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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"The language of 'fairness' is seductive."
And it celebrates the government deciding your allotment of freedom of speech.
Our young people have not been taught the fundamentals of what our Constitution stands for, so it is not so surprising that they fail to recognize the principles turn upside down. We the people are no longer the sovereigns since media can control so completely what is allowed to be known about the prospective leaders. Media has become the scum of the nation.
He shouldn’t be able to control satellite radio with the UNFairness Doctrine, so we could get satellite radio.
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2. If anyone is responsble for this country going aground on sharp rocks, it isn't Nat Hentoff.
In the immortal words of Tom Petty, “You can stand me up in front of the gates of hell, and I won’t back down.”
Short Answer = yes
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Will Obama and Biden curtail freedom of spe
/sarc
Of focking course they will.
Once again we'll see Maverick John McCain to the Democrats' rescue. He must be salivating at the thought of sticking it to Rush.
I’d bet the farm obamma lamma ding dongs ministry of truth has a swat team.
Gestapo
My understanding is that it is a regulation implemented by the FCC. New members will be appointed when the current term is up, June 2009. Three D’s and 2 R’s. The next day they can vote for the new Fairness doctrine regulation, no congress or Senate approval needed.
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