Emancipation? Curious choice of word there, or was it?
“All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy.”
The Pressure being that he can’t lie as freely as past generations could.
As Liberals have control of most of the Ministry of Truth they do a good job of trying.
Hence the push for “net neutrality” aka government control of the internet information, the biggest thorn in his side.
People like me.
“So many voices clamoring for attention on blogs and on cable, on — on talk radio. It — it can be difficult at times to sift through it all, to know what to believe, to figure out who’s telling the truth and who isn’t.”–Obama at Hampton University
And, of course, the government is always telling the truth…
But then there’s: “President-elect Barack Obama has repeatedly said how much his BlackBerry means to him and how he is dreading the prospect of being forced to give it up, because of legal and security concerns, once he takes office,” and he did not give it up, he still has it. So as usual it’s “do as I say, not as I do.” NYT
Perhaps it’s easier these days to spread disinformation, but it’s also easier to correct it. If the president doesn’t know how to use these devices, how does he explain the June 26, 2008, issue of Rolling Stone noting that Bob Dylan, Yo-Yo Ma, Sheryl Crow and Jay-Z were featured on his, uh, iPod.
Maybe it’s programmed for him, like his teleprompters?
In this administration, freedom of speech, press or information is a distraction and a threat. That’s why they sought to impose the doctrine of “net neutrality” on the Internet. In the name of opening up broadband to all, it’s designed to suppress the voices of those who have competed in the marketplace of ideas and won.
Being informed depends on information and the free flow thereof, with no one, especially not the government, being the final arbiter of truth. That’s for the individual to decide. That’s why in words inscribed in a frieze below the dome of his memorial in Washington, D.C., Jefferson said: “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
We disagree with what some have to say, but will defend to the death their right to tweet it. (IBD)
Speaking of Free Speech…
“up” Chuck Schumer and Sen. Van Hollen have introduced legislation (supported by the Obama administration) reimposing the same type of First Amendment restrictions that the United States Supreme Court recently declared unconstitutional in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission (FEC). In other words, their response to having free speech limitations overturned by the Supreme Court is to roll the same rock back up the same hill.
Under their bill, all contractors with the government and recipients of Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds would be prohibited from U.S. election spending. The legislation would impose that same prohibition upon American businesses with as few as 20 percent of shares owned by foreign nationals, or whose boards of directors happen to have a majority of foreign nationals. (No word yet on whether Schumer, Van Hollen or the Obama administration will recognize their error and suddenly amend their bill to except illegal immigrants.)
But note one big-spending group that Schumer and Van Hollen suspiciously omitted from their prohibition: labor bosses.
According to a report in The Hill quoting Loyola Law School election law professor Richard L. Hasen, Big Labor may receive a free pass in the bill:
“Hasen said some of the biggest campaign spending restrictions in the summary would only affect corporations. For example, large federal contractors, recipients of government bailout funds who have not repaid the money and foreign-owned companies would be banned from election spending. ‘There are no foreign-owned unions, and unions are not government contractors,’ Hasen said. ‘The biggest limitations in this bill apply only to corporations because there are no parallels in the labor world.’“
There is simply no logical or ethical justification for exempting union bosses from the same restrictions that would limit their employer counterparts, considering the hundreds of millions in union members’ dues redirected toward union-friendly politicians. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) alone spent approximately $85 million to elect Obama and Democrats in 2008.
That’s 85 hardworking union members that the SEIU could make millionaires using the same money that it instead spent on political campaigns.
Sadly, that enormous campaign spending explains why Big Labor is excluded from the bill.(Daily Caller)
This is the way it used to be and they want it to be again. When the Court struck down the Campaign Finance Law, it wasn’t free speech that the Liberals were mad about, it was the competition.
They were no longer going to be the big stick on the block.
The biggest Bully.
The biggest purveyor of misinformation and disinformation.
And we all how much Liberal hate competition.
The sight of the American flag in America—even on Cinco de Mayo—should not be a source of offense to Americans of Mexican descent, but pride, providing of course that one sees him or herself as an American first. And here is the point that this young woman, the school administrators and a handful of sympathizers seem forever not to grasp. Americans do not want to be an extension of Mexico! Indeed many of us have had a peek south of the border and do not like what we see. The political culture and the values that support it hold little interest for those proud of our flag and “the republic for which it stands.”
Among many Americans, there is a growing sense that immigrants to this country have no interest in becoming Americans. Illegal immigrants are largely seen as people who disrespect our laws, our language, and our traditions. More significantly, they are viewed as taking advantage of everything this nation has to offer and yet refusing to assimilate into our American culture. The political class says that these fears are unfounded, and the elite label such thoughts as bigoted. And yet we are treated to stories like this one, wherein American children are sent home from school for wearing an image of the American flag. Should we believe the political elites? Or our lying eyes? (Daily Caller)
And lying eyes are everywhere…
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