New Audio: Camille Paglia Blisters Democrats for Pushing Return to ‘Fairness Doctrine’

"They've totally betrayed the soul of the party to even mention this." EDITOR'S NOTE: Don't miss Paglia's epic rant on the stimulus bill and Obama's role -- it's in the related link section.

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February 14, 2009 at 2:22 pm - Mark Simone Show/WABC-AM
Dateline: New York, NY
CommonSense   February 14th, 2009 - 2:38 pm

The First Amendment covers this well – The Democrat Party talks the talk about freedom – but has never walked the walk. (H/T Cornell Law):

“The most basic component of freedom of expression is the right of freedom of speech. The right to freedom of speech allows individuals to express themselves without interference or constraint by the government. The Supreme Court requires the government to provide substantial justification for the interference with the right of free speech where it attempts to regulate the content of the speech. A less stringent test is applied for content-neutral legislation. The Supreme Court has also recognized that the government may prohibit some speech that may cause a breach of the peace or cause violence. The right to free speech includes other mediums of expression that communicate a message.

Despite popular misunderstanding the right to freedom of the press guaranteed by the first amendment is not very different from the right to freedom of speech. It allows an individual to express themselves through publication and dissemination. It is part of the constitutional protection of freedom of expression. It does not afford members of the media any special rights or privileges not afforded to citizens in general. “

Dave, Tn   February 14th, 2009 - 3:13 pm

Well I hope she doesn’t talk sense to them. I really want to see them try to enforce it.

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Pete   February 14th, 2009 - 3:41 pm

“They’ve totally betrayed the soul of the party to even mention this.”

stars and bars   February 14th, 2009 - 4:11 pm

they will stop at nothing to silence there opposition.america put these nazis in power and i believe they will make laws or change them so they never lose it again.i would like to thank the un educated,ignorant,just because he’s black,global warming,america hating voter for this predicament.all hail the reincarnation of jimmy carter.preay for our nation because satan is in charge of the federal government.

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sugarugby   February 14th, 2009 - 4:39 pm

I would love to get my hands on a transcript of this interview, particularly the comment about the “stranglehold” that liberals hold on the MSM and her listing them off, also love the part where she evaluates how one must speak when on a liberal radio show.

Kenny C   February 14th, 2009 - 4:48 pm

First you need a soul before you can betray it….anyone who puts tons of debt on their children and grandchildren have no soul….all that debt for their own agendra ……shame….shame….shame

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   February 14th, 2009 - 5:51 pm

Camille Paglia is a Democrat I can respect…I really respect her.

She is a Democrat foremost, but she has not forgotten that she is an American first!

Taking away or trying to squelch freedom of speech is against the Constitution of the United States of America and the President of the United States of America must swear to uphold that Constitution.

Instead the Nation of Islam’s Messiah, because he is so “thin skinned” and can’t take “any” – “any” opposition to “his” holy views and thoughts…he is sending out his comrades to flood the airwaves with this “fairness doctrine”!

The President of the United States of America is not protecting the Constitution…he is trying to go against it…maybe then…America…we’ll have a very, very good reason for impeachment!

KEEP IT UP ALL YOU SOCIALIST/COMMUNISTIC “NEW” DEMOCRATS…KEEP IT UP!

Eagle Eye   February 14th, 2009 - 6:11 pm

She uses commonsense and can see the Hypocricy in most liberal shenanigans.

CommonSense   February 14th, 2009 - 6:11 pm

winkwink Eagle Eye : )

Joe   February 14th, 2009 - 6:51 pm

Ms. Pagila is being rolled by the new generation of liberals. The movement she was part of forming has abandoned what she stands for. It’s not surprising they are throwing her under the bus.
Anyone that gets in the way will have the same faith. Ms. Pagila can be blamed for birthing these people.
I guess she forgot one basic thought while championing her liberal cause “you better watch out what you ask for, you might get it”
I hope she’s satisfied for all her success in her cause.

paul   February 14th, 2009 - 7:13 pm

First off, the good news: Finally, a liberal with the decency of morals to be consistent. Now the bad news: The good lady wonders why liberals can never have a decent talk radio show. The reason is it would require true reasoning powers. Wicked people are not capable of that. Also, it has been proven that liberals do not listen to talk radio. Just keep the Kool-Aid comin’ and they’ll vote for whatever the pop culture’s news tells them. (You know, high brow, intellectual news like SNL, TMZ, and 30-second sound bites from the MSM.)

