Radicals In The White House

Even as a joke i do not find Rahm Emanuels comments today on the 1st amendment funny at all.

"When you think about the First Amendment...you think it's highly overrated."
--Rham

Now, the white house has attacked free speech before in various styles. There was the war on Fox News, which really helped their already commanding ratings. And there was the war on Rush Limbaugh which also resulted in his soaring ratings.

Yet now the white house went after the first amendment itself. Not just people or organizations who exercise free speech, but free speech itself.

Now the irony is, in such a world that progressives like Rahm would like to live in, free speechless, he would not be able to say that. Or anything like that, anything that would shoot down the government.

So that's white house chief of staff. Here is the FCC 'chief diversity officer' who said "It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

"[T]he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance."

And you also have Robert McChesney of Free Press on the media reform that they want that the white house is advocating for, which would let the government, not private companies be in charge of the American Internet Service, saying "(T)he ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control."

So while Obama claimed to be a moderate, these are the kinds of people he is associating himself with. These radicals that their only goal, is to eliminate free speech.

Now the question is, who do we listen to? Do we listen to the FCC comish? or do we listen to oh say, George Washington. I think he has maybe a little credibility don't you.

"If the freedom of speech is taken away, dumb and silent we may be led like sheep, to the slaughter."
--George Washington

I don't know about you, but if the government takes away the first amendment, then the second may come in handy.