Molly Ivins: "Liberals & libertarians UNITE!!"

[Bluebear]

AUSTIN, Texas -- Now is the time for all good men -- and women -- to race to the aid of their country. Liberals and libertarians unite! The Sinclair Broadcasting Group has moved this election into the realm of creeping fascism, state propaganda, Big Brother and brainwashing. What me, hyperbole?

This is SO simple -- how would you conservatives feel if NBC, CBS or ABC decided to pre-empt primetime programming a week before the election to air Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11"? And then announced, "But we've offered President Bush a chance to reply"?

Sinclair has also offered President George W. Bush the inestimable service of diverting attention from his record and is using OUR publicly owned airwaves to do it.

For Sinclair's lobbyist and on-air editorialist Mark Hyman to claim this long attack ad is "news" is ludicrous -- almost as strained as his claim, somewhere between infelicitous and crackers, that those who disagree are like "Holocaust deniers."

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As Huey P. Long once said, "Sure we'll have fascism in America, but it'll come disguised as 100 percent Americanism."

http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=miv

[alisongiggles1960]

1. Thanks to Quixote1818 for this

Quixote1818 (956 posts) Sun Oct-17-04 05:27 AM
Original message
Contact all of Sinclair's advertisers with just one email






http://grassrootsnation.com/sinclair/

[Bluebear]

2. That's an easy actionable thing to do

Thanks Quix!

[cosmicvortex20]

3. Dumb idea...

Libertarians dont believe in public airways and are just as concerned about creeping socialism (which is associated with our party) as they are creeping fascism... Thats why they invented the 3rd party, cause they didnt like the 2 primary ones.

[Mechatanketra]

4. No kidding.

It's impossible to get a political philosophy based around the single principle "I got mine Jack" to unite with itself, let alone with pinkos like me. :eyes:

"There may be two libertarians somewhere who agree with one another, but I am not one of them." -- David Friedman

[Bluebear]

7. Did you read Ivins article?

[kaishaku]

5. libertarians can suck my D!@%

they think the war in iraq is a good thing.

[DerBeppo]

6. no, no they don't.

at least not according to their platform or presidential candidate.

[Zen0]

8. libertarians pfft!

I'd never join forces with them. A week ago my conceptual American government class was visited by a man representing the libertarians and with him was Joe or something running for the Senate; both libertarians. These are the things they both told us. They want to go to a flat line tax (no tax at all) and cut all government programs. Meaning to funding for public school, no welfare, health care. No government aid to other countries; IE Africa and aids help. I was totally against this. Then he went on to the liberal side of libertarians, talking about leaving other countries alone. Then a fellow student asked "what if there was a mass genocide". Which was replied: "Well that's not American's problem." They said they would only use military to defend only within in the borders of the us. I went from loving the idea of the us not policing the world to a resentment of this man and his beliefs. My country would stop genocide. But my country does not invade sovereign nations. I will never side with a libertarian.

[Bluebear]

10. Did you read the article before posting all that?

It's just one line from the article, please read it before reacting to the headline :)

[FarLeftRage]

9. libertarians in general

are just a bunch of SELFISH motherf-----s,who are self--centered and self-absorbed as well...

This would never work.

[Bluebear]

11. Protesting the Sinclair broadcast would never work?

[FarLeftRage]

12. I doubt if any libertarians

would join liberals in any protests together...

They hate liberals as much as big goverment put up by either left wing or right wing parties.

It's just not their nature to help anyone other than themselves.