Fahrt der Wikinger   February 14th, 2009 - 8:22 pm

Die Liberalen drücken uns ungefähr, insoweit wohl gehen Sie. Sie müssen sich erinnern, dass wir für unsere Freiheiten anders als die kämpfen, die Mitläufer. Wenn sie dieses versuchen, konnte es das letzte Stroh sein. Die Liberalen benötigen einige braunere Hemden, als sie jetzt haben. Hagel zum Führer. Liberale sind Schweinhunde.

I just can’t wait for this to happen. No more Rush or Sean.

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jan   February 14th, 2009 - 9:19 pm

This lady gets it, lets see if the rest of the idiots in her party will follow her lead

Thrasher6   February 14th, 2009 - 9:34 pm

Not only the 1st Amendment…but,… nobody can sell any ammunition after June 30, 2009 unless the ammunition is coded.

Any privately held uncoded ammunition must be destroyed by July 1, 2011. This legislation is currently pending in 18 states.

click on and read…esp Washington state

http://ammunitionaccountability.org/Legislation.htm

N Waff   February 14th, 2009 - 9:55 pm

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Jim C.   February 14th, 2009 - 11:07 pm

Poor Camille. She thinks the soul of the Dem party actually wanted free speech for everyone! How naive.

“You believe in freedom of speech for communists because what they say is true. You do *not* believe in freedom of speech for fascists because what they say is a lie.” –John Howard Lawson, head and cultural commissar of the Hollywood division of the American Communist Party, instructing the rest of the Hollywood 10. From “Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten” by Edward Dmytryk

wayne tessier   February 15th, 2009 - 12:19 am

Not much i can say i agree with Camille Paglia about but i will state that i respect the lady.

di butler   February 15th, 2009 - 6:13 am

Camille believes in what the Democrat party was supposed to stand for. She is one of the very few who understands, and appreciates everyone having a voice. She is an atheist, but shows great respect for those who have religious beliefs. Classy woman. Plus she said Katie Couric was the dumbest, most narrow-minded person who had ever interviewed her. I give her 100 pts. just for that.

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The Observer   February 15th, 2009 - 8:54 am

I’m not in the least bit surprised that leftwingers would try to throttle free speech by imposing a free speech busting “fairness doctrine” to destroy Conservative talk radio. Look what they do on college campi when Conservative speakers attempt to address students…quite frequently this conservative viewpoint is shouted down…just as the brown shirts shouted down anyone opposed to hitler’s ideology (national socialism).

Read Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism.” It traces the lineage of the isms……communism, nazism, leftist/liberal/progressivism……folks…… these people are related…..they both have a fascination with big government and the jackbooted state mandates……it’s what makes their legs tingle.

fande3rls   February 15th, 2009 - 8:59 am

too The Observer:
I am reading this book, its great , But the liberals here would not because they wouldn’t want to know the truth,
but it is so sad to see what is happening to our nation.
I also suggest that you read the 5000 year leap also.

SOCIALISM KILLS THE HUMAN SPIRIT
GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!-PATRICK HENRY
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
DON’T TREAD ON ME
JOIN OR DIE
LIBERTY OR DEATH

PFMinTN   February 15th, 2009 - 10:01 am

Thanks Breitbart for airing this – will be passing along.

I found some of Ms Paglia’s columns last year and while I don’t agree with a lot of what she says, I appreciate she thinks about it and makes a somewhat cohesive rational case for her ideas.

Thanks Thrasher6
Been looking for that information on coding ammo.

Just had a conversation with an acquaintance who works in the camping/outdoors/firearms dept at our local Wal*Mart.
He said sometime in May or June (He told me but I was so stunned I don’t even remember the date he said) that WM will no longer sell uncoded ammo and there will be a 50 cent tax PER “shell”. They can’t keep ammo in stock right now. As soon as there is a delivery, they are almost completely sold out.

We’d BETTER get into the offices of our representatives and meet them face to face instead of writing emails and talking with staffers. They don’t seem to be hearing us very well.

Case in point – this bill was brought up previously in 2007 by Rep Rush out of Chicago – a former Black Panther and current pastor of a local church.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.45.IH:

READ THE BILL, then take some action. Please!!

fande3rls   February 15th, 2009 - 10:17 am

/11/2009

A spokeswoman for President Obama has confirmed what the NRA has

been saying all along … that he supports gun control, including sweeping

bans on semi-automatic rifles.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says it received confirmation of Obama’s

support for gun control laws in an email from spokeswoman Amy Brundage.

