Soros Backed Group Attempts to Silence Fox News (Rush Limbaugh, interview, ethics)
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They've tried and failed repeatedly to install the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" as a means of using the government to silence conservatives, now a George Soros-connected "ethics" group is taking another route to censorship.
The Hill reports that Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is asking the Federal Communications to cancel Fox's broadcasting licenses in the United States because of the phone hacking scandal involving a newspaper owned by a sister company utterly separate from it in the United Kingdom.
What is it with these liberals and their Soviet style tactics in trying to silence dissent?
Why are they scared to allow alternative viewpoints to be discussed on an open forum (like Fox News)?
I guess "progressive thought" stops when the subjects get uncomfortable.
Soros and the "Citizens" should be ashamed of themselves for being so cowardly!
Doubt Soros is capable of feeling shame. It's an emotion that requires a conscience.
True enough. If Soros didn't have a conscience for playing a role in sending countless Jews to concentration camps I doubt destroying the 1st Amendment means much to him other than another victory to tally up and stuff in his messianic complex.
Why the far left tolerates the destruction of the 1st Amendment just so Obama's Billionaire backer (the top 1% of the 1%) can engage in his personal war against Rupert Murdoch/Roger Ailes, I really cannot fathom.
Think that CISPA is going to allow freedom of speech? Really?
"CREW wants the FCC to revoke broadcast licenses for the 27 stations the Fox network owns in the United States. Rupert Murdoch heads News Corp., the parent company of Fox. Murdoch's former newspaper, News of the World, is under investigation in England for allegedly bugging phones in order to obtain stories."
"CREW's letter to the FCC asserts the phone hacking scandal in Great Britain is evidence of a "significant character deficiency" that could disqualify Fox from holding a license in the United States. Because no Fox/News Corp. media companies in the United States have been charged with any criminal wrongdoing or involvement in the phone-hacking scandal, the CREW crew make their argument a personal attack on Rupert Murdoch and his family, saying “the Murdochs clearly do not have the requisite character to retain their broadcast licenses.”
CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan said in a statement that "if the Murdochs don’t meet the British standards-of-character test, it is hard to see how they can meet the American standard.”
RedState's Erick Erickson wrote a really good column last week on the second coming of liberal fascism where it's no longer a matter of advancing your own ideas but an attempt to shut down opposing viewpoints:
"Radical activist Van Jones, a former White House “green jobs czar” leads an organization called Color of Change. The organization, Media Matters for America, and others are leading coordinated attacks on businesses that choose to give money to conservative causes, advertise on talk radio, and the like. They say they are boycotting, which is their right to do. Except these are not boycotts to advance rights as in the sixties. These are boycotts to shut down opposing views. When any side typically believes it is right, it often will encourage the other side to speak loudly so everyone can hear the wrongness of their views. Not so now. The left, no doubt unable to win in the battle of ideas, has decided to shut down the battle. Businesses are harassed. In a Fox News interview, one business owner in New York who advertises with Rush Limbaugh told the anchor his business was targeted. Women in his office were called and harassed, spoken to crudely, and threatened."
RedState's Erick Erickson wrote a really good column last week on the second coming of liberal fascism where it's no longer a matter of advancing your own ideas but an attempt to shut down opposing viewpoints:
"Radical activist Van Jones, a former White House “green jobs czar” leads an organization called Color of Change. The organization, Media Matters for America, and others are leading coordinated attacks on businesses that choose to give money to conservative causes, advertise on talk radio, and the like. They say they are boycotting, which is their right to do. Except these are not boycotts to advance rights as in the sixties. These are boycotts to shut down opposing views. When any side typically believes it is right, it often will encourage the other side to speak loudly so everyone can hear the wrongness of their views. Not so now. The left, no doubt unable to win in the battle of ideas, has decided to shut down the battle. Businesses are harassed. In a Fox News interview, one business owner in New York who advertises with Rush Limbaugh told the anchor his business was targeted. Women in his office were called and harassed, spoken to crudely, and threatened."
We've already seen it at the colleges/universities where they do not let people with opposing viewpoints to speak.
Kind of like when there was a big push to ban rap back in the 90's. Or how a conservative organization wanted to boycott corporations that displayed openly homosexual ads.
That's not the argument being made in the OP's article at all. If you read the article it states that the claim was raised in response to the wiretapping scandal. Britain has already stated that the Murdoch show is over in their country, some are arguing that his run should be over here in the US as well.
It is logical to assume that Fox will not be shut down. I believe it is possible that their format might change towards a more moderate ideology.
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