Federal Election Commission Chairman Lee E. Goodman issued a warning that the federal government will soon impose regulations on conservative Internet sites, like Truth And Action and Drudge Report
“The right has begun to break the left’s media monopoly, particularly through new media outlets like the internet, and I sense that some on the left are starting to rethink the breadth of the media exemption and internet communications,” Goodman stated.
Goodman also states that he will fight this coming regulation.
In the 90’s Bill Clinton actually warned how conservatives could use the Internet to bypass left-media biased TV. Well, the man was right about one thing at least.
This is good news, actually. It means that we are really impinging on the corporate controlled media. Sure, we will have a fight on our hands, probably soon. But fight we will.
Government officials, reacting to the growing voice of conservative news outlets, especially on the internet, are angling to curtail the media’s exemption from federal election laws governing political organizations, a potentially chilling intervention that the chairman of the Federal Election Commission is vowing to fight.
“I think that there are impulses in the government every day to second guess and look into the editorial decisions of conservative publishers,” warned Federal Election Commission Chairman Lee E. Goodman in an interview.
“The right has begun to break the left’s media monopoly, particularly through new media outlets like the internet, and I sense that some on the left are starting to rethink the breadth of the media exemption and internet communications,” he added.
Noting the success of sites like the Drudge Report, Goodman said that protecting conservative media, especially those on the internet, “matters to me because I see the future going to the democratization of media largely through the internet. They can compete with the big boys now, and I have seen storm clouds that the second you start to regulate them, there is at least the possibility or indeed proclivity for selective enforcement, so we need to keep the media free and the internet free.”
All media has long benefited from an exemption from FEC rules, thereby allowing outlets to pick favorites in elections and promote them without any limits or disclosure requirements like political action committees.
But Goodman cited several examples where the FEC has considered regulating conservative media, including Sean Hannity‘s radio show and Citizens United’s movie division. Those efforts to lift the media exemption died in split votes at the politically evenly divided board, often with Democrats seeking regulation.
Liberals over the years have also pushed for a change in the Federal Communications Commission‘s “fairness doctrine” to cut of conservative voices, and retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has delighted Democrats recently with a proposed Constitutional amendment that some say could force the media to stop endorsing candidates or promoting issues.
“The picking and choosing has started to occur,” said Goodman. “There are some in this building that think we can actually regulate” media, added Goodman, a Republican whose chairmanship lasts through December. And if that occurs, he said, “then I am concerned about disparate treatment of conservative media.”
He added, “Truth be told, I want conservative media to have the same exemption as all other media.”
The Government is out of control and needs to be purged!!!
Fortunately, there are law offices like the A.C.L.J. to defend the “Free exercise of religion” clause in the Constitution (which immediately follows the “Separation of church and state” clause. and save Christians from ending up like WWII Germany. Obama’s blatant animosity toward the church leads me to believe that he should grow a stupid Adolf Hitler mustache.
One day, Mark my words, Obama administration will go one step to far…the people will rise up…so they kill us..we will see if the UN does a body count on that.
Police state, by way of our Dictators executive orders and misuse of government agencies!
Is this a conspiracy site?
Unlawful
More government BS. If this is real they are really out in the open with their bigotry and ignorance of the Constitution.
Fuking BS
Karen Wright, he gets away with it quite simply. The media en masse, including and especially FOX, ignores the conservative sites so as not to give them any attention. Then they sneak a few agitators into some Tea Party and other conservative organized events (admittedly, it isn’t always liberal agitators, but it is many times more than not) to show how “racist” and “homophobic” and other gag words conservatives are. And the people who don’t think yet watch these outlets to look and sound “informed” see this and assume it must be the norm for conservatives. So if the Occupier-in-Chief or a member of his administration drops the hammer on conservative sites for hate-mongering and inflammatory and inciteful remarks, no one will bat an eye because it was hate speech after all and that kind of speech unless directed by the will of the Occupier-in-Chief or one of his cronies or another who supports the idealouge cannot be allowed, much less protected.
I am getting extremely angry. We need this traitor out of our country IMMEDIATELY if not sooner.