Of course, the spokeswoman spat out that forked-tongued two-faced

doublespeak that’s become so familiar- that Obama “believes in the Second

Amendment” as well.

Doesn’t anyone call a lie a lie any more?

That’s like saying you believe in the First Amendment, but it doesn’t apply to

radio or cable television. We’ll get the same argument from those who want

to shut down conservative talk radio before long.

It doesn’t matter if it’s the First or the Second Amendment we’re talking

about … there is nothing right or reasonable about rationing constitutional

rights, and the NRA will fight until they’re restored.

Coultergeist   February 15th, 2009 - 10:20 am

Just more right wing wacko rhetoric…..nothing more. Get rid of morons like Limplaugh and this world will be a much better place. Even I as a moderate have enough sense to realise the stupidity and hate these morons spew on a daily basis!

The Observer   February 15th, 2009 - 10:29 am

Isn’t is interesting how leftwing dirtbags always call for getting rid of someone or something they disagree with?

These leftwing nutjobs believe in diversity…..just not diversity of ideas.

They are dangerously unbalanced…..just read the rants of the paranoid “coultergeist” and you will see what I mean.

Does anyone believe that the toilet bug posting above is a “moderate?”

The Observer   February 15th, 2009 - 10:38 am

fande3rls

Thanks, I’ll have to read the 5000 year leap.

Leftwingers, being cowards by nature, and natural conformists (watch them strut around academia like they’re some kind of rebel with a cause- they’re the real conformists) would never read “Liberal Fascism.” And even if they did, most wouldn’t understand it.

Did you see the Gallup Poll about the stupidity of the average Obamateur voter?

Coultergeist obviously fits the mold…and is any wonder he doesn’t listen to talk radio? He couldn’t decipher what they are saying, and probably has a hard time just finding his way home after flipping the burgers.

kdizzydaze   February 15th, 2009 - 10:41 am

Bring on the fairness doctrine. I cannot wait to see an hour of Mark Levin to balance Olbermann on PMSNBC and then an hour of Michael Savage to balance Maddow. Oh, the quandry PMSNBC will have in determining how to cut Olby’s salary and then double Levin’s once the ratings for the two come out. HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!

fande3rls   February 15th, 2009 - 12:01 pm

Yes I did , the left really does want what they call Useful idoits . BUT I hope YOu and OTHer conservatives will Agree That we need to stand firm against them . I am for the Indiviual not the state .

Keep your Powder Dry

GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!-PATRICK HENRY
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
DON’T TREAD ON ME
SOCIALISM KILLS THE HUMAN SPIRIT
LIVE FREE OR DIE

4w578i   February 15th, 2009 - 12:58 pm

Would feminists be forced to give chauvinists the final say?

Would legalists be forced to host libertarian viewpoints?

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Nic   February 15th, 2009 - 1:31 pm

OK, this is the second time i’ve come here to try and listen.. Does the audio/video not come up for anyone else?

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pwn   February 15th, 2009 - 6:05 pm

What is truly disturbing is the left wing lemmings who are cheer leading this assault on free speech. Don’t seem to care a bit about an opposing view point as long as their views are in the majority. They’ll care when a second revolution erupts over this.

CrusaderPatriot   February 15th, 2009 - 8:22 pm

She’s absolutely right! I’d add that the reason liberal talk radio fails is that they have to lie all the time and people can hear it in their voices. The facts don’t support liberals so they end up yelling and name calling at anyone who opposes them to shut them up. If the Democrats succeed in doing this, I predict it will lead to Civil War! The attack on our freedoms combined with “hyper pork spending” will also lead to a horric depression and civil strife. So the first thing we should prepare for is to learn to be as self-sufficient as possible and protect your family. Then organize with other like minded people to defend your community or area from the starving bands of liberal idiot raiders from our largest cities who will come looking for anything they can steal or eat. Then we build from there by combining like minded groups or militias. This is just a scenario, however, it very well could happen considering the situation we’re in which is worse than the 1930’s because our country has massive debt now and virtually no production capacity. In the 30’s it was just the opposite.

Mike Gibson   February 15th, 2009 - 10:29 pm

democrat/liberals don’t even bother to pretend that they’re Americans anymore. They just jump right into socialism that will, and is meant to, destroy America.

