But "we" won.
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Posted on 02/19/2009 9:16:06 PM PST by Steelfish
OPINION
FEBRUARY 20, 2009 Mr. President, Keep the Airwaves Free As a former law professor, surely you understand the Bill of Rights.
By RUSH LIMBAUGH
Dear President Obama:
I have a straightforward question, which I hope you will answer in a straightforward way: Is it your intention to censor talk radio through a variety of contrivances, such as "local content," "diversity of ownership," and "public interest" rules -- all of which are designed to appeal to populist sentiments but, as you know, are the death knell of talk radio and the AM band?
You have singled me out directly, admonishing members of Congress not to listen to my show. Bill Clinton has since chimed in, complaining about the lack of balance on radio. And a number of members of your party, in and out of Congress, are forming a chorus of advocates for government control over radio content. This is both chilling and ominous.
As a former president of the Harvard Law Review and a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, you are more familiar than most with the purpose of the Bill of Rights: to protect the citizen from the possible excesses of the federal government. The First Amendment says, in part, that "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."
The government is explicitly prohibited from playing a role in refereeing among those who speak or seek to speak. We are, after all, dealing with political speech -- which, as the Framers understood, cannot be left to the government to police.
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as if Obama is going to change his mind from something Rush wrote
I want to know what obama wrote in his thesis. that would be an interesting read. Sick/Twisted, but interesting.
But "we" won.
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wasn’t it announced yesterday that Obama wasn’t going to revisit the Fairness Doctrine?
“wasn’t it announced yesterday that Obama wasn’t going to revisit the Fairness Doctrine?”
He’s not, he’s going to let his slimeball cronies do the dirty work for him.
Yes. And if anyone believes that, they're beyond naive.
he won’t have to. It will be “media diversity” and “localism”.
same effect. no Congressional action is needed.
I want to know what obama wrote in his thesis. that would be an interesting read.
My understanding is that he wrote nothing during his time at Harvard. No opinions, no scholarly legal articles. Nothing.
He also published nothing when he taught law at University of Chicago, nor did he associate with fellow teachers.
Why?
My own view: Someone paid for his education at Columbia University and at Harvard Law School. He skated through both schools, probably “picking up” a little knowledge here and there. As a scholar, he’s a fraud, and that would very nicely explain the reason he did not write and publish anything, as well as the reason he did not associate with peers: they would see through him quickly and realize that something was wrong. I’ve always seen husseinzerobama as a Trojan Horse or Manchurian Candidate...
Speaking of Manchurian Candidate, there’s another movie directed by the same director as Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer) titled “Seconds” which starred Rock Hudson in a very serious dramatic role. A middle-aged banker joins a secret organization that fakes his death and then gives him a complete physical makeover (at which time he wakes up from the operating table as Rock Hudson). The society tells him that he can decide to be anything he wants: a famous painter, an an architect, etc. They will supply him with the necessary degrees, certificates, “reviews”, and credentials. As a banker, he always had creative longings, so he opts to be a “famous” modernist painter. The society supplies him with awards, degrees from fancy French art schools, etc. But he’s always afraid of being outed as a fraud by those who have real knowledge of art.
It’s an interesting, creepy movie. Highly recommended.
But I digress.
I think there’s something very wrong with zerobama’s CV. The pattern of his life doesn’t make sense to me. He transfers from Occidental College to Columbia University, yet no one remembers going to class with him (there are, apparently, photos of him on campus). He refuses to unseal his school records from CU. Then he goes to Harvard Law School...and instead of opining on the law and publishing scholarly articles, he supposedly writes an autobiography (”Dreams From My Father”). Who does that?
He’s been vetted and groomed by unknown powers for many years, and is their puppet.
I wish I could say that I’m curious as to how the next four years will turn out, but I’m actually a little sick over the whole thing.
Obviously he hasn't met many law professors.
Brilliant strategy.
Anything short a flat out admission will cost Obama support amongst his radical base. To the extent that he ends up letting Limbaugh win any points, he admits he picked the wrong fight And if he chooses to just ignore it, he comes away looking like a wimp who’s afraid to finish what he started.
And all with half his brain tied behind his back!
To quote the letter's author, all of Obama's statements have expiration dates.
And to paraphrase his Democrat predecessor, it would depend on what the meaning of the word "revisit" is...
My guess is Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, with funding by George Soros. All of these men are old enough to have started the "grooming process" 20 years ago. All the connections are there including Acorn, Columbia Univ., and Saul Alinsky. It would be interesting to see if there is any connection between Rev. Wright and the groups listed in the following link, such as George Allen Wiley and his NWRO
Cloward-Piven Strategy
Despite his lies to the contrary, he has been joined at the hip to Bill Ayers since 1982 when both were at school in New York a quarter mile from each other and had mutual friends.
Obama's sponsors for Harvard were friends of Ayers' father.
"This doctrine . . . requires Federal officials to supervise the editorial practices of broadcasters in an effort to ensure that they provide coverage of controversial issues and a reasonable opportunity for the airing of contrasting viewpoints of those issues. This type of content-based regulation by the Federal Government is . . . antagonistic to the freedom of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment. . . . History has shown that the dangers of an overly timid or biased press cannot be averted through bureaucratic regulation, but only through the freedom and competition that the First Amendment sought to guarantee.". . . and all the while, the journalism which is supposedly objective is homogenized in the single organization, The Associated Press. The fact that we have a "press" which is "overly timid" and "biased" is the only possible result of The Associated Press.
Yes. Add Ayers to the list of Cloward, Piven, Soros, Wiley, Polett, and Rev.Wright as the Obama Cabinet of advisors.
I'm not the one that called him a law professor, I merely responded to someone who did.
That being said, I have found people who are adjunct professors to be, by and large, superior to tenured professors. Tenured professors are often incredibly lazy, knowing it's almost impossible to fire them, and many are only interested in their own parochial work and have little interest in actually teaching students. Their are many reasons that a person is an adjunct professor and not a tenured professor and most of these have to do with the college/university saving money. Many adjunct professors are specialists in their field and only teach part time because they have other jobs, again demonstrating their superiority to tenured professors.
I have no idea of the quality of work Obama did as an adjunct professor but I certainly would not denigrate him because he was not one of the tenured elites known more for propagandizing our children then performing any valuable task for society.
Well said, Rush.
But I think you should have kept your powder dry for a while longer.
Yes, but as Rush says ... "... all Obama statements have an expiration date." Will be fun to use this as a test to know the "average expiration" for such a statement.
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