- Posted by Christopher Estep on November 4, 2008
The left like to tell everyone that they’re all about preserving basic civil liberties. What they don’t tell you is that they only want to preserve those liberties if you “think right”.
The political correctness movement has come back with a vengeance, mostly due to the racial composition of Barack Obama. While political correctness is long known to be a tool to squelch free speech, with Obama it has reached new heights.
Whenever you oppose Obama on a position, it’s racist.
If you use a term to describe its policies, it’s racist.
If you believe Obama will be a bad president, you must be a racist. It’s circular reasoning at its finest. Your opposition to Obama is evidence of your racism.
Throughout his campaign, Obama has tried to control the criticisms against him. I’m not saying he tried to defend against them or even deflect them. He tried to stop them outright by declaring them out of bounds.
If his wife talks about how Barack will make everyone have a smaller piece of the pie, you can’t criticize that because that’s his wife. If she says while on the campaign on behalf of her husband that America is “downright mean” you don’t dare question that because that’s his wife. If you talk about his characterization of his grandmother as “a typical white person” you are castigated for involving his family.
At a very basic level, Obama has tried to control the speech and words used in this campaign and he’s been largely successful. But I’m sure people are thinking, “that’s not squelching free speech at all” but as his election/coronation gets closer, Obama has shown his true colors and sent a message to the entire media what will happen if they don’t “play ball”.
Multiple TV stations have been refused any future interviews after asking Joe Biden questions he didn’t like. But what is most frightening is that Obama kicked 3 newspapers off of his plane after they endorsed John McCain.
If you look at that one act alone and do so objectively, you’ll see that Obama is heading toward creating a TASS-type agency.
These newspapers found out that free speech that is punished, isn’t free at all.
Further, there’s the Fairness Doctrine. While Obama thankfully has said that he doesn’t support a return of the FD, he also said he supported public funding of his campaign. What isn’t in question is that the Democratic congress wants the Fairness Doctrine so bad they can taste it. If you don’t know, the Fairness Doctrine was a law that required radio stations to give opposing viewpoints on political issues. The problem is that radio is a business and it’s a sad fact for the Democrats that liberal talk radio doesn’t sell.
If Pelosi and Reid want the Fairness Doctrine, they’ll package it in some bill he’ll have to sign.
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