A petition signed by 87,000 people wants George Will fired by the Washington Post because he wrote a column saying things they don’t like.
Fascists: A petition signed by 87,000 people wants George Will fired by the Washington Post because he wrote a column saying things they don’t like.
The petition drive was put together by a group called UltraViolet led by Nita Chaudhary.
Who is UltraViolet co-founder Nita Chaudhary? In 2004, she was the Democratic National Committee’s first director of online. And she is the former campaign director at MoveOn.Org. … Chaudhary is also the wife of Jesse Lee, the White House’s director of progressive media and online response.
The author then asks this blunt but totally valid question:
And so I ask a genuinely scary question: does the broader progressive movement, which includes the White House media team, believe in free speech? By that I mean the actual kind of free speech, not the increasingly common progressive view where you profess fealty to the First Amendment as an anachronistic legal technicality solely so you can deflect criticism when someone calls out your totalitarian impulses. Real free speech means a culture of free speech, where we all confront opinions that bother us, in the understanding that regularly challenging our assumptions makes us a more thoughtful, cohesive, and, yes, tolerant people.
I think we can safely conclude that Chaudhary and Lee don’t believe in the meaningful kind of free speech.
And Lee is part of the team that runs the White House media operations. What does that tell us about the Democratic Party and the left?
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Fascists: A petition signed by 87,000 people wants George Will fired by the Washington Post because he wrote a column saying things they don’t like.
The petition drive was put together by a group called UltraViolet led by Nita Chaudhary.
Who is UltraViolet co-founder Nita Chaudhary? In 2004, she was the Democratic National Committee’s first director of online. And she is the former campaign director at MoveOn.Org. … Chaudhary is also the wife of Jesse Lee, the White House’s director of progressive media and online response.
The author then asks this blunt but totally valid question:
And so I ask a genuinely scary question: does the broader progressive movement, which includes the White House media team, believe in free speech? By that I mean the actual kind of free speech, not the increasingly common progressive view where you profess fealty to the First Amendment as an anachronistic legal technicality solely so you can deflect criticism when someone calls out your totalitarian impulses. Real free speech means a culture of free speech, where we all confront opinions that bother us, in the understanding that regularly challenging our assumptions makes us a more thoughtful, cohesive, and, yes, tolerant people.
I think we can safely conclude that Chaudhary and Lee don’t believe in the meaningful kind of free speech.
And Lee is part of the team that runs the White House media operations. What does that tell us about the Democratic Party and the left?
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Kinda creepy that they selected their name based off word play from Ultra Violent.
Is this not how fascist dictatorships arise? This is the Whitehouse machinery in action. All of the players are connected to this Whitehouses apparatchiks in one way or another.
Concur. It’s not a coincidence.
I like how they try to hide who runs and funds these little groups and try to pass it off as a “grass roots” type of campaign.
Keep pointing out the high rollers who are using these groups as their attack dogs, eventually they will stop when the people start to notice who they are and why they are doing things like this.
Democrat or Republican as long as you keep pointing out they are rich and connected that is what people will start to notice and then realize they don’t like any rich people trying to manipulate them for any reason.
Modern Democrats do not believe in free speech. Harry Reid has been discussing on passing legislation to limit free speech for those who disagree with liberals:
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/06/03/Mitch-McConnell-Harry-Reid-s-Anti-Speech-Amendment-Designed-To-Shut-Up-Our-Fellow-Citizens-Video
Free speech exists as long as one doesn’t criticize or disagree with the PTB. Otherwise one must be in a “Free Speech Zone” to air grievances.
Harry Reid is careful to spew his most egregious charges from the Senate floor, where he is immune from liable suits. He is extremely mendacious, cowardly, and a disgrace to his office and his colleagues.
I have been saying for years that the way to cure Democrats and liberals is to force them to live under the system they have created and support, beginning with the next Republican president openly directing the IRS to withdraw the tax-deductible status of all progressive groups, minutely audit the tax returns of Democrats and liberals, and prosecute them all for the slightest infraction. When segments of the population refuse to defend our Constitution and tradition of laws, then they deserve to live with the consequences directly.
George Will, in liberal eyes, must be punished for lending credibility to Fox News. This has nothing to do with his columns.