NewsBusters.org – Exposing Liberal Media Bias

With all the carping and whining about conservative talk radio these days, I’m beginning to wonder if this is indeed a larger cause of all the planet’s woes than global warming.In fact, if you hadn’t…

Howzabout generators of information???

crazy_legs on June 28, 2007 at 1:31 PM

I can fully appreciate your story. There is a family in our church with a worse problem. The husband is a naturalized American (Canada) who has been in the U.S. Navy for a full career. He brought home and married a Filipina, a wonderful woman who is a terrific mother, Sunday School teacher, choir member, etc.

Late last year she was deported to the Philippines. It seems that the federal government discovered some inconsistencies in the paperwork, and even though they freedly admit that the mistakes are ALL THEIRS, they refused to suspend her deportation while they tried to work it out. Worse, she was held in a detention facility in California for many weeks before actually being sent back to the PI.

Part of the problem stems from the fact that they were married in Canada. With him not being a natural born citizen, and their wedding certified in another country, it caused her citizenship to fall through some cracks. They thought everything was fine, and all of a sudden they are told she is here illegally, without citizenship or visa. It has been nearly a year, and a woman who married an American serviceman is kept separated from her family because of beauracratic nonsense. This is the sort of person who gets deported while MS-13 rules parts of LA.

Neither Boxer nor Feinstein has done more than express sorrow for the inconvenience.

Fear us Mr. Soon TO BE Ex-Senator.

Another day, another breathtakingly ironic whinge about “hate” from one of Kos’s bootlickers. Just so we’re all on the same page, everyone understands that the recent resurgence in calls for the Fairness Doctrine is intimately connected to this immigration debacle, yes? The left, quite smartly and understandably, wants to take advantage of the wedge between the Republican base and its “representatives” to sell those representatives on the virtues of Fairness. The goal isn’t to get equal airtime for liberals, it’s to make the balance requirement onerous enough for station managers that they’ll simply cancel conservative programming to meet it.

This touches on freedoms of association, speech, and press. It’s not even merely a Constitutional matter. It’s “trans-Constitutional,’ so to speak, because it concerns goods that are more important than the Constitution, which derives its goodness from its support of such freedoms as those of association, speech, and press. It’s dangerous to let men who want to take away those freedoms remain in office without discipline. However, if a spectacular example is made of just one tyrannical official per decade, it seems the rest will remember they’re merely men like the rest of us.

You know, whenever Reid tries to come across as “tough-talking”, I don’t know if I should laugh at him, or just pity the fool.

With that as background, here’s Reid issuing the second warning today about the great moral hazard that is talk radio. He’s careful not to accuse any broadcasters of hate themselves, lest he bring down even more of their wrath than he has, but the intent is clear — especially per the tacit comparison he draws between the motives animating congressional opponents of the bill and their constituents.

When officials attack freedom of speech itself, it seems best to make them special targets for removal from office.

JannyMae on June 28, 2007 at 4:52 PM

Kyl is my Senator and I am very disappointed. He will not get my vote again.

A problem if they (Congress) scrush talk radio (and presumably satellite radio) — is that all those DRIVERS are not going to be able to listen to streaming web audio. Because they listen when they drive. Not otherwise.

**insert rolling eyes icon here**

I make you Nevadans a deal. You vote out Dirty Harry next election, and we in Arizona will show McAmnesty the door. How’s that for a Grand Bargain?

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As a fellow AZCON, there’s a thought I can agree with. Hopefully we will have a REAL conservative to challenge McVain by 2010.

Kyl is the one who really concerns me though. After all, we expected McAmnesty to do what he did. I’m hoping Kyl will come around to reality. He’s been such a good Senator until this…

3 hours a day, every day.

Like a wild Brahma bull with a painful elastic band around its testicles*, talk radio, cable TV and rightwing blogs have come snorting out of the chute, bucking and blowing snot, ultimately unseating the presumptuous Brahmins who thought they could……