What can you say? Just... wow.

He should be voted out of office, maybe the good people of the state of Hypocrite should come to their senses.

If the Kingston amendment comes to the floor, I want an amendment commending MoveOn to go with it.

MoveOn has done so much more for this country by encouraging democratic participation and reinforcing civil liberties and the progressive values of a majority of Americans.

I hear he is also sponsoring a bill to commend senatro Craig for his bravery in the airport toilet.

IOKIYAR

There are bad representatives, there are stupid representatives, there are corrupt representatives and then there are extremely embarrassing reps. I wonder what Kingston's constituents think of him?

What I want to know is why this Dittiot thinks he can get enough senators behind him to support this dumb-assery?

Didn't the Republicans promise to bring ethics back and to UNITE the country ...?
I've never in 69 years seen it so divided.

I am so sick of these dipshit assholes. All republicans that pull this shit can go fuck themselves.

Sam @ 14:

AndyZ @ 10:

This is called BALLS, something the dems don't have. This is why our voice is not heard in the media. If we keep taking the Steny Hoyer way out instead of going on the offensive, we'll be silenced forever.

Yes he has the balls to be stupid, something the Dems are incapable of.

I agree...also think about if you really want the Democrats to start acting like Republicans...that's partly responsible for getting into the mess we're in now. But I say if the Republicans want to pass a bill showing they do not support the troops I say let em, everyone knows the Republicans are the worst to our soldiers, from Reagan cutting the GI Bill to Bush back door drafting our soldiers to the Republican congress and senate who would not appropriate body armor for our soldiers or the proper vehicles so they didn't blow up like they have been. the list goes on and on...Republicans don't like our troops, they don't support American, their faith and loyalty is to Corporations...which is why Blackwater is so important to them...you can't have a good Nazi party without an SS.

There are only a few words in the English language for "people" like Kingston.

And though I'm tempted I'm not going to write any of them.

This has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Limpballs can say whatever he wants, but he should be prepared to pay the price for saying stupid things.

When the scum known as Jack Kingston voted to condemn the MoveOn ad he voted to condmn the millions of Americans who are members of MoveOn. When he proposes commending Rush he proposes commending a fellow scum.

18 pissed off posters here (as this is written)

what do you want?

an age of reason?

a new America?

my suggestion: wake up

you aren't going to get what you want

America is in a Dark Age

Accept it, get over it, deal with it.

It's your hand of cards. Sorry.

OHhhhhhhh!!!...this otta be good......this asswipe doesn't even see the hypocricy.......Stoooooopiiiid.

VietVet8666 @ 27:

18 pissed off posters here (as this is written)

what do you want?

an age of reason?

a new America?

my suggestion: wake up

you aren't going to get what you want

America is in a Dark Age

Accept it, get over it, deal with it.

It's your hand of cards. Sorry.

accept it???....not in my life time

so rush limbaugh is protected by the first amendment but moveon.org isn't? why didn't that bimbo conducting the interview ask about that inconsistency?! its infuriating

Mudshark,

My point, FWIW, is that progressives should face facts.

2007 is not 1967 or 1977

The U.S. is in a Dark Age.

The question is: Where do we go from here?

This guy is nothing but an embarrassment to those of us he represents. Speaking as someone who hails from the peach state, please don't judge Georgia and it's denizens by this sycophantic moron. I'm still pissed off about what happened to Max, and seeing this kind of shit just sends me into convulsions...

poor americans. your congress never does anything useful. The dems play right into the repubs hands. Look whats happening since the moveon.org issue..... They got the dems to waste time on a counter-issue and now the republicans can take all the time they want in responding to it and thus delaying any useful discourse. craaazy.

Did we see any Democrats on television talking about the Moveon.org resolution? No!

The Republicans win by having a strategy. Jack Kingston being vocal on television and saying his talking points and not apologizing for the Republicans doing the same thing that the Democrats claim they are going to do, is how the Republicans always win. Even if the Republicans lie about the issues, they are out there saying something. Democrats on the other hand have no communication strategy and so they lose everytime. The only time Americans see Democrats is when they are apologizing to Republicans. Which has occurred many, many times. For example Senator Durbin apologizing and crying about it. This is what America views a Democrat to be. Weak, weak, weak. I now have to agree. I'm not supporting Democrats anymore. They will squander any support given to them. They even trash their supporters. Look at Nancy Pelousy.

sorry about the bold print......

