Did you see how Hugo Chavez, the leader of Venezuela, and someone Jimmy Carter says he admires, shut down a TV station in his country because they were critical of him? Carter sure has good taste in friends.

Anyway the reason I bring this up is because this could potentially happen in the United States because of something called the "Fairness Doctrine," which is coming up more and more in interviews with Democrats. What is the "Fairness Doctrine?" Well it basically says that if a media outlet, usually a radio station, is presenting only one point of view, then it is unfair and will face fines and/or worse. Of course one-sided is in the eye of the people in power. The New York Times is pretty one-sided, but I doubt anyone would ever try to hit them with the Fairness Doctrine. FoxNews, on the other hand, would be an immediate target. Think about it.... The only people who would ever put into place a measure like this in this time are Democrats. They did it before, and some are talking about it again. And the Democrats are probably not going to shut down an outlet that is friendly to them, but why not go after one that is not? After all, it's fair, right? FoxNews is only presenting their side of the story.

Anyway, the implications of the Fairness Doctrine sound a lot like what happened in Venezuela. Maybe people that hate Bush and plan to vote Democrat no matter what should reexamine what people really stand for.