The biggest and most imrpessive difference between CNN and Fox News is the number of viewers. That’s what matters in the news business. Also, Obama’s administration wouldn’t be going on the attack if Fox News was weak and effete.
Typically, the Left ignores unintended consequences of its positions and policies, and this may be one time when it benefits the country and exposes the ignorance of the novices who display either a lack understanding of freedom or a deliberate effort to silence dissent.
Thomas Jefferson, who was often attacked by the press of his day, spoke out strongly in defense of freedom of the press. His passion, of course, was defending liberty, not government control, unlike that of the current Congress and Administration.
These are only a few of his remarks on that subject:
"The press [is] the only tocsin of a nation. [When it] is completely silenced... all means of a general effort [are] taken away." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, Nov 29, 1802. (*) ME 10:341
"Since truth and reason have maintained their ground against false opinions in league with false facts, the press confined to truth needs no other legal restraint. The public judgment will correct false reasonings and opinions on a full hearing of all parties, and no other definite line can be drawn between the inestimable liberty of the press and its demoralizing licentiousness. If there be still improprieties which this rule would not restrain, its supplement must be sought in the censorship of public opinion." --Thomas Jefferson: 2nd Inaugural Address, 1805. ME 3:381
"The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe." --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816. ME 14:384
"Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it." --Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1786.
And, finally, but by no means the entirety of Jefferson's thoughts on the need for freedom of the press, no matter how critical its views:
"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions."(Underlining added for emphasis) --Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804. ME 11:33
Lets face it. CNN and NBC are the worst anti-American left wing bunch of scum there is. I, in my 70 years, have never seen or heard such lies as CNN and NBC do every day as told to them by the left wing anti-Americans and it is not just the Administration but the big time billionaires who control their propaganda broadcasts.
Another thing to be thankful for...
And don’t forget the mental midget Wolf Blitzer. Watching him report on the 2004 election returns (the last time I watched CNN) was hysterical-he clung to the hope of a Kerry victory right up to Kerry’s concession. It was pathetic.
Besmirching Lee Atwater is another Democrap trick-—
Go after a guy how is no longer alive and cannot defend himself.
Lowest of the low...This woman needs to be removed.