CNN Monday, Bill Clinton speaks on The Fairness Doctrine

Former President Bill Clinton today speaking out on balance in the media and calling back the Fairness Doctrine, the former president talking with radio talk show host Mario Solis Marsh.

VOICE OF BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well you either ought to have the Fairness Doctrine or we ought to have more balance on the other side. Because essentially, there’s always been a lot of big money to support the right-wing talk shows. And let’s face it, you know Rush Limbaugh is fairly entertaining, even when he’s saying things that I think are ridiculous.

DOBBS: Now, the former president calling for the Fairness Doctrine would only imply, of course, to broadcasters. It’s interesting he’s not calling for fairness or a Fairness Doctrine for “The New York Times,” “The Washington Post”, the “L.A. Times,” or ABC News, CBS News, NBC News. Isn’t that odd that he would only be interested in so-called fairness for radio?

Obviously as a radio talk show host, as an American citizen, as a journalist, you know I think the former president is out of his cotton picking mind and needs to go away on this issue and the sooner the better. This idea that the government would decide what is balanced broadcast and fair broadcasting is purely a censorship doctrine. There is no other way to look at it. Purely a censorship document and hopefully we won’t get to a point that we’ll have a central command economy and nation, anytime soon.

CNN Transcript

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