Posted on 09/18/2019 5:22:03 PM PDT by bitt
It was actually a deal with Mark Levin’s CRTV that went sour and got really ugly.
People who wonder why we don’t have a “conservative network” can get an education by reading about that shameful episode of one set of “conservatives” trying to ruin others:
https://www.steynonline.com/8597/crtv-vs-steyn-the-verdict
The rise of Celebrity Conservatives and Professional Conservatives has led to this. A lot of them are opportunists and frauds or plain GOPe paid mouthpieces.
In the years leading up to Reagan’s election the vast majority of conservative writers and thinkers had real jobs and weren’t trying to make a living off of fame and their name. That all changed with the advent of cable TV and talk radio in the 1990s. And there’s a load of them on twitter as well which comes as a surprise to most people.
Eric Hoffer, the mysterious longshoreman philosopher of a bygone era, said that great ideas start as movements, become businesses, and then end as rackets.
You’ve summed up what so many of us have been thinking. Plus our boy Sean is proof that mediocrity is no barrier to success.
“I totally lost trust in Levin with that stunt. When he’s right, he’s great - but he cannot be trusted to always be right. He is bull headed and will NEVER admit error.”
I had an exchange here once with Levin when he was babbling on about tariffs in order to criticize Trump, repeating the ‘everybody knows’ canard that the Smoot-Hawley tariff caused the Great Depression.
Well it didn’t, and those who do know tariff history were aware that Smoot-Hawley was nearly identical to the tariffs in force all through the Roaring 20s. Oops. Anyway he was his usual belligerent and graceless self when confronted with his ignorance.
Dittos to your post and ideas!!
THAT would be GLORIOUS!!
Children of people here illegally are not “automatically” made citizens at birth.
The 14th amendment made former slaves US Citizens.
It’s been wrongly and unconstitutionally used to make anyone born in the USA citizens.
Levin is a Constitutionl Scholor who should know that.
Trump has hinted at rescinding citizenship for all “anchor” babies.
Just Do it POTUS!
FWIW, Rogers v. Bellei is about children born out of the US, to a citizen parent or parents. Without a law making then citizens, they would not be citizens - that is what SCOTUS said in that case, and that particular finding (foreign-born not a citizen if there was no “born a citizen” statute) was unanimous across the justices. The dissent said it was unconstitutional to strip naturalized citizenship.
Sounds right.
An example, John McCain.
I have always understood that if born of USA citizens anywhere in the world, you are a citizen as much as if you were born in the USA.
Yes, but by operation of a congressionally-passed statute, not by "nature."
Those whose citizenship depends on a statute are not natural born citizens, even though they are (by way of a US law) citizens at birth, no naturalization ceremony. There is a naturalization process however, which involves presenting birth and parent details to the US State Department - typically a US Consulate in the country of birth.
Citizen just as much as born in the USA with the solitary exception that those born out of the US are not constitutionally qualified for the offices of president or vice-president. Well, that would be so if we followed the constitution. We don't, so there is that.
So in order to be a NBC if born within the borders of another country a person would have to be born within the area of the US Consulate as that is considered to be land of the USA.
Thanks for weighing in.
It’s too bad the Constitution as Written is not the standard that is used.
IE Cruz, Obama and McCain and probably more.
I doubt that is true (by law) either.
Diplomats may get the benefit of being held to "never leave US soil, no matter where in the world they are," but they are the only exception that I can conceive of even possibly being exlcuded.
That's sound based on court cases, but pointless. The NBC clause is another part of the constitution that's been relegated to the status of "political question."
Thanks again for your insight.
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