Rep. Clyburn: Bring back Fairness Doctrine

A New Threat to Free Speech
Rep. James Clyburn asserts, without evidence, that the Tucson shooting proves that this country needs to curtail free Speech in the name of Public Safety: 'Free Speech is as free Speech does,' he said. 'You cannot yell 'fire' in a crowded theater and call it free Speech and some of what I hear, and is being called free speech, is worse than that.' Clyburn used as an example a comment made by Sharron Angle, an unsuccessful U.S. Senatorial Candidate in Nevada, who said the frustrated public may co...

Jim Clyburn wants to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine in response to the Arizona shooting
   Just when you thought that all of the talk about reinstating the “Fairness Doctrine” had died down along comes a politically driven, ideologist sheriff in Arizona looking to capitalize on a shooting to push his partisan agenda and thrusts the talk of the “Fairness Doctrine” back into the limelight.   Anyone who heard the words of Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik could realize that they were politically charged conjecture motivated by an agenda. ...

Dem Rep. James Clyburn Uses Giffords Tragedy to Call For Return to Fairness Doctrine
Vile opportunist. COLUMBIA — U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in Congress, said Sunday the deadly shooting in Arizona should get the country thinking about what’s acceptable to say publicly and when people should keep their mouths shut. Clyburn said he thinks vitriol in public discourse led to a 22-year-old suspect opening fire Saturday at an event Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords held for her constituents in Tucson, Ariz. Six people were killed and 14 others ...

Beware of those who would trade security for freedom
The most recent example of that is Rep. James Clyburn who thinks it is time the concept of free Speech is rethought in the wake of the Tucson shooting: The shooting is cause for the country to rethink parameters on free speech, Clyburn said from his office, just blocks from the South Carolina Statehouse. He wants standards put in place to guarantee balanced media coverage with a reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, in addition to calling on elected officials and media pundits to use ‘be...

Clyburn: Reinstate the Fairness Doctrine...
COLUMBIA — U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in Congress, said Sunday the deadly shooting in Arizona should get the country thinking about what's acceptable to say publicly and when people should keep their mouths shut. Clyburn said he thinks vitriol in public discourse led to a 22-year-old suspect opening fire Saturday at an event Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords held for her constituents in Tucson, Ariz. Six people were killed and 14 others were injured, including ...

Democrats Use Tucson Shooting As Justification For A New Fairness Doctrine
The Fairness Doctrine, of course, being an FCC policy that once upon a time limited the sort of content broadcasters could have on their airwaves by requiring ideological balance. What listeners/viewers actually wanted in terms of content was irrelevant. If you had three hours of a conservative like, say, Rush Limbaugh on air you’d have to have three hours of a liberal. Now, in the wake of the Tucson shooting, liberals are using their baseless conjectures about the motivations of the shoot...

Rep. Clyburn Calls For Fairness Doctrine After AZ Shooting
U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in Congress, said Sunday the deadly shooting in Arizona should get the country thinking about what's acceptable to say publicly and when people should keep their mouths shut. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Americans who share these values t...

Clyburn Calls for Reinstatement of Fairness Doctrine
Clyburn said he thinks vitriol in public discourse led to a 22-year-old suspect opening fire Saturday at an event Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords held for her constituents in Tucson, Ariz. Six people were killed and 14 others were injured, including Giffords. The shooting is cause for the country to rethink parameters on free Speech, Clyburn said from his office, just blocks from the South Carolina Statehouse. He wants standards put in place to guarantee balanced media coverage with a re...

Hes on a Roll Rep. Clyburn: Congress Deserves Special Treatment by TSA
He’s on a Roll - Rep. Clyburn: Congress Deserves Special Treatment by TSA And yes, he has had local Law Enforcement guarding his own home since the Arizona shootings. (The Hill) — A top House Democrat said the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) should change how members of Congress are screened at airports. “I really believe that that is the place where we feel the most ill at ease, is going through airports,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), who serves as assi...

President Obama to Speak at Memorial Service for Tucson Shooting Victims Tomorrow Video Report 1/11/11
Visit MSNBC.com for breaking news, world news, and news about The Economy Here is a video report on news that President Obama will head to Arizona tomorrow to speak at a Memorial Service in honor of the Victims of the Tucson Mass Shooting. Obama was reportedly invited by the University of Arizona to speak at the service. According to the report, no word yet on whether Obama will address “the divisive political climate” in the country. We’ll see if Obama takes the high road an...

AZ Sheriff Once Blamed Local Violence on Policymakers Who Stopped Institutionalizing Mentally Ill
Awww. Wikileaks Hemorrhaging a Half-Million Euros a Week. S. Wolf on Rep. Clyburn: “Reading Of The Constitution” on House Floor Contributed To Climate Of AZ Shooting DanlBoone on Now: NYT’s Paul Krugman Blames Giffords Shooting on Right-Wing Rhetoric. Before: Kurgman Encourages Lefties to Hang Sen. Lieberman in Effigy… cthelight on Rep. Clyburn: “Reading Of The Constitution” on House Floor Contributed To Climate Of AZ Shooting mike r. on Dem Rep. James Cl...

Rep. Clyburn: Reading Of The Constitution on House Floor Contributed To Climate Of AZ Shooting
DanlBoone on Now: NYT’s Paul Krugman Blames Giffords Shooting on Right-Wing Rhetoric. Before: Kurgman Encourages Lefties to Hang Sen. Lieberman in Effigy… big-pete on Free Moshe! Israeli Spy Vulture to be Released by Saudis MONSTER on Dem Rep. James Clyburn Uses Giffords Tragedy to Call For Return to Fairness Doctrine… DanlBoone on Now: NYT’s Paul Krugman Blames Giffords Shooting on Right-Wing Rhetoric. Before: Kurgman Encourages Lefties to Hang Sen. Lieberman in Effigy&#...

