Nancy Pelosi Wants To Limit Free Speech Of Conservatives
You see, conservative talk radio is a huge advantage for Republicans. Nancy Pelosi would like to remove that advantage. Because denying conservative talkers the right to free speech is “fair.”
Some of you, apparently, are too stupid to be free. Worse, your obtuse opinions are reinforced three hours daily by unsanctioned, fanatical talk-radio troglodytes.
This, I’m afraid, is a sin against fairness. Now, if only you had some more information. Because God knows, you’re being deprived of media choices now. So it’s time for re-education, or so sayeth Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. . . .
When asked this week if she supported revival of the Fairness Doctrine, Pelosi answered, reportedly without hesitation: “Yes.” In 2007, according to the conservative American Spectator magazine, a Pelosi adviser had said, “Conservative radio is a huge threat and political advantage for Republicans, and we have had to find a way to limit it.”
Finding a way to “limit” free speech for partisan advantage is a tactic Richard Nixon would have admired (though he typically had the decency to do such things clandestinely) but not a tactic we expect from a lawmaker who claimed she was bringing a new day to Washington.
Unless, of course, by “new” she meant a new day for the Sedition Act.
That Democrats would complain about conservative talk radio when they already enjoy the sympathies, and often outright support, of a majority of the nation’s journalists is just plain laughable.
I find it deplorable that the New York Times, ostensibly an objective media outlet, is all but in the bag for Democrats. But I’m not about to support any sort of limits or regulations on what the Times can and cannot print.
Because that’s not in keeping with the ideals of freedom. It’s just too bad that more Democrats aren’t on board with those ideals.
