{"id":13377,"date":"2012-03-13T12:24:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T16:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13377"},"modified":"2012-03-13T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T19:50:15","slug":"feminist-trio-trying-to-use-fcc-to-shut-down-limbaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13377\/feminist-trio-trying-to-use-fcc-to-shut-down-limbaugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist Trio Trying to Use FCC to Shut Down Limbaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, those champions of free expression on the left. From the Daily Caller<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Three stalwarts of the feminist movement \u2014 Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan \u2014 have added their voices to the calls to take radio giant Rush Limbaugh off the air.<\/p>\n

The co-founders of The Women\u2019s Media Center put pen to paper over the weekend to request that the public complain and urge the Federal Communications Commission to revoke the licenses of stations that carry \u201cThe Rush Limbaugh Show<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t political. While we disagree with Limbaugh\u2019s politics, what\u2019s at stake is the fallout of a society tolerating toxic, hate-inciting speech,\u201d they wrote. \u201cFor 20 years, Limbaugh has hidden behind\u00a0the First Amendment, or else claimed he\u2019s really \u2018doing humor\u2019 or \u2018entertainment.\u2019 He is indeed constitutionally entitled to his opinions, but he is not constitutionally entitled to the people\u2019s airways. It\u2019s time for the public to take back our broadcast resources.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s amazing, isn’t it? The left — which see McCarythism around every corner — instinctively turns to government force to squelch the opinions of those they despise. And as for “toxic, hate-inciting speech” … well, Limbaugh wasn’t the one cheering on the Viet Cong<\/a>, Ms. Fonda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, those champions of free expression on the left. From the Daily Caller: Three stalwarts of the feminist movement \u2014 Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan \u2014 have added their voices to the calls to take radio giant Rush Limbaugh off the air. The co-founders of The Women\u2019s Media Center put pen to paper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[504,188,716,503,3424,3425,3426,322,3427],"class_list":["post-13377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-censorship","tag-fcc","tag-first-amendment","tag-free-speech","tag-gloria-steinem","tag-jane-fonda","tag-robin-morgan","tag-rush-limbaugh","tag-womens-media-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13392,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377\/revisions\/13392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}