PoliticalChic
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But....what happens to journalists who don't toe the line?
Say....one who investigated 'Fast and Furious,' and Benghazi, and Obama's failed green-energy investments?
How would a fascist government respond to Attkisson's cutting edge reporting?
7.....and that brings us back to Sharyl Attkisson.
"Suddenly, a tough reporter who had exposed fraud and corruption on both sides of the aisle was transformed by the illiberal left into a secret conservative who couldn't be trusted.
In a piece headlined "Was Reporter Sharyl Attkisson Too Right-Wing for CBS?" Lloyd Grove quoted a former CBS news colleague making the anonymous accusation, "She is definitely not being truthful about being non-partisan. She has an agenda and political bent." [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...sharyl-attkisson-too-right-wing-for-cbs.html]
A gigantic fly in the ointment for the illiberal left is Attkisson's history of investigating both Democrats and Republicans."
Kirsten Powers, "The Silencing: How The Left Is Killing Free Speech," p. 43
" ....Attkisson's history of investigating both Democrats and Republicans."
But which side attacked this reporter using its power to crush the dissemination of speech that it doesn't want the public to hear?
The very same political side which despises this, in the first amendment: "..prohibits....abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press,..."
The fascist side.
A direct line from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama.
Say....one who investigated 'Fast and Furious,' and Benghazi, and Obama's failed green-energy investments?
How would a fascist government respond to Attkisson's cutting edge reporting?
7.....and that brings us back to Sharyl Attkisson.
"Suddenly, a tough reporter who had exposed fraud and corruption on both sides of the aisle was transformed by the illiberal left into a secret conservative who couldn't be trusted.
In a piece headlined "Was Reporter Sharyl Attkisson Too Right-Wing for CBS?" Lloyd Grove quoted a former CBS news colleague making the anonymous accusation, "She is definitely not being truthful about being non-partisan. She has an agenda and political bent." [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...sharyl-attkisson-too-right-wing-for-cbs.html]
A gigantic fly in the ointment for the illiberal left is Attkisson's history of investigating both Democrats and Republicans."
Kirsten Powers, "The Silencing: How The Left Is Killing Free Speech," p. 43
" ....Attkisson's history of investigating both Democrats and Republicans."
But which side attacked this reporter using its power to crush the dissemination of speech that it doesn't want the public to hear?
The very same political side which despises this, in the first amendment: "..prohibits....abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press,..."
The fascist side.
A direct line from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama.