So much for free speech, but we already knew Republicans and Democrats alike wish to censor our words and thoughts, didn’t we?
From The Hill:
Republicans introduce measure condemning MoveOn ad
By Jackie Kucinich
House Republican leaders introduced a resolution Monday condemning a full-page newspaper ad from MoveOn.org that criticizes the character of Gen. David Petraeus, the commanding general of U.S. troops in Iraq.
The resolution, authored by Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), is cosponsored by 11 Republicans, including Reps. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs panel. …”
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“… The full-page ad in the New York Times features a large black and white picture of Petraeus speaking into a cluster of microphones and includes a caption that says: “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?” The ad then alleges that the testimony of Iraq’s leading general will play politics with the facts. …”
Why do I refer to these clowns as being hypocrites? Because, thanks to some incredible investigative digging by my good friend, Megan Donovan and her pal Alan Martin of The C’est Moi Political Blog, we now the source of those annoying pro-war ads from Freedom Watch are the brainchild of the GOP, the Bush White House, Big Oil, and their “Nation Buildin’ Bidness”. Don’t believe me? Click on that link to learn who the REAL players are behind those annoying damned commercials — you don’t even have to follow the money or learn who the players are; Megan’s already done that for you in her “must read” piece. I advise the Democrats NOT to start their own House Resolution against Freedom Watch, or I’ll be equally torqued off at THEM, and for the very same reasons I’m torqued off at the GOP.
The way I see it, the Republicans are wasting MY taxpayer dollars, MY time, and MY “Gub’mint” buildings to play politics when they are busy cooking up new ways to keep tossing our young men and women into the meatgrinder of a civil war in Iraq, and probably, as pondered today by Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Dish (and myself on multiple occasions), to extend their “Big Oil And Nation Buildin’ Bidness” into Iran as soon as humanly possible. If anything, not only is it time to stop playing politics on Capitol Hill, it is time to send the Feds into our Government buildings on a RICO Act raid; about the only thing I would approve the RICO Act being used for, by the way; to break up this disgusting, PUTRID “house of cards” our lawmakers have built for themselves at the expense of American lives and taxdollars.
While I keep holding my breath, waiting on the (“Wow! The Surge IS working!“) Dems to kick this one off in high gear, I am beginning to wonder if the batons are being handed off to them by the crooks of the GOP behind the doors of those smoke-filled rooms.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
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Others weigh in (H/T to MemeOrandum): The Newshoggers; The Carpetbagger Report; Central Sanity
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4:06 pm on September 11th, 2007 1
is this a police state where people can’t even take out an ad they themselves paid for..?? why are the republicans so keen on “shredding the constitution”?? see:http://www.thenewsroom.com/details/700114?c_id=wom-bc-bg
John Boehner (R-Ohio)authored the bill.. isn’t he the one who cried on the House floor during a debate?? well boy!! this attempt to silence the people will make him smile then
bhumika
politics desk,the newsroom
7:19 pm on September 11th, 2007 2
You support the right to produce and publish an ad trashing a man who has given his entire life to service to country and call it free speech – I agree. But then you say those who denounce the ad are trying to stifle free speech. But isn’t that just another form of free speech? MoveOn is free to publish their trash and others are free to condemn it.
If it is really the waste of time and money that annoys you, there are a myriad of things congress does that is much more wasteful than this.
Personally, I think there should be no speech codes. After all, how will we be able to tell who the jerks are if they are not allowed to speak or publish?
10:41 pm on September 11th, 2007 3
The Legislature shouldn’t be in the business of creating “resolutions” to make political points. Whether it’s the dems and a resolution letting people know they disapprove of Bush’s strategy in Iraq or whether it’s reps going after Moveon.org. they’re both guilty of it, they’re both wasting money, and they’re both losing focus of what they’ve been elected to do – actually get results and get things done. How many times has Congress gotten caught-up in purely politcal propoganda campaigns instead of actually creating legislation?
10:02 am on September 12th, 2007 4
Move-On.org has the right to put any ad in a newspaper that the newspaper is willing to print.
It ought to have better sense and a more highly developed sense of appropriate political discourse, however.
The ad was childish, and down-in-the-gutter, and beneath contempt, and helps to hasten the manic-Left’s headlong rush toward irrelevance.
2:21 pm on September 13th, 2007 5
William Weber and James Shott both hit the nail on the head.
I would even go further to say that Move-on is quickly fading into irrelevance, as is George Soros, and this is just an extremely weak and cowardly attempt to draw attention to themselves as they gasp their last few breaths.
If the best thing they can come up with is to make fun of an Honorable man and Honorable Soldier’s name, then I must feel pity for them and their lack of substance.