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It’s kind of strange to me that these liberals are all against “censorship” when the subject is explicit content in movies and TV. But they want to censor Rush Limbaugh and talk radio.

What’s the matter with liberals? Are they in favor of free speech or not? Don’t they have the courage of their convictions to get out there and persuade us that liberalism is the answer to our problems? Don’t they have the ability to articulate liberal values, lack of moral judgements, tolerance, etc.???????

Are they really so afraid of Rush Limbaugh that they want him silenced? Are they really so afraid of Sarah Palin that they are working even now to marginalize her and turn her into a cocktail party joke?

Bottom line to me is, do the liberals have the ability to compete in the political arena of ideas and agendas, and persuading voters that they have solutions? If they don’t have the ability to persuade voters, and compete in the arena of free speech, what does that say about their ideology? If they are that afraid of what Rush Limbaugh is going to say about them, where is the courage of their own convictions?

I just got an IPHONE yesterday and I have to say I LOVE IT. It’s even better than I thought it would be. But here’s what I want to say...if you go to political news PODCASTS to download, there is not one conservative show on the roster. If there’s going to be “fairness” it has to be all around....

Not only talk radio, but ALL OF US. Hate speech, the government making determinations on WHAT IS RIGHT, WHAT IS CORRECT, WHAT CAN BE SAID AND WHAT CANNOT BE SAID. That if you disagree with the government party line, YOU ARE WRONG, and you are guilty of some crime they will write. STAY ARMED FOLKS, because too get back all the liberty we are losing, it will take an invasion of Sodom on the Potomac to get it back.

“Politico.com - President Clinton Wants ‘More Balance’ on Airwaves

February 12, 2009
By Michael Calderone, Politico.com

Even though no member of Congress has scheduled hearings on the Fairness Doctrine, it remains on a hot topic on both liberal and conservative shows.

Today, radio host Mario Solis Marich asked former President Bill Clinton if it was time for “some type of enforced media accountability.”

“Well, you either ought to have the Fairness Doctrine or we ought to have more balance on the other side,” Clinton said, “because essentially there’s always been a lot of big money to support the right wing talk shows and let face it, you know, Rush Limbaugh is fairly entertaining even when he is saying things that I think are ridiculous....”

Clinton said that there needs to be either “more balance in the programs or have some opportunity for people to offer countervailing opinions.” Clinton added that he didn’t support repealing the Fairness Doctrine, an act done under Reagan’s FCC.

In the past week, a couple Democratic Senators, Debbie Stabenow and Tom Harkin, have both spoken favorably about the Fairness Doctrine, or holding hearings on radio accountability.”

http://www.aclj.org/News/Read.aspx?ID=3193

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