[fixed. :) - sitemonitor]

Strawberry @ 4:

Ok. I'm all Limbaughed, Coultered and O'Liellyed out today. Can we get some fuzzy kitten posts or pretty ponies, maybe a pudgy puppie or two? God, I hate being stuck in bed.

I'd agree, except make mine some Masuimi Max, Fairuza Balk, & Aria Giovanni,...

Oh, & a napalm martini,... I've been on the phone with creditors all day long & I'm ready to start my own chapter of Fight Club,...

"On Monday evening, Republicans filed a rule with the House Rules Committee laying the groundwork for a petition that would force action on protecting radio from government regulation later this fall."
Giving the right-wing who rule the radio roost even more power.
Maybe they can hand the net over to AT&T at the same time and shut us up for good.

The more we hear from these right wing freaks the better. Cameras should follow them everywhere til election day.

Snowball @ 34:

The broadcast spectrum is highly valuable public property that theoretically the Corporate Media only gets to use if they do so in the public interest. It is not privately owned, only leased. Corporations do not have the right to use it to push their private agenda to the exclusion of other voices. ...It isn't theirs to do with whatever they feel like or use at the public's expense to turn a profit.

It's only been this way for just twenty years now. For forty years before that, the PUBLIC AIRWAVES were required, by FCC Regulations, to serve the Public interest. And in particular, with regard to FCC License holders broadcasting their own personal political opinions (which they don't have to do that), were those broadcasters to use our Public Property the PUBLIC AIRWAVES to broadcast political opinions, then they were to offer "equal time" to opposing political opinions (and were they to broadcast personal attacks, they were to provide "reply time" to those who were personally attacked by the broadcaster).

And of course the reason for this, is because we're talking about a private use of Public Property, the PUBLIC AIRWAVES.

When these broadcasters (employing rush and hannity and morgan and beck and boortz and so many others) broadcast their personal politics on the PUBLIC AIRWAVES, they corrupt our Democratic process; and that can't be why we License them to use our Public Property can it?

For forty years the Fairness Doctrine, as FCC Regulatory policy, prohibited such an abuse of the PUBLIC AIRWAVES, by mandating "equal time" in political opinions (and "reply time" for personal attacks).

The Reagan FCC unilaterally (without Congressional approval) de-regulated the PUBLIC AIRWAVES in this regard, by repealing the Fairness Doctrine, and giving us this present mess of limbaugh et al, threatening our Democracy.

We need to bring the Fairness Doctrine back.

It was good enough for our fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers who wrote it; it was a mistake to repeal it (without Congressional approval!); we need to bring it back.

The Backward Nature Of The Republican Party

What is up with the Republicans? You would swear, with their recent stand on children's health care and now with them making an ill advised exception for Russ Limbaugh, they were suicidal. They act like they have a hidden card to play. But then they can just be that stupid and not see the forest for the trees.

Make not mistake about it, they are for real in there righteous claim Limbaugh is a patriot. After all, the president calls him to the White House to bare witness to the greatness this administrations have brought to the Republican Party. Bush put him on the Armed services radio to further indoctrinate of our "young" troops to be loyal killing machines who do not question there orders. Bush have given Limbaugh the assurance he will be respected as an authority in America. Bush has searched the country for those extremes that would agree with his whole sale slaughter polices, and he has found a pot of gold in conservative radio.

Al Gore talks about an assault on reason. He writes about the very tendencies of the far right to disregard and cover up core common sense issues and dynamics that has made this country great. Limbaugh and the Republicans made such a stink about what MoveOn did with the Petraous ad, but they don't have the fortitude to apply the same logic to their own. Even when Limbaugh is before millions of American people.

My concern is the Republicans have been so deliberate they may have something up their sleeves. It is not beyond this group of thieves to fix another election. On the scale that they are fucking up, they stand to lose a lot. I hope the Democrats are ready for such a move should it come to life.

Joseph

"Even if the Senate acts and the amendment concerning the Fairness Doctrine becomes law, the prohibition on the FCC using federal funds to ensure ideological balance in broadcasting would expire at the end of next September. The Broadcast Fairness Act would prohibit the resurrection of the doctrine any time in the future."

