Will The Fairness Doctrine Silence The Conservative Voice?
Listen to the Ed Meese Radio SpotFreedom of Speech Our 1st Amendme... I have just taken action to stop the attacks on our Free Speech Rights, and I'm asking that you join with me by clicking here: Will The Fairness Doctrine Silence The Conservative Voice? + + Will The Fairness Doctrine Silence The Conservative Voice? Will 2009 usher in a fanatical push to re-instate the so-called Fairness Doctrine? Such a move would effectively silence the conservative voice and remove the last conservative stronghold against a fast-moving liberal agenda. James & Lydia, One need only read the words of Dianne Feinstein to see the true threat to conservative speech that is brewing on the horizon!" Talk radio tends to be one-sided. It also tends to be dwelling in hyperbole. It's explosive. It pushes people to, I think, extreme views without a lot of information ... I'm looking at the [Fairness Doctrine]... Unfortunately, talk radio is overwhelmingly one way." Recognizing this threat, the Media Research Center has created the Free Speech Alliance which is a coalition of organizations and citizens strongly opposed to any such move to limit or undermine our Free Speech Rights! Please take a moment right now to join the hundreds of thousands of Americans who oppose the Fairness Doctrine and all that it stands for by clicking here: Will The Fairness Doctrine Silence The Conservative Voice? Thanks for joining with me. Mr. & Mrs. James & Lydia Everitt P.S. If the liberal voice in America has their way, the Fairness Doctrine will end conservative talk--including Rush, Sean, Laura, Mark, and a host of others. Take action today by clicking here: Will The Fairness Doctrine Silence The Conservative Voice? Hey, President-Elect Obama is hard at work getting this country back on track, but he’s counting on all of us to get involved.I just signed up to learn more about the presidential transition, and I thought you might want to do the same. Just visit Presidential Transition, and enter your e-mail address in the top right corner. Thanks. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Amendment I, The Bill of Rights Freedom of Speech - Our 1st Amendment - Our Sacred Right! Posted by Better Home Business at 9:04 AM 0 comments Links to this post Labels: biden, blueprint, Bush, commercial, Congress, economy, Election, energy, gotcha, grassroots, independence, kennedy, McCain, News, Obama, outreach, palin, pickensplan, political, senate
SayRah's refusal to answer questions is a bad example for the country in general, the goverment, and young people:
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Palin says McCain "Absolutley Right On"
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/mccain-and-palins-interview-with-couric/?hp
September 29, 2008, 7:48 pm
Senator John McCain tonight said he was proud he had picked Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, even as an increasing number of critics, including an expanding circle of conservative writers, are questioning Ms. Palin’s qualifications to serve as vice president, and possibly president.
Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin spoke tonight to Katie Couric of CBS News. Earlier interviews with Ms. Couric that aired last week seemed to contribute to the concern that critics are expressing over Ms. Palin’s apparent lack of familiarity with major issues confronting the country.
In a fresh interview tonight with Ms. Couric in Ohio, Mr. McCain said that Ms. Palin had generated unusual excitement in the race. He did not discuss her qualifications.
“I’ve seen underestimation before,” Mr. McCain said. “I’m very proud of the excitement that Gov. Palin has ignited with our party and around this country.”
Ms. Couric asked Ms. Palin for her reaction to complaints that she is not ready for prime time.
“Not only am I ready but willing and able to serve as vice president with Senator McCain if Americans so bless us and privilege us with the opportunity of serving them, ready with my executive experience as a city mayor and manager, as a governor, as a commissioner, a regulator of oil and gas,” Ms. Palin said.
The interview began with a question about an incident on Saturday in Philadelphia, in which a voter in a restaurant asked Ms. Palin about cross-border attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan.
She had said she approved of such attacks, to “stop the terrorists from coming any further in,” which is the position of Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee.
Asked if she and Mr. McCain were “on the same page” on this subject, Ms. Palin said:
“We had a great discussion with President Zardari as we talked about what it is that America can and should be doing together to make sure that the terrorists do not cross borders and do not ultimately put themselves in a position of attacking America again or her allies. And we will do what we have to do to secure the United States of America and her allies.”
Ms. Couric noted that Mr. McCain had said earlier that such attacks were not something that should be discussed out loud, and asked him again: “Is that something you shouldn’t say out loud, Senator McCain?”
Mr. McCain said: “Of course not. But, look, I understand this day and age ‘gotcha’ journalism. Is that a pizza place? In a conversation with someone who you didn’t hear — the question very well, you don’t know the context of the conversation. Grab a phrase. Governor Palin and agree that you don’t announce that you’re going to attack another country.”
