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.”
I’d hate to give up my my motern ways like my electric and semi auto rifles but some times I wise I could go back in time to the days of our founding fathers when this $#%&!@* was not tolerated and was swiftly dealt with
Poor whining niggazs
this will be when the c**p hits the fan
What !. The Fed. Government !. Don’t like to face the truth!. To bad they will hear it any way !.
Barrack Obama would be happy if World War III started today.
If you were one of those guys jumping up and down yelling, “Kill, Kill, Kill!” with our current Senate and House when Obama wanted to bomb Syria, after financing Terrorists for the civil war in Syria, you probably won’t like this.
If the EU needs documents detailing what happened in the Ukraine, the CIA could help them, they have been working to make the nations that broke away from the U.S.S.R. unstable for a long time.
Each death in our stupid War on Terror is on the hands of Barrack Obama, Joe Biden, each of our current Senators, and each of our current Representatives.
Just as each death in the Ukraine is their responsibility. The Untied States funded the violence in the Ukraine, the responsibility for the violence and Terrorism there is on the United States Senate, the Untied States House, the State Department, and the CIA.
. It doesn’t matter that the money came from George Soros and guys like him and the National Endowment for Democracy and groups like it, it was the work of the Obama Administration and our CIA.
If you have the internet you know that.
Making Russia unstable has been one of the main objectives of the CIA and the National Endowment for Democracy since the U.S.S.R. broke apart.
Just as they are working all across South America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East to change regimes, the Untied States was instrumental in putting the new regime in place in the Ukraine.
Barrack Obama has been our Commander in Chief since 2008. The War on Terror is Obama’s War. The Terrorism and Violence in the Ukraine is Obama’s Terrorism and Violence. The National Endowment for Democracy may as well be part of the CIA. The National Endowment for Democracy may as well be part of the CIA and the State Department. If they are financing violence somewhere, it is what our Administration wants.
It is so funny that George Soros, the National Endowment for Democracy and groups like it, and our CIA are so worried about Human Rights and Freedom they support violence and Terrorism in the Ukriane and all over the world and do not give a c**p if we lose all our Human Rights and Freedoms in the United States.
The EU and the United States created, supported, and funded the violence in the Ukriane.
No Incumbents.
They have not fired Barrack Obama, Harry Reid, John Kerry, Eric Holder, and Joe Biden, and every one of Obama’s Appointees and they have not shreeded each of Obama’s illegal and unconstitutional Executive Orders.
They have not ended our Stupid War on Terror, they have not shut down the IRS, the EPA and the Bureau of Land Management.
The United States should stop supporting and financing Terrorism with the CIA and the National Endowment for Democracy.
The United States and NATO should end the War on Terror and stop murdering civilians and giving the Terrorists the blood, pain, death, destruction, and Media Attention they want in Africa and the Middle East.
The sanctions against Russia and the Military Build Up in the Middle East should end.
NATO has become only a War Machine and should be completely shut down.
Vote them out.
I am sick of looking at this war criminal, trader, direct decendent of slave sellers, steeling, lying, known as a wimp around the world, and I cannot believe that anyone would still believe this trader. How stupid has this country got.
Welcome to Obama’s Police State.
Shut down the FEC, the EPA, the IRS, and the Bureau of Land Management.
No Incumbents. They have not ensured Obama is arrested for Treason.
they didn’t say that in 2008 and 2012.