This is a badly written couple of sentences in the linked to blog posting. Is he saying that should the scum get their legislation through that the Democrats are forever prohibited from enstating the fairness doctrine...or just prohibited until september.

The only one of thos ambiguous statements that make any sense is that the scum ammendment shuts down the enstatement of the fairness doctrine until September. How else can a law be irrevocable unless it is a a change in the constitution.

V V

maikeru at 50

i'm not complacent

i went to the march on 9/15

i'm realistic about today

look backward -- you're fooled

look to the future -- try to see what's ahead

pinkobait @ 47:

"On Monday evening, Republicans filed a rule with the House Rules Committee laying the groundwork for a petition that would force action on protecting radio from government regulation later this fall."
Giving the right-wing who rule the radio roost even more power.
Maybe they can hand the net over to AT&T at the same time and shut us up for good.

Don't for one minute believe they aren't thinking about it.

Typical, a coward like Kingston defends another known coward like Limbaugh while those troops who rightly point to the Bush Administrations criminal acts and bold faced incompetence bleed.

JohnnyThief @ 52:

Vincennes @ 11:

There are bad representatives, there are stupid representatives, there are corrupt representatives and then there are extremely embarrassing reps. I wonder what Kingston's constituents think of him?

I moved to Savannah from NYC. They drive around here with bumper stickers that read "Fighting terrorism since 1864", so I'm sure they're all really pleased.

They just couldn't explain WHY if you held a gun to their heads.

You too, huh? I moved to Savannah in 2001. I've actually found quite a few liberals in this sleepy lil' town. But you're right; the bumper stickers drive me crazy too. And they're all accompanied by either a SCPS sticker (Savannah Christian Preparatory School) or an SCC sticker. (SCC is Savannah Christian Church, Savannah's wanna-be "mega-church"...) I used to drive for Domino's and would love delivering there on account of my stickers...

Jack Kingston is a creepy little sh*t whose idea of fun is probably licking the floor of Wide-Stance Craig's favorite airport stall. This is a guy who publicly whined last January about Pelosi instituting a 5 day work week for the House - poor ittle cracker Jacky liked his Sensenbrenner 3 day workweeks with ample QFOT. What a useless twerp.

motorfingaz @ 59:

pinkobait @ 47:

"On Monday evening, Republicans filed a rule with the House Rules Committee laying the groundwork for a petition that would force action on protecting radio from government regulation later this fall."
Giving the right-wing who rule the radio roost even more power.
Maybe they can hand the net over to AT&T at the same time and shut us up for good.

Do tell.
Its coming.

Don't for one minute believe they aren't thinking about it.

Now Clear Channel is defending Rush and saying that the flap is "unfair". Unfair? Don't make me laugh. Or rather, vomit.

Remember when Kerry botched that joke about doing your homework? "If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." Remember how the wingnuts beat him over the head with that one, claiming for days and days that he was insulting the troops? There was such an outcry. According to this report, President Bush even went on Rush Limbaugh's show to join in the fun.

You think Rush gave Kerry the benefit of the doubt over that?

Unfair. Please.

Vitam Vas @ 55:

should the scum get their legislation through that the Democrats are forever prohibited from enstating the fairness doctrine...or just prohibited until september.

Notice how they choose to call it the "Broadcaster Freedom Act".

What it does is it attempts to make the de-regulation of the PUBLIC AIRWAVES a statute by Congress.

The Fairness Doctrine was never repealed by Congress, but was unilaterally repealed by Reagan's FCC. It was de-regulation pure and simple, not by Congress but by Reagan's hacks on his FCC, allowing for a no-holds-barred day and night broadcasting of the political opinions of those who hold FCC Licenses... using our Public Property the PUBLIC AIRWAVES.

We're going to bring the Fairness Doctrine back, because we need to; it was a big mistake allowing Reagan's FCC to repeal it without Congressional authority.

As for the name "Broadcaster Freedom Act"?

Give me a break. These guys never quit with bending and twisting the word "Freedom".

Why not write a Law that opens up the Artic Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling, and call it the "Oil Drilling Freedom Act"?