Ms. Couric asked Ms. Palin if she was sorry she had made the statement, but Mr. McCain jumped in.
“Wait a minute,” he said. “Before you say, ‘is she sorry she said it,’ this was a ‘gotcha’ sound bite that, look …”
Ms. Couric said it was not a “gotcha” moment and that the question was tossed out by a voter, not a journalist.
“No,” Mr. McCain said. “She was in a conversation with a group of people and talking back and forth. And, I’ll let Governor Palin speak for herself.”
Ms. Palin said that Mr. McCain was “absolutely right on.”
She added: “In the context, this was a voter, a constituent, hollering out a question from across an area asking, ‘What are you gonna do about Pakistan? You better have an answer to Pakistan.’ I said we’re gonna do what we have to do to protect the United States of America.”
Ms. Couric said: “But you were pretty specific about what you wanted to do, cross-border … .”
Ms. Palin said: “Well, as Senator McCain is suggesting here, also, never would our administration get out there and show our cards to terrorists, in this case, to enemies and let them know what the game plan was, not when that could ultimately adversely affect a plan to keep America secure.”
Ms. Couric asked her what she had learned from the experience.
“That this is all about ‘gotcha’ journalism,” she said, smiling. “A lot of it is,” she said, quickly adding, “But that’s O.K., too.”
After Ms. Couric had asked Ms. Palin about her negative reviews and Ms. Palin had said that she was ready, willing and able to serve, Mr. McCain put in:
“This is not the first time that I’ve seen a governor being questioned by some quote, ‘expert.’ I remember that Ronald Reagan was a cowboy. President Clinton was a governor of a very small state that had ‘no experience’ either. I remember how easy it was gonna be for Bush One to defeat him. I still recall — whoops, that one. But the point is I’ve seen underestimation before.
I’m very proud of the excitement that Governor Palin has ignited with our party and around this country. It is a level of excitement and enthusiasm, frankly, that I haven’t seen before. And I’d like to attribute it to me. But the fact is that she has done incredible job. And I’m so proud of the work that she’s doing.”
I woke up this morning still angry about last night’s ABC presidential debate, which featured almost 50 minutes of stupid, inane, misleading and sensationalistic questions that had little or nothing substantive to offer voters in their voting decisions. I was so angry last night that I tried to post feedback on the ABC news web site, which crashed repeatedly and was unable to accept further comments once I did get on. After giving up on the public board, I was finally able to leave a complaint with a private official ABC complaint form. Then I left the ABC web site and took a look at barackobama.com. There was an open thread last night, and the posts were full of anger and talks of boycotts, as well as email addresses and telephone numbers for ABC and Disney, its parent company. And I had started writing a blog post with a summary of all the ways in which we Obama supporters could express our disappointment in the substance and format of last night’s debate, including references and links to all the people responsible for last night’s fiasco. But many things which happened today made me think better of it.
First, there was a blog entry on the AOL political page (please don’t laugh at me - Tommy Christopher and David Knowles are very good and Denise Williams is growing on me), from blogger Knowles that predicts that Obama will benefit from taking such a beating without loosing his composure, entitled “Obama may win by loosing.” (For the record, I don’t think he lost and I don’t think Knowles does either.) I felt a little better and better still after I read Josh Marshall on Talking Points Memo and various posts on Huffingtonpost.com. Then, on Time.com, Joe Klein, who is a conservative, reiterated that the debate was tabloid and offensive. It dawned on me that endless complaining about the debate by Obama supporters might harm this wave of support and outrage in the blogosphere.
But the moment I decided that the debate was more advantage than liability occurred today in, of all things, traffic. I noticed this afternoon while driving that people were honking at me, so much that I pulled over, thinking that I had left something on the roof of the car or that I had a flat tire. But there was nothing - my car was fine. In the parking lot at Linens and Things, a woman walked past me and yelled “Obama..all right.” At Costco, another woman gave me the “thumbs up” while pulling out. It dawned on me that the honks in traffic were directed at my “Obama” bumper sticker, which has been on my car for a year and has never produced this type of thing before (the occasional honk, yeah, but not several in one afternoon). Now, I know this is not scientific, but is it possible that that the “gotcha” debate got these folks fired up to support Obama and maybe even got a few off the fence and into the Obama camp? Its one thing to talk about how broken DC is….its another to see it close up through the eyes of two previously refutable journalists who can’t tell the difference between nonsense and policy. So let’s get those bumper stickers on our cars, and the next time your co-worker or relative says “how about that stupid debate,” you can respond that a vote for Obama can end this inane stupidity in Washington.
