democrats, liberals, even educators want to limit our right of free speech.

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

AM radio and cable news would be attacked first.

Sharpton Wants FCC to Ban Limbaugh

Wednesday, 24 Nov 2010 02:24 PM

Liberal firebrand Rev. Al Sharpton is telling audiences that the

Federal Communications Commission should take Rush Limbaugh off the
airwaves because of perceived offenses toward racial minorities and
other groups.

The attack was only the latest in a series of attacks by Democrats,
including President Obama, who suggest that America's political
discourse is being crippled by talk radio and cable news shows.

Specifically, Sharpton suggested that the FCC should establish "guidelines" or "standards" to regulate speech.

"You've got to remember that those stations that Rush Limbaugh is on
and others are regulated by FCC, granted by FCC; they go back to them
to get waivers," Sharpton said on his own radio show on Nov. 19th

"They go back to them to get consolidation," Sharpton continued. "They
have the right to set standards. That does not impair your right to
speak what you believe, but it does say that you are not going to do
that to offend groups of Americans based on their race, their gender,
their sexual status - none of that."

Sharpton's broadside followed a similar attack last week by Sen. Jay
Rockefeller. The West Virginia Democrat went after both right-leaning
Fox News and left-leaning MSNBC.

Said Rockefeller during a Senate hearing: "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."

And earlier this year President Obama himself lamented what he
described as the sad state of political discourse hampered by iPods and
cable TV shows.

"And with iPods and iPads; and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which
I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a
form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than
the means of emancipation," Obama said during a commencement address at
Hampton University in Virginia. "So all of this is not only putting
pressure on you; it's putting new pressure on our country and on our
democracy."
Conservatives and civil libertarians are concerned by what they see as a growing tolerance by liberals to regulate and even censor the
airwaves, especially as outlets like Fox News and shows like Limbaugh's
grow ever more popular.

Limbaugh is the most listened to radio host in the nation with more
than 15 million weekly visitors. Fox News continues to trounce its
cable news rivals CNN and MSNBC in ratings.

"This is scary stuff," lamented an editorial in Investors Business
Daily. "Strong speech has always been quintessentially American.

With the airwaves and cyberspace replacing soapboxes, it's more vital
than ever to protect it against politicians favoring a new 'fairness
doctrine' that would keep voters from being armed with the information
and analysis that can be used to unseat them."

We Won't allow them to take our FREEDOM of speech !

[Sandra]

Decided I will email the FCC and advise them just what I said below and I suggest you an others do too!

[Sandra]

That is why we have a channel changer and and a off button! I wonder how they would react if we sent mails to the FCC and said we wanted CNN and the rest banned for being bigots!