Palin, for Posterity

I have never known anybody in politics who has received the same level of attack and degradation as Sarah Palin -- in such a short time. I take comfort that she has the right kind of stuff and a strong faith to boot. Win or lose, she's a hero, and I thought our own, Paul Kengor, is so right on in his article posted on National Catholic Registry.

"There’s no question that Sarah Palin’s hope for those unwanted children, expressed in that speech, was a line in the sand — not just politically, but spiritually, against darker forces in an ancient battle between good and evil."

Dems Get Set to Muzzle the Right?

by Brian C. Anderson
New York Post
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Should Barack Obama win the presidency and Democrats take full control of Congress, next year will see a real legislative attempt to bring back the Fairness Doctrine - and to diminish conservatives' influence on broadcast radio, the one medium they dominate.

Yes, the Obama campaign said some months back that the candidate doesn't seek to re-impose this regulation, which, until Ronald Reagan's FCC phased it out in the 1980s, required TV and radio broadcasters to give balanced airtime to opposing viewpoints or face steep fines or even loss of license. But most Democrats - including party elders Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and Al Gore - strongly support the idea of mandating "fairness."

Would a President Obama veto a new Fairness Doctrine if Congress enacted one? It's doubtful.

The Fairness Doctrine was an astonishingly bad idea. It's a too-tempting power for government to abuse. When the doctrine was in effect, both Democratic and Republican administrations regularly used it to harass critics on radio and TV.

Second, a new Fairness Doctrine would drive political talk radio off the dial. If a station ran a big-audience conservative program like, say, Laura Ingraham's, it would also have to run a left-leaning alternative. But liberals don't do well on talk radio, as the failure of Air America and indeed all other liberal efforts in the medium to date show. Stations would likely trim back conservative shows so as to avoid airing unsuccessful liberal ones.

Then there's all the lawyers you'd have to hire to respond to the regulators measuring how much time you devoted to this topic or that. Too much risk and hassle, many radio executives would conclude. Why not switch formats to something less charged - like entertainment or sports coverage?

For those who dismiss this threat to freedom of the airwaves as unlikely, consider how the politics of "fairness" might play out with the public. A Rasmussen poll last summer found that fully 47 percent of respondents backed the idea of requiring radio and television stations to offer "equal amounts of conservative and liberal political commentary," with 39 percent opposed.

Liberals, Rasmussen found, support a Fairness Doctrine by 54 percent to 26 percent, while Republicans and unaffiliated voters were more evenly divided. The language of "fairness" is seductive.

Even with control of Washington and public support, Dems would have a big fight in passing a Fairness Doctrine. Rush Limbaugh & Co. wouldn't sit by idly and let themselves be regulated into silence, making the outcome of any battle uncertain. But Obama and the Democrats also plan other, more subtle regulations that would achieve much the same outcome.

He and most Democrats want to expand broadcasters' public-interest duties. One such measure would be to impose greater "local accountability" on them - requiring stations to carry more local programming whether the public wants it or not. The reform would entail setting up community boards to make their demands known when station licenses come up for renewal. The measure is clearly aimed at national syndicators like Clear Channel that offer conservative shows. It's a Fairness Doctrine by subterfuge.

Obama also wants to relicense stations every two years (not eight, as is the case now), so these monitors would be a constant worry for stations. Finally, the Democrats also want more minority-owned stations and plan to intervene in the radio marketplace to ensure that outcome.

It's worth noting, as Jesse Walker does in the latest Reason magazine, that Trinity Church, the controversial church Obama attended for many years, is heavily involved in the media-reform movement, having sought to restore the Fairness Doctrine, prevent media consolidation and deny licenses to stations that refuse to carry enough children's programming.

Regrettably, media freedom hasn't been made an issue by the McCain campaign, perhaps because the maverick senator is himself no fan of unbridled political speech, as his long support of aggressive campaign-finance regulation underscores. But the threat to free speech is real - and profoundly disturbing.

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Brian C. Anderson is editor of City Journal and co-author, with Adam Thierer, of A Manifesto for Media Freedom, just out from Encounter Books.

 

Source: http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=E9E183F1-E726-4BD5-B273-8BCD590E8916

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Can I cry foul? The powers that the liberals play in the media is so incredible they'd even pull away comedy snippets from the internet if it reveal their true colors.
I am not a fan of Saturday Night Live and only paid attention to it when Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin became the craze. Now that SNL is finally featuring liberal characters, all of a sudden, they're getting pulled out from the internet. Read more here.

THE BARBARITY OF CHANGE – OBAMA’S ACCOMPLISHMENT RECORD

The current dynamics of our politics is reflective of the degeneration of ideas. Our society seems to care less that ideas have consequences. The blatant or sometimes subtle result of adhering to evolution that nixes meaning and purpose for individual life clearly trumps altruism every time if we only reflect back long enough to learn from history. Without conscious respect for eternal authority or fear of accountability, we are naturally intentionally self-seeking and destructive.

When Ronald Reagan was running for president, the social debate was about when life begins. The semantics were blob of tissue versus fetus. Although this argumentation remain, it is appalling that one candidate who claims to be a Christian is only clearly marked by two certain things in his political background: his barbaric views on infant care for those who survive botched abortions and his twisted defense of equal rights for women who are objectified as mere inventory for the abortion industry. This culture epic is truly alarming when we realize that we are killing and hurting our own citizenry.

TO SENATOR OBAMA AND HIS SUPPORTERS:

I’d like to remind Senator Obama of just a couple short compassionate Bible quotes -- mind you, from the Old Testament, since he seem to undermine its relevance to his progressive views while claiming to adhere to the faith.

First, Christ’s ancestor himself, King David, affirms the value of a life even before conception -

“Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” (Psalm 139:16, NIV)

The second is from the prophet Moses whose job description is often caricatured as messengers of a cranky God, yes, from MLK’s own hero in leading the civil rights movement who have this to say -

“This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” (Deuteronomy 30:19 & 20, NIV)

The kind of change we need and the hope that is truly audacious can only stem from faith in the Holy One, knowledge of the Creator, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – whose Son, Jesus Christ, came down to earth to live and die so that everybody, "formed or unformed" may have life and have it to its fullest.

The decisions you have made, the bills you have upheld and the campaign rhetoric you espouse are not in synchrony, Senator; neither does your professed faith. That is why I cannot vote for you. You may have 2 daughters of your own but I cannot trust you to shape legislations for mine. That is why I can only vote for the McCain-Palin ticket, the real Christian, pro-life and pro-women ticket.

Sarah Palin Power Links

These are from the Miss Alaska Beauty Pagent in 1984. First is Sarah in the swimsuit competition and the second is the talent competition.







H/T for video find: Eric Odom