Bill Press to Megyn Kelly: “Public Interest” means lose money with liberal radio hosts

This sniveling by lefties over the lopsided commercial success of conservative talk radio is so unbecoming.  Bill Press embarrasses himself in the below clip, in which Fox News’s Megyn Kelly takes him on over the fairness doctrine.

I’ve never understood why the left enjoys (or seems to, anyway) having Bill Press as a front man.  The man is just not very bright, which I learned when I first heard him on radio station KFI in Los Angeles in the early 90s, and which he has continued to prove throughout the years, including during his stint on Crossfire.

He proves it again here:

I wonder if Press would still be for the fairness doctrine if it required each newspaper, magazine, TV news station, university, and  professional organization (American Medical Association, American Bar Association, American Library Association, etc. — which are generally dominated by leftist leadership) to give equal time across the political spectrum.  Any bets?

If public broadcasting licensees must operate in the public interest, conservative talk stations easily meet that standard. I mean, if the bilge that’s pumped out nightly on broadcast television (I’m talking about the “entertainment,” not just the news) doesn’t get those licenses yanked, how can you complain about conservative talk radio?

By the way, I’m not really impressed with Megyn Kelly here, either.  I know she’s somewhat of a darling at a few conservative blogs, but I suspect her sub-par performance here indicates that she knows it, too, and she’s willing to abandon a reasonable interview style in order to play up her conservative sex kitten image.  Let the man finish an answer next time, Megyn!

Hat tip: HotAir, where Ed Morrissey points out Press’s gaping omission regarding the radio market in DC.