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To: kattracks
As Ann said it's shock and awe time for the liberals in showbiz and the media, they no longer have a monopoly on freedom of speech. Robbins is such a moron he doesn't realize the irony in his own statements. MLB didn't cancel him because of what he said they canceled him because of what the fallout would have been had he performed. The anti-war crowd is the minority so if you are going to make unpopular statements you better be able to deal with the backlash. Thank god for FOX news and conservative radio, the liberals are on the run.
9 posted on 04/15/2003 10:48:05 PM PDT by John Lenin (I was the kid next door's imaginary friend)
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To: John Lenin
they no longer have a monopoly on freedom of speech

They never had a monopoly on speech...they had a monopoly on dissemination. That's changed now thanks to the net, talk radio, and FNC (Gawd I love how they hate FOX).

I have always wondered how much support could be generated for a restriction of the first amendment on par with the same rationale liberals use to erode the second amendment. "The founders had no idea an elite cabal would be able to spread their message to the exclusion of all others. Our modern understanding of the technology of propaganda is something they never dreamed of, and didn't prepare us for."

Personally, I'd settle for holding media and politicians accountable to libel laws, but easy access to the vast underground of cyberspace seems to balancing the scales nicely.

16 posted on 04/15/2003 11:03:12 PM PDT by Woahhs
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