Nietzschean   February 16th, 2009 - 11:36 am

Most liberals don’t want “fairness,” they want dominance. Camille could not be more correct.

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The Judge   February 16th, 2009 - 7:10 pm

Dr. Mary Pat, we “right-wing boobs” will defend anyone when they’re right. Unfortunately, it’s so seldom that anyone on the left is worth defending.

The Observer   February 16th, 2009 - 7:15 pm

It just goes to show you how tolerant the right is compared with leftist imbeciles such as Dr.Fat and the other idiot leftwinger masquerading as a “moderate.”

What does Paglia’s sexuality, her religious views, or her position on abortion have to do with her contention that the fairness doctrine is unfair?

I know, I know, for liberals logic is optional….

The Observer   February 16th, 2009 - 8:50 pm

Did anyone notice that the leftwing kook didn’t answer the question?

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   February 16th, 2009 - 8:58 pm

Dear Mary Pat…sorry Satan is a socialist/communistic “new” Democrat so you do it for us…will ya…and don’t forget to whisper in his ear…”I love you”!

SUSIE   February 17th, 2009 - 8:36 am

I DO NOT CARE WHAT SHE IS OR WHO SHE IS ALL I CARE ABOUT IS FINALLY SOMEONE IS TAKING A STAND FOR WHAT IS OUR RIGHT TO HAVE.THANK YOU MA’AM,FROM ALOT OF US.CAN WE LEARN FROM HER OURSELVES AND TAKE A STAND?PROBABLY NOT.

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Anthony Aardvark   February 17th, 2009 - 10:48 am

Ms. Paglia is a useful idiot. The Fairness Doctrine exemplifies the soul of the party of the left.

JeanE   February 17th, 2009 - 11:07 am

Dr. Mary Pat Jordan,

I read Ms. Paglia’s work because she has a different viewpoint than I do on many issues and she constructs reasoned arguments to support her positions- something worth thinking about even when I don’t agree with her. I don’t see what her religious beliefs or sexual orientation have to do with whether or not I agree or disagree with her position on a given issue, or whether or not I find her argument substantive.

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JC   February 18th, 2009 - 9:22 am

Where do you people come up with this crap? NO ONE is even suggesting anything close to an end to free speech.. Not that I am in favor of the fairness doctrine, Besides I take it upon myself to find out both sides of any issue. I’m an adult who doesn’t cater to being spoon fed what I’m supposed tho think.

Nevertheless, do any of you even know what the fairness doctrine is? I mean actually is? Not the Fox News talking points version. It does not require EQUAL TIME, min by min, hour by hour. It would only require an opposing view point be given to critical public information. The equal time rule is something completely different, actually for campaigning political candidates.

Given your arguments one could say any candidate for office is having their speech squelched. But if you tried that people would prob just roll their eyes at you. Like I do every time you people start falling allover yourselves about the socialist librul democrats.

Stay classy, No one expects anything less.

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SW   March 5th, 2009 - 7:28 pm

The fairness doctrine has nothing to do with squashing voices or violating first amendment rights. When 1 right-wing company owns EVERY SINGLE STATION in a market there is no freedom of choice for listeners. Those companies are using OUR airwaves so they OWE us a choice.

…and he’s lying about Air America they have opposing voices ALL THE TIME.

These people have no idea what they are talking apart.

And people who say “Democrat party” are complete brainwashed ditto-head talking point zombies. It’s “Democratic Party” There’s no such thing as the “Democrat Party” Stop repeating their right-wing Orwellian Nuspeak.

SW   March 5th, 2009 - 7:43 pm

AND NBC owned by right wing Republicans… President of Viacom (owns half the channels on cable) openly endorsed GWB in 04. How many newspapers and other media outlets does Rupert Murdoch own? This “liberal media” myth is ridiculous. But they keep repeating it enough so it MUST be true. Friggin’ ditto-heads… There have to be some Republican think tank guys just laughing their heads off “I can say ANYTHING and they’ll believe it and repeat it in blog comments!”

Bitum   July 29th, 2009 - 6:06 am

Lovely

DoomsDays   September 10th, 2009 - 5:38 am

Я извиняюсь, но, по-моему, Вы не правы. Давайте обсудим. Пишите мне в PM, поговорим.

тизерный трафик   September 15th, 2009 - 3:56 pm

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