{"id":29349,"date":"2016-10-02T19:21:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T23:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29349"},"modified":"2016-10-02T19:21:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T23:21:20","slug":"we-need-to-protect-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29349","title":{"rendered":"We Need To Protect Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, The Washington Examiner<\/a> reported on a proposal by Democrats<\/a> on the Federal Election Commission<\/a> to limit media coverage of the 2016 election. I am sure that fact that their proposal would only limit conservative news outlets is purely coincidental.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

In a last-minute submission<\/a> Wednesday, a top Democrat on the evenly split FEC proposed that the Thursday meeting<\/a> of the commission begin the process to prohibit companies with foreign ownership as small as 5 percent “from funding expenditures, independent expenditures, or electioneering communications.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Democratic Commissioner Ellen Weintraub<\/a> said in her submission, “Given everything we have learned this year, it blinks reality to suggest that that there is no risk of foreign nationals taking advantage of current loopholes to intercede invisibly in American elections. This is a risk no member of the Federal Election Commission should be willing to tolerate.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Under Weintraub’s proposal, entities that reach her foreign ownership target would conceivably be banned from advocating for a candidate’s election or defeat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Several media giants have at least 5 percent foreign ownership, some with as much as 25 percent. Included is News Corp, which owns Fox, the New York Post<\/a> and the Wall Street Journal<\/a>. The New York Times<\/a> also has foreign ownership, as do many politically active firms like Ben & Jerry’s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That prohibition could include Fox commentator Sean Hannity<\/a> or Wall Street Journal editorial. And, according to one analysis, because foreign nationals also are prohibited from making electioneering communications, those media would not even be able to mention Donald Trump<\/a> or Hillary Rodham Clinton<\/a>, even if just covering them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This needs to be stopped before it even begins. Americans are smart enough to evaluate news sources. The government does not have to censor or filter news in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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