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Cass Sunstein: Censor Hannity, right-wing rumors
WorldNet Daily ^ | November 23, 2009 | Aaron Klein

Posted on 11/24/2009 1:33:39 PM PST by USALiberty

Websites should be obliged to remove "false rumors" while libel laws should be altered to make it easier to sue for spreading such "rumors," argued Cass Sunstein, Obama's regulatory czar.

In his recently released book, "On Rumors," Sunstein specifically cited as a primary example of "absurd" and "hateful" remarks, reports by "right-wing websites" alleging an association between President Obama and Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers.

He also singled out radio talker Sean Hannity for "attacking" Obama regarding the president's "alleged associations."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: achillwind; casssunstein; censorship; czars; dissentispatriotic; kenyanusurper; liberalfascism; obamaayersconnection; obamascandals; orwelliannightmare; thoughtcrime; treason; youlie
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THIS is very disturbing. Now they are openly talking about CENSORSHIP!
1 posted on 11/24/2009 1:33:39 PM PST by USALiberty
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To: USALiberty
In his recently released book, "On Rumors," Sunstein specifically cited as a primary example of "absurd" and "hateful" remarks, reports by "right-wing websites" alleging an association between President Obama and Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers.

Oh, do bring this to court! The discovery phase would be most interesting indeed. I, for one, would make sure to have extra popcorn on hand to munch as Obama is put under oath to testify regarding his relationship with Ayers.

2 posted on 11/24/2009 1:37:18 PM PST by highlander_UW (To anger a conservative tell him a lie. To anger a liberal tell him the truth.)
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Ah, the Red Commissars are finally taking off the masks

Next comes the NKVD enforcers

History repeats itself, as always

3 posted on 11/24/2009 1:38:25 PM PST by Regulator (Welcome to Zimbabwe! Now hand over your property....)
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To: USALiberty

This is a “holy crap!” statement by Sunstein: “freedom usually works, but in some contexts, it is an incomplete corrective.”

Liberals DO NOT LIKE FREEDOM. This is so disturbing.


4 posted on 11/24/2009 1:40:45 PM PST by ensignbay (**OBAMA GAFFES video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4-AKcH3eC8 ***)
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To: USALiberty

Bring it on, Cass.


5 posted on 11/24/2009 1:41:22 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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What would Sunstein's reaction been if Hannity had said in 2005 that all the 9/11 Truthers should be censored and if they resist sent to Gitmo?
6 posted on 11/24/2009 1:41:34 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Obamalaise - the new mood for America.)
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Websites should be obliged to remove "false rumors" while libel laws should be altered to make it easier to sue for spreading such "rumors," argued Cass Sunstein, Obama's regulatory czar.

Good. Let's prosecute the Climate Change Czar who may have been engaging in criminal fraud with the other scientists to spread false rumors about "man-making global climate change".

7 posted on 11/24/2009 1:42:50 PM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: USALiberty

These people are totalitarians. They want what they want...and if you get in their way they are going to take care of you.

I would not want to be Rush or Beck...I hope both have good private security...I hope their private planes are guarded...twenty-four hours a day.

Do not think for a moment that if they felt they could get away with murder they would not do it.

These are gangsters.


8 posted on 11/24/2009 1:43:11 PM PST by kjo
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To: USALiberty

Get to know the next nominee to the Supreme Court.


9 posted on 11/24/2009 1:43:38 PM PST by Jacquerie (It is only in the context of Natural Law that the Declaration & Constitution form a coherent whole.)
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WHaddya mean, NOW they are talking about censorship???!!
They’ve been talking about censorship since the beginning!
And Clinton helped lay the foundation for it many years ago when he ‘suggested’ that the OKC bombing had ‘something to do with’ Rush Limbaugh and his ilk.
Obviously this Cass Sunstein character should be slapped upside the head, slapped silly. BUT only in the verbal sense, of course. He should be mocked. And spit on. But only metaphorically.(of course, here, I am trying to avoid intimations of ‘violence’.)


10 posted on 11/24/2009 1:43:55 PM PST by supremedoctrine (Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see----Schopenhauer)
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To: USALiberty
Websites should be obliged to remove "false rumors" while libel laws should be altered to make it easier to sue for spreading such "rumors," argued Cass Sunstein, Obama's regulatory czar.

start with recovery.gov then maybe you will have some cred

der fuhrer said the lies about the number of 'saved or created' jobs will not be corrected

11 posted on 11/24/2009 1:44:42 PM PST by sloop (pfc in the quiet civil war)
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“alleged associations”?.................He wrote the Zero’s book!...............


12 posted on 11/24/2009 1:44:50 PM PST by Red Badger (Al Gore is the Bernie Madoff of environmentalism. He belongs in jail. - Unknown Blogger)
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Seriously. Could anyone have imagined how far off the deep-end these people would be?

Ironic that such a communist styled comment would come from soemone Obama appointed to act as a Czar...


13 posted on 11/24/2009 1:45:12 PM PST by Made In The USA (The only thing better than bacon, is bacon wrapped in bacon.)
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To: USALiberty

14 posted on 11/24/2009 1:45:20 PM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: USALiberty

Great news.

Hannity hasn’t been getting as much love since Beck came around. He’s gonna milk this sucker every night, and good for him. He exposed Rev. Wrong. Cass is next.


15 posted on 11/24/2009 1:45:44 PM PST by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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To: USALiberty

I recall Newsweak feeding terrorist rage with an agit prop story that falsely claimed Americans were flushing korans down the loo.


16 posted on 11/24/2009 1:46:10 PM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: USALiberty

Bill Clinton told lies saying that Talk Radio was responsible for the OKC bombing and that there was a conspiracy to burn down minority churches in the South in the 1990s.

Bill Clinton made enough stink out of the second rumor that he put the FBI on a wild goosechase over it taking them off of GENUINE threats like the domestic training of the 9-11 terrorists.


17 posted on 11/24/2009 1:47:45 PM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: Red Badger
“alleged associations”?.................He wrote the Zero’s book!...............

The evidence does seem to point to that, and I believe putting Obama under oath to testify about it would be most amusing...and then, of course, make sure all the associated documentation and supporting witnesses are also deposed. It is very likely to come out that the "first author" is just another in a long line of political frauds.

18 posted on 11/24/2009 1:48:44 PM PST by highlander_UW (To anger a conservative tell him a lie. To anger a liberal tell him the truth.)
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“Alleged associations?” ALLEGED ASSOCIATIONS?

This is disturbing, yes, but also laughable. Is Sunstein an idiot as well as a commmie? Surely he jests!!!


19 posted on 11/24/2009 1:49:05 PM PST by CaliforniaCon
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To: kjo
I would not want to be Rush or Beck...I hope both have good private security...I hope their private planes are guarded...twenty-four hours a day. Do not think for a moment that if they felt they could get away with murder they would not do it. These are gangsters.

The Kennedys ran with gangsters. Pappy had been a gangster who got rich bootlegging. JFK was banging a gangster's moll. There are questions about the Chicago ballots. And the most important reason why the public should investigate if Marilyn Monroe was murdered and if the Kennedys (and associates) tampered with the crime scene is... if they can kill a big boxoffice star (who they are already linked to) and get away with it, then they could whack anyone including "nobodies".

20 posted on 11/24/2009 1:51:29 PM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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