Monday, January 22, 2007

Ya Gotta Laugh

Various media figures from the American Left recently organized a "conference" about media reform. You can see an advertisement about it here. Right in the middle of the page is a banner saying: "Save the Internet. Join the fight for internet freedom".

How Orwellian can you get? Half a century ago Orwell portrayed the Left as always calling things by their opposite and nothing has changed. Who is it that the internet needs "saving" from? None other than the Left with their constant attempts to censor anything they disagree with by calling it "hate speech".

The only freedom Leftists are interested in is the Stalin type: "Freedom to agree with me".

There's an extended commentary on the conference here. Excerpt:

"Media reform sounds like a good cause. But the gathering here of more than 2,000 activists turned out to be an effort to push the Democratic Party further to the left and get more "progressive" voices in the media, while proposing to use the power of the federal government to silence conservatives"

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