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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 07:45 PM
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Well, shut their mouths! Some halfwit claims Democrats are going to try to silence them!
Are you sitting down?
AIM: Congressional Liberals Bare Plan to Muzzle Conservative Speech

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Less than two weeks
after Democrats took control of both houses of Congress, Accuracy in Media
has exposed a plan by congressional liberals to use the federal government
to silence conservative voices in the media.

Reporting from a so-called National Conference on Media Reform,
organized by "progressive" activists, AIM editor Cliff Kincaid has
revealed, in an exclusive report now available on the AIM web site
(http://www.aim.org), that liberals in the House and Senate intend to push
legislation giving the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) the
authority to monitor and restrict what conservatives in the media say and
how they say it. Kincaid quotes Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) as
saying that he wants to put an end to the influence of conservative media
personalities he finds to be "neo-fascist" and "neo-con." Their legislative
vehicle is revival of a "fairness doctrine" giving FCC bureaucrats the
ability to grant liberal activists "equal access" to conservative programs
on radio and television. Senator Bernie Sanders, an avowed socialist, told
the conference he would push such a measure in the Senate.

Kincaid calls the approach "authoritarian" and a threat to freedom of
speech in the U.S.

In his Special Report on the conference, which featured Bill Moyers and
Jesse Jackson and Hollywood celebrities such as Jane Fonda, Kincaid said
that the event "turned out to be an effort to push the Democratic Party
further to the left and get more 'progressive' voices in the media, while
proposing to use the power of the federal government to silence
conservatives."
(snip/...)
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=ind_focus.story&STORY=/www/story/01-15-2007/0004506167&EDATE=MON+Jan+15+2007,+11:32+AM



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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 07:47 PM
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1. Written by Cliff Kincaid.
It would take quite a herd of bovines to match his daily output of organic effluent.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 07:49 PM
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2. WTF?
I still can't turn on the TV without puking!
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frazzledmom Donating Member (244 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 07:50 PM
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3. This is all from the Spocko incident
Edited on Mon Jan-15-07 07:53 PM by frazzledmom
Melanie Morgan is running all over the place screaming that she's a victim because Spocko sent some of her pathetic rantings to her advertisers and when they heard what a psycho she was they pulled their ads. I believe the saying goes "live by the sword, die by the sword". I must admit Melanie has a point.. on her head, I mean really what nerve people have using her own psychotic rantings against her. :eyes:

on edit: After reading the link, this is getting hilarious, now it's a big conspiracy to muzzle all conservatives. I guess thats what Conservatives think the fairness doctrine is. You know what? I hoe they do muzzle these assholes let them see what it's like to sit on our side of the fence for awhile.
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mntleo2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 08:01 PM
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6. Welcome To Our Reality Buttheads!
...all Spocko wanted to do was use Morgan's own hate speech to demonstrate to her advertisers what she was touting. So then her advertisers in embarrassment began to pull their ads off her show. Since conservative idiots such as she have been saying for years that liberal agendas do not work because the 'audience doesn't want it' she is finding that this is not true. As Media Matters pointed out last month when they published a list of corporations who were black balling liberal radio in an attempt top kill liberal talk, it is the ads that pays her salary.

A good American will be willing to die in order for Morgan to spew her garbage, but a real American would never pay her to do it.

So as I said above, "Welcome to our reality, BUTTHEAD!!!!!

My 2 cents

Cat In Seattle

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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 08:12 PM
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8. All he did was use her own, unedited words
She can now shut the @#$% up.

:nopity:
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 07:54 PM
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4. gee someone noticed that there was a big convention?
oh it was in memphis so nobody noticed...http://www.freepress.net/conference/
Free Press NCMR: National Conference for Media Reform
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 07:54 PM
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5. You have to wonder that anyone would see a threat in
"fairness" and "equal access".

I wonder what these people would think of CNN's 'liberal bias' if they ever had a real progressive voice to compare it with.
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 08:08 PM
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7. Why would we want to stop them from talking when every time
they say something they show their ignorance. Speak up pugs. Hang yourselves.
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 08:28 PM
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9. is making them stop lying a violation of Free Speach..?? maybe in Bu$hzarro world
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