As IF Times

link MSNBC yanks Baldwin show for two weeks over gay slur.

MSNBC, which by they way actually stands for Misogynists Spewing Nonsense and Buffoonery Channel, have found a line over which even they won’t dare cross.  For over a decade and most recently with increasing venom,  the uber left network’s business model was to disparage in the most unhinged terms,  conservatives of all types and particularly conservative women.  In the case of Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman, it was a two-fer as the puerile minds at that network spewed their taunts like pimply drunk frat boys hurling at their first college party.

Martin Bashir, soon to be fitted for the same suit with the long arms that tie at the back once worn by the deposed Keith Olbermann, was forced to retract and apologize for a particularly vile comment against Sarah Palin recently.  We won’t repeat the comment here, but here’s some free advice for his wife or girlfriend or partner.  Let’s just say that if a flock of seagulls flies over head, keep mouths closed.  His suggestion for Palin was so vile, even Taliban viewers tweeted their disgust.  Still, he did not receive any sanction from the network.

As for the distinguished actor Alec Baldwin, whose ratings for his new show on that network are so abysmal that it should be named 30 viewers, his big crime was…to heave a gay slur.  This is the guy who goes all Rob Ford on his daughter and TV reporters threatening violence to them but is only censored when he publicly utters a gay epithet.  As is the case with many actors, his ability to put together cogent thoughts and have intelligent discourse disappears if there is no script to follow.  So instead of the articulate characters he portrays, his vocabulary is revealed as somewhat more street. For this vile transgression, he was suspended for two weeks from the show.   Insult the women all you want, but not the girly men.

So now, there’s another word to be censored from common use, henceforth only to be referred to as the ‘f’ word.   That of course joins the ‘n’ word, the ‘c’ word but not to be confused with the other ‘f’ word.  As time goes on, this reference may even be too offensive and people will have to resort to hand gestures in place of those letters.

Like rap videos, MSNBC is devoid of any real content, it has become the Miley Cyrus of the news and information business.  It’s shock TV.  It’s the same tribal beat of misogynist and violent views over and over again masquerading as free speech and liberal thought.   Interestingly, two of these newly offensive letters are found on MSNBC’s call sign.  If we wind up getting the other letters banned, we may have to call it ***** , or the asterisk network.  Of course, for ease of discussion, it will simply be referred to as the ass network.

link RTDNA – Radio Television Digital News Association | Communicator |Sen. Rockefeller Suggests Eliminating FOX, MSNBC.

This is great piece of irony, which is lost on this particular Rockefeller.  The greatest part about the First Amendment to the U.S. constitution is that through its successful implementation, the mental vacuity of people such as Jay Rockefeller is on full display for people to see.  It’s always curious that many who champion the views of the liberal left, who notionally support the poor and downtrodden are themselves blessed with obscene wealth often passed on through the generations rather than by virtue of their own efforts.  Our man Jay is a prime example of this.  Great grandson of the legendary John Rockefeller, he of the Standard Oil Fortune, Jay’s only connection to the common man in his entire life was likely the filling station attendant at the family gas pump.   

The most obnoxious feature of such leading citizens is their genuine belief that the worldviews conjured up in their fantasy worlds are the only ones that are valid and must be passed on as decrees to the unwashed masses.  Despite reaping great wealth, success and respect within a political and social framework which enabled their ancestors to attain such success, they do their best to deprive others of exactly the same privileges and benefits.  Our hero Jay’s most recent wisdom is that the FCC should shut down Fox News, MSNBC etc, to stop all them from broadcasting their inflammatory views.  Of course, he really means FOX; MSNBC is on his team.  That was thrown in to support the illusion that he was rational and fair.

“…There’s a little bug inside of me which wants to get the FCC to say to FOX and to MSNBC: ‘Out. Off. End. Goodbye.’ It would be a big favor to political discourse; our ability to do our work here in Congress, and to the American people, to be able to talk with each other and have some faith in their government and more importantly, in their future…”

Well, first of all, the FCC doesn’t regulate cable.  Secondly, unlike mainstream TV where all the distortions are free to any who will believe them, you actually have to pay for cable channels.  Which means that people would rather pay up for the quality of information of FOX, than get for free the pretense of objective news on the networks.  But it’s the unmitigated gall of this guy to promote muzzling free speech because some don’t happen to agree with him.  The bug inside of him that he refers to can probably be fixed with a lobotomy day procedure.  Our hero is dismayed that the popularity and reach of FOX has so successfully blunted the leftist propoganda that masquerades as news from his camp.  The last set of midterm elections showed that people had a chance to evaluate the messages by the opposing political sides and his side lost big.  Essentially, the public gave the Dems a big AS IF! 

Third and most importantly, the main role of the press/media is to be an advocate for the people, not cheerlead the government.  The First Amendment was crafted specifically so that governments could not run amok and spread propoganda to influence the public.  By having a skeptical media, people were protected against a tyrannical regime.  Hmm.

People in America are somewhat unique in the world in that they don’t really have the inclination to be governed by a ruling class, nothwithstanding the Camelot idiocy.  The roots of the country predisposes the population to be skeptical of talkers and supportive of doers.  As is now clearly obvious, people are more inclined to be partial to those who share their values than those that just talk about them.  And if you’re talking about taking away the rights of free speech, well, that’s just un-American.