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Sentinel asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Is Freedom of Speech being Silenced by the Liberal Socialist Democrats?

Recently, a Florida Woman TV Reporter asked Obama's running mate, Senator Biden, about his, "MARK MY WORDS" Statement, that Obama will be seriously tested within 6 months of taking Office as the President. That he, Biden, believed that the People would not agree with the Obama Response, but that We had to Stick with Obama and Biden.

Biden refused to answer the Woman TV Reporter's Question, and later, the Democrat Party advised the Woman"s TV Station, protected by Free Speech, that it was being Barred from Interviewing any Other Democrat Politicians!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Does this surprise you, look at what they are doing to Joe the plumber. They also want the fairness doctrine back to stifle talk radio. Like it is our fault no one wants to hear a lib on radio. They have all the news outlets except Fox, and all they do is complain about that.

    Watch out kids, obama is coming for our free speach and weapons.

    America needs a REVOLUTION once again, to fix these liberals.

  • 5 years ago

    i'm sufficiently old to undergo in recommendations talk radio again in the days of the fairness Doctrine. that is a fantasy that talk radio replaced into bland for the period of that era. Radio often replaced right into a procedures extra interesting previously deregulation - stations honestly had distinct formats and did not merely have syndicated programming or play an analogous 20 songs many times. on the time, there have been opinionated talk host on the right and the left. talk radio replaced right into a lot extra problematical in the course of the fairness Doctrine days because you easily heard actual debate and differing critiques. The hosts were no longer muzzled yet merely had to furnish a at the same time as to modern-day opposing perspectives. maximum of talk radio at present is merely propaganda. A handful of companies (possessing the tremendous majority of radio stations) provide us in effortless words the critiques that they prefer us to take heed to. most of the hosts merely recite speaking factors from the RNC. the in effortless words exception that i will imagine of is a uncommon average like Jim Bohananon or Michael Medved - a conservative talk host who in many situations effective elements travelers that he disagrees with. We deserve more suitable than one-sided propaganda on the airwaves - i do not care no matter if that is coming from Rush Limbaugh from the right or Air us of a from the left.

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    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    If declining to interview or answer a question is "silencing Free Speech" what do you call the Bush administrations 8 years of closed ranks and sickening silence? Or Palin's cherry picking and refusing interviews all over the place?

    Obviously, "Free Speech" also means people are free to ignorantly speak about what Free Speech means and is...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It is so bad that questions are not being posted and yet violations are not present, plus even Yahoo is going through certain conservatives Q&A and deleting them way after they were made.

    It is pre Nazi Germany for sure and if you want to know why here is the answer.

    http://www.ameinfo.com/68612.html

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  • 1 decade ago

    The campaign has every right to choose which reporters it talks to. The press can say what it wants, and likewise the campaign can choose how it conducts their activities however it wants. There are too many reporters for campaigns to talk to all of them, so they're going to pick the ones they like the most.

    But since you brought it up, after 9/11 Bush's press secretary, Ari Fleischer, said that certain comments are

    "reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do."

    So think about that the next time you're concerned about Democrats limiting freedom of speech.

  • 1 decade ago

    If we elect a Democrat President and a Democrat majority in Congress, freedom of speech is, indeed, threatened.

  • Stan
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Why do you loser republicans insist on creating fear and doubt in the minds of the voters?

    Because that's all you have to run on? Because you can't possibly run on your records?

    Pretty much every president is tested early in their terms...

    GHWBush...Panama Canal and Persian Gulf

    Clinton...first Twin Towers bombing

    Bush...9/11

    This is a non story except for the neo-con's who have had 8 years and totally abandoned their once proud "conservative" principles.

    That's exactly why America is fed up with the republican party.

  • 1 decade ago

    No. Unless you count all the cons like Palin hiding from the press.

    Dismissed.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Freedom of speech doesn't mean that people have to do interviews with you.

  • 1 decade ago

    Refusing to do another interview is not in any way hindering free speech.

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