FEC chair warns that conservative media like Drudge Report and Sean Hannity face regulation --- like PACs
Lee Goodman, the Chairman of the Federal Election Commission, recently stated in an interview, “I think that there are impulses in the government every day to second guess and look into the editorial...
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 theFederal 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.”
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted atpbedard@washingtonexaminer.com.
My comments: It is not enough for the Secular Humanists to control the Main Stream Media, the Propaganda Wing of the Democrat Party. They have not been able to gain the complete control of Society they want. Therefore, they must attempt to "Regulate" media that puts forward Conservative thinking such as Hannity and Drudge. Conservatives and Christians must stand against this effort with all our might.
The Secular Humanists already control all of Public Education which is a travesty; a certain road to Hell. They control much of the Judiciary which has proven devastating; out of which came Roe v. Wade and America's Abortion Murder Factory. Obama and the Secular Humanists have, through the Obamacare Law, FORCED Christians to pay for that which is against their Faith and Conscience. They will do all they can, by Law, to FORCE Christians to conform to their godless philosophy. We must stand against this with our vote and our voice.
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