Make a Law opening up all the Federal Lands for a free-for-all logging of them, with no timber rights or leases or permits or anything else, and call it the "Logging Freedom Act"

How about the "Minerals and Precious Metals Mining Freedom Act"

The "Take Public Property and Use It As You Like Freedom Act"

Give me a break. These people want to privatize and de-regulate everything belonging to or serving the American People, and they think all they have to do is insert the word "Freedom" in there, to make it all right.

How ridiculously childish is this? Regardless of whatever your feelings are on a Congressional condemnation of Rush Limbaugh, to say that such a motion is a "waste of time" and then propose to add MORE WASTES OF TIME on top of it with something as schoolyard as a tit-for-tat "I'LL DO IT TOO!!" is mind-warpingly maddening. What a dumb-ass.

heliograph @ 64:

TimV @ 44:

You know... most of us read 1984 and were horrified by the idea that if you repeat a lie long enough and often enough, it becomes the truth. These apologists for Limbaugh seem to have been inspired by that idea. They are completely denying reality by repeatedly saying that Rush was only talking about one soldier. In the clip (and others on this controversy) when the apologists are pointed with this fact, they change the subject and wallow in hypocrisy. They'll say anything to appease the base. I guess it's political prostitution, but it's still sickening.

TimV is right on. Social psychologists and Republican political strategists know that repetition creates its own reality. Please read this link to see how it works:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR200709...

The idea that Democrats are going to win in '08 because Republicans will self destruct is dangerous. The latest SUSA poll shows Giuliani ahead of all Democratic Presidential candidates in the swing states needed to win the Presidency, including Ohio and Florida. Don't think that the Republicans are going to get rolled in '08 just because they lie and the public in general isn't behind them -- if you think that, you had better be ready to wake up to President Giuliani on a Wednesday morning in early November '08.

Kingston may be a douche and sub-human to many commentors on this post, but Kerplunk above has it right also: They have a relentless media strategy, which involves permeating every nook and cranny of the news and opinion media with the same robotlike talking points and sending radicals like Kingston out to repeat the most extreme messages. And that works -- whether the talking points are true or not. Republican lies are instinctively rejected by the public, but over time, as they are repeated, they become the new reality and conventional wisdom for most of the public. Imagine if Democrats and progressives had a media strategy where truth and commonsense positions were repeated endlessly.

The commentors who think people like Kingston and Limbaugh and Coulter should just be ignored are also dead wrong. Their lies, repeated often enough and unchallenged with the truth, become the new reality. Democrats need to be countering their message vigorously and relentlessly -- again, please read the WAPO link above to understand why the Republican strategy has just kicked the butts of the Democrats for about two decades now.

Nice link heliograph! I think the article brings up two great points that the GOP has mastered. First, the repetition of falsehoods morphs peoples beliefs about the "truth." Actually, this is not a new observation and even Machiavelli described it in The Prince. The worst part is that after a while people ACTUALLY BELIEVE IT IS THE TRUTH! They actually incorporate it into their sense of reality just like the sun rising in the east or the sky being blue.

Second, if you talk around an association but never explicitly say it, then people bridge the gap and are convinced that the link exists. Some great psychologist in St. Louis did this experiment where they read a list of words that describe a specific noun. For example, they would read "glass, shiny, clear, pane, etc." but never say the word "window." After a small break, they would read back a list of words and ask subjects if the experimenter had said that word or not. Over 50% of people would SWEAR that they heard the word window, even though it was never said. Their minds just made the connection. This explains why a huge chunk of the US population still believes that Iraq played a role in 911 (despite the WEALTH of evidence against it). The war proponents kept saying "911" and "Iraq" in the same sentences, but never actually said the phrase "Iraq was involved in 911".

This is what the GOP strategists have mastered. Unfortunately for progressives, it's not exactly a situation of fight fire with fire (we can't degrade ourselves to repeating lies). But I think heliograph is correct that this is EXACTLY why we need to confront the lies and false associations loud, fast and hard before they sink in to the general public perception.

Whaat happened to "I'm not going to carry the water for the republicans anymore" after the Nov defeat. If you heard the previous caller that said he was a republican and was against the war, Rush said that he couldn't be a republican.

What a Douche Bag...

