[sgtyork]

There’s stuff that doesn’t make sense here..

Citizen’s United is bad??? We should go back to only unions making contributions?

-—Do you remember Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin being valuable before Obama?

Well, yes I remember that quite well.

[smoothsailing]

I started listening to Limbaugh during the Bill Clinton years. I found him to be an extremely valuable source of info.

[Aria]

Rush, Levin, etc. all make their livings fighting against the left - but what if Trump makes America Great Again and we don't have a lot to complain about? (hard to imagine)

But if that happened then we wouldn't be so inclined to listen to them. Now, that doesn't mean they support the enemy but they do benefit from the activities of the enemy.
Particularly in Levin's case I believe he is a real patriot - I listen to him when I can on the way home and I like him.

But FOX has a whole network that panders to the right and we have discovered they don't mean it - it's all for show and profit. Thanks to Trump they showed themselves at the first debate. In fact, thanks to Trump a lot of people have shown themselves to be cockroaches.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

There’s stuff that doesn’t make sense here..

Citizen’s United is bad??? We should go back to only unions making contributions

Here is my take. As Rush pointed out at the time, McCain-Feingold was not on the public’s list of priorities at all. The only people who pushed it were journalists. That was true, and they got it.

Why would the MSM want CFR? Obviously, CFR limits the freedom of the press of everyone but journalists. The MSM - read, the membership of the Associated Press - is explicitly exempted from any restriction. CFR is a power grab by the MSM. Take it seriously, and FR would have to shut down during election season.

It is silly to talk about freedom of speech restrictions in CFR; it costs nothing to talk. But the defining characteristic of the press, IMHO, is not the technology of printing presses and ink and paper, it is the fact that it costs money to run a press operation. The technologies such as broadcast, cable, internet, whatever, are not explicitly anticipated by the Constitution (that would have been impossible) but they are anticipated in principle. That is clear in the provision that

Article 1 Section 8.:

The Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries . . .

Progress in the “useful art” of publishing information is therefore anticipated in the Constitution, and all means of communication should be utterly unregulated. Bye bye, FEC. Bye bye, FCC. RIP, Fairness Doctrine.