The Right Scoop- Rich
My god, it’s ONLY people on the left that are afraid of multiple voices. It’s stunning to me that the so called defenders of free speech absolutely hate free speech in the media. I don’t care if we had bozo the clown with his own news show, it’s someone else getting their voice out there which ultimately gives me a better shot of hearing the truth one way or another. Instead, these goofs want a single voice speaking which probably means I’m about to be lied to with no alternative.
- Paulchri
So you are on the right, correct? Well, that is what he wants. To pit the right against the left and vise versa, so that both the right and the left will allow them to shut down the alternative media. He knows that the right and the left will stand in the end. He is using them as a catylist to go after people exposing his global agenda. Rockefellers are long time globalists. The right and the left are a false paradigm. They are used to give us a false choice and to pit us against each other while the global agenda is continued. Bush has been interviewed and asked about Obama continuing his agenda, because they both have the same one. There is no difference ultimately. Glenn Beck, Rush, Savage, Levin, and others aren’t getting more like Alex Jones for nothing. They are doing it to stay relevant. Globalists don’t like their agendas revealed.
- Rich
Show many anyone of any importance on the right who is calling for MSNBC to be shut down…
- las
Paulchri… you so misunderstand left and right. It is not a false paradigm. The progressive/left/liberals are exactly the elites ushering in the global NWO. Make no mistake… the left serves the likes of Rockefeller, and from his ubber elitist perch he may look down his nose upon the great unwashed of progressive left, his authentic animus is preserved for the left. But while he is in a public hearing he will pillory the right and toss out a few crumbs against the left as well … just for appearance of balance and fairness.
But make no mistake… they hate the conservative right. In all aspects conservatism is like daylight to a vampire for these people. It is because of this that Rockefeller is positively dripping with contempt and sneer against FOX… he throws in MSNBC just for cover.
- las
I meant to say “his authentic animus is preserved for the right”
- Paulchri
I think that you are correct so far as business as usual is concerned. I just tend to think that they have a new, growing threat with alternative media. He may be throwing in the left to balance the argument, but I think the real target is the alternative media. There have already been many attacks on alternative media, and the net neutrality issue is still on the agenda. They tend to start big, and then compromise on something less. The neo-cons might just throw in on this one, and the compromise might be alternative media. Glenn Beck covered gvnmt sponsored terror saying that they will blame him and others like him. I believe they will llkely engineer another attack
within the country that they will blame on “right wing nuts”. They will pick someone who has a history of such things that are listed in the MIAC report as internal threats to the country. Or they will manufacture the history. Like the Patriot Act and other things, they needed 911. Clinton went after militias after Oklahoma in a big way. Obama does need a political push. The time is ripe for this kind of attack. They may wait until sometime next year when they aren’t in a lame duck session.Just my thoughts.
- Ira Thurby-Wright
“Right and Left” present a false model of the political spectrum. It’s convenient for career politicians to have us see our world thus, but it is only for the purpose of inserting wedge issues and erecting strawman arguments to distract us from real issues and grant them power with impunity. The concept of right and left came from the seating arrangements in the French Republic and has nothing to do with actual political/economic positions. The only relevant model puts anarchy on one side, autocracy/totalitarianism on the other, and the coveted sweet spot in middle where individuals have maximum freedom by way of optimal liberties matched with optimal security. Inevitably, the middle spot is held by Rule of Law and limited (constrained) government.
Add a vertical scale for economic freedom with laissez faire markets in one direction and centrally controlled command economies in the other, and again, Rule of Law and limited (constrained) government draw an economy back to the sweet spot in the middle.
Don’t confuse the middle with the “center” as in “Center of Right” or “Center of the Political Spectrum” because it isn’t a geographical center on the spectrum, it’s wherever Rule of Law and Limited Government moves the balance.
In short, the obvious message, (but missed by the oblivious and overlooked by the ambitious) from this last election (Congress 1994 Redux) is that we need tenacious checks and balances in government between Legislative and Administrative branches, and the greater the grid lock, the less intrusive government becomes and more stable the markets, society as a whole, and individual liberties preserved. Amen.
- Anonymous
Sen. Rockefeller: What a despicable DC political elitist; seated next to Sen. Swiftboat Kerry, aka: ketchup fortune-stealing millionaire momma’s lap dog. LOOK close America: this is what genteel, treasonous, veneered faces of Senate tyrants looks like…
- Rich
You make a good point scoop. If we simply didn’t have the FCC, it would be quite difficult to ask them to shut down news outlets.
