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Misty » 08 Feb 2018 3:04 pm » wrote:Oh, STFU up Clem.
No one wants to read your ****, especially me

Joe and Mika: Censors at Large
JEFFREY LORD
February 27, 2018, 12:05 am
MSNBC anchors were silent when Scalise shooter admitted their network was a favorite.
In the wake of the attacks on the Second Amendment, now they’re coming for the First Amendment.

And — but of course — Joe Scarborough is joining. But very, very selectively because, of course, the last thing he wants to do is have his own MSNBC removed from the air because, in Joe’s words, MSNBC — and in this case quite specifically fellow MSNBC host Rachel Maddow — “incite violence.”

Here’s the first part of the story per the Daily Caller. The headline:

Joe Scarborough Calls For Censoring NRATV

.....a while back I wrote up these interesting words of an MSNBC fan. The fan said:

“One of my favorite TV shows is The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC.”

As I noted in NewsBusters:
Who said that? Actually it was the lead sentence in a letter to the letters section of the Belleville News-Democrat, the paper of record in Belleville, Illinois. Who wrote it? That would be left-leaning James Hodgkinson, the man who shot and almost killed the Trump-supporting Congressman Steve Scalise while wounding several others as they practiced for a congressional baseball game between Republicans and Democrats in Alexandria, Virginia.

So a guy who openly professed his admiration for Ms. Maddow and the network — Joe and Mika’s network — that airs her show was, according to Joe and Mika’s logic, incited to violence because of… Maddow and MSNBC. A network where the President and Republicans are routinely trashed, including by Joe and Mika themselves.

Thus the obvious question? Should MSNBC be taken off the air? Should Rachel Maddow? Will Joe and Mika sit down in front of the cameras and confess they work for a network that has incited violence, almost killed a United States Congressman and three others? And so they are quitting MSNBC because it will give them a clear conscience?

What is so utterly typical of the Left, and at this point Joe Scarborough is long gone into the far patches of the Looney Left, is their desire for control. And the desire to control the speech of others is near if not at the very top of the list. This is what is going on in all those headlines about this or that college and speech codes, or requiring the National Guard or thousands of dollars’ worth of police protection for this or that conservative speaker.

What Joe and Mika are demanding is that the NRA, on the way to having its Second Amendment rights eliminated, be removed from its own First Amendment rights on the grounds that it “incites violence.” But in fact when their own MSNBC network and one of their co-hosts turns up as a favorite of an actual non-NRA shooter who almost kills three people — well, then silence. MSNBC and Rachel Maddow be taken off the air because they incited this nut to violence? Shhhh. And double-standards be damned.

All of which illustrates the very dangerous path down the road of censorship that Joe and Mika and their philosophical soul mates would have Americans go. They and their fellow liberal media elites will be the judge of what is acceptable speech — and what is not.
https://spectator.org/joe-and-mika-censors-at-large/