Saturday, July 28, 2007

Champions of Free Speech Repress Free Speech

Liberals fancy themselves as champions of the First Amendment -- except for all that religious stuff. They wrap themselves in the Constitution when they're defending treason, profane language or pornography. But then they establish speech codes on college campuses and have punishment for "hate speech" codified into law. And now, they are trying to force Fox News -- the most popular cable news channel in the world -- off the air by lobbying their sponsors. It seems that only speech they approve of should be free. Their hatred of Fox News is so intense that it is being classified as a mental disorder called Fox News Derangement Syndrome. But isn't that how Stalinists all over the world react to the inconvenient truth?
NEW YORK (AP) - Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network.

MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the network. Once a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling campaign will begin, said Jim Gilliam, vice president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos.

The groups have successfully pressured Democratic presidential candidates not to appear at any debate sponsored by Fox, and are also trying to get Home Depot Inc. to stop advertising there.

At least 5,000 people nationwide have signed up to compile logs on who is running commercials on Fox, Gilliam said. The groups want to first concentrate on businesses running local ads, as opposed to national commercials.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Oh yeah...free, as long as you agree with ME :-(