conservative

Congratulations...fourteen hours after my post you completed your thesaurus scouring....

By the way...it isn't revisionism...metaphorically speaking.... tyrannical behaviour crosses both ends of the spectrum. Take another fourteen hours and try to come up with something better...your post quality is slipping.

"You ain't seen nothin yet!"

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Davocrat

This from Mr. I-Work-17-Hour-Days</nasal whiny voice>

Yes it is revisionism. You completely misinterpreted the book in the context of this thread.

Go ahead, tell us how To Kill a Mockingbird was about the noble effort of states rights.

johnlocke

And yet the right has espoused censorship, spying on Americans, and repression, CONSISTENTLY. Um, and BTW Cons, wasn't the guy who said Tinky Winky is gay also the right wing, nutjob, conservative who said that New Orleans was "asking for it" when they got clobbered by Hurricane Katrina?

This is a picture of a conservative trying to fix the economy.

Inkslinger

If I were making .20 cents mark up per bag of cheetos, I'd be working 20 hour days 24/7.

Mrs. Con must be the breadwinner.

conservative

You Liberals are so cute when you try to maintain your little closed minds...Do you think that Bradbury would approve of tyranny so long as it was from leftists? You are making yourself look foolish trying to defend a non-issue.

Tyranny, oppression, restriction of rights and free speech are wrong no matter who does it...

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conservative

John, I thought you were sharper than this....as I stated in the OP, it is wrong no matter who does it. And my sarcastic Tinkie-Winkie was a jab at the right! Not a defense of the right! God you guys are taking great pains to try to maintain some weird position that novels wrtten about totalitarian states can only be referring to right-wingers. Wake-up.

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conservative

This post just shows how ignorant you are...stop while you're only slightly behind.

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Davocrat

Make two columns. Label one conservative examples of censorship and the other liberal examples of censorship and see which is longer.

...Start with HUAC, Army-McCarthy, most attempted book bannings under the "conservative" column.

johnlocke

Actually, Cons, YOU need to wake up. It was YOUR assertion (in the OP) that Fahrenheit 451 was a proper metaphor for the "censorship" that liberals were (inevitably) going to impose on the media through the reinstatement of the fairness doctrine.

My response? It flat out isn't so. There's no basis for your OP. The fairness doctrine has NEVER been used in the manner described. Liberals are no more prone to censorship than anyone else, and are (in fact) shown to be less likely to censor something than the radical right.

I have NEVER denied that the left COULD be as bad as the right, in constraining rights under the first amendment. History, however, shows that THEY HAVE NOT BEEN the faction most likely to embraces censorship (including burning and banning books). The simple truth is this: The conservative movement (in the US) has burned and banned books much more often than the liberals (in the US). The Conservative movement (in the US) is MUCH more likely to call for banning movies they don't like (like LIfe of Brian) than the liberals are. US conservatives are much more likely to try to censor television and radio (Tinky Winky, Howard Stern, and others). SO, Cons, I call bullshit on your position.

Fahrenheit 451 is NOT an apt metaphor for the reinstatement of the fairness doctrine.

This is a picture of a conservative trying to fix the economy.

Davocrat

And George Orwell had something to say about redefining terms to suit your political mission. Like saying the Fairness Doctrine--a policy of ensuring equal time to MINORITY and/or opposing views--is censorship.