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xssve -> RE: Petition: Clear Channel: Discontinue Rush Limbaugh's radio talk show. (3/10/2012 7:34:00 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr
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ORIGINAL: Edwynn
It is interesting though, that you have no issue with broadcasting traitorous bile via tax payer funded AFR...
I call: "Bullshit, Bob!". This was directed at me? You made a definitive, declarative statement attributing a certain position to me which I do not hold.
Just to clear things up: I have no issue with many different viewpoints getting out to the public no matter what the means of delivery. I have no issue with Bill Maher, calling Gov. Palin a "dumb twat" and a "cunt" except as regards to the silence from the pablum-puking lefties who don't seem to get as up in arms when other PPLs (Maher) attack people with whom they don't agree (Gov. Palin).
My only issue, here is that there seems to be a desire by some people to make sure that theirs is the only voice that's heard. That doesn't benefit a free society. Polite , thoughtful discourse is how issues get brought to light and minds get changed. Shouting one's opinion and then, shutting the other side up may not be government censorship but it is censorship, all the same.
I can't condone the behavior of the "If your opinion doesn't match mine, I'll do whatever I can to shut you up" crowd. Sorry. That is detrimental to the free and open exchange of ideas which is a necessity for a free society. It's also about a half a step up the intelligence scale from the six year-old, shouting their point of view and then, sticking their fingers in their ears and doing the "La-la-la-la-la" thing. It's a waste of time and pearls before swine.
That I didn't recognize that the "petition section" of the whitehouse website is there for any and all to use I have to bow and apologize. Mea culpa. That was a bad job on my part. I will own that. But, I will not own a position that you try to foist upon me.
I don't agree with a lot of what Limbaugh says and I don't agree, a lot of times, with how he makes his points but, a few million people do. I don't want those voices, represented by him, to be silenced because another segment of the population has decided that since they don't want to hear it, no one should hear it. It's counter-productive and anti-American.
Peace and comfort,
Michael
I agree with you in substance, but this petition isn't a legal action, like George W. initiated in Federal court to try and get websites critical of him shut down, it's more like a public opinion survey, and hardly in the same league with conservative efforts to defund and silence NPR, who have the arrogance to compete with good American corporate campaign donors by playing elitist classical music instead of good old hillbilly music which they only do on Saturdays.
And I have to laugh when you guys call NPR liberal, the local college station is somewhere to the Right of Limbaugh and has been since the Eighties.
If conservatives would back digital broadcasting instead of fighting it tooth and claw to their dying breath, Rush could have a whole station to himself 24 hours day, since the amount of available bandwidth would be vastly increased.
Of course then Corporate broadcasting would be forced to compete by upgrading the quality of their programming, and that would be (shudder) capitalism!
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