Kingston seems very concerned now with first amendment issues. Ironically he didn’t share this concern when the resolution condemning MoveOn was brought to the floor. He also is worried about the Congress “wasting time” on condemning Rush. Again - he wasn’t concerned about Congress wasting time when they condemned MoveOn. It’s amazing how concerns change once the tables are turned.

I would like to add that the media never seems to have the spines to directly call them on it. In this case, Kingston should have been asked whether he thinks the MoveOn ad also falls under private citizens expressing their freedom of speech. But it never happened.

In any event I knew this would happen - the Repug congresscritters often stick up for their supporters and win because of it, while the Dems get suckered into demonizing their own every time. Much as I can't stand him, Kingston knows how to play the game.

The Carpenter @ 17:

I am so sick of these dipshit assholes. All republicans that pull this shit can go fuck themselves.

Only if chainy tells them to.

If Nora had done *any* prep work, she could have hit quite a few home runs off Kingston. Let's see - Senate obstruction, Rush as a "private individual", including Murtha and others as phony soldiers, Rush cf Moveon, just to name a few.

Oh and BTW, it's not the "Democrat party"; and they're not the ones against the Fairness Doctrine.

Less Nora, more David Shuster...

Don't get too angry over Jack "ass". Just go to Youtube and type in his name. There's tons of vids of him making an ass out himself. Or better yet Tweety making an ass out of him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ENZrYb6Ytw

"Only if chainy tells them to"

Spelling the V.P's name that way must be Freudian.
I prefer to think of him as the "alter Rex".

Regarding Limbaugh, the story of Father Charles Coughlin, patron saint of all fascist racist gasbags, is worth reading.

Coughlin, who in the 1930s had a radio audience that dwarfs Limbaughs (both in absolute numbers and as a percent of the American population) was a menace to society in the same way Limbaugh is: Bigoted, ignorant, one-sided, vicious, fascist, corrosive to the political process, dishonest, and personally disgusting. He was on his way to permanently corroding American politics when he was stopped cold by some regulatory maneuvering by the FDR Administration:

"At its peak in the early 1930s, his radio show was phenomenally popular: his office received up to 80,000 letters per week from listeners, and his listening audience was estimated to be as much as one-third of the nation. Coughlin is often credited as one of the major demagogues of the 20th century for being able to influence politics through broadcasting, without actually holding a political office himself.

... Coughlin's populist message was contrary to the agenda of the FDR administration. They decided that although the first amendment protected free speech, it did not necessarily apply to broadcasting, because the radio spectrum was a "limited national resource." New regulations and restrictions were created to force Coughlin off the air. For the first time, operating permits were required of those who were regular radio broadcasters. When Coughlin's permit was denied, he was temporarily silenced.

Unwilling to give up without a fight, Coughlin worked around the restriction by purchasing air time and having his speeches played via record. However, having to buy the time on individual stations seriously reduced his reach and strained his resources. And while Coughlin's voice grew dimmer, the voices of his critics grew louder.

According to Marcus' book, Coughlin's opposition to the repeal of a neutrality-oriented arms-embargo law triggered more successful efforts to force him off the air. In October 1939, one month after the invasion of Poland, the Code Committee of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) adopted new rules which placed "rigid limitations on the sale of radio time to spokesman of controversial public issues." Manuscripts were required to be submitted in advance. Radio stations were threatened with the loss of their licenses if they failed to comply. This ruling was clearly aimed at Coughlin due to his leadership in opposition to the growing American involvement in the Second World War. As a result, the September 23, 1939 issue of Social Justice stated that he had been forced from the air "...by those who control circumstances beyond my reach" (pp 173-177).

Coughlin reasoned that although the government had assumed the right to regulate any on-air broadcasts, the First Amendment still guaranteed and protected freedom of the written press. He could still print his editorials without censorship in his own newspaper, Social Justice. However, FDR's administration stepped in again, this time revoking his mailing privileges and making it impossible for Coughlin to deliver the papers to his readers. He had the right to publish whatever he wanted, but not the right to use the United States Post Office Department to deliver it. The lack of a conduit to his followers seriously reduced his influence, and after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the declaration of war, the peace movement began to sputter out and isolationists like Coughlin were seen as being sympathetic to the enemy. "

(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin)

Many might argue that the FDR Adminstration's actions represent an unconstitutional abridgement of freedom of speech, and that this sort of regulation cuts against American constitutional principles. Maybe, but compare it to what we have now: Unchallenged, bigoted, partisan lying on the public airwaves for 3 hours every day. This is what de-regulation has wrought. Time for the Fairness Doctrine again? The Republicans know what's at stake here, hence their aggressive legislation to permanently ratify their control of the airwaves with the new legislation.

