Purpose-Driven Nation

Thomas Jefferson and the Media
In a letter to J. Norville in 1805, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper.”

First Amendment Rights
The five freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment are:
1. Free exercise of religion
2. Freedom of speech
3. Freedom of the press
4. Freedom of the right of the people peacefully to assemble
5. Freedom to petition the Government for a redress of griev-ances

Freedom of Speech
Today there is a vital need to clarify the significant difference between “freedom of speech” and “freedom of expression.” The First Amendment says nothing about guaranteeing the freedom of expression. What the Constitution guarantees is freedom of speech. James Madison wrote the First Amendment. When he talked about freedom of speech, he meant political discourse, which is the right of the people to agree and disagree about how to make America better. This should be the objective of government—to make America better for all citizens. Madison did not mean by this phrase “freedom of expression,” which for today’s secular progressive crowd is an understanding that a person can say and do anything and everything under the sun with no fear of consequences. But that does not square with reality. It’s either truth or consequences.

Madison believed that the Bill of Rights were a means to an end. Jefferson said that we could never sacrifice the means to the end. What is that end? Freedom. Jefferson and Lincoln both said it might be necessary to amputate the leg of the man just to save his life. In the case of war it may sometimes be necessary to violate civil liberties in order to save freedom.

If we tear individual liberty out of a social context, as the Free Speech Rights advocates do today, we are left with nothing but the perverse understanding of secular humanism and paganism resulting in a loss or restriction of our God-given rights as a free society.

Debate
Debate is the great-granddaddy of all contest speaking events. Men have been debating with one another since the beginning of time when the serpent first debated with Eve the benefit of eating a certain fruit in the Garden. The best way to reach a true understanding of the church and state debate is to provide a level playing field for all ideas to be equally heard. The only basis for this in history is the Bible on its own terms. “Present your case,” the LORD says. “Bring forth your strong arguments,” the King of Jacob says.

Fairness Doctrine
The so-called Fairness Doctrine is an assault on your right to choose what you watch, read and listen to. It would be anything but fair. Instead, such legislation would provide for more journalistic malpractice. The Fairness Doctrine is nothing more than liberal elected officials of government attempting to silence a few citizens who have access to microphones. The American people should demand that both the educational system and the mainstream media provide a level playing field for all ideas and points of view to be equally heard.

Balancing Armed Services Radio
Congress should schedule more conservative talk radio programs on the Pentagon’s Voice of America190 (VOA), e.g., increasing EIB Network’s Rush Limbaugh Program to 3 hours per day on Armed Services Radio, and should add other conservative syndicated talk radio programs to the lineup on Armed Services Radio to boost the morale of our troops overseas and counterbalance the liberal/leftist-biased media already heard on VOA.

Voice of America (VOA)
Voice of America (VOA) is the official international radio and television broadcasting service of the Pentagon. Its oversight bureau is the International Broadcasting Bureau, which is committed to “public diplomacy” or truthful propaganda. The Voice of America currently has radio broadcasts in 44 languages and television broadcasts in 24 countries. Adding more conservative talk radio programs to the VOA programming lineup is a positive way to support our troops and keep their morale high with news presented from a conservative perspective, and with a positive emphasis on what’s great about America.

Preserving Free Speech Rights
Conservative free speech is under attack from the left. The so-called “Fairness Doctrine” —more fittingly named the “Muzzle Doctrine” or the “Hush Rush Act”—is nothing more than preten-tious legislation that would require primarily talk radio programs to provide “equal time” to opposing views every time Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Michael Savage, Neal Boortz, Glenn Beck and other conservatives, open their mouths to speak the truth about what’s going on in our nation’s capitol.

Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh should receive national recognition for his groundbreaking professional achievements in talk radio since 1988, and the phenomenal success of his EIB network. Rush has transformed media since he burst on the national radio scene in 1988. Liberal broadcast failures resent Rush; Democrats and the liberal drive-by media fear him.

Everyday Americans want the right to choose how and from whom they get their news, but leftists in Congress want to force their liberal points of view down the throats of the American people.

Ronald Reagan Abolished the Fairness Doctrine
Liberals in government, in Stalinist fashion, unrepresentatively used the so-called Fairness Doctrine for more than 35 years to harass and suppress conservative voices in the media. This is partisan political abuse of a basic American right—freedom of speech. In the late 1980s, under President Ronald Reagan, the Federal Communications Commission abolished the Fairness Doctrine.

JFK
President Kennedy’s Assistant Secretary of Commerce revealed their liberal plot: “Our massive strategy was to use the Fairness Doctrine to challenge and harass right-wing broadcasters and hope the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue.”

Michael Reagan
According to Michael Reagan, “Nothing frightens those who peddle lies than the cold hard light of truth. They react to exposure of their deceits the way vampires react to a having a crucifix held up in front of them. Ever since the birth of conservative talk radio and the Internet ended the liberals’ total monopoly over the news, the left has been simmering with impotence—over the loss of their absolute control over what the Americans are allowed to see and hear, and their inability to do anything about it.”
The only way liberals know how to keep competition away from a successful enterprise, e.g., conservative talk radio programs, is to have government make competition illegal via the Fairness Doctrine. Monopolies are always created by government. A true monopoly cannot possibly exist in a free market.

Media: Public Enemy
Is mainstream media public enemy No. 1? “The media is the enemy!” is the title of the introductory narrative of American Free Press.net. AFP offers: “In the old Soviet Union, the government controlled the media. Not a word of substance could be published without prior approval from the Bolshevik commissars. Today, in the United States, the situation is starkly similar. But most Americans don’t even know it. In the United States today, it is a select handful of superrich families and tightly-knit financial interests-a plutocratic elite-who own the Big Media and who control the government through their ownership of that media. . . . Every single one of the major media outlets is controlled by this powerful interlocking combine.”

Conservatives Defend Free Speech
Conservative Radio Talk Show host Rush Limbaugh had this to say in response to the government looking out for the ‘public interest’ when it comes to free speech rights. Rush said, “The keywords here are ‘they say they’ll act in the public interest.’ Well, who gets to define that? See, that’s the problem. If you let the elected political calss define the public interest, it’s going to change over the course of days, weeks, months, years and the public interest is going to be whateve those people say it it–and then speech isn’t free.”

Speak up for truth and the right. Let your voice be heard. Together, we can win the future by keeping the air waves free and out of the hands of liberals and Leftist who want to silence the truth. The truth will set us free and the truth will keep us free. Freedom is worth fighting for and Rush Limbaugh is worth listening to because he speaks truth to power.

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