Posted on 03/23/2010 11:23:59 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Journalists love the marketplace of ideas until people start selling ideas they find objectionable. The liberal media somehow manages to shout about its right to speak freely while demanding others be silenced.
Glenn Beck is probably the most popular target for the left's demands for censorship. Cokie Roberts and her husband Steve picked up that ball and ran with it today in their joint syndicated column. They dubbed Beck "a traitor to the American values he professes so loudly to defend" and claimed he is "corrupting the very essence of democracy." And all this just by speaking.
Unsurprisingly, the immense damage Beck is doing to the American political process can only be demonstrated anecdotally:
Steve recently took part in a lunchtime panel sponsored by a local radio station. A beefy young man in the audience grabbed the microphone and challenged the speakers, in a sneering and confrontational tone, to name one good thing about President Obama's health-care proposal.
Steve's answer: People without insurance flood hospital emergency rooms and push up medical bills for everyone. So it would be in the "national interest" to expand insurance and hold down costs.
"The national interest?" retorted the questioner in an even louder voice. "That sounds like fascism!"
We have been in this business a long time. We welcome tough questions and certainly don't believe we have all the answers. But "fascism"? That's over the line -- way over the line -- for any sensible or civilized conversation.
We don't know what the beefy guy reads or to whom he listens, but we would bet he's a disciple of Glenn Beck. The popular author and broadcaster who has turned nonstop name-calling into an art form is a big fan of the "F-word."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
The F-Word meaning Fascist, I presume.
Exactly. Although on some matters I am not a Bush fan, she has different "standards" for Obama.
Wrong, they are speaking about themselves!!!!
It’s an old one. I heard it over a year ago on Boortz where a guy cleared out the Somalis at a DMV in North Carolina, so he didn’t have to wait.
From the other “Cokie” thread:
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By kcvl:
While working in Guatemala, Sister Dianna Ortiz, a Catholic nun from New Mexico, was raped and tortured by members of a death squad until a US supervisor recognized that she was from the US.
Although there was no doubt of Ortizs torture and ample evidence to corroborate her claims of an American supervisor, Roberts insisted that Ortiz was lying in a 1996 interview with Ortiz on the TV show Nightline.
Roberts brother, Tom Boggs, working for the law firm of Patton, Boggs, & Blow, was paid by the Guatemalan military to promote a more positive image of the death squads and the military dictatorship in Guatemala.
This incident caused a tremendous amount of scrutiny into other potential nepotistic relationships within the media.
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Also by kcvl:
Cokie Roberts is the fourth child and youngest daughter of former ambassador and long-time Democratic Congresswoman from Louisiana Lindy Boggs and of the late Hale Boggs, also a Democratic Congressman from Louisiana who was Majority Leader of the House of Representatives. Her sister, the late Barbara Boggs Sigmund, was mayor of Princeton, New Jersey and a candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey. Her brother Tommy Boggs is a prominent Washington, D.C. attorney and lobbyist.
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By ILS21R
Cokie Roberts, she is the daughter of Hale Boggs, a former Democratic House Whip who was the product of a corrupt Louisiana political machine that dates back to Huey Long. Interestingly, Boggs was made a member of the Warren Commission that investigated the death of JFK. According to John H. Davis, author of The Kennedy Contract, a book that explores a possible Mafia connection in the assassination, Boggs could be relied upon to...see to it that his principle financial backer, and behind-the-scenes power in the state government, Carlos Marcello, would not be mentioned in the commissions deliberations, which, as it turned out, he never was.
http://www.banned-books.com/bbarticle-cokie.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2477984/posts
Hey! Me too! Gordon Ramsey is great!
I'm not a Bush fan either, but gross hypocrisy really bugs me...so it's hard to get past what democrats say as hypocrisy is a core personality trait for progressives.
Poor Cokie needs glasses and hearing aids, she got Glenn Beck mixed up with Barak Hussein Obama.
“You’re CONSERVATIVE? Oh, you are too stupid to know what is going on. Let US tell you what to think.”
Typical liberal elitism.
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