Posted on 04/06/2020 2:57:53 PM PDT by ransomnote
The Federal Communications Commission on Monday rejected a petition by a far left group that calls itself the “Free Press” demanding an investigation of broadcasters carrying talk radio and airing live President Trump’s daily COVID-19 Chinese coronavirus task force briefings with the goal of censoring Trump and conservative talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh. The petition accused Trump of pushing a hoax by promoting the possible treatment of the coronavirus by a commonly used drug and accused Limbaugh and other talk radio hosts of downplaying threat of the virus.
FCC Chief of Staff Matthew Berry succinctly summarized the response to the petition by the commission, “BREAKING: The FCC’s answer to an “emergency petition” asking us to investigate broadcasters airing White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings? No. We believe in the First Amendment.”
The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway reported last week on the Free Press petition (excerpt):
…Free Press argued that a man without COVID-19 who died after ingesting fish tank cleaner at home, outside the direction of any medical professional, was a victim of Trump’s remarks and that therefore its censorship plan should be adopted. Citing anti-Trump activists who blamed Trump for this death, Free Press called Trump’s support for the treatment “deadly disinformation.” The group also claimed that Trump had engaged in a “mischaracterization of the efficacy” of hydroxychloroquine.
In recent days, the FDA approved the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 patients. And the New York Times conceded that the drug “helped to speed the recovery” of a group of patients who were stricken by the Wuhan Coronavirus.
Free Press cofounder and longtime board member Robert W. McChesney is an avowed socialist. He has made his views clear, saying “In the end, there is no real answer but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.” He also said of his work, “[w]e need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it.” He has also praised Venezuela’s control of the media…
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Lefty will always be the first to demand/impose censorship. Socialism cannot stand on it’s own in a market of free ideas. Socialism will always resort to force to stay in power.
There is nothing in socialism that allows for freedom.
A ‘free press’ for me but not for thee!
President John Adams, who tried to push the Alien & Sedition Acts, was part of the Federalist Party that could be considered a pro-business party in favor of government centralization. Woodrow Wilson, whose administration attacked communists in the Palmer Raids, was a progressive to whom some of the blame for WWII is lain by some historians. Barack Obama’s presidency needs no description for those who lived through it. Leftists generally favor draconian government action ostensibly for equality against freedom.
The left always returns to their fascist, Nazi was in the end...
But the fish tank cleaner incident was a murder perpetrated by his democRAT wife, not because of ANYTHING that can from Trump.
Instead, how about we round up the members and toss 'em dead in the nearest dumpster?
Naturally, I mean that in the nicest possible way.
funny thing- this was trending on twitter the other day and i simply presented the facts: as usual craphole blue states and blue cities are the places hardest hit by the chinese flu. These places don’t watch Fox or listen to conservative radio rather they are lied to daily by msnbc.
Do they get the irony of calling their organization “free press”?
You can always tell when the libs are losing.
Fascists will be Fascists.
Investigate these agents of sedition
Stalinists lie. Always
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