iowa Farm Bureau’s refusal to hold polluters accountable. Nothing says Don’t Move to Iowa like an unprotected environment and underfunded public health programs. How about an ad showing parents and their kid fishing in a sparkling stream? An honest nutrient reduction strategy, with penalties for those who benefit from government policies that exploit our natural resources, is a tall order but a popular platform.

Weed. Wildly popular in every demographic. A recent national Vox poll showed 62% of all voters favor legalization, which would bring in revenue, create jobs, and alleviate the racial disparities of the so-called war on drugs. Opioid addiction, the even more damaging epidemic of alcoholism, and PTSD symptoms would decrease, even under moderate decriminalization. Iowa’s brand as a welcoming state would improve. Having only a barely-functional medical marijuana program has solidified our status as a poor place to locate a business, and a cruel place for families experiencing epilepsy, glaucoma, AIDS, dementia, chronic pain, nausea, or multiple sclerosis.

The Three Ws would create excitement, address the economy, focus on the environment, promote social justice, and are easy to remember. Something for the great minds to consider.

—Prairie Dog

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Can Iowa Accomplish Redistricting Without Republican Shenanigans?

Posted on March 4, 2021 by Trish Nelson

Every ten years the state redraws legislative and congressional district maps. Senator Zach Wahls discussed the process at the Johnson County League of Women Voters legislative forum.  Also present were, Democrats Joe Bolkcom, Mary Mascher, Christina Bohannan, Dave Jacoby, and Kevin Kinney. Absent: Republican Bobby Kaufmann.

To view the entire forum including comments from all Democratic state reps. and senators and questions from the audience click here.

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Help Pass H.R.1 The For The People Act

Posted on March 3, 2021 by Trish Nelson

If you are not yet a member of Indivisible click on the link on the sidebar and sign up. You will also be able to join a House/Senate district group for where you live.

Want to do something to neutralize the crazy vote suppression bills going on in the Iowa legislature and Republican controlled legislatures across the land?  Help pass H.R.1 the For the People Act.  Read on.

Indivisibles,

The wins that led to the Democratic trifecta that we celebrate today happened despite, not thanks to, the cracks in our democratic system. Now, we have a real chance to fix our broken democracy.

H.R. 1, the For the People Act, is a crucial first step toward making our democracy truly representative of the people. The original version of the bill targets voter suppression tactics, partisan gerrymandering, money in politics, corruption, and more. This isn’t the first time H.R. 1 has passed the House, but Democrats are building on what they have to pass the most crucial piece of democracy reform legislation in decades. Progressives are working to make it even stronger, but they need your support to make sure their amendments to the bill pass along with the final vote tomorrow evening. Call your representative to demand they vote YES on the below amendments and vote YES on the final bill. 

The House is voting NOW on amendments to H.R. 1 followed by a floor vote tomorrow evening to pass the bill altogether. We are encouraged by all the amendments being offered, but these four in particular would make a huge difference for our democracy:

📝 Amendment #84: restores voting rights for people with felony convictions and currently incarcerated individuals
📝 Amendment #157: includes early voting locations on college campuses
📝 Amendment #26: blocks any major USPS service changes that slows the delivery of ballots in the 120 days before a federal election
📝 Amendment #22: lowers the voting age to 16

Call your representative >>

Fixing our democracy is the first step in achieving all of our progressive priorities, from addressing the climate crisis, racial justice, health care, and so much more. We have the power to reclaim democracy for the people, but the only way is through structural democracy reform now. We hope you’ll join us by calling your representative before tomorrow’s vote. Our democracy depends on it.

In solidarity,
Indivisible Team

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Letter: Miller-Meeks Motion To Dismiss Is Self Serving

Posted on March 2, 2021 by Trish Nelson

Letter to the editor in the Clinton Herald

Mariannette Miller-Meeks filed a motion to dismiss Rita Hart’s election contest despite the fact that there are 22 legal ballots currently excluded from the election results.

Hart’s Notice of Contest details 22 ballots that were unfairly excluded from the IA-02 election and proves that including these ballots would change the outcome of this election.

Dismissing the contest would mean knowingly disenfranchising these 22 voters.

