I thought Conservatives just LOVED the Constitution?

[Cancel 2016.2]

You'll have to ax her, but probably because many in the press have used their privileged status to defile the very document that gives them their privilege.

That was the point. If she believes they have violated the law, she can easily provide the evidence of such actions. If not, then her comments are in opposition to the Constitution and everything we believe in.

I would like to know more about what they have done to 'defile' the Constitution.

To be clear, I think the MSM is biased towards the left/elitist/liberal positions and I don't like many of them, but I am not seeing anything that resembles them defiling the Constitution.

 

[DamnYankee]

That was the point. If she believes they have violated the law, she can easily provide the evidence of such actions. If not, then her comments are in opposition to the Constitution and everything we believe in.

I would like to know more about what they have done to 'defile' the Constitution.

To be clear, I think the MSM is biased towards the left/elitist/liberal positions and I don't like many of them, but I am not seeing anything that resembles them defiling the Constitution.

I think that Coulter believes, as I do, that many of the laws passed by our representatives are unconstitutional. Since the liberal media doesn't point the unconstitutionality of these laws, in fact bend over backwards to claim that they are constitutional, they have violated the privilege that they have been given.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

I think that Coulter believes, as I do, that many of the laws passed by our representatives are unconstitutional. Since the liberal media doesn't point the unconstitutionality of these laws, in fact bend over backwards to claim that they are constitutional, they have violated the privilege that they have been given.

That may make them crappy journalists, but it is not illegal nor unconstitutional. Thus the comment that they should be in jail is absurd.

 

[Bfgrn]

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.

Are the airwaves part of the commons, or are they private?

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

Are the airwaves part of the commons, or are they private?

Any air wave licensed out to a private business is PRIVATE. The government cannot then say 'thanks for paying, now here is what you have to put on the air'.

If the government wants to continue funding NPR and PBS and then wanted to dictate to them what programs to air, that would be the extent of their influence on programing.

 

[Damocles]

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

LOL.

You don't understand libertarianism at all if you think that government force applied in such a way would be something they should "support"...

That's utter garbage.

 

[Bfgrn]

LOL.

You don't understand libertarianism at all if you think that government force applied in such a way would be something they should "support"...

That's utter garbage.

Then the Nazis were libertarians. The fairness doctrine was instituted in 1949 as a response to the excesses and success of Nazi propaganda in manipulating the German population during the '30's and '40's

You right wingers are totally blind to the dangers to a free and open society...you focus solely on government as the source. If government were to evaporate, WHAT do you believe would replace it...freedom???

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

Then the Nazis were libertarians. The fairness doctrine was instituted in 1949 as a response to the excesses and success of Nazi propaganda in manipulating the German population during the '30's and '40's

You right wingers are totally blind to the dangers to a free and open society...you focus solely on government as the source. If government were to evaporate, WHAT do you believe would replace it...freedom???

ROFLMAO.... "the Nazis were libertarians"

Look out Dixie... you have a contender for most moronic post.

 

[Damocles]

Then the Nazis were libertarians. The fairness doctrine was instituted in 1949 as a response to the excesses and success of Nazi propaganda in manipulating the German population during the '30's and '40's

You right wingers are totally blind to the dangers to a free and open society...you focus solely on government as the source. If government were to evaporate, WHAT do you believe would replace it...freedom???

This is still nonsense. One doesn't follow from the other. Wrong action from the government shouldn't be supported because it was used against a political philosophy with which you disagree. It's just silliness to say, "Then you must be a <fill in whatever you disagree with here>!"

This is a false dilemma proposition, much like the "call everything you disagree with racism" position of the race baiters.

 

[cawacko]

ROFLMAO.... "the Nazis were libertarians"

Look out Dixie... you have a contender for most moronic post.

Wow. I had to do a double take on that one myself. Can't say I've heard that claim before.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Not so much. Coulter for President!

yes, way so much. coulter is about freedom and liberty like stalin was about democracy.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

The rabid liberals AND 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.

fixed that for you.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Then the Nazis were libertarians.

You right wingers are totally blind to the dangers to a free and open society...you focus solely on government as the source. If government were to evaporate, WHAT do you believe would replace it...freedom???

 

[WinterBorn]

fixed that for you.

I can live with that correction.

 

[DamnYankee]

That may make them crappy journalists, but it is not illegal nor unconstitutional. Thus the comment that they should be in jail is absurd.

It was probably meant to be absurd; to demonstrate absurd with absurdity is high art.

 

[zappasguitar]

What?

Why that's....INCONCEIVABLE!

 

[Bfgrn]

This is still nonsense. One doesn't follow from the other. Wrong action from the government shouldn't be supported because it was used against a political philosophy with which you disagree. It's just silliness to say, "Then you must be a <fill in whatever you disagree with here>!"

This is a false dilemma proposition, much like the "call everything you disagree with racism" position of the race baiters.

What is fascism?

Franklin Roosevelt said during World War II that the domination of government by corporate power is "the essence of Fascism" and Benito Mussolini who had an insider’s view of that process said the same thing. Essentially he said that - he complained that Fascism should not be called Fascism. It should be called corporatism because it was the merger of state of corporate power.

Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican, said that America would never be destroyed by a foreign power but he warned that our political institutions, our democratic institutions would be subverted by malefactors of great wealth who would erode them from within.

Dwight Eisenhower, another republican in his most famous speech ever warned America against the domination by the military industrial complex.

Abraham Lincoln, the greatest Republican in our history, said during the height of the Civil War "I have the South in front of me and I have the bankers behind me. And for my country I fear the bankers more." ref

As a result Fairness Doctrine being abolished, six giant multinational corporations control all 14,000 radio stations in the States, almost all 6,000 TV stations, 80 percent of the newspapers, all billboards, and most of the Internet information services. News departments are corporate profit centers with their only obligations being to the shareholders and not to the public.

The press is protected by the First Amendment-- the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson said: "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion."

You folks on the right are truly ignorant.

 

[Topspin]

The media used to be left wing, then the right bought them all up.

 

[Bfgrn]

The media used to be left wing, then the right bought them all up.

Look at the run up to the invasion of Iraq, the corporate press served as cheerleaders, not critics. War; investing our blood & treasure is the most critical decision a nation makes. None of the critical questions were asked before the invasion, it wasn't until it turned into disaster that 'some' media began to cast a critical light...and over 4,000 brave sons & daughters are dead and 100,000 innocent Iraqis...AND a bill that will amount to 3 trillion dollars.


Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson

 

[WinterBorn]

Look at the run up to the invasion of Iraq, the corporate press served as cheerleaders, not critics. War; investing our blood & treasure is the most critical decision a nation makes. None of the critical questions were asked before the invasion, it wasn't until it turned into disaster that 'some' media began to cast a critical light...and over 4,000 brave sons & daughters are dead and 100,000 innocent Iraqis...AND a bill that will amount to 3 trillion dollars.


Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson

Never in the history of mankind has more information been available to more people.

What do you think the Fairness Doctrine would accomplish?