The People's business.

"He's an idiot. Comes from upbringing - parents are probably idiots too."
*

After the November elections, Rush Limbaugh said that Republicans took a beating on Election Day because they abandoned their conservative principles and in the end stood for nothing. Jack Kingston is a great example of standing for nothing and simply towing the GOP line no matter the subject, a "yes" man, and exactly what Rush was referring to. Ironic.

maybe i should be thinking about changing from independent to repube. look at the benefits...you never do anything wrong....the world looks great no matter what....other repubes will have your back no matter what you say or do as long as it is not sexual....you see hypocrisy as hip....your past never matters as you are always looking forward....you learn how to lie and smile while you are doing it....oh yes and there is that thing where you become an evil idiot hell bent on self preservation above common sense part. well i guess that would never work for me. the wonder is how does anyone allow it to work for them.

This is the same guy who was grumbling about having to work 5 days a week. He thought it went against his family values. These people are plain crazy and belong in an asylum.

Dear Rep. I HEART Rush,

Blow me.

I am speaking on behalf of my daughter who is in Iraq right now (third time), who is a liberal Democrat, who opposes the war, yet does her job regardless of hardships and hazards, who has earned two bronze stars and seven distinguished service citations for her performance. "Phoney soldier" indeed.

Since 9/11, my daughter has missed every family milestone - every holiday, every birth, and every death. I call it “Family Interrupted.” With each passing year, there is always the empty place at the family dinner table. I watch the evening news and note the losses of other families, hoping my daughter’s name will never appear on a casualty list. "Phoney soldier" indeed.
I think you can well understand my rage over Jingo Limbo’s remark.

Jingo Limbo does not support the troops unless he supports ALL the troops, including Democrats and liberals and those holding an opinion different than his. There are liberals and Democrats who also serve in the military, and suffer hardships, and bleed and die when their country calls. His remarks are disrespectful and hypocritical.

More than that, Jingo Limbo has offended me to the point of wanting to hunt him down like a dog and push in his face and pluck out his eyes. Damn that bastard!!

heliograph @ 91:

Charles Coughlin, radio commentator [from a wikipedia article on him]: ...in the 1930s the FDR administration decided that although the first amendment protected free speech, it did not necessarily apply to broadcasting, because the radio spectrum was a "limited national resource."

...although the government had assumed the right to regulate any on-air broadcasts, the First Amendment still guaranteed and protected freedom of the written press. He [Coughlin] could still print his editorials without censorship in his own newspaper, Social Justice.

It's interesting, it seems this guy Coughlin was some sort of pioneer, in abusing the privledge of being allowed to broadcast on the PUBLIC AIRWAVES to the American People (that is power on this earth you know), by using that privledge as a political tool, and to hack away his political opinions on the PUBLIC AIRWAVES, and make his radio broadcasts into an effort to manipulate and influence the political opinions of the American People.

Today we think, that can't really be why we Licenses broadcasters to use our Public Property, can it?

Apparently yesteryear, FDR and most Americans thought so also. And so they instituted the Fairness Doctrine in the Regulation of the PUBLIC AIRWAVES, in essence recognizing that that Public Property was not to be the private political tool of broadcasters; that were they to broadcast political opinions (and they don't have to do that you know), then they were to allow "equal time" to opposing political opinions (and "reply time" to anyone that the broadcaster chose to personally attack on the PUBLIC AIRWAVES).

I'm glad to see Mr. Coughlin had recourse to the Press, and to publishing.

Good. His First Amendment "Freedom of Speech" was not abridged; he could still say whatever he liked, and printed whatever he liked (and I see the wikipedia article reference to an FDR administration opposition to Coughlin's newspaper, but they neither shut down his Press, nor arrested him: The administration's opposition to Mr. Coughlin must have been extraordinary, for them to do what they did).

rush limbaugh likewise has a complete and unabridged First Amendment "Freedom of Speech".

