Posted on 03/19/2007 6:13:05 AM PDT by Mike Bates
Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was recently paid $20,000 by Virginia Tech to tell the students that there aren't two sides to the global warming debate and that the problem with the media today is that we don't have a fairness doctrine. Those positions, which sound contradictory, betray the modern liberal agenda. They want to bring back the fairness doctrine not to ensure true fairness and balance in journalism but to intimidate and censor those expressing a view contrary to their own.
"The decline in the American journalism began in 1988 when Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine," Kennedy said, according to the student paper, the Collegiate Times. The paper said Kennedy had complained about the American people being exposed to "right-winged news." Here, he said, man-made global warming is referred to by the media as a "theory" when he claimed it is established fact. In foreign countries, he suggested, there is only one point of view--the truth, as he sees it. One can only conclude that Kennedy wants the Fairness Doctrine back to prevent right-wingers on talk radio and in cable news from voicing any doubts about the theory.
With these comments, Kennedy exposed the real agenda of the radical left. They don't want the media to present both sides. They want the media to report their point of view, and only their point of view. Despite his complaints, it is a fact that Kennedy's viewpoint is so widely accepted by the media that even the "conservative" Fox News Channel hired him as a special correspondent to do a November 2005 special program on global warming. It was completely one-sided in favor of the Kennedy position and conservatives, including those from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, led the criticism.
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The Left always intimidates, and it never wants to hear any other point of view.
Robert Kennedy lost his mind a long time ago.
Bobbie Kennedy, the clueless, mindless squirt, is a pathetic asswipe. When he's not kissing the ass of anti-American dictators like Hugo Chavez, and enriching himself in the process, he's poisoning the minds of young people with his left-wing bullcrap. What a pant load.
Another excerpt:
If you recently heard the news that the Democratic Party had pulled out of a planned political debate sponsored by Fox News because Fox News is too "conservative," then you have some inkling about the game that is being played by the political left in this country. Their complaints have nothing to do with what actually gets on the air. It is all about intimidating journalists and news organizations into treating the left and the Democrats more sympathetically....
Time to pull the plug on the Kennedy legend. The family just gets worse.
The united voice of millions cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-1774) The Vicar of Wakefield, 8, 1766
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