Ray9
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Picture yourself working with a person who sees the world differently than you do. That person may not agree with you on political issues. So what do you do? Do you go to the management of the company and try get to them to fire this person for exercising his or her right to free speech? Maybe you feel so strongly about the veracity of your positions that you threaten the leadership of your company by publicly smearing the reputations of firms that do business with them in order to injure the profit margins of your employer. Because you see free speech as so dangerous to your worldview, you feel justified in attempting to take away the livelihood of a person who uses it. For the time being that probably wouldn’t result in a good outcome for you.
The time being, like free speech, is never a fixture in any society. It is transitory in nature and vulnerable to the winds of change and sometimes that change is an ill wind that blows no good. Such is the case with Media Matters for America, a left-leaning media giant that describes itself as a “watchdog” for conservative falsehoods. Americans have learned to be leery of groups that purport to be watchdogs because fascist history demonstrates that watchdogs turn into attack dogs as soon as their speech is rejected in favor of any other speech.
When their agenda fails they feel righteously vindicated in crossing any line necessary to salvage and propagate that agenda. Media Matters for America, like the southern Poverty Law Center and the National Organization for Women, presents itself as a representative of people who never elected them for representation. They are essentially crusaders for an ideology that does not recognize free speech in an individual sense only in a group sense.
So as crusaders for groups that didn’t elect them they feel empowered to label individuals who do exercise free speech as threats to groups they have commandeered to speak for. They were able to take away Bill O’Reilly’s job at Fox news by holding his advertisers as hostages and calling for boycotts. They are using the same strategy to try to silence Sean Hannity.
When you go to work tomorrow and you are called to the personnel office with news that your employment has been terminated because another employee threatened the bottom line. Thank Media Matters.
The time being, like free speech, is never a fixture in any society. It is transitory in nature and vulnerable to the winds of change and sometimes that change is an ill wind that blows no good. Such is the case with Media Matters for America, a left-leaning media giant that describes itself as a “watchdog” for conservative falsehoods. Americans have learned to be leery of groups that purport to be watchdogs because fascist history demonstrates that watchdogs turn into attack dogs as soon as their speech is rejected in favor of any other speech.
When their agenda fails they feel righteously vindicated in crossing any line necessary to salvage and propagate that agenda. Media Matters for America, like the southern Poverty Law Center and the National Organization for Women, presents itself as a representative of people who never elected them for representation. They are essentially crusaders for an ideology that does not recognize free speech in an individual sense only in a group sense.
So as crusaders for groups that didn’t elect them they feel empowered to label individuals who do exercise free speech as threats to groups they have commandeered to speak for. They were able to take away Bill O’Reilly’s job at Fox news by holding his advertisers as hostages and calling for boycotts. They are using the same strategy to try to silence Sean Hannity.
When you go to work tomorrow and you are called to the personnel office with news that your employment has been terminated because another employee threatened the bottom line. Thank Media Matters.
