Chuck Schumer Calls for Suppression of Conservative Speech
Posted on November 4, 2008
If you need only one reason to get to the polls and vote straight ticket Republican, let it be the Orwellian “Fairness Doctrine,” which Democrats may soon have the leverage to impose, with the deliberate purpose of silencing talk radio by regulating it to death. Here’s Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) taunting Fox News on the topic:
I think we should all be fair and balanced, don’t you?
Under the Unfairness Doctrine, all political speech will be “fair and balanced,” as determined by left-leaning bureaucrats. Otherwise it will be deemed criminal — in America, the country thousands of heroes have died to keep free.
Chucky Schmucky goes further:
The very same people who don’t want the Fairness Doctrine want the FCC [Federal Communications Commission] to limit pornography on the air. I am for that… But you can’t say government hands off in one area to a commercial enterprise but you are allowed to intervene in another. That’s not consistent.
Apparently the odious PBS propagandist Bill Moyers isn’t the only one who regards conservative radio as “political pornography.”
On tips from The MaryHunter and Bergbikr. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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How can he pass a law that’s unconstitutional? I just don’t see this happening. Unless, of course, he wanted to see some very ugly demonstrations and perhaps a recall vote.
Conservative talk radio = pornography? Since when? Did we suddenly wake up in Cuba or USSR?
This guy is beyond scary. George Orwell’s “Big Brother is watching” theme is no longer science fiction, but potentially here. This liberal micro-manager of America’s people can not get even a teensy toe-hold on destroying one of our most fundamental rights, as provided to us by our founding fathers: free speech. Suppression of talk radio would be just the beginning, too. In China, the government heavily monitors the Internet and blocks anything that is not pro-China by its citizens… are we on that road, too?