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House Democrats against free speech
By DEBRA J. SAUNDERS
Democratic House members are
using the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot and
the coronavirus pandemic in a scary
effort to censor conservatives—and
get Big Media to do their dirty work
for them.
Remember when the left believed
in more speech as the solution to bad
speech? Those days are gone.
Last week, Reps. Anna Eshoo
and Jerry McNerney, both Califor-
nia Democrats, sent letters to CEOs
for cable providers, satellite providers
and other platforms to voice their
issues with conservative news out-
lets Fox News, Newsmax and One
America News Network.
The letters asked executives of
such giants as AT&T, Comcast, Ama-
zon and Verizon what they are doing
to “reduce the spread of disinforma-
tion, including encouragement or
incitement of violence by channels
your company disseminates to mil-
lions of Americans.”
And the letters asked the CEOs if
they plan on carrying the three con-
servative networks beyond “any con-
tract renewal date.” Hint. Hint.
“The letter is not just chilling; it’s
positively glacial,” George Washing-
ton University law professor Jona-
than Turley warned during Wednes-
day testimony before a House
Subcommittee on Communications
and Technology.
No surprise, in their crusade to
combat “misinformation,” the letter’s
authors swam in murky waters.
To make their point, Eshoo and
McNerney wrote, “One popu-
lar television show aired a segment
about OANN last April that in-
cluded a dire warning: ‘the kind of
misinformation (OANN) is spewing
right now could end up getting peo-
ple killed.” The popular show? “Last
Week Tonight with John Oliver,”
hosted by a comedian.
The letter also cited Media Mat-
ters— a left-wing propaganda group
—as an authoritative source, ac-
cusing Fox of broadcasting what it
called “misinformation” 253 times
over a fi ve-day period. An example:
“Fox pushed for school re-openings
34 times despite public health con-
cerns.”
It’s not good when those who pose
as enemies of misinformation cannot
distinguish between fact twisting and
unwelcome opinion. Weak thinkers
with lazy arguments are not the peo-
ple you want determining who gets
on cable TV or the internet.
The Democrats’ focus on conser-
vative media only overlooks the fact
that every news organization makes
mistakes. Sometimes the mistakes
involve simple error. Others involve
honest mistakes facilitated by bias.
Others are the result of bad judg-
ment. After all the bogus stories on
Trump campaign collusion with
Russia in 2016, Democrats should
know that discretion is the better
part of valor.
At the hearing, Eshoo took issue
with critics who said that the letters
violated The First Amendment.
“The First Amendment, my
friends, starts with four words, ‘Con-
gress shall make no laws,’” Eshoo
said. And how dare anyone question
the probity of House members “ask-
ing questions.”
Actually, that’s fi ve words, con-
gresswoman. And if the letters merely
asked questions, no one would raise
an eyebrow.
“Making a statement and put-
ting a question mark at the end of
it, doesn’t change the import of the
statements,” Turley testifi ed. The
House Democrats’ questions sent “a
rather audible statement.”
“What if you succeed?” Turley
asked. Voters would lose access to Fox
News, the most watched news net-
work last year because House Demo-
crats decided they could decide what
other people read or watch.
They’re book burners, and they
don’t even know it. Or they just
don’t care.
it diffi cult for individual
Representatives to get
debate time on the fl oor.
letters
To the Editor:
When Members are ac-
Regarding the Feb. 26
corded debate time, they
Page 1 story, Councilors de-
rarely receive more than
bate rule changes, I fi nd it cu-
two to fi ve minutes.”
rious that Councilor Ross
If Councilor Day
Day knows of “no other body” that wants to give councilors fi ve minutes,
limits the time an elected member the same as the limit put by council
can speak. Really? How about the on members of the public who want
U.S. House of Representatives, as to testify, fi ne. But the concept of a
one example?
limit is hardly out of left fi eld.
According to the House’s offi cial Carolyn Homan
rules, “House debate nearly always Keizer
takes place under some form of time
restriction. ...Time restrictions make
Limiting talking
time for offi cials
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and threatened our very existence.
I give a shout out to the courts of
America that withstood the on-
slaughts to it: If our federal judges
had not stood fi rm against the slings
and arrows thrown at the judicial
system, our unfi nished efforts at de-
mocracy could have gone down in
fl ames. Heartfelt appreciation to the
nation’s Supreme Court when it
stood fi rm against a mighty thrust
from a politician attempting to make
it work for one American alone.
Then there were the individual pol-
iticians whose resolve helped to save
us. We shall not forget also the com-
panies that made the COVID-19
vaccines and those groups in the
medical community that delivered it.
Our nation and its democrat-
ic-republic form of government
will never be a fi nished product be-
cause such are the slings and arrows
of changing times and their related
demands. Nevertheless, a personal
assessment is that no matter whether
it’s war, social uprisings, natural di-
sasters or other any other adversity,
we Americans have found ways to
overcome and get stronger during
our 240-years as a nation. Though
many get hurt and some die along
the path of struggles over the centu-
ries, every generation looks back and
thanks those who sacrifi ced life and
limb to establish and sustain a more
perfect union.
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A grand sense of ownership of the US
considered, I feel a grander sense
By GENE H. McINTYRE
Only a couple weeks to wait of ownership of my entire country
as an American citizen,
until spring occurs in the
more so this year than
Northern Hemisphere and
I recall from any other
I couldn’t be happier than
guest
year of my life. The main
I am today at the prospect
of a new year in America
column reason being that our
democracy was tested in
during my favorite season.
the extreme during the
For openers, no state
last four years—although
in the union is prettier or
more promising in a display of nat- never more exhaustingly so than in
ural beauty by God’s blessings than 2020—and still found its footing
that of Oregon’s. Born and raised well enough to survive another one
in Oregon and always admiring the of those challenges only coming,
state, my travel bug enticed me to thankfully, a few times before now.
The pride and satisfaction I feel
see the world from which I always
accomplished a return, feeling better come to me, mainly, from the fact
and evermore prouder of the Beaver that our Constitution withstood test
by fi re from an executive branch at
State.
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