Posted on 12/01/2006 4:04:53 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Poor widdle DUmmies. Their much hyped Air America is about to leave the airwaves forever due to horrible ratings. The only major "progressive" national radio show left is Blowhard Ed Shultz who was a faux conservative before "converting" to a faux liberal for bigger bucks. Shultz, who will soon be going head to head against the talk show host he tries to lamely imitate, Rush Limbaugh, even sounds disconnected from the thrust of his own show. Listen to Shultz and you quickly get the feeling that he would much rather be a network sports announcer covering NFL games rather than blabbering about politics that underneath the "progressive" act, frankly bores him. Even most DUmmies consider Shultz to be nothing but a phony play actor. Therefore imagine the DUmmie frustration at Rush Limbaugh continuing to DOMINATE the airwaves as you can see in this THREAD titled, "Is there any way to ban Limbaugh, O'Reilly and their ilk from the airwaves?" Well, so much for any DUmmie pretensions of supporting free speech. That is about as phony as Blowhard Ed's liberal act. As to O'Reilly, I don't know why the DUmmies are even concerned about him. His Fox News show is on cable and therefore not covered by the FCC and O'Reilly's radio show is so deadly dull that it is a wonder that anyone even listens. I listened to O'Reilly's radio show a few times and it always brings to mind that old SCTV comedy routine of Perry Como lying prone on a stage singing, "Am I Still Alive?" Therefore I assume the DUmmie rage must be directly almost enirely against Rush Limbaugh. He is so popular and effective in his show that they MUST find a way to rid him from the airwaves. So let us now watch the DUmmies try to come up with a formula to bypass freedom of speech in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, willing to become a phony liberal for a day like Blowhard Ed if the price is right, is in the [brackets]:
Is there any way to ban Limbaugh, O'Reilly and their ilk from the airwaves?
[Your best chance for that is to carefully peruse the fine print of the McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Law. It is chock full of provisions limiting free speech.]
This question touches on the first amendment freedom of speech. But what about speech that provides only hatred, propaganda and divisiveness?
[Hate speech as defined by DUmmies is anything that disagrees with their Bolshevik agenda.]
Can there be any doubt that these people have, through their words and support of a corrupt administration, created damage to our constitution, death to American service people and anguish to anyone with a conscience?
[Can there be any doubt that these DUmmies are mentally unstable?]
I'm not a lawyer, so I don't have the slightest clue as to the point where hate speech becomes unconstitutional. But I'd like to hear your opinions on this.
[You are correct. You don't have the slightest clue. And now to hear about the free speech denial schemes from your fellow DUmmies...]
Sure. The airwaves are a public trust. Just have them declared hate speech or obscenity. Which they truly are.
[You'll need for Howard Dean to be made Chairman of the FCC before that ruling can be made.]
have a Congressional committee declare them "terrorists" and use th Patriot Act to imprison and torture and execute them.
[This DUmmie is kidding only a little bit.]
I can turn off my TV and radio. But that doesn't solve what I consider to be the damage they are doing to our country, our way of life and to basic human dignity.
[I can choose not to listen to Rush Limbaugh but I find the fact that millions of people out there are listening to him to be INTOLERABLE.]
I don't see trying to squelch them as a viable course of action.
[Couldn't we declare Rush to be an Enemy of the People?]
Sorry, but I will support their right to say the stupidest, most hateful things about me that they want - when we start saying this speech is good and ok, but that speech is bad and outlawed, we slip into some really nasty areas of who gets to decide which is which. I'd much rather see some laws enacted (or re-enacted) requiring equal time for both sides and probably some penalties and fines for lying.
[Careful. If you enforce that fine penalty for lying, the Democrats will go broke.]
It would kill Air America, but you the only right thing to do... would be to re-institute the fairness doctrine. Other than that there isn't anything which wouldn't impact their right to free speech. And even with the fairness doctrine, they would still be able to say those things, but they would be challenged.
[No need to kill Air America since it is already in the process of committing suicide.]
Yeah. Abolish The Constitution, Acquire A Taste For Hypocrisy And Develop A Fondness With '1984'. Or, we can instead respect the right to free speech even when faced with something we don't like.
