Congressman Waxman wants his congressional committee to begin monitoring what Rush and others broadcast?

Question

Congressman Waxman wants his congressional commitee to listen to and monitor what Rush, Hanniety, and others braodcast and then hold them accountable.

Doesn't this sound like 1950's McCarthism? And should your government be involved in such activities?

Henry VIII----and you have an idea what McCarthism was all about?

Answer 1

I would also remind you that this is a congressional committee funded by tax dollars. So, the bottom line is Waxman is spending OUR tax money on monitoring what private citizens are saying over the airwaves. I don't know if it sinks to the level of McCarthyism, but it sure as heck is unAmerican.

Answer 2

If, indeed, Henry Waxman is calling for monitoring of Rush to hold him responsible for what he says I would ask Waxman if he has nothing better to do than to listen to Limbaugh. Rush is becoming more irrelevent as time goes by. One of these days Limbaugh is going to cross the line and be sued into oblivian or lose listeners which would about to the same sort of thing. The best way to handle a loudmouth like Rush is to have a counter-Rush also on radio. It would be someone who listens to Rush and then refutes what he says with facts. Rush just babbles clap trap anyway without any sort of hard evidence so a good talker shouldn't have too much of a problem with him. No it is not McCarthyism. You obviously have no idea what McCarthyism was all about.

Answer 3

Start monitoring? Waxman's a complete idiot if he said this. I can see it now. Taxpayer-funded nutcases, being paid to sit around listening to radio shows, taking notes as though they were in the 3rd grade.

Your elected reps have nothing better to do governing this country than this idiotic enterprise?

The left in Congress keeps getting loonier and loonier. Simply amazing! They all should be in straight jackets in rubber rooms.

Answer 4

Love the first posters hypocritical post- If Rush has nothing to hide...
Too funny, this is America and political partues have no business using the the government to monitor American citizens for political purposes.
Get ready for more though because this is what democrats are all about, they have set out to control the media and now have to gain control over talk radio which is the only part of the media they do not control. The communist and dictators do the same thing to eliminate voices of dissent.

Answer 5

a reliable answer is not any. which would be incorrect, reckoning on the particular republicans who're in question. in the event that they believe in piss-on-you-economics, aka Voodoo Economics (ty GHW Bush), or often prevalent as Reaganomics, then for particular they don't comprehend extra advantageous than Obama. in the event that they unquestionably comprehend the financial gadget, then they probably trust him.

Answer 6

Waxman just wants to sound authoritative.

Answer 7

I don't see the need in that. Rush is getting less relevant every day. Even the conservatives won't take up for him much. Everyone is seeing him for what he is. A loud mouth SOB with a God Complex that hates almost everyone.

Answer 8

And everybody thinks Republicans only do this. Wake up America.

Answer 9

Just more liberals trying to take away personal freedoms. A wonderful witch hunt. How long til we Senate hearings, black balls. McCarthy was hunting commies, the only problem is he failed to look in the mirror. Same crap now. As to the first answer. pfffffftttt. what twitery

Answer 10

Ever hear the term " rabbit ears"?
It's oversensitivity about what people are saying about you.