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 ...
Cookie sweetie... we are a Republic.
FOAD Cokie. The end.
My brother named one of his dogs after Cokie.
Biden to Obama at Health Care Signing: 'This is a Big F*#cking Deal'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2477806/posts
I swear, I’m gonna get banned today if this keeps up.
‘People without insurance flood hospital emergency rooms and push up medical bills for everyone.’
Ahem.....most who flood these emergency rooms are ILLEGAL immigrants.
Deport them and the problem is solved.
Sorry Cokie dear, the guy corrupting democracy would be the one pushing an unconstitutional bill to remove liberty and property from American citizens in defiance to the will of 70 percent of this nation . . . not the guy exercising the protections the 1st amendment grants to his God given right to freedom of speech.
Sorry Cokie. It is obama, the democrats and the media who are the traitors. When this country collapses, you bleeding hearts in the media will be devasted like the rest of us. Do you think you and your family will be exempt from a bankrupt country? Do you think you and your family will be exempt from high unemployment and civil unrest when the system collapses.... state by state? You will all reap what you have sown.
Which end?
Resist the Zot!
How insulting to the dog!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cokie_Roberts Shw is a “inside-the-beltway” raised Media Whore.
Well, actually it wasn’t a dog but a bitch.
Oh I’m trying. Some days I just want to let loose a long string of expletives and gruesome threats. This is one of those days.
Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs Roberts wishes she had Glenn’s audience.
She is a lonely little voice in the wilderness of lame stream media when she gets lucky.
Call INS when they show up at emergency rooms - better yet call Sheriff Joe.
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