Posted on 05/08/2014 11:57:12 AM PDT by PoloSec
Federal Elections Commission Chairman Lee Goodman said he believes there are “impulses in government every day,” (he specifically said “the left,)” to “look into the editorial decisions of conservative publishers.” Goodman is vowing to keep the media and internet free,” but his chairmanship expires in December 2014.
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“The right has begun to break the left’s media monopoly, particularly through new media outlets like the internet, and I sense that some on the left are starting to rethink the breadth of the media exemption and internet communications,” he added.
Noting the success of sites like the Drudge Report, Goodman said that protecting conservative media, especially those on the internet, “matters to me because I see the future going to the democratization of media largely through the internet. They can compete with the big boys now, and I have seen storm clouds that the second you start to regulate them, there is at least the possibility or indeed proclivity for selective enforcement, so we need to keep the media free and the internet free.” ~ Lee Goodman via Washington Examiner
The article linked above shows a focus on The Drudge Report and Sean Hannity’s radio show:
“The picking and choosing has started to occur,” said Goodman. “There are some in this building that think we can actually regulate” media, added Goodman, a Republican whose chairmanship lasts through December. And if that occurs, he said, “then I am concerned about disparate treatment of conservative media.”
He added, “Truth be told, I want conservative media to have the same exemption as all other media.”
No where in this story is even a hint that Leftists on the FEC plan for Liberal, Progressive and Conservative media to be regulated in the same ways, or any recognition that government officials have zero right to suppress free speech of anyone. This is a strong warning to us that an assault on the First Amendment rights of conservatives is moving rapidly in concert with the IRS.
Well, he’ll be audited by the IRS.
I'm glad Republican Goodman is fighting the liberals on the FEC. but he leaves in december. so the liberals on that FEC will start regulating(shutting up) the conservative media in December.
We need to get Congress behind him, letter, emails, phone calls.
It will only take one time for the people to be sick of the liberal’s power plays to lose it all. We have to make open free communication our #1 priority.
Look for an angry backdraft to become a reality.
Camel's nose, and all that. The USSC is useless in the protection of the rights, Constitutional and otherwise, of American citizens
The lefturds have been itching to shut down conservative media since 1987. This is nothing new for today’s American Cultural Revolution Totalitarians...They would send us to the gulag, or worse if they could get away with it.
After December 2014, they probably will.
The left is fascist. Period.
Guess we’d better enjoy posting on the internet while we still can , we have what 6 months left of freedom of speech?
The blatant electoral frauds perpetrated by the Democrats in the past decade or so should have resulted in many lifetime incarcerations of Democrats.
With both the Democrats and establishment Republicans choosing to ignore this massive treason, they just guarantee that when the stuff does hit the fan, it will be a most bloody mess.
I remember several years back someone told me that Armed Forces radio broadcasted liberal media 23 hours a day and the 24th hour was Rush.
Tom Harkin was pushing for the fairness doctrine because Rush was kicking everyone’s butt.
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