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Democrats seek to ban FoxNews Channel from taxpayer funded cable for the poor. (satire)
newsmediajournal ^ | 05 Novermber 2007 | Trueblackman

Posted on 11/05/2007 8:30:49 AM PST by Trueblackman

New Cable TV Vouchers Ban FOX News

Democrats' hard-fought battle to provide cable television to welfare recipients hit another snag yesterday when Republicans found a newly inserted provision that specifically excludes FOX News Channel from programming options. "This clause was not in this bill last week," said Rep. Jim Clements (R-CO) "I don't know whether someone thought they could slip this by us, or what, but this is getting to be a bit much." The affected bill, a 3.5 billion dollar spending measure that proponents say is necessary to educate potential voters before the 2008 elections, has met with great resistance from conservative legislators on both sides of the aisle who portray it as just one more unnecessary entitlement tacked onto an already over-burdoned welfare system. "The Federal Government is not obliged to provide people the ability to watch Sponge Bob Square Pants." Said Rep. Mitch Weyland (R-NM), "This whole idea was bad from the beginning... it's a waste of taxpayer dollars." "Contrary to what my friend from New Mexico thinks, this is not about entertainment. It's about education.," said Warren Billingsley, Democrat from Buffalo, New York, and co-sponsor of the 'Voter Education and Inclusion Act.' Billingsley claims that without cable television, an irreplaceable source of political info and events, millions of voters nationwide will be disenfranchised from the process. "We need to move beyond this notion that only the very rich should have access to the political process," he said. "We want the American people, all of the American people, to have the proper information before heading to the polls in 2008." Asked why language was inserted to specifically bar FOX News Channel from programming, he replied, "FOX News isn't a source of proper information."


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No major shocker here.
1 posted on 11/05/2007 8:30:52 AM PST by Trueblackman
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To: Trueblackman

I am certain the civil rights and free speech advocates will denounce this...in my own fantasy land.


2 posted on 11/05/2007 8:32:11 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Trueblackman; Owl_Eagle

If they can ban FoxNews, then they need to ban CNN, MSNBC, and all the rest of the news channels because of their Left leaning reporting.


3 posted on 11/05/2007 8:32:26 AM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (RIP Eric Medlen. You will be missed.../ Get well Soon John Force!!!)
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To: Trueblackman

Fairness Doctrine ?


4 posted on 11/05/2007 8:32:59 AM PST by Blue Turtle
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To: Trueblackman
They hate FOX NEWS CHANNEL even though its not really a conservative network. The Democrats hate FNC because it reports both sides of the story. They find that formula intolerable.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

5 posted on 11/05/2007 8:32:59 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Trueblackman

OH. My. Goodness.

So the “New Age” voter is DISENFRANCHISED if they don’t have CABLE???


6 posted on 11/05/2007 8:33:03 AM PST by Nervous Tick
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To: Trueblackman

Why are we paying for any cable TV for the “poor” in the first place?


7 posted on 11/05/2007 8:33:22 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Trueblackman

what’s next? banning FR on their free internet?


8 posted on 11/05/2007 8:33:40 AM PST by absolootezer0 (Only two products have come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. Coincidence? i think not.)
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To: Trueblackman

Why don’t they just ban Fox News altogether? You know they want to. What? Too chicken to try?


9 posted on 11/05/2007 8:33:44 AM PST by samtheman
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To: 2banana

A breakthrough question. Why indeed ?


10 posted on 11/05/2007 8:33:55 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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To: Trueblackman
"FOX News isn't a source of proper information."

Why thankee, massa, for gettin' me my propah infomation.

Wooden't want no infomation that wuddent propah, no, suh, massa.

11 posted on 11/05/2007 8:33:58 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Trueblackman

Could this be the tv verson of the “Fairness Doctrime” ?


12 posted on 11/05/2007 8:34:24 AM PST by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation.)
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To: Trueblackman

Maybe re-education


13 posted on 11/05/2007 8:34:32 AM PST by wastedyears (One Marine vs. 550 consultants. Sounds like good odds to me.)
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To: Trueblackman

It is true, once there is one news source which sticks to the truth, the Democrats go beserk. They need to understand, their media parrot is dead and buried.

Democrats see logic as their enemy, and the truth as their terrorist.


14 posted on 11/05/2007 8:34:40 AM PST by Tarpon
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To: Trueblackman

There is nothing the left will not attempt in order to win.


15 posted on 11/05/2007 8:35:02 AM PST by rocksblues (Just enforce the law!)
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To: Trueblackman

The Democrats don’t want to poison the mind of welfare recipients by allowing them to watch any Conservative TV stations. It mind get them thinking about getting off the dole, stop having kids at age 16, and get and education and make it without government assistance.

Heck, they wouldn’t need the Democratic party anymore, if all that happened.


16 posted on 11/05/2007 8:35:06 AM PST by Signalman
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To: Army Air Corps

if the gov’t. does not allow certain programming on state provided media services, does that not constitute censorship?


17 posted on 11/05/2007 8:35:27 AM PST by joe fonebone (When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout)
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To: 2banana

cable for the poor? i guess we’re gonna foot the bill for their new tv, the electricity to run them and the house to secure it all... GEZZ........ I’m gonna quit work and get me some of this...


18 posted on 11/05/2007 8:35:36 AM PST by Chickenhawk Warmonger (The Media Lied & Soldiers Died)
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To: Trueblackman
""We want the American people, all of the American people, to have the proper information before heading to the polls in 2008." Asked why language was inserted to specifically bar FOX News Channel from programming, he replied, "FOX News isn't a source of proper information.""

Indoctrination 101 - Never let the subjects know any thoughts other than the ones you want them too...

19 posted on 11/05/2007 8:35:49 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Trueblackman

“The affected bill, a 3.5 billion dollar spending measure that proponents say is necessary to educate potential voters before the 2008 elections, has met with great resistance from conservative legislators on both sides of the aisle who portray it as just one more unnecessary entitlement tacked onto an already over-burdoned welfare system.”


Just so I have this straight....they want to spend 3.5 BILLION dollars to give cable tv to poor people? Have they lost their flipping minds? This is insane.

VirginiaMom


20 posted on 11/05/2007 8:35:51 AM PST by VirginiaMom
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