boo hoo
Posted on 01/23/2011 5:00:06 PM PST by Justaham
The far-left bloggers at Daily Kos were distraught at the abrupt departure of Keith Olbermann. Dagnome quickly dragged in the Citizens United case from the Supreme Court to indicate that corporate power had once again crushed freedom of speech:
...[M]y guess is that this development is one of...MANY that will now take place since the merger of NBC and Comcast has bee[n] all but approved.
Forgive my editorializing, but in its own way, this follows on the heels [of] Citizens UNited as one of the worst developments of the last 12 months - NOW we have a truly conservative corporation controlling muzzling the voices on what used to be free speech in the USA...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Keith who?
They still got Wretchel Maddow.... What they griping for?
Hey KOS....
would you like some more “Whine” with your cheese?
Isn’t it odd? Zero talks about civility and Olberman gets fired. Karma I guess.
End of Olbermann Show Is End of Democracy, Free Speech?
No, you mean end of some hate speech, some plain ol’ garbage and mostly worthless jibber.
Oh and democracy will stay around with the end of that clown.
Do they really think this blowhard will never speak again? How naive.
We should spread the rumor that Obama sacrificed him
Olbermann was the one who decided to leave. How is that the end of free speech?
Damn, I feel for these lefties. I guess there’s nothing left for them to do but end it all.
It could not be that Keith can’t get ratings more than 1/300th of the population.
She should demand a raise....She's lying for two now.
(Not originally from me,)
This just shows how liberals don’t get the Constitution. This has nothing to do with free speech, it is not the government that is shutting KO down. KO is free to stand on any street corner and continue his rants. The corporation that gave him a soapbox just decided to take it away. That is their right, as they have no obligation to give anyone a platform to speak.
No doubt Madcow, tingles, and assorted other dingbats on MSNBC are mightily insulted right about now.
And those are the same freedom-of-speech-loving libs who want Palin, Limbaugh and Beck off the air...
Oberman was the poster boy for the sissified, homosexual, atheist left.
He was/is the perfect face of the Democrat Party USA. I sure hope he lands on some other Democrat channel.
Maybe CNN will take him.
boo hoo
Plus they could always get Loughner to host the show from his jail cell.
So calls for the govt to shut down speech is not an end to free speech, but a company firing a talker is?
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