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RI Gov. Chafee: Stop paying for vitriolic commentary
The Providence Journal ^ | January 13, 2011 | Felice Freyer

Posted on 01/14/2011 7:02:10 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

When talk radio hosts use harshly divisive language, "The advertisers should shut them down," Governor Lincoln Chafee said this morning.

Chafee said the solution to the vitriolic rhetoric -- which some have linked to the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords over the weekend -- is for people to stop paying for it, including not buying books from people who use such language.

Chafee made his comments in response to reporters' questions after a meeting on health care. He noted that he had been a target of violence-tinged criticism himself. In 2006, conservative commentator Ann Coulter wrote a column, "They shot the wrong Lincoln," and calling then-Senator Chafee a "half-wit."

Chafee made national news earlier this week when he announced that he would not go on talk radio and would ban state employees from doing so.

The ban came because talk radio is essentially "ratings-driven, for-profit programming" that was not appropriate use of state employees' time, Chafee said....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chafee; divisive; freespeech; laughing
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Somebody enroll Chafee in a testicular transplant program. He seems to have lost his.

“Oh, those mean conservatives hurt my widdle feelings. Somebody make them stop, wight now !”


61 posted on 01/14/2011 12:14:08 PM PST by jimt
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; darkangel82; GOPsterinMA; Clintonfatigued; Clemenza; ...

I pity Rhode Island. They went from having the best Governor in a century (Carcieri) to the worst in its history (Missing Linc).


62 posted on 01/14/2011 12:36:39 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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RINO senator from New England loses, leaves the party and becomes governor. Hmm, where have we seen this before? Anyways, I don’t need to read the garbage that comes from his mouth.


63 posted on 01/14/2011 4:00:46 PM PST by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: darkangel82; BlackElk; Impy; BillyBoy

Yup, Missing Linc is Weicker Deux, Merde Boogaloo.


64 posted on 01/14/2011 4:08:20 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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lmao


65 posted on 01/14/2011 4:18:16 PM PST by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

100% agree! DC was a fine governor. Too bad the biggest, dumbest lefty won the governorship.

And as bad as Taxachsett$ is, RI is worse. Plus, there are no jobs there at all.


66 posted on 01/14/2011 8:32:48 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (RomneyCare is Mitt`s Chappaquiddick)
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The worst? They must have had some bad ones. Maybe he won't realize his "potential".

Sorta the opposite in Maine. Baldacci was bad I don't know if he was the worst. Were any of the Republicans in recent decades conservatives?

67 posted on 01/16/2011 1:45:17 AM PST by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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"Were any of the Republicans in recent decades conservatives?"

You mean in RI or ME ?

68 posted on 01/16/2011 1:55:52 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Maine.


69 posted on 01/16/2011 3:58:23 PM PST by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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Well, since 1960, there have only been 2 Republican Governors prior to LePage. Jock McKernan, Olympia’s (second) husband, is a RINO and didn’t leave much of a mark (one problem for us is that Gov. LePage, although a Conservative, was friends with Olympia’s first husband, the late Peter Snowe, and he won’t actively oppose her reelection as a result). John Reed, who was Governor from 1959-67 (and is still alive, having turned 90 back on Jan 5th), was regarded as a moderate-to-liberal, but a pro-Vietnam hawk, although oddly lost reelection in 1966 despite the anti-Dem landslide. LBJ appointed him to the NTSB when he was defeated.

I probably have a higher opinion of the late Jim Longley, Sr., who served a single term in the ‘70s. He was a former Democrat who ran as an Independent (beating none other than George Mitchell). LePage is probably closer in spirit to Longley than either Reed or McKernan.


70 posted on 01/16/2011 4:44:24 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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