Posted on 11/10/2008 7:56:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
Candidates for higher office are indeed tested — if they win — from Day One. But the credibility of their declared principles is sometimes tested suddenly and revealingly on the campaign trail. I have often cited the voluble and often humorous Joe Biden as a passionate practitioner, and defender, of free speech. But on Oct. 23 — after participating in at least 200 interviews since chosen as Barack Obama's vice presidential on the Democratic ticket two months ago, Biden — offended at a question by an Orlando WFTV TV reporter-anchor — did not object when the Obama campaign then forbade more appearances on that station by its campaigners until the elections. An Obama gag rule.
After a series of reasonable, challenging, quietly voiced questions by interviewer Barbara West, she had said to Biden: "You may recognize this famous quote: 'From each according to his abilities (and) to each according to his needs.' That's from Karl Marx. How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to 'spread the wealth'?"
As I watched the interview on YouTube, Biden, clearly nettled, first responded to what he called "this ridiculous question" by asking her: "Are you joking? Is that a real question?" He then launched into the standard campaign retort that Obama "is not spreading the wealth around. He is talking about giving the middle class an opportunity to get back the tax breaks they used to have."
The next day, the Orlando Sentinel's veteran TV critic, Hal Boedecker, reported: "Biden so disliked West's line of questioning that the Obama campaign canceled a WFTV interview with Jill Biden, the candidate's wife."
Then, Boedecker continued, Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign, said the cancellation was "a result of her husband's experience yesterday during the satellite interview with
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Better know it, Fairness Doctrine, i.e., Ministry of Truth.
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All the "Oh, crap" stuff coming out of the media since Nov 5th is really starting to get on my nerves.
Will bears continue to poop in the woods?
“intellectuals” on university campuses have accepted less than free speech since the 1960’s.
Keep in mind that Hentoff is not your typical media guy. He’s very committed to civil liberties and a fierce pro-lifer to boot.
“FR, Has been shut down b/c DoS attacks, could it be related? “
Is that a fact?
“Keep in mind that Hentoff is not your typical media guy. “
I have worked very closely with his son, an attorney in Phoenix. He is very conservative.
Lesson: if you ask tough questions of the Obama administration, you will be punished.
Blasphemy of Exalted Leader cannot be tolerated.
I agree, Hentoff is a First Amendment absolutist. I had the pleasure of meeting him on the street in New York City and told him that I didn’t agree with a lot of his opinions but I totally respected him for his stand on the First Amendment. He was absolutely delighted and said that’s what it’s all about!
I have loads of respect for him.
Plan on getting your conservative talk radio by short wave from foreign stations or AM radio stations from Canada and Mexico if Obama pushes the Fairness Doctrine. However, the Fairness Doctrine will not be imposed without a fight both in Congress and the courts. We should already be pressuring our members of Congress and make it clear that that a sell out of the First Amendment will mean active campaigning to get the defeated in the next election. Imagine Obama’s image problem if uncensored news is only available from foreign sources broadcasting over the Obama Curtain.
Also by shutting down any news outlet or investigating private citizens brave enough to ask them simple questions. Now they're all pushing for opposition to "sit down and shut up" (I've heard their seminar callers all day with the same talking points to prove it's more than a coincidence)since THAT ONE illegitimately took the election. No way in hell anyone should sit idly by and allow HUSSEIN to enjoy his honeymoon after the garbage the JACKASS party has pulled this election and the last decade.
Sorry, but my patience with people who only pay attention after the election is totally used up.
This crap will bring our country to ruin.
I was rooting through the DUmpster, and I found a thread where they were gleeful about the Fairness Doctrine.
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