Tim Sumner

free speech, mainstream media

Free Speech and Radical Islam

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On Wednesday, Michelle Malkin asked for a show of solidarity for Kurt Westergaard and Jyllands-Posten:

As a show of solidarity and a reminder of how cowardly American media outlets refused to stand up when it counted, take a minute to reprint your favorite Mo cartoon or link back to the blogging you did on the cartoon rage two years ago.

Then there is this, this morning, in the Wall Street Journal:

We need a global movement to fight blasphemy and other insult laws, and the European Union should lead the way by removing them. Europe should make it clear that democracies will protect their citizens if they say something that triggers threats and intimidation. — Flemming Rose

Muhammed

Political wind

The Junk Attack on Talk Radio: Michelle Malkin

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Michelle Malkin, in the New York Post this morning, writes:

The most anti-conservative rhetoric against conservative talk radio these days is coming from supposedly free-market conservatives. It’s disgusting.
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Funny. These trash-talking GOP politicians and pundits had no problem when conservative talk-radio hosts used their “ego and power” to help kill Hillary Clinton’s massive 1994 government health-care takeover. They had no problem when conservative talk-radio hosts used their “ego and power” to galvanize support for the GOP revolution, two Bush presidential campaigns and the Iraq War.

In major US metro areas, conservative talk radio offers rare relief from liberal orthodoxy — and local talk-show hosts have spearheaded effective activism. KSFO in San Francisco led the Gray Davis recall. KVI in Seattle was instrumental in launching the successful fight against HillaryCare and in support of an initiative abolishing government racial preferences.

Were they nothing more than empty-talking hairdressers then?

The Republican talk-radio bashers did start having problems when many hosts harnessed grassroots opposition to help kill last year’s Bush/McCain/Kennedy illegal-alien-amnesty bill. GOP Rep. Lindsey Graham dismissed them as “loud folks.” In other words: They were making a difference.