Posted on 10/29/2010 9:20:04 PM PDT by kristinn
Yesterday, Lisa Murkowski’s hired guns threatened radio host Dan Fagan, and more importantly, the station that airs Fagan’s show, with legal action for allegedly illegal “electioneering.” The station, unlike Murkowski, who is flush with millions of dollars from vested corporate interests, does not have a budget for a legal defense. So it did what any small market station would do when threatened by Beltway lawyers charging $500 to $1000 an hour – they pulled Dan Fagan off the air.
Does all this sound heavy handed? It is. It is an interference with Dan Fagan’s constitutional right to free speech. It is also a shocking indictment against Lisa Murkowski. How low will she go to hold onto power? First, she gets the Division of Elections to change its write-in process – a process that Judge Pfiffner correctly determined had been in place without change for 50 years. She is accepting financial support from federal contractors, an act that is highly questionable and now pending before the FEC. And today, she played her last card. She made it clear that if you disagree with her and encourage others to exercise their civic rights, she’ll take you off the air.
The concept of “electioneering” involves several issues, but typically refers to campaigning at the polls, which is appropriately banned. Under federal law, it can also mean paying for advertising on broadcast media during a federal election cycle, and it requires disclosures if done by groups and corporations. Fagan used satire to mock Murkowski’s write-in efforts and encouraged Alaskan’s to run as write-in candidates. That is not illegal. That is free speech.
Individuals like Dan Fagan have a fundamental right to speak their minds without threats from the incumbent Senator from Alaska. It is hard to find a constitutional right Americans cherish more than the right to free speech. This was a right Joe Miller, as a decorated combat veteran – a tank commander tested in battle, was willing to die to defend. Dan Fagan has not always agreed with me, but I will gladly defend his right to speak freely on his radio show, which he has often used to criticize me. In fact, Fagan has actually used his radio show to attack and insult me, my husband, my children, and my family in just about every way possible. He was especially insulting to my son, who left for a war zone to defend Fagan’s right to attack our family. But when I was his governor, I never would have dreamed of threatening his right to free speech. I support him in this fight because this D.C. Beltway thuggery, as exemplified by Lisa Murkowski’s latest threat, is ruining our country. The powers that be want ordinary Americans to sit down and shut up and let the ruling class ride us right off the debt cliff we’re heading towards with Obama, Pelosi, and Reid steering the nation’s car. We can’t let them. Now is the time to put aside our past differences and stand up to the establishment powers.
This whole episode confirms again why we need to elect Joe Miller. Lisa, you can sue me if you want (you won’t be the first). But I will not be intimidated from speaking my mind. Your intimidation just empowered us liberty-loving Alaskans. Are you really that out of touch?
- Sarah Palin
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Sarah just keeps getting better and better.
Thanks for the link.
The aspect missing from all of the analyses I’ve read thus far is the “living with it”. Even if murkowski were to win, she has so poisoned her environment that she could never be a player. I’m not saying that she was effective before but who would want to go anywhere near her now?
She is figuratively “dead man walking”.
Yep, which is exactly why I say that she is Harry Reid in a dress..she is a disgusting hag who got handed to her on a silver platter the Senate Seat from Daddy Warbucks..I can’t call Lisa a B*tch since according to Joyless Behar calling someone a b*tch is a term of endearment so I will just call Lisa a giant prick
believe me Cowski....its a term of "endearment"...
Well, in the last days before the primary Joe Miller WON, Fagan endorsed Joe Miller, so sore loser Murky was already mad at him.
She is a thug and must be removed from power by the good, common sense conservative voters in Alaska.
Murkowski is seriously deranged. This US Senate seat is not hers.
Spot on. Lisa must be taken down. Our rights and liberties are at stake.
WOW! Sarah is amazing. Instead of rejoicing that he is off the air, she sticks up for his rights. She sees the big picture.
I actually can’t believe I’m defending Dan Fagan, who is a slimeball..damn, I feel dirty..Bob and Mark are rooting for Murkowski, Fagan is rooting for Miller, its a world gone mad
oi, why she defending an anti-palin radio host right to free speech. Didn’t she know, only approved speech is allowed
*TAWACK* I heard that all the way over here.Mark heck that ‘s gonna leave a welt.
ROFL.
I just remembered!
SARAH PALIN will be on FOX NEWS SUNDAY!
She will tell the entire nation about this!
Game, set, match...
if lisa was still a republican, i bet the radio host would’ve ignored the lawsuit, but since the media and dem/gop establishment is now backing lisa the radio host really have noone else to defend them
This months long tantrum Murcowski is throwing has GOT to be pissing off a few Alaskan voters. I can’t imagine this wench beating Joe Miller after all this.
God I love that woman. That was a twofer: Lisa and the elitists - SMACK!
I don’t get it...LOL.
Fagan has really come through with operation chaos!
*That* made Lisa furious.
Greta van Susteren
Is scareface still on the air?
Yep, its just weird, sitting here, defending Fagan..Ok if you ever see me defend Bob Beckel that’s when you know I’ve gone off the deep end, get the straight jacket and crazy pills ready LOL
Doesn’t take much to get looney Lisa pissed..watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and check out Veruca Salt’s reaction to her father saying NO golden egg, that is basically Lisa Murkowski
Sarah is magnificent!
Only someone who had made a huge name for themselves could use Facebook to this effect. I could post this sort of thing all day long and who would care?
But Sarah, who the media likes to call dumb, has managed to control the dialogue from a free site.
I am in awe of her.
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