But neither he nor you and I nor anyone else (Coughlin included) has a right or a "freedom" to broadcast on the radio bands of the PUBLIC AIRWAVES.

It's a powerful political tool these radio broadcasters wield today; it is what makes their FCC Licenses of value, this power to manipulate and influence the American People's political opinions (that is power on this earth you know), by incessantly broadcasting day and night their own (the broadcaster's) political opinions.

We need the Fairness Doctrine returned to the Regulatory policy of the FCC, as fast as possible. There's already been enough damage done politically by these broadcasters (radio broadcasters played a big part in killing immigration reform you know; and who doesn't think the broadcast media played a major part in selling the American People an invasion of Iraq? And in continuing to sell them the occupation?).

It's not why we License out the use of our PUBLIC AIRWAVES. They don't have to use those Licenses as power political tools to corrupt our Democracy, you know.

Thanks to the two people who went to Congress.org and dropped Kingston a letter. I wish more people that posted here realized thaty'd do more good by bombarding this doushebag's website with e-mails blasting him for his hypocrisy in supporting Limbaugh than posting here on C&L soley.

Bring back the Fairness Doctrine.

When I was a kid, assholes like Limbaugh were relegated to sitting around barber shops bitching about "those damned hippie kids".

Not running a huge radio empire.

This world is fucked up.

Ex-Canuck @ 2:

Who is this guy? Appears he is one bowel movement away from losing his brains. What an asshole.

OTOH, kingston certainly has the WH talking points memorized - at least he is a better parrot than most of the troglodytes they march out in front of the microphones. Doesn't make the shit that comes out of his mouth smell any sweeter though...

I agree, Kingston is a walking-talking rectum. People should flood his office with emails.

Wow, just where do they find these idiots and why do they elect them to public office? He's going out on a limb for Limbaugh, trying to defend Limbaugh's honor, to keep others from saying bad things about him. It has gotten to the point where we'd be better served by totally random people in public office.

jack.kingston@mail.house.gov Let us shower him with electronic mail

Yup, saw this the other day - disgusting. I think he needs the Monty Python giant fish slap.

Batocchio @ 119:

Yup, saw this the other day - disgusting. I think he needs the Monty Python giant fish slap.

Either that or a bucket of icewater over his head.

GeorgiahatesKingston @ 37:

This guy is nothing but an embarrassment to those of us he represents. Speaking as someone who hails from the peach state, please don't judge Georgia and it's denizens by this sycophantic moron. I'm still pissed off about what happened to Max, and seeing this kind of shit just sends me into convulsions...

I don't hold it against you personally, but I have to say I Georgia's got some of the dumbest repugs in Congress and that's saying alot. I can't forget Phil Gingrey who blamed the injured soldiers for mice being found in Walter Reed. And Lynn Westmoreland who pushed for the Ten Commandments to be displayed in the House and Senate. He was on Colbert's show and the moron couldn't even name all ten of them. Kingston is just another in the list of cretinous Georgia repugs.

nonbeliever @ 123:

GeorgiahatesKingston @ 37:

This guy is nothing but an embarrassment to those of us he represents. Speaking as someone who hails from the peach state, please don't judge Georgia and it's denizens by this sycophantic moron. I'm still pissed off about what happened to Max, and seeing this kind of shit just sends me into convulsions...

I don't hold it against you personally, but I have to say I Georgia's got some of the dumbest repugs in Congress and that's saying alot. I can't forget Phil Gingrey who blamed the injured soldiers for mice being found in Walter Reed. And Lynn Westmoreland who pushed for the Ten Commandments to be displayed in the House and Senate. He was on Colbert's show and the moron couldn't even name all ten of them. Kingston is just another in the list of cretinous Georgia repugs.

And let's not forget is was a Democratic governor in that state who lost his seat for fighting sucessfully to take the confederate battle flag emblem off the Georgia state flag..... and that wasn't 100 years ago either it was in like the last 15 years or so. Georgia is one of the reddest states in the nation, everything basically outside the Atlanta perimeter is a conservative intellectual wasteland.

and I want to kick Kingston's ass...

