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Obama Supercharged the Left's Embrace of Censorship
American Thinker ^ | 22 May, 2022 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 05/22/2022 4:16:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber

We are in a war for the survival of free speech today. Any government official who refuses to recognize that truth is weak-minded, weak-willed, or already complicit.

It seems every day some notable Democrat is pushing for censorship. After the horrific Buffalo mass murder on May 14, New York Governor Hochul threatened social media companies for not purging “hate speech,” that dangerously elusive term that has the potential to cover anything Democrats don’t like. Former New York mayor Bill de Blasio demanded that Congress pass legislation to “reign in the spread of hate” on the Internet. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had the audacity to send a formal letter to Fox News ordering the network to “immediately cease the reckless amplification” of ideas he blamed for the Buffalo shooting. MSNBC’s Carl Cameron insisted that “it’s time to actually start doing things” to control speech, such as “maybe taking some names and putting people in jail.” And all of these attacks on free speech are occurring while President Biden is flirting with the creation of a “Ministry of Truth” and the Democratic National Committee is “working with” Big Tech to “enforce a comprehensive political misinformation policy.” How did we get to this perilous moment in the United States when prominent public figures so carelessly demand the regulation, punishment, and even criminalization of free speech?

Where is the journalistic outrage over threats to the First Amendment? Remember when reporters pretended President Trump’s habit of slapping the “fake news” moniker on their work was nothing short of a threat against their lives? Before Chris Cuomo found other ways to sink his career, CNN’s primetime spinmeister even claimed that being called “fake news” was a vile insult “equivalent of the N-word for journalists.” America’s marquee news peddlers frequently excoriated President Trump for the insults

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1 posted on 05/22/2022 4:16:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ~ George Orwell, 1984


2 posted on 05/22/2022 4:16:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

And to think that barry chimed “I got a pen and I got a foam”


3 posted on 05/22/2022 4:36:43 AM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count so me)
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Iranian-born Valerie Jarrett as a roommate?

https://ellacruz.org/2018/05/10/inside-obamas-kalorama-mansion-secret-tunnels-and-a-war-room/


4 posted on 05/22/2022 4:37:21 AM PDT by Does so (https//youtu.be/3PxEWB6W8ig ......Uke's Independence Day Parade. Anthem starts at 15:00)
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To: MtnClimber

What is it going to take to supercharge America’s sense of outrage and patriotism?


5 posted on 05/22/2022 4:43:11 AM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: MtnClimber

“Obama Supercharged the Left’s Embrace of Censorship”

Obama Supercharged the Left’s Embrace of Totalitarianism

There, fixed it


6 posted on 05/22/2022 6:09:31 AM PDT by antidemoncrat ( adn)
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To: MtnClimber

Obama is 666


7 posted on 05/22/2022 6:21:13 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: MtnClimber

apparently they no longer pretend to teach freedom of the press in the “journalism” indoctrination centers

freedom of THE PARTY press is the new rule


8 posted on 05/22/2022 6:26:38 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: Howie66

What is it going to take to supercharge America’s sense of outrage and patriotism? This malaise affects both Right and Left. Note Fox has not bothered to speak a word regarding the critical Mules documentary. Cowardice infects for sides of the political spectrum.


9 posted on 05/22/2022 6:27:33 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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Obama should never have been President.

He is NOT a natural born citizen.

BOTH parties wanted the natural born citizen clause neutered, that’s why the GOP put up two willing intentional Designated Losers in McCain and Romney.


10 posted on 05/22/2022 7:23:02 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Good article, but he didn’t even mention that Obama wanted to put, ah, observers into the newsrooms. At the time, even The New York Times balked.


11 posted on 05/22/2022 7:48:44 AM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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