The future of free speech
When the left is in power the first amendment is more of a “living” amendment, not to be taken literally in every instance.
U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., was among 41 senators who signed a letter condemning radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, and Salazar said Wednesday he would vote for a resolution censuring Limbaugh for “going beyond whatever rights he had to attack soldiers.”
Limbaugh is under attack from MediaMatters.org for comments he made Friday about “phony soldiers” who oppose the war in Iraq.
Limbaugh was “absolutely dead wrong,” Salazar said. ~gjsentinel.com
Democrats believe that “oversight” is their mission in congress which is why reports of Democrats ready, willing, and able to launch investigations of private citizens to figure out how to shut them up with the fairness doctrine is nothing to laugh at.
Others on the Democrat side are pushing ahead with other plans. Rep. Henry Waxman has asked his investigative staff to begin compiling reports on Limbaugh, and fellow radio hosts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin based on transcripts from their shows, and to call in Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin to discuss the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.”
“Limbaugh isn’t the only one who needs to be made uncomfortable about what he says on the radio,” says a House leadership source. “We don’t have as big a megaphone as these guys, but this all political, and we’ll do what we can to gain the advantage. If we can take them off their game for a while, it will help our folks out there on the campaign trail.” ~spectator.org
Waxman denies it but we know that Democrats want to reinstate the fairness doctrine for this exact reason: to silence dissent. The far left blog, Think Progress, ridicules the “right-wing” for manufacturing this story about Waxman and the fairness doctrine and yet Think Progress advocates using the federal government to shut down conservative talk radio with the Fairness Doctrine. This post is on every single page.
REPORT: The Right Wing Domination Of Talk Radio And How To End It
…Along with other ideas, the report recommends that national radio ownership not be allowed to exceed 5 percent of the total number of AM and FM broadcast stations, and local ownership should not exceed more than 10 percent of the total commercial radio stations in a given market. ~thinkprogress.org
Then there’s Wesley Clark who apparently sees some kind of military government in our future, no doubt for the good of the people, in the soon to be workers paradise of the People’s New Republic…
But a few days before the Spectator ran its story I heard former Democratic presidential candidate and Soros fundee retired general Wesley Clark tell MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson that he supports a ratings system for free speech. “I don’t see why there can’t be standards for political discourse,” Clark said, going on to urge the establishment of speech rating system of “A-rated, B-rated and C-rated” and so on. And just by the sheerest of coincidences, a year ago this October 16 the New York Sun reported that Mr. Clark’s political action committee Wes-Pac had received $75,000 from Soros. Clark was quite up front about his objective with talk radio, which interestingly dovetailed with the sentiments attributed to Waxman. Said Clark: “There are standards for propriety in public broadcasting, are there not?…What we need to do is we need to be rating the whole standard of political discourse in America.” Why? When asked by Carlson if he, Clark, was “attempting to censor [Rush Limbaugh] by taking him off the air?” the Soros-funded ex-candidate bluntly replied: “Well, I think he’s [Rush] crossed the line.” ~spectator.org
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