Posted on 05/19/2009 7:45:31 PM PDT by RatsDawg
(CNSNews.com) - Academy Award-nominated actor William H. Macy told CNSNews.com that the government should not regulate talk radio so it is “balanced” -- with some variant of a Fairness Doctrine or local ownership rules -- because “this is America” and “you can say anything you want.” He also said the average American is “smarter than all the politicians.”
“Absolutely not. This is America. You can say anything you want,” Macy told CNSNews.com at the White House Correspondent’s dinner when asked whether the content of talk radio should be regulated by the government for political balance.
“I think it’s fair that if you say stuff that’s not true and it hurts people, you can have a suit filed against you, but I think the courts can deal with that and perhaps the government has the right to file a civil suit for libel, but no, this is America,” said Macy. “Everybody gets to say everything they want. This is America. The Nazi’s have to be able to march in Skokie [Illinois] because this is America -- and criticizing the government is not anti-American. It couldn’t be more American.”
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When it comes to the state of today’s media, Macy said: “Well, I worry a little bit about the demise of newspapers because I think our country depends on investigative reporting and we’ve got – I believe our country is as free as it is because there are a lot of people looking for the skeletons in the closet and that keeps us free.”
“By the same token, I think the press has a responsibility to report fairly and I find reporting on both the left and the right, which is so skewed and with such an agenda to be a disservice,” he said. “It’s a disservice to their readers because they are not really reporting the news. They are trying to proselytize, and I don’t think it’s right. But thank God we live in America where the average American is smarter than all the politicians the best day they were born. America’s smart. We can see through these guys. We can smell the jive as they’re talking.”
When asked if he thinks the White House press coverage has been fair, too hard, or too easy on President Obama, Macy replied, “I think the honeymoon is over and he will be judged harshly.”
aww man, just noticed it was already posted...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2253321/posts#comment
I tried searching earlier and didn’t find it.
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Oops. Too late Macy. If Hollywood doesn’t blackball you on their own, Obama will make sure they do.
Darn. One of my favorite actors and now he probably won’t get much work anymore.
His father, William Hall Macy, Sr., was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and an Air Medal for flying a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber in World War II.
Macy and his wife Felicity Huffman supported Kerry. Yuck!
The same could be said of Government health care, you don’t see that stopping them, do you?
Oh I think health care crosses over into the mainstream much more than what’s on talk radio! Most people don’t listen to talk radio.
One of my favorite actors too but he was an Obama supporter.
Good for Macy! I’m proud of him, and I also like his acting!
Who knows, maybe this could be a trend? A few months ago, I caught Whoopie G. on OReilly and she was saying that she didn’t mind a higher tax on her because she does make a good living. “But”, she stated “I don’t want to be taxed coming & going...things I buy, utilities, etc”.
Well, maybe thats the general mindset out there, but I expect that she is seeing that she is in fact being taxed, coming & going. Maybe those hollywood holier than thou types will see what a big @ss mistake Zero is.
I have always liked him as an actor but now I really like him.....
I am admitting a personal guilty pleasure here,but... I watch old episodes of The Match Game from the seventies. It is amazing how openly hostile and disgusted they were with then president Carter. They mocked him and criticized him with joyful abandon. I was too young to pay attention then...did he have a “honeymoon” period too? I would love it Obama becomes a pop culture joke, like Jimmy Carter.
I would love it Obama becomes a pop culture joke, like Jimmy Carter.
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Oh you don’t have to worry about that...Obama is already a joke...its just taking some people a little longer to get the punch line!
Yes, he did. But after six or eight months, with the economy getting worse by the day, things changed. Add to that the fact that Carter wouldn't play ball with his own Democrats in Congress, and he was thoroughly reviled by early 1979, six months before the Iran hostage crisis. When that happened, I knew he was a one-termer, no matter who the Republicans ran in 1980.
Oh yes, the media fawned all over him and repeated all sorts of half-truths and exaggerations like:
He's a speed reader and reads ten books every day
He speaks Spanish
He's a nuclear engineer
He jogs four miles every day
He's a born-again Christian
These are some of the wild claims I remember off the top of my head. JC's had a "folksy" demeanor the media really played up, but it was/is a smokescreen for one of the most malignant anti-American communists ever to hold office.
“When asked if he thinks the White House press coverage has been fair, too hard, or too easy on President Obama, Macy replied, “I think the honeymoon is over and he will be judged harshly.”
The MSM judge Obama harshly? Hey Macy this is the real world not a movie! Obama will never get harshly judged by the ObamaPress.
Correct...but he’s one of those liberals who’s on record as calling WW2 ‘the good war”. An Obama supporter and his wife especially.
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