If government agencies are free to pursue and sanction political opponents, what's the end game on that? What if ICE had taken a real long, hard look at Obama's papers in 2008, and "deported" him to Kenya?
Is this just one more tool in the box of a government of the people, for the people, and by the people?
The FCC's job is to ensure that the open airwaves aren't used for political propaganda. Even without the Fairness Doctrine, there are still limits on how deceptive they can be.
A cable channel like Fox News is pretty much unrestricted, at least until they hit the point of libel. But the airwaves are a scarce resource, and it falls to the FCC to manage it on behalf of the public.
The limits are not well defined, and the FCC believes that they are acting now only because they think those limits have been egregiously surpassed. It will almost certainly end up in court, and the courts will interpret the law to determine what the FCC's real powers are here.
As for the ICE... if they had taken a long, hard look at Obama's papers in 2008 and concluded anything other than that he was an American citizen born in the United States, that would indeed be a problem. The difference here is that Obama was telling the truth, and that Fox News was telling a lie. If we've reached the point where there is no difference between those things, then we've got bigger problems than the FCC.
Is this just one more tool in the box of a government of the people, for the people, and by the people?