Freedom of speech threatened, Gore says (Because of the Dixie Chicks!) (BARF ALERT!)

The Tennessean ^ | March 26, 2003 | Margo Rivers

[Timesink]

MURFREESBORO - With fewer companies owning more media outlets, the lack of tolerance for opposing views increases, former Vice President Al Gore told a college audience here last night.

Using recent attacks on the Dixie Chicks that followed anti-war comments by one group member as an example, Gore said big corporations threaten the true meaning of democracy because representatives - through various media outlets - try to stamp out opposing views with financial retaliation.

[Timesink]

Unsurprisingly, this article violates journalistic ethics by failing to mention that Algore is a former member of the Tennessean staff.

[pnz1]

How could his student have missed the coverage of protests is what I can't understand?

[KriegerGeist]

And this guy in now the DemonRats frontrunner?
G.W.B. won't even have to campaign next year.

[expatpat]

Where was he when the Democraps were after Lott?

[DainBramage]

[Paul Atreides]

I'm not surprised that Al Whore would take up for her, given that his book was a resounding failure. Maines being a Dim didn't hurt either.

[ChadGore]

Isn't tha a picture of Al Gore in nam ?

[Atlas Sneezed]

They just don't get the complaining to a radio station about playing the music of anti-Americans is free speech.

And it is free speech for a private radio station to play exclusively patriotic artists.

What Gore doesn't get is that THE ONLY (potential) THREAT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS GOVERNMENT.

[randita]

I have a friend who works in a marketing firm in NYC. His firm recently landed a million dollar contract with Coca Cola and shot a series of ads featuring the Dixie Chicks. The film is in the can and sitting on his desk. They cannot release it now with all the negative publicity. he thinks the outrage will die out and the ads released in a while, but I said I didn't think so.

[Billy_bob_bob]

Gee, I seem to remember a telecommunications act that got passed a few years back that allowed corporate octopi like Clear Channel to take over most of the radio stations in any given town. Hmmm, let's see, who was president of the country and president of the senate at that time? Golly, why it was Bill Clinton and Albert Gore! Bill Clinton and Albert Gore who helped push through the telecommunications act of 1996, thereby removing government prohibitions against media monopolies that had existed for decades and decades before the carpetbaggers from Arkansas and Tennesee got into office.

Now Mr. Gore has decided he is "concerned" with "limitations on freedom of speech" because of media monopolies. The very same monopolies he served so very well while whoring himself in the White House.

Scumbag. Vermin. Piece of floating excrement that just won't flush. Poltroon. Carpetbagger. Diseased pest. Human effluent. Garbage. Just a few of the terms to come to mind when pondering the career of Albert Gore, Jr.

Now go to your hotel room, junior, and no room service for you tonight!

[TADSLOS]

''They were made to feel un-American and risked economic retaliation because of what was said,'' Gore said. ''Our democracy has taken a hit.

Hey, Al, the Blix Chicks freedom of speech does not mean that I give up my freedom of choice to listen to them based on their actions or my freedom to assemble like minded people to do the same. It's a form of the populace voting against anti-American sentiment Al, and you can't pin a chad on it.

[Cosmo]

Would someone please get it through these idiots' thick skulls that
....FREE SPEECH INCLUDES MY RIGHT TO TELL YOU TO SHUT THE HELL UP!!!!


....ahh... I feel better

[Mike-o-Matic]

Best argument yet in favor of accidental discharge.

[prairiebreeze]

Algore is a former member of the Tennessean staff.

I honestly didn't know that. The way I see it, it's the right of the Dixie Twit to vent her spew if that's what she chooses to do. It's also my right to avoid purchasing their product, avoid attending their concerts, and avoid listening to radio stations who carry their music. It's also my right to notify said radio stations of my intentions and preferences toward this issue.

Prairie

[knak]

Oh throw up. It's my right not to buy what I don't want. It's my right to smash my CD's in public. It's my right to say I don't agree with what someone is saying.

[07055]

Two words in response:

Doctor Laura.

[SShultz460]

Why is Any one at all surprised by Bias on the Left. You just hear it because it's an opinion that's popular with the media because they agree with it.

Did you hear this crap when it happend to Dr. Laura? No.

Does that mean Stop the campaign against the Blixie Chicks? No.

Does it mean paying attention and pointing this disparity and example of bias out to any one who will listen to you? Hell yes.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Freedom of Speech protects us from the GOVERNMENT telling us which viewpoints are correct and which ones are forbidden. If the government banned the sale of Dixie Chicks CDs because of what that idiot said, then the First Amendment would come into play. But this is a free country and the people can buy, boycott or smash any CDs they darn well please.

[solo gringo]

Out of dumb women come dumb words and dumb Ex VP speaking on thier behalf.The term dumb and dumber comes to mind.

[WorkingClassFilth]

ARGH-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H!

I CAN'T STAND THAT STUPID FRICKIN' MORON!

SHUT THE HELL UP, ALGORE! SHUT-UP! SHUT-UP! STFU!

I SWEAR, IF I EVER COME ACROSS YOUR SORRY, SKANKY, LILLY WHITE *SS, I WILL PERSONALLY ADMINISTER A LESSON ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION THAT YOU WILL NEVER, EVER FORGET.

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