Posted on 04/15/2007 5:28:23 AM PDT by Nextrush
Thus the Golden Rule trumps the First Amendment. He who has the gold makes the rules.
Some of the Defeatocrats are openly pushing for “Fairness”; to them that means shutting down conservative speech.
If I were Rush, I’d be very, very, careful. The ONLY way the libs can elect Hillary is if Rush, Hannity, and Savage are off the air.
Social conservatives have been asking the popular liberal culture, in various ways and in various venues for a long, long time, have you no decency. The liberal culture has reacted by castigating conservatives as only wanting to “impose” values on society or wanting to destroy free speech.
Imus has the right to say what he did. In doing so, he must take responsibility for society finally waking up to what a horrible thing he really said. Thankfully this has provoked society into a self-examination of the consistency and values that were being expressed and these values have (finally) been shown to be lacking in the very values that the left thinks are theirs alone to protect and advance.
The Fairness Doctrine is disconnected from the Imus Hoe Flap. The Left counts Iums as one of its own. If he is allowed to come back, or if a replacement for him is found, that person will be allowed to say the same things that Imus has been saying for years, except this one area will now be off limits. The Fairness Doctrine is not aimed at the Left, it is aimed at every other voice on talk radio.
Happily, we now have the internet, and internet radio. We also have internet streaming media being delivered to cell phones, which are like the portable transistor radios of the 60’s generation. Increasingly, with ever expansion of the internet in wireless forms, it will be easier and easier for alternatives to Big Broadcast Networks and the gatekeepers who have stationed themselves on that media, to spring up.
Like Matt Drudge, who started off with a cheap PC and a dialup connection, anyone with very simple equipment and an almost-free connection to the net can produce his own program of commentary or news and make it available to web sites and forums that would be receptive to it. There is nothing that anyone who doesn’t like it will be able to do to stop that person.
Let free speech bloom, and screw the self-appointed gatekeepers.
The corporations (big advertisers, media owners) are buckling to liberalism for whatever reasons (liberal board members, executives) and the conservatives will need to challenge corporate liberalism sooner or later.
if a democrap wins the 2008 election
an attack on the fairness doctrine is a given.
i hear too many women that i know that watch oprah and rosie
saying that “rush limbaugh and ann coulter shouldn’t be saying
those things”.
Imus isn’t being censored any more than are the Dixie Chicks. He’s free to say what he wants, and his audience is free to turn the channel. His employers are free to call him on the carpet, or even make a show of firing him, if they fear enough people are turning the station.
Its business.
I don’t listen to Dixie Chick songs when they come on the radio, and the radio station knows it, so they don’t play them. I stopped lisening to Imus years ago after he went off on Christians one day (if you don’t like what I’m saying, he said, turn the station, and I did, permanently).
What he said in this case was over the line, and I’m not surprised there are consequences, not legal ones, but business ones, you can’t stay in business if your listeners don’t listen and your advertisers don’t want to be associated with you. Thats not censorship, though. Its the reason producers have to think twice before using Sean Penn in one of their movies, since there are any number of people who won’t buy the ticket if he’s in it.
That is nothing to do with Fairness Doctrine, though. You are right, though, in observing that getting rid of Limbaugh is priority one for the Dems, from the moment they retake the White House. Had Clinton had a few more months in office before, they would have taken Limbaugh out, and they will stop at nothing until he is gone, should they win big in 2008. You can count on it. That has nothing to do with Imus, though. If Imus were going down over “Fairness”, I’d defend him. He’s going down because he used racial epithets that would get my kids a bar of soap in the mouth if they used them. I have no patience for anyone who talks like that, period. Its not censorship, though, its called turning the station.
That is what is happening. Everyone was silent when the came for Jimmy the Greek. And it has escalated ever since.
He stepped on someone's toes, alright, but it wasn't a basketball team.
Somewhere in the night, a smile comes across the face of She Who Must Not be Named (aka "Satan", according to Imus).
But not the freedom of speech to say that 9-11 was a judgment of God against America. I wasn’t aware of FR at that time, what was the consensus of the members here when Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell said God had judged America? Is there an archive?
I don’t care for Al Sharpton
You don’t CARE for him ,that’s it ? He’s the biggest con man fraud street punk going . Do you have a clue who him and Jackson really are ?
You are wrong . Imus was a political hit job. Blacks say 100 times worse about whites on the radio all day long and stupid whites laugh it off. Sharpton is a pupper for Klinton , anyone in NY City knows that . She is promising him a BIG position if he slides the black vote over to her . Imus tore her apart on the radio every day ..Don’t be so naive .
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There is actually a Soros funded group, the Media Watchdog (I think it's name is) that has a paid person to monitor each right wing talk show and contact the right rabble rousers when a slip-up is made. This was way more than simple public outcry. It was manufactured.
Media Matters is the group . Don’t doubt Klinton’s part in all this my friend .
The bottom line is that Imus’ ratings were so miniscule that he wasn’t worth saving. Howard Stern can get away with saying outrageous things, because he has the listeners.
In 1954 then Senator Johnson authored it.
This Imus garbage is about dumping Rush and Savage and re-instituting government control of the content of radio and TV broadcasts, sometimes known as the “Fairness Doctrine”
Cogent and to the point. Also, absolutely right. Well written.
Dr. McIntire married his secretary of 40+ years at the age of 92, he died four years later of old age. His first wife,
Fairey, died years before.
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