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Trump critics call for crackdown on conservative media
The Washington Examiner ^ | October 24, 2016 | Rudy Takala

Posted on 10/24/2016 10:56:44 AM PDT by kevcol

Critics of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on both the left and the right are calling for a crackdown on conservative media after the election, especially on talk radio and the Web.
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"We need to get to a point where Hannity only has paid contributors on. He doesn't need to have elected officials on," Mackowiak said. "Someone needs to be making sure that if you want to go open $50,000 [in ads] on Breitbart, that there is, that you get a phone call that follows that up and makes clear you're not helping."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: censorship; firstamendment; liberty; media; nevertrump; tyranny
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To: vladimir998; BenLurkin

When Hillary stacks the Supreme Court with 3 more liberals, the only things that will be illegal will be things the DNC opposes. The Supreme Court will be able to dispense with oral arguments and simply receive DNC press releases...


41 posted on 10/24/2016 11:32:44 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of infants, ruled by their emotion)
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To: Yaelle

I am very sorry.

The name “hitler” is not to be used unless an extremely dangerous comparison emerges.

She has not set up the camps yet, but I believe she would.

She will let in millions of muslims too. Obama is notoriously anti semitic.

But we, your Christian friends will ALWAYS be there for you. That’s a promise.

Though we may be getting targeted too. We will fight together!!!


42 posted on 10/24/2016 11:35:37 AM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: FreeReign

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43 posted on 10/24/2016 11:36:37 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: BenLurkin
How do they propose to “crack down” on something that is perfectly legal?

Remember when our God-given right to the free exercise of religion was perfectly legal? That was a long time ago, but I recall those days. Today, if you refuse to actively participate in a gay parody of a wedding, you can be fined $135,000, even though that fine is a violation of natural law, the First Amendment, and the Eighth Amendment. That's how they will crack down on Freedom of the Press next. Take our arms and our ability to speak, and they think we will be compliant and controlled.

44 posted on 10/24/2016 11:40:53 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: FreeReign

Bring it on, you fat faggot.


45 posted on 10/24/2016 11:43:21 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Jim Robinson

Lèse-majesté will become a capital offense.

Bill of Attainder by EO?


46 posted on 10/24/2016 11:46:31 AM PDT by gasport (Live and Let Live)
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To: FreeReign

Spoken like a true America-hating communist pig.


47 posted on 10/24/2016 11:49:36 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: FreeReign

I thought Porky Pig had died. Guess not


48 posted on 10/24/2016 11:54:12 AM PDT by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: elcid1970

Time to crackup (and discard) lying complicit Rat media that only benefits the globalist uniparty elite... Go Trump


49 posted on 10/24/2016 11:54:34 AM PDT by Gasshog (Clinton denies... Except to see a lot of this)
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To: kevcol

As long as the internet exists, trying to shut down conservative media will be as likely as keeping the ocean from reaching the beach.

Just as there is virtually no way to protect a connected computer from hacking there is no way to suppress data on a world-wide network.

Encryption is your friend, systems that do not depend on ICANN are your friend.

The MPAA cannot even shut down movie streaming sites...and they have a lot at stake... you can stream a movie right to your HD anonymously using TOR. Eeezy Peeezy

PGP, TOR, P2P, AES, Public Key systems...this is the right stuff.


50 posted on 10/24/2016 11:54:39 AM PDT by Bobalu (Trump Is The Bitch Slap This Country Needs)
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To: FreeReign

Good Lord, he looks like he is straight out of Animal Farm. Just wow.


51 posted on 10/24/2016 12:01:08 PM PDT by lafroste (Look at my profile page. Thanks.)
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To: MNJohnnie

“I think the play is that in the long term the audience rewards you for telling the truth.”

Sure. And I could almost respect Beck & his crew if he said that he couldn’t in good conscience vote for Trump, left it at that, and then spent the rest of his time warning about the GREATER danger that HRC presents.

But no, he has spent MANY hours tearing down Trumps image.

So, NO Stu, “in the long term”, if Trump fails we’re worse off! What is there to respect about that - Stu?


52 posted on 10/24/2016 12:02:09 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: FreeReign

Someone needs to get this guy into a spiffy SS uniform- Herman Goerring sized.


53 posted on 10/24/2016 12:02:21 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Vote Trump. Defeat the Clinton Crime Syndicate. Reset America.)
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To: kevcol

If Trump doesn’t win, watch for bi-partisan legislation to make it so.

Both parties are in a hissy fit because they don’t have ALL the media in their pockets, and rogues like Hannity have to be stopped.


54 posted on 10/24/2016 12:11:01 PM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp (A Liberal is someone who cannot accept that there is a Law of Unintended Consequences)
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To: pissant

Mackowiak’s a specialized type of cuckservative: a porkservative.

Looks like we got us a sow here.
Squeal Matt.
Weeeeee.
Squeal like a piggie.
Weeeeee!
Squeal!
WEEEEE!


55 posted on 10/24/2016 12:16:38 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: BenLurkin

They there own lacked but they want it all!


56 posted on 10/24/2016 12:17:15 PM PDT by Clutch Martin
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To: BenLurkin

He is talking about using the leverage of the RNC against the media they believe betrayed them by supporting Trump. So the RNC forbids elected Republicans to appear on Hannity or they will lose RNC funding in their reelection campaigns, and then Hannity can’t get interviews, etc.


57 posted on 10/24/2016 12:19:47 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: MarMema

“This is not the same country I grew up in”

Howard Dean said during his failed campaign that “I want my country back” - I always wondered what country that tool was talking about?


58 posted on 10/24/2016 12:24:57 PM PDT by Clutch Martin
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To: kevcol
We sort of operate under the idea that the audience is filled with rational people," said Stu Burguiere, a co-host for the virulent anti-Trump media titan Glenn Beck.

the jokes just write themselves

59 posted on 10/24/2016 12:47:20 PM PDT by Pelham (Behold a pale horse, its rider's name is Hillary and Orcs follow her)
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To: kevcol

I almost have to ask if this is sarcasm.


60 posted on 10/24/2016 12:47:59 PM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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