Anyway, be determined folks, because the U.S. govt has shut down news outlets before, it can happen again. Let’s make sure it doesn’t.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=850144043 Amy Wilson
MSNBC is their scapegoat to be able to say “See we got the liberal bias off the air too”, so the American people could breath easy & trust the rest remaining. Uh huh!
- Anonymous
List of senate seats up for grabs 2012 & 2014
Sen. Rockefeller2014
- Leel004
take Hawaii off the potential list of ‘change’, sheeple here seem to have a death wish—and just keep electing socialist, and complain about higher taxes.
- Paulchri
Yeah, lets trade him in for another globalist. I’m tired of him too.
- Rich
Impossible seat to get. Totally untouchable, so just forget it. The guy hasn’t had a serious challenger in decades and yet he has more campaign money than anyone else in the senate simply to discourage any possible challenger.
- Luker410
Thats what they thought in Boston last year. jDidn’t you learn anything from Nov 2 2010?
- Paulchri
Too bad that his district is so ignorant as to be bought with TV ads. Well, actually, so is the rest of the country.
- Shane2813
Give this fool a call @ 202-224-6472. He tries to take our first amendment we will stop him with second.
)) Let’s roll. - Josie
As of Jan no more Kennedy’s, next we will work to rid us of all the Rockfeller’s. You’ve over stayed your usefullness and welcome – now get out!
Sen Rockfeller, just because you want to treat us like we are stupid doesn’t mean we are. The American people are more than capable of turning the channel if they don’t like the message as well as kicking crooked politicians out of office.
- Paulchri
The Rockefeller history is monumental globalism. It is smart of him to go after the right and the left to take away free speech. He is playing to the discontent of the public. The right and the left media are not his target. The alternative media is. He will just use the right and the left to shut down alternative, and the false choice of right and left will continue. You gotta understand globalists to see it.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Y4PMMR6HIRY7OIPQ2UJBVBM6LI Steven Kerr
Glenn Beck is RIGHT ON again the Commie’s , Socialists , Marxists , Nazi’s and the TRUE PROGRESSIVES are coming out of the CLOSETS LIKE THE RATS THEY ARE .
BE VIGILANT, AMERICA , BE VIGILANT !
NOVEMBER 2012 is just around the corner.
- John42399
That’s right … be vigilant , stay calm , and go vote , because that’s what the Communists want us to do while they’re STILL full steam ahead implementing their agenda . Their transformation of America is moving very quickly … quicker than you think . If and when they they shutdown Fox , then you’ll know the TSHTF . That will be a MAJOR signal that the Constitution is in Jeopardy .
- Loneranger101
What is this? A gathering of Tea-Party, FOX News watching sheep?
And in the end, nothing really happens November 2012. This country has become a joke.
- EF
Of courseoss
- Efeliberti
OfOf course he SAYS he wants MSNBC shut down too! That would give him the fall-back position that he is not a slimy partisan (since he wants to shut down both FOX and MSNBC). He wants us to forget that NBC, CNN (remember when it use to be called by everyone else the “Clinton News Network”?), and the rest are just as partisan as MSNBC, and sometimes even more biased, and they wouldn’r loose anything by shutting down MSNBC, since their agenda would be sung to the four winds in all the other networks. As always, politicians think we are stupid.
- Timbankful
This man is not fit to govern. Arrogant rich bastard!
- Timbankful
Stop censoring me!
- Cheryl~
This IS NOT HIS JOB…really we have left the government alone for so long and now we have this big monster wanting to tell us everything we can and cannot do…the government needs to shrink and go protect the borders and let Americans figure out their lives, who they want to watch on tv, which doctors to go to and what food we want to eat…talk about a police state…America needs to wake up fast and hold these people in office to the Constitution-that is after WE understand what it means!
- Guest
“This IS NOT HIS JOB”
Since when has that stopped any politicians…… they aren’t about to pay attention to people now.
- http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/JJWAFS3CTAETTM6GCM4ZA7TNAU don c
He is willing to throw MSNBC under the bus to get at Fox News…Jay Jay has got to go.
- Steprock
Wait. Did I miss something or after the Fox and NBC bit is he actually complaining that there’s nothing good on TV and the government ought to do something about it?
