A powerful Democratic senator, pointing the finger at cable news for a politically toxic climate in Washington, unleashed a stunning tirade in which he expressed his desire to see the Federal Communications Commission shut down Fox News and MSNBC.More at Left Coast Rebel.
"I'm tired of the right and the left," West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller said Wednesday during a Senate hearing on retransmission consent. "There's a little bug inside of me which wants to get the FCC to say to Fox and to MSNBC, 'Out. Off. End. Goodbye.' "
"It would be a big favor to political discourse; to our ability to do our work here in Congress; and to the American people, to be able to talk with each other and have some faith in their government and, more importantly, in their future," said the chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Rockefeller didn't seem to realize that the FCC only regulates broadcast airwaves, not cable.
Rockefeller's office did not respond to a request for an interview. The FCC declined to comment.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Senator Jay Rockefeller Wishes FCC Would Shut Down Fox News
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Always interesting when those who have sworn to protect and defend the Constitution want to toss out certain parts of it that seem to be inconvenient to them in maintaining their position. The sad part is that most of them must believe that they will always be in power and that these attacks on the various freedoms we have will not affect them.
They really need to stop an consider that life is replete with people being "hoisted on their own petard." The pendulum never stops swinging and will swing in both directions. Be careful of trying to hold it back by not standing strong on Constitutional protections for it just might sweep one away in a manner that one may rue their involvement.
Comments like this are part of the reason I left the Democrat party. No principle or idea is above being sacrificed on the altar of political expediency and the thirst for power.
Those who seek this kind of power are as enslaved as those they would rule and will fall to their own arrogance and foolishness.
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