Miller-Meeks’s motion to dismiss not only minimizes the importance of counting every vote, it provides no legal grounds to dispute Hart’s claim to victory. The motion to dismiss never disputes the legitimacy of the 22 excluded ballots, suggesting that Miller-Meeks and her lawyers see no legal reason for their exclusion. An election contest is taken up if there is evidence that would change the results of the election and result in the contestant’s claim to the seat.

Hart’s contest provides evidence of legal ballots currently excluded from the election that, if included in the election results, would deem her the winner. With no legal support, Miller-Meeks’s motion to dismiss is just a self-serving attempt to silence Iowans and keep her provisional seat in Congress.

We deserve better than this. None of us deserve to be wrongfully disenfranchised. Hart is not asking for a baseless recount, she is asking for the assurance that every Iowan’s voice is heard.

Allison Ritchie, Muscatine

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All Iowa House Republicans Voted Against Covid Relief

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Trish Nelson

Action alert from Senator Rob Hogg:

Iowans Need the Covid Relief Bill!

[BFIA Editor’s note:  All Republican representatives from Iowa Ashley Hinson, Randy Feenstra and Marianette Miller-Meeks voted AGAINST Covid relief. Democrat Cindy Axne voted FOR the relief bill.]

Call Senator Grassley (202-224-3744)
and Senator Ernst (202-224-3254) today!

Dear Iowans:

On Saturday, the U.S. House passed the American Rescue Plan/Covid Relief Bill that will fund vaccines, provide $1,400 payments to Iowans making less than $75,000 a year, and increase the child tax credit. (Thank you, Representative Cindy Axne!)

Now Iowans need the U.S. Senate to pass that bill to help stop the coronavirus and to help Iowans who have been suffering its economic consequences.

We need every vote possible to pass this bill as quickly as possible.

Today, I am calling Senator Grassley and Senator Ernst to tell them Iowans need this bill and to ask for their support. Phone numbers below. I hope you will call, too.

I know some of you will think, “Well, they don’t listen so I’m not going to call.” I share your disappointment with many of their past votes, but please call to give them the chance to support this bill. If you don’t call to make your voice heard, who else will?

Be polite, tell the person who answers your name and that you are an Iowan, give them your address, and tell them that Iowans need this bill and you want the Senators to vote for it. Boom. Done in ten minutes or less.

Then invite your Iowa friends to call, too. Forward this email. Post on social media. Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper.

Here are the phone numbers to call – please call until you get through:

Senator Grassley
DC: (202) 224-3744
Council Bluffs: (712) 322-7103
Sioux City: (712) 233-1860
Waterloo: (319) 232-6657
Cedar Rapids: (319) 363-6832
Davenport: (563) 322-4331
Des Moines: (515) 288-1145

Senator Ernst
DC: (202) 224-3254
Council Bluffs: (712)352-1167
Sioux City: (712) 252-1550
Cedar Rapids: (319) 365-4504
Davenport: (563) 322-0677
Des Moines: (515) 284-4574

Key Provisions of the Bill

Here are the key provisions of the bill that you can highlight if you want when you call:

> Funding for vaccine production and distribution.
> $1,400 payments to Iowans making less than $75,000 a year, $150,000 for couples.
> Increase the child tax credit which experts say will cut child poverty in half.
> Public health assistance to help schools open safely.
> Paid leave for workers who get coronavirus to help stop the spread.
> Extended unemployment benefits.
> Aid to local governments so they aren’t forced to reduce police or other essential services.

Don’t let the opponents mislead you about this bill. They are wrong when they say it isn’t about coronavirus relief or dealing with its economic consequences. This bill is about helping stop the virus and helping Americans who have suffered economically from the virus.

Here is a link to a good thread on Twitter about what’s in the bill from U.S. Rep. Sean Casten of Downers Grove, Illinois:
https://twitter.com/SeanCasten/status/1365687238084993024

If you want to let me know when you have made the call, or if you have other thoughts or suggestions, just reply to SenatorRobHogg@gmail.com.

Rob

Senator Rob Hogg
Cedar Rapids
Telephone: (319) 247-0223
Email: SenatorRobHogg@gmail.com
Twitter: @SenatorRobHogg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hoggforsenate/
Rob Hogg is a State Senator from Cedar Rapids. Contact Rob at SenatorRobHogg@gmail.com.

