Posted by
"Mind and Morals" Michael Coyne on Monday, October 26, 2009 11:04:00 AM
Remember my post on May 19 of this year? I told everyone that that was
exactly the day that the Obama Administration took its sharp left turn full
throttle and began to look like Soviets. Only a handful of you believed me on
the significance of that day.
I told you that three things were emerging from the administration
that should scare to death any good American who knows about the old USSR
menace. Those were OHFA—Obama healthcare for America, GM—Government Motors, and
GPOU—Government Political Opposition Unit.
It’s no coincidence that GPOU shares initials with GOP. GPOU is my
name for those individuals in the Obama Administration whose job it is to
silence or marginalize anyone who even gives a whiff of dissent from the
Government’s party line. Most recently, that target has been FOX News.
GPOU operatives like David Axelrod and Anita Dunn made official the
war on FOX by passing over the network for various interviews and by calling
them “opponents” or the “communications arm of the Republican Party.”
To the credit of all of the major networks, when the White House tried
to bar FOX from a roundtable interview of the new “Executive Pay Czar,” ABC,
CNN, NBC, and CBS all threatened a boycott of the interview until FOX was
allowed in as well. Stories from even the New
York Times and the Washington Post
have illustrated the absurdity of the War on FOX (articles below).
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/10/obamas_dumb_war_with_fox_news.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/us/politics/23fox.html?_r=1
In typical far-Left ideological fashion, the First Amendment freedom
of the press applies only when the press is friendly to leftist goals.
Thankfully, this doesn’t look like it will stand, and the administration will
unwind itself if it begins to look as though the GPOU is in full swing.
However, should leftist voices prevail and FOX is marginalized—if
anything, the opposite is happening, FOX’s ratings are jumping even higher than
they were before the GPOU took aim—then we will see an end to freedom.
I will close with some words from a man who, in your heart, you know
was right.
“Those who seek absolute power, even though they
seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to
enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are
the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does
corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.”