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Democrats Launch Campaign To Get "Rush Limbaugh Off The Air"
Breitbart.com ^ | September 22, 2014 | John Nolte

Posted on 09/22/2014 12:33:37 PM PDT by Biggirl

During the Bush administration, national Democrat leaders threatened to kill the ABC network's broadcast license if a miniseries unfavorable to the Clinton administration wasn't censored to satisfy Democrats. ABC complied.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; censorship; corporateliberalism; democrats; homofascism; lamestreammedia; obamasfault; politics; rushlimbaugh; thenewblacklist; thugocracy; tyranny
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To: Biggirl

Sadly, a huge percentage of people would be very happy if the government controlled all media and shut down all of conservative talk radio and web sites like freerepublic.


101 posted on 09/22/2014 5:05:09 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: Biggirl

And RFK jr wants anybody who disagrees with him on global warming jailed.


102 posted on 09/22/2014 5:12:23 PM PDT by ully2
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To: Balding_Eagle; All
He is staying because a professed loyalty to those who took a
big chance on him years ago when they first put him on the air.
True..that's his consistence answer and a very..
plausible one, "brand loyalty" is a two-way street.
another rewarding activity; read a good (history) book, nothing by Zimm
"Reading is Fundamental"

103 posted on 09/22/2014 5:12:25 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in political in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
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To: Biggirl

Another day, another effort of commies, er, I mean Progressives/liberals/democraps to silence Rush. Pitiful.


104 posted on 09/22/2014 5:16:04 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Biggirl

Sissies. ..


105 posted on 09/22/2014 5:18:29 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: VerySadAmerican

Sure about that?

It is much smaller the numbers then you think. Plus they do not want their websites shut down.


106 posted on 09/22/2014 5:22:08 PM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: RayChuang88; PGalt; abb
If ANY part of the Federal government gets involved, that's a direct violation of the Free Speech clause of the First Amendment.
The fundamental issue is not freedom of speech - nobody, yet, is talking about censoring Rush’s speech, only his ability to broadcast it. And most people - even conservatives on SCOTUS - don’t have a handle on the difference, calling money “speech.” But the real deal is that
  1. While it costs nothing to flap your gums, nobody who isn’t allowed to spend money on paper, ink, and printing presses has freedom of the press.

  2. Of course, broadcast/cable/satellite transmission is not a literal printing press - but the Constitution explicitly authorizes Congress to create the Patent Office " To promote the progress of science and useful arts.”

  3. Since broadcast/cable/satellite communication is clearly an enhanced capability of doing what the printing press does, it is unconstitutional to regulate the expenditure of money to communicate opinions - whether religious, political, or other.

  4. The First Amendment is not only an explicit bar to some government regulation, but is suggestive of the rights of freedom of communication in media perhaps not imagined when the First Amendment was proposed. The Ninth Amendment invalidates the idea that the First Amendment limits the rights of the people in any way whatsoever.

  5. But apart from the First Amendment strictures against censorship, there lies its stricture against an establishment of religion, and thus of a government-sanctioned official priesthood. In coordination with the Constitution’s strictures against titles of nobility, those strictures rule out constitutionally sanctioned special communication rights for special people. This is the actual crux of our censorship issues.

  6. There is not much tendency for the government to censor Establishment wire service journalism, for the simple reason that journalism and the Democratic Party are in cahoots and will scratch each others’ back on any occasion. Rather, the tendency is precisely the opposite - Democrat and Journalist promotion of censorship of the right of the people at large, apart from the journalism monopoly, to freedom to publicize their opinions without being members of the Associated Press.

107 posted on 09/22/2014 6:10:11 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ("Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

he still talks about football, not every day, but yes, still. He loves football..


108 posted on 09/22/2014 6:18:01 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: tina07

he loves football, but he has cooled to the NFL.


109 posted on 09/22/2014 6:26:29 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Thanks for the ping/post, c_I_c. BTTT!


110 posted on 09/22/2014 6:27:30 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Biggirl

Yep. I’m sure.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3206777/posts


111 posted on 09/22/2014 8:50:32 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: RetiredArmy
They get him off radio, he will simply go to Sat radio and they cannot stop him.

Some of us remember the Old Days when you could get Del Rio Texas radio practically anywhere because the broadcast antenna was in Mexico.

112 posted on 09/22/2014 11:31:54 PM PDT by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: Biggirl

They can make a “straw man” of Rush. They can cherry pick his words and attack him as a surrogate for us. They CANNOT successfully attack our ideas so they must try to keep people from hearing them. This is just an extension of the liberals’ “since we have no answers to their ideas, let’s indict them” attack. It may work here and there in individual cases but it won’t work against Rush. He is way too strong now and this will make him stronger.


113 posted on 09/23/2014 4:26:50 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Pride in the USA
Yes, and I hope they force Dingy Harry to write another letter to Rush's syndicator that Rush can get a copy of to auction on ebay. :-)
114 posted on 09/23/2014 10:45:51 AM PDT by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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