I thought Conservatives just LOVED the Constitution?

zappasguitar

zappasguitar

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So much for Freedom of the Press...

From CPAC Saturday:

Ann Coulter said she thinks there should be more journalists put in jail during her appearance at the annual CPAC conference on Saturday.

Coulter's comments came during a response to a question from a woman in the audience. The woman initially asked Coulter why she and other Republicans had championed free elections in Iraq but were warning about them in Egypt.

"You don't go around disturbing countries where you have a loyal ally," Coulter responded.

"What is more important though to American values--being friends with israel still or knowing there are jailed dissidents and journalists [in Egypt]?" the woman asked.

"What do you mean knowing that there are jailed journalists?" Coulter said. "I think there should be more jailed journalists." This prompted a huge round of applause from the crowd.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
So much for Freedom of the Press...

From CPAC Saturday:

Ann Coulter said she thinks there should be more journalists put in jail during her appearance at the annual CPAC conference on Saturday.

Coulter's comments came during a response to a question from a woman in the audience. The woman initially asked Coulter why she and other Republicans had championed free elections in Iraq but were warning about them in Egypt.

"You don't go around disturbing countries where you have a loyal ally," Coulter responded.

"What is more important though to American values--being friends with israel still or knowing there are jailed dissidents and journalists [in Egypt]?" the woman asked.

"What do you mean knowing that there are jailed journalists?" Coulter said. "I think there should be more jailed journalists." This prompted a huge round of applause from the crowd.
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I just read that on a website and was thinking of posting it. It is unbelievable that the right can't see how authoritarian they are and how undemocratic their beliefs are.


"Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed--and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment-- the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution- -not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants"--but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.

It was early in the Seventeenth Century that Francis Bacon remarked on three recent inventions already transforming the world: the compass, gunpowder and the printing press. Now the links between the nations first forged by the compass have made us all citizens of the world, the hopes and threats of one becoming the hopes and threats of us all. In that one world's efforts to live together, the evolution of gunpowder to its ultimate limit has warned mankind of the terrible consequences of failure.

And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news--that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent."

President John F. Kennedy
Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association - April 27, 1961
 
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ZappasGuitar said:
So much for Freedom of the Press...

From CPAC Saturday:

Ann Coulter said she thinks there should be more journalists put in jail during her appearance at the annual CPAC conference on Saturday.

Coulter's comments came during a response to a question from a woman in the audience. The woman initially asked Coulter why she and other Republicans had championed free elections in Iraq but were warning about them in Egypt.

"You don't go around disturbing countries where you have a loyal ally," Coulter responded.

"What is more important though to American values--being friends with israel still or knowing there are jailed dissidents and journalists [in Egypt]?" the woman asked.

"What do you mean knowing that there are jailed journalists?" Coulter said. "I think there should be more jailed journalists." This prompted a huge round of applause from the crowd.
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Whats this have to do with the Constitution ?
 
No said:
I'm glad to see that one person is entirely representative of about 150,000,000 people.
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Actually, the right represents their authoritarianism and anti-democratic beliefs every day, on forums like this, in the House of Representative, the Senate and squawk radio.


"Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing. They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights. They favor minimum wage--the smaller the minimum wage the better. They endorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools. They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people. They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them. They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement. They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.They consider electrical power a great blessing--but only when the private power companies get their rake-off. They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again. They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down. They think American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people. And they admire of Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it."
President Harry S. Truman
 
Bfgrn said:
Actually, the right represents their authoritarianism and anti-democratic beliefs every day, on forums like this, in the House of Representative, the Senate and squawk radio.


"Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing. They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights. They favor minimum wage--the smaller the minimum wage the better. They endorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools. They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people. They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them. They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement. They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.They consider electrical power a great blessing--but only when the private power companies get their rake-off. They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again. They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down. They think American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people. And they admire of Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it."
President Harry S. Truman
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Ergo Hugo Chavez represents all of liberalism.
 
what does her comment have to do with the first amendment? its a stupid hyperbolic comment, but what if she is talking about journalist who break the law.

if you want to talk about an attack on the first amendment, start with your own lefties who used the AZ tragedy as an excuse to bring back the outdated fairness doctrine. now that is a true attack on the constitution.
 
No said:
Ergo Hugo Chavez represents all of liberalism.
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was thinking the same...the left (right does it as well) loves to call out one or a few people and proclaim they represent an entire constituency, but when someone on the left does something wrong, its just that person, not all liberals.
 
Yurt said:
was thinking the same...the left (right does it as well) loves to call out one or a few people and proclaim they represent an entire constituency, but when someone on the left does something wrong, its just that person, not all liberals.
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Yeah, both sides do it a lot.

One of the great benefits of being a Libertarian.
 
Yurt said:
what does her comment have to do with the first amendment? its a stupid hyperbolic comment, but what if she is talking about journalist who break the law.

if you want to talk about an attack on the first amendment, start with your own lefties who used the AZ tragedy as an excuse to bring back the outdated fairness doctrine. now that is a true attack on the constitution.
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Where do you come up with journalists that break the law? A journalist that robs a corner store?...J walks? What Yurt?

How is the Fairness Doctrine an attack on the Constitution?

You really are an idiot Yurt.
 
No said:
Yeah, both sides do it a lot.

One of the great benefits of being a Libertarian.
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Hey Einstein...watch the video...when Coulter says "What do you mean knowing that there are jailed journalists? I think there should be more jailed journalists." It prompted a HUGE round of applause from the crowd... the CPAC crowd at the annual political conference attended by conservative activists and elected officials from across the United States.


And we must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent or omniscient - that we are only six percent of the world's population - that we cannot impose our will upon the other ninety-four percent of mankind - that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity - and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.”
President John F. Kennedy
 
No said:
Yeah, both sides do it a lot.

One of the great benefits of being a Libertarian.
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A libertarian huh? Then you should support the Fairness Doctrine, and concur with the views expressed in this video...

Ron Paul News.net


Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater
 
everybody's first mistake is thinking that coulter is a conservative. she's not. she's nothing more than a totalitarian nazi disguised as a conservative.
 
SmarterThanYou said:
everybody's first mistake is thinking that coulter is a conservative. she's not. she's nothing more than a totalitarian nazi disguised as a conservative.
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That pretty much describes most people who call themselves conservatives today...the Rush Limbaugh clones.

And today's GOP has exorcised 'conserve' from conservatism and replaced it with 'authoritarian'...

"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the Republican party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."
Barry Goldwater
 
The rabid conservatives are all about the constitution, until it gets in their way. Then they want the power of the gov't to back them in their agenda.
 
Bfgrn said:
Where do you come up with journalists that break the law? A journalist that robs a corner store?...J walks? What Yurt?

How is the Fairness Doctrine an attack on the Constitution?

You really are an idiot Yurt.
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The so-called 'Fairness' doctrine FORCES businesses to have certain type of speech on the radio/tv. That in and of itself is un-Constitutional.

It should be up to the private businesses, who in turn decide based on what the public wants (via ratings, revenue etc...)

That said... it is high time we ended public funding of NPR and PBS.
 
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