Posted on 05/07/2014 9:11:32 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Government officials, reacting to the growing voice of conservative news outlets, especially on the internet, are angling to curtail the media's exemption from federal election laws governing political organizations, a potentially chilling intervention that the chairman of the Federal Election Commission is vowing to fight.
“I think that there are impulses in the government every day to second guess and look into the editorial decisions of conservative publishers,” warned Federal Election Commission Chairman Lee E. Goodman in an interview.
“The right has begun to break the left’s media monopoly, particularly through new media outlets like the internet, and I sense that some on the left are starting to rethink the breadth of the media exemption and internet communications,” he added.
Noting the success of sites like the Drudge Report, Goodman said that protecting conservative media, especially those on the internet, “matters to me because I see the future going to the democratization of media largely through the internet. They can compete with the big boys now, and I have seen storm clouds that the second you start to regulate them. There is at least the possibility or indeed proclivity for selective enforcement, so we need to keep the media free and the internet free.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Can we assume like recent IRS thuggery that no liberal groups will be effected?
The little liberal sh*ts hate Drudge because he sometimes links to conservative news stories...
And when he links to msn his headline tells it like it is.
Yes. And he's warning us about it.
The FEC Chairman is on our side.
It would be a grave miscalculation on the part of the FEC and the Executive Branch.
Oops, I forgot, Dem's believe that anything that helps them is morally correct and anything that hurts them is a sign of racism or imporality.
TOTALLY AWESOME...SAVED AND EMAILED THIS PIC!
“Um, the Chairman is putting out a warning saying this is the mentality he’s fighting against from other members of the commission. Sounds to me like he’s the good guy here.”
Um, am talking about Obama....
Of possible interest PINGS..!
“Congress shall make no law...”
Thats congress. The founding fathers said nothing about unelected bureaucrats from a government agency.
you can have freedom of speech ...
as long as we allow it
[Correct thread this time! Sorry.]
” - - - “The picking and choosing has started to occur,” said Goodman. “There are some in this building that think we can actually regulate” media, added Goodman, a Republican whose chairmanship lasts through December. And if that occurs, he said, “then I am concerned about disparate treatment of conservative media.”
He added, “Truth be told, I want conservative media to have the same exemption as all other media.” - - “
This heroic Bureaucrat needs some ‘at-a-boy attention on May 16!
It appears that we have a whole whack of “knee-jerkism” happening here. From what *I* read, the FEC chair is actually AGAINST this threat of regulation..
Nothing like a circular firing squad, is there?
Libs see them as all right-leaning too, but they aren't as bad as "faux" news and are ok for the time being.
My sentiments exactly.
Hannity thinks Rove and Toe Sucker Morris are Conservatives.
The FEC is a JOKE.
Barack Obama ran two campaigns with illegal sweepstakes tickets to win a date with Barry (plane and meal included). In the first election, numerous Attorney Generals challenged it. They said they’d correct it but they never did and they did it again in 2012.
Barack Obama solicited illegal foreign contributions through his website (buy a digital download, etc.).
Bill Clinton and Al Gore solicited illegal foreign contributions from the ChiComs. When they got caught, all they had to do was refund the “loan”. No criminal penalty in jail.
Vote fraud. Absentee ballots routinely delayed.
FUFEC
F U B O !
Who didn’t see this coming?
Thought crime / stazi bump for later.....
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