Posted by
Tzimisce on Friday, June 22, 2007 5:35:06 PM
So Barbara Boxer and Hillary Clinton are rumored to want to "reign in" right wing radio. They're quoted as saying there needs to be a "legislative fix" for the one outlet of the media not solidly in the hands of wacko leftists.
For most of us, this story is completely believable even though both Senators are now denying it. Hillary Clinton back in the 90's blamed a "vast right wing conspiracy" (which included talk radio) for the failures of her husband. (Of course, if talk radio was so powerful we can't help but wonder how President Clinton and her husband got elected twice and how St. Hillary won two terms as a Senator from New York.) Wasn't it just last fall that the "honorable" Senator from New York tried to bully ABC from running a movie about her husband failed to get terrorists when they had the chance? Her and her friends in Congress were rather open about their threats to "investigate" ABC. She also lied to the people of New York when she told them she would serve her terms as Senator without seeking the Presidency, so her retraction now is a joke.
Senator Boxer is a double talker with an almost equally filthy past. Just a few months ago there was a story about how she was using her position in the Senate to get high priced government contracts for her husband's companies. Naturally the unbiased, non partisan press didn't feel that particular story was worth any heavy reporting outside of AM talk - which is one of the reasons they're focused solely on talk radio. Cause the regular press gives them passes.
People from Enron and Haliburton are demonized when it's even sort of hinted that something like what Boxer did happened.
This all comes out at a time when people like Dennis Kucinch, Think Progress and other groups are pushing for "fairness" on the airwaves. Although all these people are completely non partisan and not agenda driven, I still can't help but wonder why the regular media, Hollywood and our college/university systems don't concern them - after all these places are controlled by partisans (notably left wing partisans).
Left wing twits keep telling me that you can't yell fire in a crowded elevator - but you can yell about how America deserved the terrorist attack on 9-11, demand American flags be pulled down, charge the Bush administration with racism in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and many other offensive things with impunity. I guess it only counts if some lefty gets their feelings hurt. The rest of us have to suck it up.
Why are you lefties so pissed off anyway? You control the New York Times, MSNBC, CNN, PBS, The LA Times, The Boston Globe, all of Hollywood, most rock stars, etc and you're still not satisfied. So naturally your reaction is to trample the Constitution and all it's protections against the government regulating speech while all the time calling it free speech. Demonstrating just how truly stupid liberals really are - and just how stupid they think the rest of us are...