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The Left Vs. Free Speech
Townhall.com ^ | July 6, 2016 | Brent Bozell

Posted on 07/06/2016 9:21:01 AM PDT by Kaslin

It's a paradox. The liberal media champion themselves as the most open-minded people on planet Earth who are devoted to the freedom of speech. How can intelligent people be so wrong? In reality, liberal elites have a nasty tendency to dismiss "conservative thought" as an oxymoron. They don't read conservative books or magazines, and they wouldn't lower themselves to watching conservatives on television. They have disdain for conservative talk radio. They're virtually illiterate on conservatives and conservatism.

What happens in the event that the inclusive and tolerant elites identify some spark of conservative brain activity? They respond with journalistic censorship.

This gets more interesting when a conservative book charges the left with seeking to crush conservative freedom of speech, seeing it as the quickest route to political victory. Oh, the irony!

Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel has written a book called "The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech." The New York Times is not under obligation to review it, nor is any conservative surprised that it won't. But it has no right to misrepresent its circulation. This is precisely what the Times is doing: playing games with sales figures to suppress Strassel's book from its best-seller list.

In its first week in print Strassel's book ranked sixth on the Nielsen BookScan list of best-sellers. Somehow the Times couldn't find a space anywhere in its top 15, despite including on its list books that sold less than Strassel's did on the Nielsen list.

Best-sellers beget more sales, and The New York Times is trying to thwart that possibility. Conservative authors, from Ted Cruz to David Limbaugh, have seen these games before. But this book is about suppressing free speech, so the shamelessness is even deeper.

Strassel's book paints a broad picture of liberal intimidation at the highest levels. It tells the real story that the pro-Obama press refuses to report regarding the efforts of the IRS to harass tea party groups, deconstructing Barack Obama's fiction that this campaign was limited to a few low-level agents in Cincinnati, Ohio. It reveals how Democratic senators have misused their positions to hassle universities that offended them by employing the "wrong" kind of climate scientists.

Here's another story the left-wing "news" media have refused to report: how liberal Wisconsin prosecutors used secret subpoenas and predawn raids in an attempt to criminalize some 30 conservative groups that had dared to supported Gov. Scott Walker's attempt to reform state government. Strassel also tells a sad story about how average Americans have had their cars keyed and their businesses flash-mobbed for having the temerity to support conservative ballot initiatives.

The title "An Inconvenient Truth" was taken. But that's what Strassel does. She tells inconvenient truths that liberals want to hide -- first by refusing to report the stories and then by censoring those who do.

There have been numerous books written over the years about this left-wing censorship, including last year's "The Silencing: How the Left Is Killing Free Speech" by Kirsten Powers and "End of Discussion: How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun)" by Mary Katharine Ham and Guy Benson. (Like Strassel's book, neither was reviewed by The New York Times.) These tomes are a call to action. Conservatives ought not to be silent about this censorship. They need to respond to the left's effort to crush free speech with more speech designed to expose their raging and cowardly agenda.

Liberal open-mindedness? There's your oxymoron.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: censorship; newyorkslimes

1 posted on 07/06/2016 9:21:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

See my tagline. It explains much, in my opinion.


2 posted on 07/06/2016 9:31:12 AM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: rlmorel

Great tagline and you are correct.


3 posted on 07/06/2016 9:36:57 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

Liberals are open minded about how you look, who you sleep with or what sex you want to call yourself as long as you agree with them. If you disagree, or are a conservative, or are a religious Christian or Jew or (increasingly) are male then you are the enemy.


4 posted on 07/06/2016 9:41:37 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: Kaslin

The end of Freedom of Speech and uncensored “ideas” ended in America when JP Morgan bought all the major “APs” and they created money-laundering “Foundations” to bribe everyone, from editors of all magazines/publications and textbook companies—to Hollywood-—to censor and control “scripts” so they could “Market” ideas of Edward Bernays and corporations to make everyone into addicts and consumers. They even controlled/bribed the important judges, who made it possible for the monopolies to get bigger and do the most illegal, evil things—and destroy their competition and usurp it.

Controlling emotions by rhetoric (information/Marketing) is an EXACT SCIENCE created in 1910 by the nephew of Sigmund Freud—and it has been used on the masses since BEFORE radio—and you can GUESS how excited the psychopathic elites were at their control of radio and TV as it began in the 20th century. They had orgasms over being able to control the minds of little bitty children in the very HOMES of their parents to literally control the desires and atitudes of children and usurp parents’ control.

The power to control most public “opinions” to such an extent it could make 10s of millions of young virile moral males (you can see the elites’ orgasms here) actually sign up for the Wars that the elites funded and profited by billions from, as they fulfilled their Malthusian wet-dreams of control of moral young males and removing the best from the gene pool so their offspring wouldn’t have any competition and control would be easier—the little boys of the killed service men being devastated and unprotected by their father, emotionally damaged to an extent, making dysfunction an easier reality, without the best moral role models of true masculinity (virtue).

So, am I surprised that there is no Free Speech in America????!!!! No....since Solzhenitsyn told us our “Free” Press was controlled more than Pravda and he stated that in 1978. So did the ex-KGB Yuri Bezmenov, who explained how the Marxists had total control of our “education” system (the minds of our children) which actually uses operant conditioning to destroy the Minds of our children (create non-thinking “bots”, ignorant of all Traditions and Wisdom of the Ages, who have no possibility of being virtuous/wise, which will collapse culture (freedom)). John Dewey—the Father of American Modern “Education”—was a communist and God-hating humanist.

God Bless the Internet, which has given a tiny little window for “truth” for now, to get through to the masses——but, most people are addicted to junk/facebook (controlled ONE worldview of satanism) and can’t seek the Truth (because virtue was destroyed in our skool system and virtue is habit).

We need a total REVOLUTION in this country to take back our institutions from the satanists and Marxists who want One World control of all ideas, all thoughts that your little children are allowed to have-—which will be TOTAL DEHUMANIZATION because your children will be incapable of Free Will (choice).

That was Fichte’s Plan in 1810 to destroy Free Will in children through the Prussian indoctrination system—removing children from the mother and father (individualism/free will/virtue modeling) so they can warp all understanding of Reality and create dependency and “group-think” (fear of man and “thinking’ for self). They destroy Natural Instincts and Virtue formation and create ignorant zombies who can’t think for themselves—no aibilty to be human, because they are incapable of Knowing anything worth knowing. Reason is eliminated. Just “kids” (yes, goats for the he/she goat god) programmed with incoherent ideas like Vice is Virtue, Freedom is Salvery and Boys are Girls and it is “good” to kill your own genetic offspring and take “Pride” in sodomizing others (opposite of TRUE Christianity-—which created the Age of Reason and Modern Science (logic and reason and true Justice, and Free Will and Individualism (Natural Rights only from God and never man/king/oligarchy).


5 posted on 07/06/2016 10:11:35 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Kaslin
Preaching to the choir. We know that inside every leftist there's a Nazi tryin to get out.
Always have, always will.

Say when. d:^)

6 posted on 07/06/2016 10:55:45 AM PDT by CopperTop
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To: Kaslin

Its not a paradox.

Its hypocritical. Or double standards.

Hardly hard to explain.


7 posted on 07/06/2016 11:27:57 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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