McConan the "Republican"? Just say NO!
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Mr. Medved--
Senator McCain supports Free Speech? Who knew?
Why should anyone fawn all over the fact that Senator John McCain supports the Constitution? So McCain isn't for squelching all of our First Amendment Rights. Whats so laudable about that?
On the one hand Senator McCain wants restrictions on political speech. But on the other, King McCain will let us peasants have our talk radio. For now. Oh, Thank You! Thank You, Senator.
Give me a break. Since when has not assaulting our GOD given rights been seen as a gift? I'll tell you when. Since this very same Senator has taken his legislative pen to our rights to free speech. Only then would he have to be defended for not going even further.
If you think this helps John McCain with conservatives you are sadly mistaken. It only shows that while he pushes legislation, such as McCain/Feingold, Mr. Freedom of Speech has decided to leave the Surfs talk radio alone. How gracious of him.
What next? Postings of the Declaration of Independence arguing, Senator McCain believes we are still endowed by our creator? (George Orwell, call your radio station.) The irony is delicious.
I do wonder what excuse you'd have if he did, in fact, decide to support the Fairness Doctrine.
Here's one:
"Senator McCain, while supporting the Fairness Doctrine, has taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution."
Or:
"Talk radio has demonized Senator McCain, A WAR HERO, for supporting the Fairness Doctrine. Did I mention he's A WAR HERO? Don't these talkers know he's A WAR HERO and that he took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States?"
McConan the "Republican"? Just say NO!
Medved cuts his own _biased_ throat. Poor soul.
And the difference would be, what?
Rush explained his problem with McCain. Rush LIVES on free speech, and McCain attacked his free speech rights.
Rush has even suggested that he couldn’t tell people not to vote for McCain because he felt threatened by the ban on mentioning candidates and elections within a month of a primary (like in his state of Florida).
When I read this, I thought Medved was saying that someone asked McCain about Rush's statements, and McCain said Rush had a right to make them. Which I thought was funny, because my interpretation of what Rush has said the past week is that someone from the McCain camp has been threatening to invoke the McCain/Feingold bill on him for "electioneering".
But it turned out Medved was NOT saying McCain defended Rush, he was just saying McCain was opposed to the fairness doctrine.
Which really isn't about defending Rush's right to speak right before the election about a candidate, something McCain was dead-set against, probably because he doesn't like people pointing out his record.
“THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE WOULD BE A DEVASTATING ASSAULT ON FREE SPEECH; McCAIN-FEINGOLD, FOR ALL ITS FAULTS, WAS NOT.”
Mr. Medved has just proven he is an idiot.
Medved suffers from cognative dissonance. He can defend McCain as a champion of free speech (here), but then ignore the McCain-Feingold 1st Amendment atrocity.
Well Mr. Medved lets give John McCain a cookie and thank him for his support.
Lets say that the fairness doctrine passes. What’s the worst that could happen? Lets see, all of the conservative talkers that are not on XM/Sirious move to satallite radio where the fairness doctrine does not apply. We all have to pay $20 a month to listen to them. Not happy about it, but we still get to listen to them.
Lets see what McCain/Feingold did. It prevented people who don’t have the name recognition and are already at a disadvantage to incumbents from raising enough money to seriously challenge them for the congressional seats. They don’t have an XM/Sirious solution to go to. McCain’s bill protected his own pink rear end and we’re supposed to be thankful for that Mr. Medved?
What makes me laugh is McCain’s anger at Mitt Romney using his own money to win the pub nod. Yet, he passes a bill to protect himself from others trying to take his senate seat. Maybe McCain is really mad at the trophy wife for not giving him any of her family fortune to run his campaign. He’s just taking it out on Mitt.
I fear that Mr. Medved, having swung from far left to the right, is now swinging back in the other direction. He was always a much better movie critic than political commentator anyway.
Michael Medved is on dangerous ground here. He has angered a goodly number of his listeners. I wonder how this will play out in his future ratings. Will conservatives begin to turn him off?
I TOLD YOU HE WOULD!!!!!
Ted Kennedy = chapaquidic.
He will never get my vote. Never!
John McCain = Keating five.
He will never get my vote. Never!
If the Fairness Doctrine is reinstated, will stations that carry Medved’s show be required to give equal time to a conservative?
McCain is not going to bite the hand of his masters at CNN...
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