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Democrats seek to ban FoxNews Channel from taxpayer funded cable for the poor. (satire)
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| 05 Novermber 2007
| Trueblackman
Posted on 11/05/2007 8:30:49 AM PST by Trueblackman
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To: Trueblackman
The bill is to educate voters about the 2008 elections, but then they try to exclude the #1 rated cable news network? Don’t Dems see how stupid this makes them look?
To: Nervous Tick
Since when do these individuals not have to pay for cable? Put up an antenna like everyone else did for decades. Taxpayers should revolt over free cable. Food, shelter and medical help is what I thought we were providing. Cable? No way.
To: Trueblackman
In other words Billingsley thinks everyone should have information as long as that information is approved by him. Billingsley reveals himself to be a communist propagandist and an enemy of free speech and the US constitution. He should be tried for treason and deported.
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:36:58 AM PST
by
monday
To: Trueblackman
"FOX News isn't a source of proper information."Sieg Heil!
('cause we all know what "proper" means!)
To: Trueblackman
The affected bill, a 3.5 billion dollar spending measure that proponents say is necessary to educate potential voters before the 2008 elections, has met with great resistance from conservative legislators on both sides of the aisle who portray it as just one more unnecessary entitlement tacked onto an already over-burdoned welfare system. So the Dem's don't think a channel that has sponsored presidential candidate debates is part of the education of voters. Outrageous!
More to the point, I have always thought allowing folks to vote in any language but English allows those with limit information to vote. If I only speak Spanish doesn't matter how many cable channels you make available to me, I still can't be as educated as the English speaker.
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:37:24 AM PST
by
w1andsodidwe
(Jimmy Carter allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
To: Trueblackman
“”FOX News isn’t a source of proper information.”
Massive Democratic Party sponsored censorship. I’d capitalize on it this election season and compare the Democrats to the Communist Party of the old Soviet Union.
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:37:48 AM PST
by
CodeToad
To: Trueblackman
How about NO taxpayer funded cable for the poor? The last thing they need is another reason to sit on their ass all day.
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:37:50 AM PST
by
lesser_satan
(READ MY LIPS: NO NEW RINOS | FRED THOMPSON '08)
To: Trueblackman
Congressional Democrats can count among their ranks a great number of vindictive, petty little tyrants.
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:38:04 AM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(Kill the terrorists, secure the borders, and give me back my freedom.)
To: Trueblackman
Wait. There’s taxpayer funded CABLE? So you can be poor, but afford a home and a TV, but the government (i.e., you and me) provide cable?
My daughter and her husband (both grad students) can’t afford cable so, get this, THEY DON’T HAVE IT! Not that complicated.
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:38:56 AM PST
by
trimom
To: Trueblackman
The Fairness Doctrine- Censor the right.
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:39:23 AM PST
by
tennteacher
(Duncan Hunter '08)
To: rocksblues
There is nothing the left will not attempt in order to win. Perhaps, we do need a Voter Education Act since few people have recognized that this article is satire.
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:39:37 AM PST
by
trumandogz
(Hunter Thompson 2008)
To: Nervous Tick
Yes, and if they have to identify themselves at the polls. It’s tantamount to a literacy test.
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:39:55 AM PST
by
ichabod1
("Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." President Ronald Reagan)
To: 2banana
“Why are we paying for any cable TV for the poor in the first place?”
Bread and circuses. Make sure they have cable, so they don’t spend time trying to figure out why they are poor, or what’s going on around them.
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:40:14 AM PST
by
brownsfan
(America has "jumped the shark")
To: Trueblackman
If your sucking the taxpayer tit on welfare, you have no damn business with cable TV subscription. A TV is a LUXURY item, not a necessity. The stinking Democrats are out there buying votes with taxpayer money.
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:40:20 AM PST
by
Myrddin
To: andy58-in-nh
I suspect FNC is going to have a lot of fun with this and make asses of the democrats who sponsored the amendment.
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:40:40 AM PST
by
NEPA
To: goldstategop
"All we have to do is keep our constituents stupid -- until it is too late for them."
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:40:40 AM PST
by
Diogenesis
(Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: absolootezer0
If Hillary! gets in, you betcha. Remember what she said after Drudge broke the Lewinsky scandal after the mainstream press had spiked it? Something about how the Internet needs an "editing" function (presumably by the government).
Mark my words, two things for sure will happen in the first 100 days of the Hillary Administration, either by legislation or executive fiat. The first will be a reinstatement of the "Fairness Doctrine". That will end talk radio as we know it today. The other will be regulation of the Internet. Sites like FR will be history, while others like KOS and DU will flourish, probably at taxpayer expense. Controlling speech and communications (and thereby the organizing power it allows) is the first order of business for any tyranny.
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:41:27 AM PST
by
chimera
To: Myrddin
your -> you are
Engage brain before clicking post.
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:42:34 AM PST
by
Myrddin
To: Trueblackman
The Rats' inspiration:
"All Of Germany Hears The Fuhrer On the People's Radio."
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:42:38 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(War Damn Eagle!)
To: Trueblackman
WHY IN THE H*LL IS MY TAX MONEY BEING USED TO PAY FOR CABLE TV FOR WELFARE RECIPEINTS? (yes I know, “caps” means you’re yelling-I’m yelling)
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