[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]
I never cease to be amazed at the so-called progressives who want freedom of speech only as long as it's speech they approve of.
[And this soon-to-be-tombstoned DUmmie WINS a Kewpie doll for having a brief moment of mental clarity!]
At no point did I say they SHOULD be banned. I merely questioned the limits of free speech. For example, posting an idea such as "assassinating a public official" is a crime. Would you consider this a limitation on free speech?
[Several DUmmies have already been investigated by the Secret Service for posting that idea.]
The crux of what I was getting at was that these individuals have exceeded rational discourse and have, in many cases suggested that people such as you and I are less than "patriotic" and therefore not fit to voice our opinions without being labeled "traitors." And the right to free speech has swung enough morons to go on supporting the lies of a war that has caused countless lives, both American and Iraqi.
[The crux of what you were getting at is that you wanted to ban free speech on ideas you don't like.]
Ummm... that kind of conflicts with:
Is there any way to ban Limbaugh, O'Reilly and their ilk from the airwaves?C'mon, admit it... you're so closed-minded you have already decided that you want them banned (for simply espousing a different point of view than you), now you're just looking for a loophole or an excuse to justify it.
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Can there be any doubt that these people have, through their words and support of a corrupt administration, created damage to our constitution, death to American service people and anguish to anyone with a conscience?
Agreed.
Every time she goes into hiding, her poll numbers go up.
Everytime she speaks out, she reminds the American public why they don't like her and her poll numbers go down.
The chef is here. Good eats for everyone.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Therefore, today's award goes to the original poster for the call to censor speech that (s)he does not agree with. Runners-up include the majority of other DUmmies with the exception of those (now-tombstoned, I'm sure) who pointed out that freedom of speech means freedom of speech for everyone, not just those who agree with you.
Closing out the top 25.
**As to O'Reilly, I don't know why the DUmmies are even concerned about him.**
I don't either. He's not even a conservative. He prides himself on being moderate.
**This question touches on the first amendment freedom of speech. But what about speech that provides only hatred, propaganda and divisiveness?**
Lol then when are we gonna ban the Ditzy Twits, Michael Moore, and...well, pretty much every liberal that has ever spoken.
**Can there be any doubt that these people have, through their words and support of a corrupt administration, created damage to our constitution, death to American service people and anguish to anyone with a conscience?**
Um...yes. There can be. And there is.
**I'd much rather see some laws enacted (or re-enacted) requiring equal time for both sides and probably some penalties and fines for lying.**
Then where's MY time? I want a radio show!
Fines for lying? Seriously? I guess we're all gonna be paying a lot of money. I don't know anyone who doen't lie.
Where are all these phantom right-wing talk show hosts whos have called millions of liberals "traitors" for the past six years? I've heard this whine ever since 9/11 but never heard of any specific cases.
But when the "regressives" (not progressives) want to show Bush shoving an old lady in a wheelchair down the stairs, that's perfectly OK with them.
Hypocrisy, thy name is DUmmie!
Rush has been on the air for 18-20 years and the dims are just now worried about "support of . . . damage to . . .death to . . . and anguish to . . . ." others, by anyone?
Hardy effing har!
These are probably the same a-holes that once proudly stated, "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend until death your right to say it."
Are you calling my Senator "uppity"? 'Cuz there ain't nothin worse than an uppity senator!
...."'d much rather see some laws enacted (or re-enacted) requiring equal time for both sides and probably some penalties and fines for lying."....
****"You can have those laws for talk radio at the same time we get them for print and TV "news". Deal?"****
Exactly! The TV evening news would have to look a whole lot different if the DUmmies want "equal time". NBC "News" with Brian Williams (unfortunately, my wife and I do not get cable) is nothing more than a 30 minute democratic campain ad! CBS (if you can call what Katie Couric does "news") and ABC are run on the same principal. Where is the "equal time"?
The same clowns who want Rush off the air were probably crying when Howard Stern went to Sirius radio. Typical for libs to only want free speech for themselves
Making love, not war? ;-P
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