{"id":2670,"date":"2008-06-08T07:06:21","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T12:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:53:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:53:05","slug":"ellison-censorship-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2670","title":{"rendered":"Ellison: Censorship Is Good!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keith Ellison (F – MN CD5) speaking at the “Media Reform” conference last week in Minneapolis: “We need a strong, diverse media”. “The problem is, you don’t have enough actors out there making sure the people know what’s going on…if[the people] get a diverse diet of news, they’ll make the right decision!”<\/p>\n

Wow. Sounds like a good start, huh? And it’d seem like he’s gotten his wish! In a media market where anyone can set up their own outlet, where 2,000 radio stations carry talk radio, where scads of community newspapers and small radio stations (like Minneapolis’ KFAI) carry a dizzying variety of viewpoints, we sure must have that “diverse diet”.<\/p>\n

Sadly, it was not to be. \u00a0 Ellison tacitly called for the censorship of talk radio (the word seems to have gone out to to lefty minions refer to it as “hate radio” at every turn), a shutdown of Fox News, and – most incredibly of all – government subsidy<\/em> of traditional, lefty-friendly newspapers (9:33 in this video<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah – and listen to the bit at 3:30 and tell me the whole “Media Reform” conference wasn’t a partisan Nuremberg rally.<\/p>\n

Other howlers:<\/p>\n