Posted by
Tzimisce on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 1:23:15 PM
It seems that the left is attempting censorship again. Naturally they're not calling it that, thus they can skirt their own definitions of banning speech. And no one should be surprised either, it was the left that brought us laws against "hate speech".
The particular incident in question deals with AM 610 in Broward County Florida. Presently the station serves as the flagship for weather warnings in the area. Whenever the National Weather Service issues a caution, they call AM 610 (who then calls all the other stations.)
The problem is that AM 610 is a talk station that dares to carry Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Democrat hack Stacy Ritter (who is the Commissioner down there) stated openly that she didn't want to support a station that doesn't reflect the politics of the surrounding area.
"They have every right to speak, but we don't have to do business with them." she said.
I'm sorry but I see this as a step towards censorship. Here we have a member of the government actually coming out and stating that the politics of a local business are wrong and proposing blacklisting them.
It will be interesting to watch this summer as Michael Moore's new movie "Sicko" gets released to watch the Stacy Ritters of the world complain of "censorship" as theater owners don't want to run the movie (despite the fact that theater owners are private citizens as opposed to government representatives.)
Remember the whinning over "Fahrenheit 9-11"? Everything was said to be censorship: from only a few theaters running the movie to no one showing up to watch it. Nevermind the fact that you could go see it if you actually wanted too. Just think what would have happened if a bunch of County officials anywhere got together and stated publically they wouldn't go see the movie because they hate the politics. You'd see lawsuits.
But it just goes to show that the rules never apply to liberals. There's always some reason it doesn't apply to them.