Michael Moore and Dan Rather sank them last time, this time it will be “The Path to 9/11.” Well Santorum if you win definitely write Reid a thank you note! I actually think the Dems are just stupidly arrogant. Somehow they think Americans don’t notice their bummbling attempts to manipulate the media. Maybe they just don’t realize tv/ print media is everyone’s whore. I mean the Dems ought to at least guess that the Republicans are beating them in the media game, because the Republicans realize Americans are at least a little cynical of the media, and the Republicans accordingly use the media’s natural inclination to spin for profit which of course then feeds into our growing cynicism about the media. Honestly, noone really believes what the head says. I mean imagine the clear irony of the greatest spin master on the tube pretending “The Spin Stops Here.” That is comedy, and whether or not OReilly realizes it, Fox certainly does. The Dems just try to bludgeon the media and as a consequence Dems look like whiners and weinees over and over and over again.

Obviously the dems really belive what they’re trying to hide is even more damaging than being seen as attempting to hide something…

…in many ways they would be right. It is. If the public understood exactly how badly Clinton dropped the ball, it would be a long time before another democrat ever called 1600 his address.

When Clinton saw how easy it was to intimidate ABC, he quickly made a call to Wikipedia demanding that they change the intro to their article on Monica Lewinsky:…

Banco Central de la República Argentina? Bay Cities Racing Association? British Cave Research Association? Oh, you mean the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, better known as the McCain-Feingold Incumbent Protection Act.

Well, as a matter of fact, a number of bloggers have stated that they will not abide by the Act’s restrictions and the the FEC can go to hell.

Your ‘ice cream’ analogy is based on a flawed premise: you do not have the power to provide production license/copyright protection to the ice cream maker.

For your analogy to be more accurate, substitute ‘your blog’ with ‘senior representatives of one of the two major political parties’ in your state. States have the sanction to use force. This drastically changes the implications of communication.

For the State (in this case, these Senators) to mention the FCC license in an official communication to ABC constitutes an implied threat; certainly without immediate clarification from this group of Senators, that door is still open. If I were in charge at ABC, I would demand an immediate, and public, clarification on this issue. This is a free speech issue.

Roland, I’m not sure if your Fahrenheit 911 comment is a snark or what. My point is that I don’t recall any government agency threatening adverse action which would constitute censorship (or the threat thereof) against the distributors of that movie. There was certainly a lot of blog traffic, but blogs don’t have the constitutional responsibilities of the government.

You mean this one?

Well, I agree, if you want to, you can read it into the letter.

But then,

” I shot the guy, he came toward me, it was self defense, I saw that before they attack you, they come toward you.
Dunno if it would be enough ground for justified self defense.”

Still, if I assume that they are dirty bastards, and I assume that they wuold dare to pull something like this, then I can assume that it was actually a threat.

Assumptions are a great thing.
Also is contemporary literary criticism which shows us that you can read everything into anything.
It’s just a decision.

But ok, all the democrats are lying, maffia type bastards, bent on the destruction of the USA, with the aim of spreading the Islam all over the world.

You still haven’t told me which way you pitch it. Do you pitch it as suppression, or do you pitch it as a promotion of the truth of the 9/11 report?

Its an interesting letter. Unprecedented, to me, for an unprecedented, to me, situation. But ABC’s license getting pulled? Give me a break. However, its clear that ABC is pissing off a lot of people with their lies. With the way they made their lies, and how they are promoting their lies. No problem with the people who are pissed off letting ABC know that ABC is acting irresponsibly.

An example.

I write on my blog that I don’t like vanilla icecream.

A bunch of people jump in, and start to say, that I want to ban vanilla icecream or that “you go boy, I do agree, ban vanilla icecream”.

Do those comments make the claim true? No.
What will make it true?
If I write that I want to ban vanilla icecream.

“Perhaps you should go and read some of the people on the left who are crowing about this. Go read Patterico, too. Maybe then you’ll get it.”

You mean the guy, who linked you?
So, you effectively tell me to read you, this same post, and that will make me see truth???

Gaius?

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