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Bolkcom: Iowa Republicans “Settling Scores”

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Trish Nelson

The League of Women Voters of Johnson County hosted a legislative forum this weekend.   Present are Representatives Kevin Kinney, Mary Mascher, Joe Bolkcom, Dave Jacoby, Christina Bohannan and Zach Wahls.  Bobby Kaufmann was absent. Great discussion plus questions.  Sobering opening statements on how they are experiencing the Republican extremism this session and their hopes for minimizing the damage.

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“DePlatformed?” Us Too!

Posted on February 28, 2021 by Dave Bradley

As if I needed yet another chuckle over how badly conservatives are treated in this country, I almost drove off the road laughing when I heard the news on public radio Friday and some Republican Iowa legislators were whining about being “deplatformed” by social media.

My understanding is that social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Tic-Toc and others are now monitoring posts to their websites (or platforms) for things like flat out lies, violent content and calls to arms. The concern of these platforms is pretty simple and logical – if someone commits a crime and they claim they got the idea from a post on Twitter, should Twitter be held accountable for allowing that information to get out to the general public?

As far as I know right now there is no specific answer one way or another. There are some state legislators who would like to make social platforms complicit in crimes if a platform were used to disseminate ideas among members of a group for instance. Much of the planning and co-ordination of the far right wing attack on Washington DC on January 6th was done on social media as very obvious example.

With potential legislation geared to make them liable for what users of their platforms use the platform for, social media has begun to crack down what they will allow users to say on their platforms. Ironically, the crack down seems to be falling hardest on the right. Seems that much of what they post fail the new tests that social media platforms have developed to screen content that is too violent or racist or whatever other categories they have decided to screen for.

Now folks on the right are screaming that the social media platforms are censoring them and taking away their “free speech” rights. Folks, if your postings are being blocked because of content, you really need to review the rules and then measure your content against those rules. Most likely your content has crossed a line.

If you do not like the limits that social media platforms have imposed on content then there are some things you can do. Crying about “free speech” is not one of them. The first amendment pertains only to the government. It does not pertain to Google, Facebook, twitter, Tic-Toc or for that matter radio, TV and newspapers.

All those platforms named above are private entities. As such they are not bound by the first amendment to allow any nutcase a platform for their rantings. And as we now see many folks in government want them to police the content that are posted to their platforms. For some reason Americans seem to think that the internet should be a place where anything and everything goes. It isn’t. While maybe not as regulated yet as other platforms, that will probably be coming.

In order to save their butts from possible lawsuits or even legal charges, platforms have decided to pre-actively screen content. Right now, much of the content that violates their restrictions comes from the right. While they act as if this is “Big Tech” somehow censoring conservatives, I am sure it is “Big Tech” just trying to save its own ass from future trouble. And it looks like the ones that will get them into trouble will be the conservatives.

However, liberals have been subject to a de facto form of what would now be called deplatforming  over the past 40 years since the fairness doctrine was declared no longer valid under Saint Ronald of Reagan. That, couple with major changes in ownership rules on how much media could be owned by one group and we had the groundwork laid for a huge conservative takeover of the media of the day – radio, TV, newspapers and magazines.

The hangover from all that is still with us. For those who follow blogforiowa, you know that media bias is one of our favorite topics. That is because we believe that the media that comes into Iowans homes daily greatly affects how we vote. In Iowa we have NO liberal media and very little non-partisan media. In the past 20 years this has helped move Iowa further and further right as a state.

If you are still with us, name the liberal newspapers in Iowa? I can’t think of any inside Iowa’s borders or any close by for that matter. Iowa’s newspapers seem to run the gamut from right to far right.

What about liberal Iowa radio stations? I come up with another fat 0 here. Right wing radio up and down the dial, though. NPR stations are at best to the right of neutral. If you care. Minneapolis and Chicago do have left wing radio.

And TV stations in Iowa – any to the left? Not that I have heard of. 

So the tears of the “deplatformed conservative” is yet another attention seeking whiner who is crying when that which he or she has been doing to others for decades is somehow turned and focused on themselves.

Hey conservative, can we talk about the fairness doctrine? Or do you like the way the playing is so greatly tilted in your favor?

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