Tomorrow's speech in Arizona is a big test for Barack Obama
We will find out a great deal about Barack Obama’s character tomorrow - or at least about the wisdom of his advisers. If his Speech at the Memorial service for the Victims of the Tucson shooting is spotlessly apolitical - if it manages to avoid any hint of support for the quite astonishing smear campaign which has explicitly attributed responsibility for this crime to his electoral opponents - then it may help to revive his original 

The right-wing narrative about Clinton, the Oklahoma bombing, and Obama
President Obama is heading to Arizona to commemorate the Victims of Saturday's events in Tucson, and Conservatives are already expressing concern about a replay of Bill Clinton's 1995 Speech denouncing "purveyors of hatred and division" on the airwaves in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing. In a preemptive strike, Conservatives are already misrepresenting the history of that event, arguing that Clinton politicized the bombing for his own gain. At National Review, John J. Miller writes...

Let's Just Say...
...for shits and giggles that Jared Lee Loughner grew up in a void and the violent Rhetoric and imagery that permeates our national political discourse had no relation whatsoever to his actions. Let us leave aside any notion that people are affected by growing up in a culture in which it's acceptable to a Republican president for his lunch guests to say things like "I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus—living fossils—so we will ne...

Pols Attack Free Speech (Again)
Politicians are once again advocating “curbs on incendiary Speech.” So, no more threatening the mass Murder of Iranians? No, of course, not. That sort of Rhetoric, and the killing of perhaps a million people in the Muslim world under Bush and Obama, is just Public Policy. Nothing to see there. Move along. ...

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Birther Case
Awww. Wikileaks Hemorrhaging a Half-Million Euros a Week. DohBiden on Dem Rep. James Clyburn Uses Giffords Tragedy to Call For Return to Fairness Doctrine… whthfk on Hey, About The AZ Shooter’s Links to American Renaissance, Those Right-Wing, Racist, Jooo Haters?...

Catch of the Day
Adam Serwer deflates Erick Erickson. Enjoy. By the way, Serwer also has a good post on silly liberal reactions to Tucson. Which is fine, but I only mention it because I see that a high-ranking Democrat (in this case Jim Clyburn) has actually come out in favor of reviving the Fairness Doctrine. Now, Clyburn is third-ranking Democrat in the House, and third-ranking member of the minority party in the House is sort of like being the back-up to the back-up to the Detroit Lions Quarterback in Januar...

CBS Poll: 57% of Americans Don''t Blame Political Tone for Tucson Shooting
Philip Klein points to a new CBS news poll (again, it's a CBS poll ... I'd be interested in what Rasmussen would find) showing that nearly six in ten Americans don't think the political tone had anyting to do with the Tucson shooting:Overall, 57 percent of respondents said the harsh political tone had nothing to do with the shooting, compared to 32 percent who felt it did. Republicans were more likely to feel the two were unrelated - 69 percent said Rhetoric was not to blame; 19 percent said it ...

Krauthammer: Lefts Attempts to Blame Right for Tucson Shooting is Truly Scurrilous Video 1/10/11
Charles Krauthammer condemned the Left’s attempts to blame the Tucson Mass Shooting on political Rhetoric from the Right - calling the attacks “scurrilous.” Krauthammer, who in addition to being a syndicated columnist is also a trained psychologist, said it is clear that alleged shooter Jared Loughner is “psychotic,” exhibiting signs of “schizophrenia,” and “severe thought disorder.” ...

No sale on the hateful rhetoric/Tucson shooting connection
According to a CBS New poll It appears the American public isn’t buying the attempt to connect what is termed “hateful” Rhetoric and the Tucson shooting of Rep. Giffords: Overall, 57 percent of respondents said the harsh political tone had nothing to do with the shooting, compared to 32 percent who felt it did. Republicans were more likely to feel the two were unrelated - 69 percent said Rhetoric was not to blame; 19 percent said it played a part. Democrats were more split on the iss

Nearly Six in Ten Americans Say The Country's Heated Political Rhetoric is Not To Blame For Tuscon Shooting
32 percent say it was cbsnews Nearly six in 10 Americans say the country's heated political Rhetoric is not to blame for the Tucson shooting rampage that left six dead and critically wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, according to a CBS News poll. In the wake of the shooting, much focus has been put on the harsh tone of politics in Washington and around the country, particularly after a contentious Midterm Election. Rhetoric and imagery from both Republicans and Democrats have included gun-...

An intern problem
Jim Cooper is worried the Tucson shooting will keep people out of public service: He says one murderer shouldn’t be given that much influence, and while he doesn’t expect any big security changes, he is concerned. Because it’s going to make Young People reluctant to be Staffers on the hill. It’s going to make folks a little bit worried about going to open meetings. And this is America; this is Democracy; it should be an open and free and safe society.” Cooper says there’

CBS News Poll: Most Americans Feel Rhetoric, Tucson Shooting Unrelated
A new CBS News poll shows that Americans are not falling for the Left’s attempts to exploit on the Tucson tragedy for political purposes: Most Americans Feel Rhetoric, Tucson Shooting Unrelated Nearly six in 10 Americans say the country’s heated political rhetoric is not to blame for the Tucson shooting rampage that left six dead and critically wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, according to a CBS News poll. In the wake of the shooting, much focus has been put on the harsh tone...

Paul Krugmans totalitarian temptation
Washington Examiner: Jared Loughner, the gunman charged with wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and murdering six others in Tucson on Saturday, held bizarre beliefs about “conscious dreaming” and government mind control imposed through English grammar. No serious person would connect his belief system to a mainstream political ideology. But then there’s New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. He places the blood Libel of blame for the Tucson Murders squarely on the sho...