Scary ..!
Is an interesting and potentially disturbing article
"The FEC thus has plunged into what Smith calls a “bizarre” rule-making process that could shackle the political blogosphere. This would be a particular disaster for the Right, which has maintained its early advantage over the Left in the blogosphere, despite the emergence of big liberal sites like Daily Kos. Some 157 of the top 250 political blogs express right-leaning views, a recent liberal survey found. Reaching a growing and influential audience—hundreds of thousands of readers weekly (including most journalists) for the top conservative sites—the blogosphere has enabled the Right to counter the biases of the liberal media mainstream. Without the blogosphere, Howell Raines would still be the New York Times’s editor, Dan Rather would only now be retiring, garlanded with praise—and John Kerry might be president of the U.S., assuming that CBS News had gotten away with its last-minute falsehood about President Bush’s military service that the diligent bloggers at PowerLine, LittleGreenFootballs, and other sites swiftly debunked"
Dear Congress-Critter,
Muzzling the blogosphere is a shooting offense.
Sincerely
A Former US Marine
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WOW, that is truly a scary article. What are we, the Soviet Union?
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This obviously is a long article but well worth the read if anyone has time to read it.
I might mention that one of our best news and information sources, a newstalk station recently went to a Spanish language format. People listening to that staion are now having to get portable or battery TV's to get their life saving information like severe weather warnings and Amber Alerts.
Folks, if we don't put a stop to these New World Order types, this is what I'm afraid is going to happen. I would remind everyone that these conservative talk programs pay for the salaries of those who broadcast these life saving severe weather warnings and Amber Alerts. if we allow these politicians to get between us and our radios, all of us are gonna end up getting portable and battery powered TV's to get this information. Think about that.
Is this what we wnat america to become? I don't.
Regards..........
Stay armed, stay alert.
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Except for liberals, who will still be free to say anything they want. All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than other.
Small wonder, then, that House Democrats proposed two bills in 2005 to bring the Fairness Doctrine back—and as a law, rather than a mere agency regulation. New York Democratic representative Louise Slaughter, who introduced the first of the two bills, says that Right-ruled radio is a grave threat to American freedoms, “a waste of good broadcast time, and a waste of our airwaves.” People “may hear whatever they please and whatever they choose,” she tells PBS’s Bill Moyers, in a statement as incoherent as it is illiberal. “And of course they have the right to turn it off. But that’s not good enough either. The fact is that they need the responsibility of the people who are licensed to use our airwaves judiciously and responsibly to call them to account if they don’t.” In other words, people can’t be trusted with freedom but need the supervision of a paternalist government.
Listen, sweetie. I can turn it off if I want. But, I won't and neither will millions of others. And, I bet Rush won't quit, either.
Unbelievable... but, then again not coming from the Left.
Oh, and another thing.. Dubya really dropped the ball by not vetoing campaign finance "reform". A MAJOR blunder.
That said, the old saw about the 2nd amendment being an insurance policy for the 1st is more important than ever.
Let a million iPods bloom.
Today's lead editorial in The Wall Street Journal has encouraging word that"a unanimous Supreme Court ordered a lower court to reexamine a key challenge to the McCain-Feingold campaign restrictions. . . . this could be a first step toward rolling back a 'reform' that has served little purpose other than to muzzle the political speech of Americans."Possibly the substitution of Alito for O'Connor will mean that this McCain-Feingold travesty will finally be brought to book. McCain-Feingold makes the owner and editor of an establishment journalism outlet explicitly superior in rights to the rest of us, even though the difference in principle between us is that I have not started a newspaper yet.McCain-Feingold should never have been passed, never have ben signed, never have been approved by the court.
I don't think anybody involved has quite gotten his head wrapped around the idea that it's damn near impossible to regulate the internet as it's currently set up. What was that obscenity-on-the-internet regulation they passed a few years back that the Supremes knocked down? I was all poised to have a friend overseas register a domain to his name for me to post naughty words on.
McCain-Feingold: Shame on John McCain (there may not be enough shame in this world to cover this guy up) and shame on President Bush for signing this putrid legislation. Let's hope for an opportunity for the "next" Supreme Court to take this up and flush it down the tubes.
Radio is the focus of only one of the five senses. A listener has to really tune in to the subject matter and focus on the content of the ideas - - one reason, among others, why so-called "liberal" talk radio has been and is a failure in the free market.
Television is a combination of sensory focus and it is far easier to distract and misdirect viewer attention from essential topics presented.
