Are democrats kewl with waxman, d-ca, begining investigations into what rush limbaugh says on the air?

Question

are you for or against speaking freely? just answer the question!

lets see, we have one stalinist answer and one falling into more of a "macarthyism" catagory...both unacceptable, and both go against freedom..let me guess, you hate bush?

reg...so in your world of free speech, only speech that does not fall into your idea of "crap" will be allowed? joe stalin thinks you're tops! just the tops!

Answer 1

Congress should begin investigations into earmarks that divert valuable public funds to frivolous private projects. Waxman's watchdog persona has been compromised by his earmark that diverted $550,000 of federal transportation funds to the building of an "ark" playground for a very wealthy private charity:

<<(CBS) With decaying bridges and crumbling highways sorely underfunded, Congress somehow found the money in last year's transportation budget to help build a boat that won't take you anywhere.

“To me, the ark is a community,” Uri Herscher tells CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson.

The ark is actually a children's play park, and Herscher its Noah. He heads up the Skirball Cultural Center, a private charity in Los Angeles.

Herscher asked Congressman Henry Waxman for federal tax dollars to help build the ark. Waxman replied by giving the ark money through a special earmark in, of all things, the transportation budget. An earmark is a grant of money made without the normal public review.

“The amount of money that the Skirball got for this project was very, very small. It was $550,000," says Rep. Waxman, D-Calif.

A half million dollars may be small change to members of Congress, but it's real money to most Americans. And you're picking up the tab for billions of dollars in earmarks like that every year.

Congressman Jeff Flake says the tax dollars in the transportation budget would be better spent on the nation's urgent transportation needs.

“I mean, we have an example recently of a bridge collapsing, and we have too little money going to critical items in the transportation bill like bridges or highways, and instead it's bled off to other things,” says Rep. Flake, R-Arizona.

What's more, the Skirball Center -- a complex of buildings -- hardly seems a needy case.

According to its most recent IRS filings from 2005, it's managed by executives earning six-figure salaries, has a more than $8 million payroll and boasts financial books that might be the envy of most any charity: $885 million in gross receipts (that's just for one year) and a $100 million endowment. >>

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/20/eveningnews/main3283022.shtml

Answer 2

Oh yeah, most likely, the Democrats would like that. When are we going to realize that America is under attack by socialists, calling themselves mostly Democrats? They can and do infect ANY political party. We need to make sure we identify any of these maladies. They are not loyal Americans. In America, the citizens own the government, the government does not own the citizens
They want to remove conservatives from the airways utilizing the "Fairness Doctrine," that is anything but fair! The intrusion of government into the content of programming unnecessarily restricts journalistic freedom of the broadcasters. I am totally for freedom of speech!

Answer 3

Limbaugh can say almost anything he wants as long as does not violate the decency rules, and if I had my way we would not even have those. But the Democrats will try to wrap his words around the necks of the Republicans, and make them either annoy the general public or their base of Limbaugh listeners. It is the same game that was played with the Move on ad. It is all free speech. What goes around comes around.

Answer 4

Sure free speech is great. Limbaugh's speech. Waxman's speech. Your speech.

You're free to say whatever you want. And to get investigated or even prosecuted as a result if you, say, indulge in S & L, threaten the president, etc. etc. etc.

Is Waxman breaking a law with his speech? Maybe you'd like to investigate.

Answer 5

There is that old FCC dictim that states broadcasters operate within the " public interest, convenience and necessity" .
With respect to " free " speech, there is no such thing as prior restraint in the US. ( Near vs Minnesota ). That does not mean one can't be held accountable for what is said over the public airways. Rush is his own worst enemy. If you push the envelope, what do you expect?

Answer 6

You'd think that Bat-Faced-Boy Waxman would find something productive to do. Who keeps electing this idiot?

Answer 7

hope not punjabi influence . Gving and shouting classical abuses involving female organs is thought to be masculine trait .

macarthism is over long ago Not it is bushing