Retired Navy, I knew Georgia was a red state and Atlanta was naturally the biggest city in Georgia but what you said is very disturbing. I simply thought that all of the rural towns outside of Atlanta were enough to carry the state for the repugs. I've read about the voter id law that passed recently but is the minority actually disenfranchising the majority?

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Karma is a funny thing, tonight I watched as Sean Hannity & Crowley defended the despicable comments by Rush "limp" Limbaugh, drug addict, draft dodger vietnam era [deferrments for big cyst on his tail], calling him a hero, defender of the veterans, it was enough too make one want too puke...., and on the counter side they had Geraldo Rivera, Allen Colmes [the neutered liberal], saying Limbaugh did not mean what he said, made a mistake, did not think he meant any denigration of veterans, but even this sent Hannity into a ballistic rant and rave defending is buddy...., I guess Hannity & Crowley are worried their past denigrating comments on other democratic veterans might come home too haunt them one day..., yes they do talk a good game swearing by god they support and honor veterans but in defending Limbaugh tonight, Hannity denigrated Congressman Murtha [two war ex-marine veteran], had done it in past, repeated it tonight thinking it will be his good right wing talking point too defend his draft dodger, drug addict fellow right wing propagandist, radio filth, warmongering buddy...., anyone listen too Hannity as I do on his radio show, him and his sick fans start out by telling each other how good americans they are, then go into denigrating anyone whom is a democrat and disagrees with them, makes no difference if it is a veteran or not, Hannity has done what Limbaugh did, but he has denigrated famous veterans like Republican Senator Hagel, Democratic Senator Kerry [both vietnam era veterans], Congressman Murtha [two war veteran], he knows he is guilty of the very same disrespect of veterans for having different views than his, he is a hypocrite just like Limbaugh, anyone remember when Limbaugh use too denigrate all drug addicts as scum, needed too go too prison and no pampering with treatment...., how funny all the time he was doing this on his radio show he was the very scum drug addict he ranted and raved about..! Those who make their living off right wing radio are worried about their bread & butter income, Hannity a multi-millionare poses himself as common man too his viewers, but he is no where near the common man/woman, but merely a multi-millionare hired propagandist selling the elite 2% richest americans agenda...

This guy is such a douche he owns the Summer's Eve factory.

Now that is a great interviewer. she asked the correct question. Are you wasting tax payers time and money to protect your right wing radio conservative media champion, Rush ?

But she let him ramble off into the wild right wing yonder. She needed to snap him back to the question?

Understand,
If moveon's Petraeus Ad was wrong. Then it was even worse to send Petraeus up to testify with bush's speech. That is a fact.............................!

The original post #27 by VietVet8666 was correct despite the take-backs.

Get used to it.

Mr. Kingston is one of the dumbest GOP'ers in Congress, and that is saying alot.

Besides being a complete null-op, there was obviously a hand up his puppet ass, this guys says the word Democrat. For once I want to see a dem go on camera and talk about the Repug party. Can you even imagine what kind of shitstorm that would create? Calling them what they really are.

BTW, I love that the far left is making Rush the "toaster-child" for the evil right.

Called the office and got the home number of the media rep for Kingston. Decided to call....middle of the night and happy to wake her up. We had a few minutes chat and she used the 'private citizen' line on me. I stated that the soldiers who were responding to Rush were also private citizens and yet he felt free to denigrate them. At that point a man came on the line and asked me why i was calling......the office gave her name and number and I called. She decided to allow a 3rd party into a conversation that related to her day-to-day business and he interjected when (i believe) she couldn't defend her reps position.

Just my opinion....but they are all weak and scared. Her words to me sounded hollow and rote. They don't have any spirit left except that which drives them to deny health coverage to children and push their inane puritanical moral views to no end. They have defeated themselves...all we have tried to do in years they have managed to accomplish in months. The world has known they are inept and demi-evil for years...NOW america is sorting it out as well.

Good lord, the repubs now want to protect radio from the governmental agency the FCC? Wait until someone says a naughty word on radio again, that will take care of it. What a bunch of loons.

Just when you thought is was impossible to have congress go any lower it goes lower. It used to be funny but now it clearly shows a criminal disregard for the interests of the country.