Considering that 90% of people tend to be more influenced by the visual, television has become a new religion. It is analogous to Plato’s cave allegory and the pagan Oracle of Delphi. Television as a propaganda tool helps create visual phantasms or fantastical images of the brain.
There are three ways people are influenced according to the school of behavioral psychology - - visual (sight), auditory (sound), kinesthetic (emotion). The kinesthetic or ‘feeling’ is also based on olfactory and tactile sense, just like Pavlov’s salivating dogs.
Visual images and sound portrayed can be used to anchor emotional and/or conditioned responses desired by those that present them, which in the case of television, is the Leftist television media, actors who create phantastical images in film, and Leftist politicians who pander to ‘symbolism over substance’ (like Rush Limbaugh always says about them).
The print media somewhat also uses the visual aspects of that phenomenon. Interactive talk radio requires thought; television does not and relies on this as a means to influence viewers. One should also notice the emphasis on interactive talk radio, something "public radio" is careful to avoid; unlike most commercial talk radio programming.
Part of this is the promotion of "public radio." The government funded NPR and other "public radio" non-profit Leftist garbage is not making it. While I am not enamoured with some of the canned music formats of much commercial radio, I am no fan of the Leftist non-profit NPR-like stations that play third world, grass skirt, bone-in-the-nose pagan voodoo music either, with the touchy-feely, multi-cultural, anti-USA Leftist commentary of the hosts. These insipid people actually think they are clever with the sedate, monotone presentations (neuro-linguistic programming).
[Observe when in public places, at your workplace or in other community activities (i.e., restaurants, retail stores, gas stations, etc.) the pervasive presence of some exposure to music or television. This is because many people are actually terrified of being alone with their own thoughts or at the prospect of it (neuro-linguistic programming).Try an experiment, turn radios off at work, request as a customer patronizing private businesses that music or television is unplugged so you can have some personal tranquility with your family, friends, associates, etc. You will find a great resistance, even hostility to such a request. Ask yourself why, then consider what thoughts such people have they are so afraid of, if they are capable of or desire to have any of their own.]
Also part of this is the loss of broadcasting licenses by "public radio" stations to a company that is buying licenses to broadcast Christian programming. This is pushing many Leftist public radio stations off the air. There is more to this issue than most people realize and it is not exclusive to the attack on talk radio. The recent moves to prevent more deregulation of FCC broadcasting and ownership rules in the Congress are the latest Leftist attempts to kill free speech. (President Bush has threatened a veto.)
Like the necromancy of the late Senator Paul Wellstone’s funeral rally, or "funerally" (see the Steven Plaut article, The Rise Of Tikkun Olam Paganism, Arutz Sheva: December 27, 2002, in reference to the Wellstone brand of Judaism), the use of Martin Luther King Day, or constantly invoking the "spirit of the ‘60’s," the Left attempts to raise spirits of the dead as a totem for worship.
Comrade, don't you know that "War is peace", "freedom is slavery", and "Love is hate"? Trust in the Ministry of Truth to conscientiously administer the "Fairness" Doctrine and all will be well. That way the march of the Jacobins will be led by the NY Times, Newsweek, PBS, ABCCBSNBCCNN, The Washington Post, AP, Reuters, BBC, and their minions. Soon, free expression of opinion on sites such as Free Republic, would become mere memories, and we could resume our march to coerced virtue in Dystopia. There, one's ideas won't have to compete for support. The power of the state will enforce egalitarian gauranty of results rather than of opportunity. The ideas of Bill Buckley and Howard Dean will warrant the exact same attention regardless of merit. A dug-out canoe will be lauded as "equal" in design to a nuclear submarine. Everything will be perfect; perfectly bad.
The First Amendment has been in trouble for a long time. The only thing that finally protects it is the 2nd.
These people (the libs) better wake up to the fact of which side of us owns all of the guns.
Don't ever surrender your weapons. It's the last defense against tyrannical government we have.
Pity. They could have tightened it up considerably.
The liberal view of 1st amendment rights applies to only prurient speech. Only pornography and obscenity are deserving of Constitutional protection. Their goal is to destroy and subvert all cultural, institutional and religious values (see Gramsci). Conservative political speech is known as hate speech. In Europe and in Canada liberals have managed to make expressing opposition to abortion, sodomy and even immigration a hate crime. This is the exact opposite of the intent of the first amendment here, which was to protect political speech, or speech of consequence.