Turns out, you’re too dumb to control your own destiny. That’s the message of the Nanny State, as revealed by its various laws, prohibitions, regulations, bans, ordinances, statutes, guidelines, policies, and so forth. We have smoking bans, drug laws, seatbelt laws, laws against gambling, laws regulating gun ownership, and on and on. We have these laws in place to protect you from your own freedom. After all, freedom is too dangerous to be entrusted to you.
Nazi symbolism used in American politics. Of course most of us know that the far left has used such imagery for years. Where was the outrage then? . . . .
Notice same reporter . . . . different president.
Now for the left.
Where was the moral outrage from the left during these protests. Why weren’t these people called unamerican????
Axelrod was asked on CBS’s “Face the Nation” about the “spreading and very public disaffection” with the president’s fiscal policies seen at the “Tea Party” rallies around the country last week.
“I think any time you have severe economic conditions there is always an element of disaffection that can mutate into something that’s unhealthy,” Axelrod said.
Of course here it is right from the horse’s ***
The story does not end there there is a push behind the scenes to undermine free speech altogether. They are working behind the scenes to resurrect the “Fairness Doctrine” As a lifelong broadcaster I can tell you that the fairness doctrine was a dismal failure. Most stations shied away from any controversial subjects and stuck to a music format to avoid being found in violation as Fox’s Alan Colmes points out.
You don’t see them pushing for fairness in the printed press which for the most part has a very liberal bias. As one that has been activly fighting the smoking ban it is just short of impossible to get a dissenting opinion even though the facts back you up. What they are complaining about is the popularity of right wing talk radio. They tried to counter this popularity with their own network (Air America) which was a dismal failure and wound up in bankruptcy.
On October 13, 2006 mounting debts forced Air America Radio to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company was bought by Green Family Media, made up of New York real estate investor Stephen L. Green and his brother Mark J. Green, who closed on the purchase of the network on March 6, 2007 for US$ 4.25 million.
Now any business is going to put out a product that brings them profit, not one that will put them into bankruptcy yet the brilliant liberals would force broadcasters to put on programs that would have no listeners and would put them into financial ruin.
Tested in Court
The fairness doctrine’s constitutionality was tested and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark 1969 case, Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC (395 U.S. 367). Although the Court then ruled that it did not violate a broadcaster’s First Amendment rights, the Court cautioned that if the doctrine ever began to restrain speech, then the rule’s constitutionality should be reconsidered. Just five years later, without ruling the doctrine unconstitutional, the Court concluded in another case that the doctrine “inescapably dampens the vigor and limits the variety of public debate” (Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo, 418 U.S. 241). In 1984, the Court concluded that the scarcity rationale underlying the doctrine was flawed and that the doctrine was limiting the breadth of public debate (FCC v. League of Women Voters, 468 U.S. 364). This ruling set the stage for the FCC’s action in 1987. An attempt by Congress to reinstate the rule by statute was vetoed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, and later attempts failed even to pass Congress.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan
Schumer compares Fairness Doctrine to regulating porn
This is not about fairness at all. It is about the progressives/socialist controlling what you watch and listen to. The free market is the ultimate in freedom.
Faulty Premise #3: The fairness doctrine guarantees that more opinions will be aired.
Reality: Arbitrary enforcement of the fairness doctrine will diminish vigorous debate.
Of all arguments for the reinstitution of the fairness doctrine, the most inaccurate and insidious is that it will permit a greater diversity of opinion to be heard. By requiring, under threat of arbitrary legal penalty, that broadcasters “fairly” represent both sides of a given issue, advocates of the doctrine believe that more views will be aired while the editorial content of the station can remain unaltered. But with the threat of potential FCC retaliation for perceived lack of compliance, most broadcasters would be more reluctant to air their own opinions because it might require them to air alternative perspectives that their audience does not want to hear.
As long as I am on the free speech kick I find it ironic that there is a push to ban the book about banning books, now is that irony or what?
Before I get into the tax increases around the country, remember these increases are for your own good. And the tea party that we all took part in is a right wing conspiracy!
This would be humorous if it were not an out and out lie. All over the country tax increases are being imposed on lifestyle choices and the infamous carbon tax is in the works.
Daines, a Spitzer administration holdover who generally keeps a fairly low profile, has recorded a YouTube manifesto in defense of the tax, which the administration insists is really more about health care policy than making money off soda-drinking New Yorkers.
In Minnesota it’s cigarettes, booze, music downloads, etc etc etc. (remember this is for your own good)
“Oh my gosh,” Bernardo Torres said Tuesday when a clerk at a CVS Pharmacy in Falls Church, Va., told him the new price, which went up in anticipation of the tax increase. Torres wanted to buy his aunt two cartons of cigarette-size cigars, but he walked away empty-handed after hearing the new price: $134. The tax on little cigars went from 4 cents to $1.01 a pack.
And of course there is the infamous carbon tax. They fail to acknowledge that any of these types of tax are past on to the consumer raising the cost of everything.
Of course here in Wisconsin Comrade Doyle added a dollar a pack tax on cigarettes and this year he is attempting to add another seventy five cents. Of course that does not include the sales tax on a product that is mostly tax to begin with.
The list is endless. The government is systematically stripping freedom telling us what to eat, drink and smoke. They put twenty dollars in your left pocket and take two hundred out of your back.
So yes Nancy the tea parties where all about the rich complaining about taxes. It had nothing to do with the loss of freedom or the theft of our money, (for our own good) and the liberals/socialist/progressives are looking out for the little guy. And all of the Democrats are really Santa’s elves, or is that Keebler, oh wait you would have to tax that.
I love the way Obama and the rest of the socialist try to claim that Bush caused the financial meltdown. I am no fan of Bush especially when it comes to unAmerican acts such as the patriot act. But Bush is not the one that pushed to give loans to financially unstable people. He actually called for more oversight, Here is the socialists response in their own words.
