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Posted on 01/15/2007 5:32:44 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Less than two weeks after Democrats took control of both houses of Congress, Accuracy in Media has exposed a plan by congressional liberals to use the federal government to silence conservative voices in the media.
Reporting from a so-called National Conference on Media Reform, organized by "progressive" activists, AIM editor Cliff Kincaid has revealed, in an exclusive report now available on the AIM web site (http://www.aim.org), that liberals in the House and Senate intend to push legislation giving the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) the authority to monitor and restrict what conservatives in the media say and how they say it.
Kincaid quotes Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey (news, bio, voting record) (D-N.Y.) as saying that he wants to put an end to the influence of conservative media personalities he finds to be "neo-fascist" and "neo-con." Their legislative vehicle is revival of a "fairness doctrine" giving FCC bureaucrats the ability to grant liberal activists "equal access" to conservative programs on radio and television. Senator Bernie Sanders, an avowed socialist, told the conference he would push such a measure in the Senate.
Kincaid calls the approach "authoritarian" and a threat to freedom of speech in the U.S.
In his Special Report on the conference, which featured Bill Moyers and Jesse Jackson and Hollywood celebrities such as Jane Fonda, Kincaid said that the event "turned out to be an effort to push the Democratic Party further to the left and get more 'progressive' voices in the media, while proposing to use the power of the federal government to silence conservatives."
At the same time, Kincaid noted that one conference speaker, freshman Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), pledged to protect or even increase taxpayer funding for public broadcasting that he admits is on the "left hand side of the dial."
Kincaid documents funding for the organizers of the conference from George Soros, who has made billions of dollars from secretive financial transactions, and notes evidence that participants were so far to the left that Senator Hillary Clinton was considered by them to be "too conservative." Kincaid also documents the active involvement in the conference by members of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
Accuracy in Media (AIM), founded in 1969, is America's oldest media watchdog organization. For more information, please visit http://www.aim.org.
SOURCE Accuracy in Media
. . . which sounds good until you start naming names. McCain will be of no help. Lots of others in that same category. Some "firewall."
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Very true as far as it goes, and I'm in. But if this thing passes and isn't vetoed we are going to need serious money for court costs over and above our operating costs. And if it does come to that, I say "Let's roll!"
This would be another Civil War.
You'd better be careful what you wish for with your 'electable' candidates. If/when they are the nominee and when they lose, the GOP will officially be dead. You can't keep trying to go left and think others will give up more and more of their principles. The GOP is going further and further to the left with people like you.
This seems to be the crux of the biscuit for me. I see us doing more of former and less of the latter. We seem to be giving up a heck of a lot of ground with nothing gained.
Concern about such a trend should be obvious.
That, and the new season of American Idol is on. People have better things to do than pay attention to what government is doing.
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"Apathy, Pessimism and cultural diversity is what brought down the Roman Empire.
You are contributing to at least two of those dynamics."
The refusal to face reality as it is is what brought down the French Empire in 1940.
But let's all just put our fingers in our ears, call De Gaulle a "defeatist" and keep shouting all the louder "Maginot will WORK! They shall not pass! Maginot will work! Maginot will work!"
Then maybe it will.
Neal Boortz is a dumbass.
But back to the subject at hand...
The quicker these whack jobs try to pass this legislation the better...if we're smart...we'll hold it up til around election time and clean their clocks with it.
I remember similar fantasizing about McCain-Feingold. I don't trust the GOP to filibuster it, and I sure as hell don't trust Bush to veto it. Sure is nice to imagine we have representatives that give a damn about unfettered airwaves, though.
Exactly! America must wake up! But they just yawn and go on about their business everytime one of our freedoms is taken away.
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