Posted on 05/20/2003 2:13:54 PM PDT by clintonbaiter
Of course, Peter Jennings and friends ignore the real reason that the lives of so many Tinseltown airheads are getting difficult -- because they took advantage of America's very generous constitutional guarantees of free speech to appear on every cable news show they could find to denounce and disparage President George W. Bush, to make outlandish predictions about all the cruelty and carnage which would be inflicted on the Iraqi people by the American "invaders" and "occupiers," and to celebrate an imaginary "breakdown" in the American military campaign which they happily interpreted as an American defeat -- not too popular themes for the majority of the audience watching these foolish and misguided outbursts in the name of world peace.
In fact, as far as we can tell, no-one in Hollywood has been fired or blacklisted or gone to jail for speaking out -- certainly not as a result of the actions of the administration of George W. Bush (and it is the protection of free speech from government retaliation that the fifth amendment is specifically all about).
No, the great affront to Peter Jennings and his ilk is that a number of outraged Americans are voting with their pocketbooks and refusing to buy the albums of the Dixie Chicks, or to attend the lame films of Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins and company, or buy the products of advertisers who choose to advertise on TV programs featuring America's outspoken celebrity turncoats.
These outraged Americans are exercising their free-market rights. The very same free-market rights these same celebrity activists thought it was fine (and moral) to exercise when they encouraged a boycott of products from Saab, and a host of other corporations, because these companies bought ads on Dr. Laura Schlessinger's TV talk show.
The problem only seems to arise when the shoe (or should we say the boycott) is on the other foot -- when American consumers are determined to take a pass on commercial wares from the likes of Tim Robbins, Janeine Garafola and the Dixie Chicks.
And perhaps what bothers Peter Jennings the most, in the light of his many anti-Bush and pro-Saddam remarks during the war, is that he may be next....
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He's still a Canadian citizen (obviously he has some reservations about the way we've been doing things over here). Just another clymer on the nightly news.
Hmmm, I've been doing that for over 10 years, but I won't mind some more company....
The worm is turning.....the internet, Fox News, Rush, etc. are exposing Petah and his ilk to the light of day, soon the almighty dollar will smite the lefties from the mainstream, and relegate them to the minor leagues (the lamestream media?.)
I don't wear barbed-wire underwear. Does that mean I am boycotting it?
If so, then I guess I must be boycotting peterless jennings as well, eh?
As Dick Morris pointed out, with all the sources of news available today, why does anyone need to get his news from a high school dropout from Toronto who has been married four times?
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