Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Trying to silence Rush Limbaugh
When politicians start to talk about restricting free speech, it's time for citizens to get worried.
No one will grees with everything that might be said, but the Constitution does protect one's right to say it. After all, it's possible to burn the flag...
No one will grees with everything that might be said, but the Constitution does protect one's right to say it. After all, it's possible to burn the flag...
At the National Review Online, Byron York writes:
"Limbaugh, now celebrating his 20th year as a national radio host, is single-handedly responsible for a movement on the part of some Democrats to revive the “Fairness Doctrine.” With origins in the earliest laws regulating radio, the Doctrine became, by the time a young Rush Limbaugh entered radio in the 1970s, a de facto ban on editorializing. Had the Reagan-era Federal Communications Commission not done away with it in the 1980s — it was a patently unconstitutional limit on the First Amendment rights of broadcasters — Limbaugh’s career would never have happened.
Which is exactly the world some Democrats would like to bring back."