- John42399
Take away fox then you only have all Government controlled left wing news outlets . The Socialist/Communist agenda will totally destroy this Constitutional Republic before 2012 . The Republican takeover in Congress won’t change a thing . Obama first made sure to surround himself with these Communist “Czars” and others to implement his Socialist agenda . Everyone in the country knows , even the media , that obama is perceived to be clueless in what he is doing . It’s all a front . He and the media wants you to think he’s totally incapable of governing the country while his “Czars” are implementing his agenda secretly under our noses . There’s no way out of this . 2008 election was a HUGE miscalculation . obama and the media did whatever they could , lie lie lie , so he would get elected. In the past 2 years has obama kept any of those promises he made while Campaigning back then ? NO . Now you have Beck telling us all to not revolt or get violent because that’s what these radicals want us to do . Well , here we are today, and they’re still implementing their agenda to destroy the country . Damn if we do , damn if we don’t .
- Tucsondon_2000
A good trade for the left; Fox for msnbc. A zillion watchers snuffed out vs. 10 for msnbc.
- Joe W.
Well, last time I checked, the FCC had no jurisdiction over cable…..
- truthseeker
Any politician who speaks on his behalf and not of the people in which he was elected to represent, should be sent packing. We pay our taxes and elect politicians to represent our thoughts and have the ability to make the changes we feel are necessary. Its time for US to take back OUR government.
- Sparky222
Well Senator Rockefeller, I’ll tell you what I want! I want you fired! They will do anything to limit free speech, free thought and free association. Now this incompetent is going to decide how many channels and what the content is going to be? No way buster, the bright shinning light of truth is right on you and your rhetoric!
- Rich
I’d like him fired too…sadly, that seat is totally untouchable in that state with the amount of money he has ready at his disposal. In WV, you’re basically senator for life once elected.
- Luker410
I will contribute plenty to any tea party candidate to defeat this Communist/Nazi who would destroy our Freedom of Speech in this country.
- http://twitter.com/mridaho mridaho
Free speech for me but not for thee.
- Stephen
Is it just me, or does he look like the warden from Shawshank Redemption? Sounds about as honorable too.
- vonlafin
What a loon!!
- Anonymous
It shouldn’t be about the right versus the left. It’s about the media failing miserably in their job given to them and protected by the 1st amendment. Face it Senator, if they were doing their job of vetting people, verifying facts spewed by politicians and researching bills, then NONE OF YOU in congress would like any of the media. And that is the way it should be. The media is supposed to be OUR watchdog, not YOUR lapdog.
- Paulchri
Arguably, there hasn’t been a proper relationship between the press an gvnmt since the Pentagon Papers leak.
- Anonymous
One might say it started with the CFR 1921.
- The Dude
We have some real lunatic control freaks in office. The scary part is they can just take away rights. People will be upset for a few minutes, then back to drinking beer and watching football.
- visitor
We need to take a close look at this communist,shooting his liberal mouth!!
via theBlaze.com. Sen. Rockefeller, in a more rare and honest moment, says that he is tired of the Right and the Left and that we’d all be better off if the FCC would shut down Fox News and MSNBC. That’s interesting, because the FCC doesn’t have any jurisdiction over cable whatsoever. At least not yet.
You see, Rockefeller says he hungers for quality news and believes that the FCC should play a part in facilitating that end. He believes that without the extremes of Fox News and MSNBC, the American people would have more faith in their government, would have better political discourse, and that it would help legislators do their work. Yeah right, Fox News is the reason why the American people don’t have faith in their government.
What Rockefeller really wants is news that doesn’t hold him and his legislative buddies accountable. He doesn’t want news that would appropriately vet, say President Obama, and uncover what he really believes and how it’s the complete opposite of what the majority of Americans believe. What he wants is a propaganda machine, which is why for the life of me I can’t figure out why he wants MSNBC taken off the air. Anyway, what this is really about is not what the American people want, but rather what he wants – freedom of speech and the Constitution be damned.
The bigger point here is the size of government. This is a prime example of why we must limit the size of government so as to maximize the freedom of the individual. Milton Friedman points out that every person works for their own self interest and the bigger the government, the better chance that a legislator’s self interest will conflict with yours. And when they conflict, we all know who wins that battle (ie. Obamacare).
If left alone, the American people will decide which news outlets are successful and which are not, and that’s the way it should be. I just hope that the next time Sen. Rockefeller is on the ballot, the American people teach him a good lesson by using their constitutionally protected freedom of speech and send him packing.
UPDATED: I changed it to match my more updated version at hotair.com
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