Newt's Grasp Of The First Amendment

jenkuznicki.com ^ | 11/12/11 | Jen Kuznicki

[jenk]

Newt Gingrich is a former history professor. After finding out that he co-sponsored the reintroduction of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, I think someone needs to make the point that you have to listen very closely to Newt Gingrich when he speaks.

This video, in my view, offers a liberal view of the aftermath of abolishing the Fairness Doctrine. The monotonous narrator doesn't point out that if not for the nixing of the Fairness Doctrine, freedom in broadcasting could not be achieved. The major media, during the reign of the Fairness Doctrine, could and did spin the news toward liberalism. Now, conservative alternatives can be found, and in fact, through consumer reaction, can be shown to be the prelevant view. You can think anything you want, and pick your favorites. Isn't America grand?

But Newt tells Sean Hannity in this interview, that he is for certain forms of censorship.

NEWT GINGRICH (R), FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: I think a conservative ought to introduce a bill that calls for equal time in Hollywood, equal time on college campuses, equal time in the "New York Times" editorial page, equal time at CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and "Time" and "Newsweek," and then we could have a conversation. But, as you point out, this is an absurdity. You've got -- Congressman Mike Pence has the right bill. He's introduced a bill to block any effort to impose government censorship on talk radio.

When you start paying attention to what Newt says, his "smartest guy in the room" veneer begins to fade.

This goes to his penchant for wanting a conservative face on things that are not conservative. He did it with healthcare, environmentalism, and here in this interview.

He is talking to a major talk radio figure, and says, basically, that conservatives should gather to force so-called "fairness" on all entities of the national press, except of course talk radio.

No Newt, "fairness" or "equality" cannot be legislated.

GINGRICH: No, look, Sean, this is affirmative action for liberalism. They tried talk radio; they couldn't succeed. Nobody wanted to listen to them. They were boring. They were dumb. When they were in a competitive environment, they got crushed.

And so what they want us to do now is give liberals, whether they earn it or not, access to the airwaves, even if nobody wants to listen to them. And their goal, frankly, is to kill your radio show, Bill Bennett's, Rush Limbaugh's, Michael Reagan, all the various hundreds of local shows around the country, our good friend Neal Boortz.

We conservatives agree that liberals are, "dumb...boring...nobody wants to listen to them." But I'll be damned if I'm going to rally around the idea that suppressing political speech is a conservative idea. Hannity articulated that during the interview, but went right past Gingrich.

I'm starting to believe Gingrich is the one who says nutty stuff, not Bachmann.

[Fred]

First Amend, NOT!!!
Newt Gingrich Co-Sponsored the 1987 Pro-Fairness Doctrine Bill
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/04/29/newt-gingrich-co-sponsored-the-1987-pro-fairness-doctrine-bill/

Howard Dean Endorses Newt
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-07-25/politics/gingrich.dean_1_newt-gingrich-gingrich-candidacy-howard-dean?_s=PM:POLITICS

Stop the Insanity say no to Newt
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-10/politics/30381368_1_newt-gingrich-conservatives-herman-cain

Newt with his BFFS Princess Pelosi, Kerry and Al Sharpton
http://www.mofopolitics.com/2011/11/09/friendly-reminder-newt-gingrich-is-a-rino-wimp-and-a-scumbag/

Newt loves HC mandates always has
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2011/05/13/newt-gingrich-long-time-supporter-of-health-insurance-mandates/3/

[jenk]

thanks for the info, Fred

[Texas Fossil]

Thank you sir.

We do not need an academic we need a proven leader.

Newt is a committed Globalist. He is very well educated, very bright, very articulate but he is simply on the wrong team.

It is TIME to DownSize DC!

He will certainly not do that.

[Reagan69]

He did once. He balanced the budget and reformed welfare, with a dem in the white house.

The fairness act he proposed was back when there was no talk radio, no internet, no cable all there was was the liberal aphabet stations.

[pallis]

Yeap! Newt is nothing if not a Washington insider who enjoys playing the establishment game. He talks conservative, but when it comes to global warming, socialized medicine, and big brother, Newt can’t wait to be a policy wonk again. We need to move on.

[NJBushcountry]

will cut my arm off before I vote for Gingrich!