The Discerning Texan
-- Edmund Burke
Thursday, June 21, 2007
UPDATED: If You Can't Compete, Cheat; Stalinist Dems seek to silence Remaining Media Oppostion
Operating under the auspices of the Soros-funded Center for American Progress, the Left is now making a full frontal assault on talk radio via the so-called "Fairness Doctrine". The "Fairness Doctrine" would have the same impact on American radio as Hugo Chavez silencing that TV network in Argentina. It is hard to know, but if the people of Venezuela can take to the streets after its dictator silences their voice, it is not to far out to think that conservatives might have a similar reaction if they pull the plug on Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingraham, Miller, Hewitt, Prager, Boortz, etc., etc.
UPDATE: La Shawn Barber has an excellent name for this syndrome: "Airwave entry". And Blake Dvorak writes:
In other words "progressive" talk radio hasn't been able to compete, so now they want the government to step in with a whole assortment of regulations. No amount of Orwellian language can change the fact that this is censorship.
The report would be easy to dismiss if not for the fact that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she will "aggressively pursue" reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, according to two House Democrats who spoke to the American Spectator last month.
This attempt to bury opposition voices is not American, and it must be strongly resisted.A senior adviser to Pelosi explained the Speaker's reasons to the Specator:
First, [Democrats] failed on the radio airwaves with Air America, no one wanted to listen ... Conservative radio is a huge threat and political advantage for Republicans and we have had to find a way to limit it. Second, it looks like the Republicans are going to have someone in the presidential race who has access to media in ways our folks don't want, so we want to make sure the GOP has no advantages going into 2008.Despite these quotes, as well as the popularity of muzzling conservative talk-radio among the liberal base, it would be extremely unwise for Pelosi to pursue this: 1.) The Democrats would take a severe beating politically not just from Republicans, but from a public that, whatever its opinion of Limbaugh and his peers, isn't about to condone their silencing by the government for what Republicans could easily cast as a political witch-hunt; 2.) Pelosi probably wouldn't want to waste precious political capital pushing something that will generate enormous coverage only for it to get vetoed anyway; and 3.) Pelosi has no interest in uniting a conservative base fractured over immigration, especially going into an election year.
Labels: Conservative, Democrat Sabotage, First Amendment
Monday, May 07, 2007
The French Left/Lennists' Woman
If you want to follow the English translations of some of the wacko reactions of the French "intelligentsia" here is the spot (big h/t to Glenn Reynolds for the link).
UPDATE: Meanwhile the burned car count from the "riot de jour" in France are significantly different between Reuters and al-AP; what you mean there is "interpretation" at work here?
Labels: Conservative, France
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Divorcing Ann
I am taking Moran's advice to heart; I do not plan to post any further on this blog about someone who subtracts from the success of the overall mission. I am done with adding any fuel to her desire for publicity-for-publicity's sake, regardless of the damage it does to the life-and-death task of winning the War of ideas.
Labels: Conservative, US Politics
Friday, March 02, 2007
Ann: Read Our Lips....SHUT UP
Free speech is well and good, but when a high-profile spokesperson for the movement uses references like this on a national stage--alienating millions of voters needlessly and giving our enemies grist for their elitist propaganda mill--it demonstrates that Coulter has such serious problems with her sense of judgment, she cannot be trusted to continue in such a high-profile role. John Edwards truly does have few redeeming qualities that I can see, but Coulter's hyperbole is now officially a huge liability at a time when there is frankly way too much at stake. Calling out the widows who exploited 9/11 was one thing--but this latest gaffe tells me it is time for the Conservatives to cut their losses with Ann Coulter.
Labels: Conservative, Republican, US Politics
