MRC’s Gainor: Left Would Shut Down MSNBC ‘in a Heartbeat’ to get Fox Off Air
Media Research Center Vice President of Business and Culture Dan Gainor appeared on Fox Business Channel’s ‘Varney & Co’ Nov. 19 to discuss Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s stated wish to shut down both Fox News and MSNBC.
The West Virginia Democrat recently said, “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.”
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So Rockefeller would silence the two networks he sees as on the extreme opposite fringes of discourse: Fox on the right and MSNBC on the left. Fox Business’s Charles Payne called Rockefeller’s statement “crazy” and Gainor agreed that it was “so loony that politicians when they say it then later on they go like ‘I said that? I didn’t really want to say that.’”
Rockefeller, of course, has no authority or constitutional right to limit free speech, but Gainor believed his idle talk was telling. “This just goes to the heart of how much the left really hates Fox. They don’t hate MSNBC, but they’d throw them under a bus in a heartbeat just to take down Fox.”
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In order to get Fox off the
Submitted by jkwtrading on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 4:23pm.
In order to get Fox off the air it will take more than a legislative accomplishment... the Left would have to fight a physical fight if they took Fox off.
Is the left up to a real fight with injuries?
if the left did manage to remove Fox I believe it would last straw before we took a new approach to this dogfight of words between right and left and made it a physical fight.
And my little bug tells me...
Submitted by CobraMan on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 4:47pm.
"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.”"
And there's a little bug inside me that wants people such as yourself to be stripped of all political, social, and even managerial power, be relegated to janitorial jobs, and denied breeding rights. It would be a big favor to Human Existence, especially to our Gene Pool.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
My Little Bug
Submitted by libBuster on Sat, 11/20/2010 - 9:47am.
and there is a little bug inside of me that says "READ THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION SENATOR AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND I!!!!!!"
The First Amendment was designed to protect us from people such as Jay Rockefeller.
But...but... Where will we
Submitted by Guttermouth's Return on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 4:48pm.
But...but...
Where will we get our biased news from?
Probably the same place they breed leeches.
Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 10:25pm.
Oh, you found it Dead Zippers. Nothing like leeching off another's name huh?
skulking
Submitted by Guttermouth's Return on Sat, 11/20/2010 - 10:52am.
Nothing like a little name confusion, right? Kinda like trolling around calling other members zippers and nwahs, even though you know it's an outright lie.
Duh Vet's feelings are hurt. Boo frickin' hoo.
Happy Saturday.
Whatever nwahs.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 11/20/2010 - 12:15pm.
You changed you moniker to co-opt the name of another user just because he dared to push back on your anti-thetical posts.
Say goodbye to what little respect, dignity, and credibility you have left on this site. Troll.
Dead Zippers LIES again.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 11/20/2010 - 3:19pm.
Dead Zippers here: Nothing like a little name confusion, right? Kinda like trolling around calling other members zippers and nwahs, even though you know it's an outright lie.
Dead Zippers (to Joe W.): In 9 weeks and 3 days with no tracking function? How's it going, Blonde?
Dead Zippers: Or are you just a retread with a bone to pick?
Dead Zippers (to Joe W.) : The least you could do is have the integrity to come after me with your real identity, J. (Referring to Blonde)
Dead Zippers (to Blonde) : It's completely obvious you have posted attacks against me using an array of logins, and Joe W is no different. I've been around long enough to recognize a fake, especially one who is as obvious as Joe W.
Dead Zippers: I admitted so much as having previous accounts banned.
So the troll co-opted my name because I dared refer to him as one of his sock puppets and a banned user. But it is A-OK for the troll to call others by another user's name.
Hypocrite much nwahs?
viewers and ratings
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 4:59pm.
Hm, who knew that FNC's ratings and increasing viewership would drive the left insane....oh wait, that's a bit redundant, sorry about that thing there.
Either way, this call to get FNC off the air, man, that's jealousy on the part of the left. They only WISH they could get even half the ratings that FNC gets.
-Jon
This was satire
Submitted by optimist on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 5:02pm.
Clearly, this was satire and all of us dummies on the right didn't pick up on it. /sarc
The funny thing is, I'd bet real money that Rockefeller would use the tired satire defense. I mean, it's what all lefties do when they say something incredibly stupid.
Keep your powder dry, folks
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 5:12pm.
We just may be heading for that next American Revolution after all.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
To think that this is a zero sum gain for news...
Submitted by Deskpilot on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 5:44pm.
is to equate a World Champion Boxer and the areanas janitor being taken out of the building to relieve an overcrowding condition.
Rich-boy Rockefeller finds free speech tiresome
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 5:51pm.
Our American aristocracy -- the Rockefellers, the Kennedys, the Kerrys, et al -- are no longer amused. All this free speech for and by the peasant class has gone on way too long, and it''s high time the Federal government put a stop to it.
Rockefeller gets this week's Marie Antoinette Oblivion Award.
Even in era where the left
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 5:59pm.
Even in era where the left has control of most of the news sources, the congress/judicial/Presidency this clown thinks there is not enough control. Man talk about dictatorial impulses.
The people of West Virginia
Submitted by TheHistorian on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 6:00pm.
The people of WV should be ashamed of this man as their Senator and replace him with someone who believes in freedom as they do.
This guy (Rockefeller) is as big of a pig as his Grandfather (John D.). I think the government should conficate every dime of his wealth and give it to the poor. And make him pay in "imputed" income tax based on 38% of his estimated lifestyle. Maybe he will like paying taxes.
Mr. Rockefeller is ignoring the fact that the freedom in this country is what he should be protecting as a US Senator, so as such he is instead protecting his political ideas which are more like Adolph Hitler's than anything which can be credited to GW Bush.
The Left politicians in this country is a bunch of slimeballs. They do not promote the same rules for themselves that they want others to follow. Look at how Nancy bleated to Denny Hastert for "minority rights" in the House, only to kill the same rules once SHE became speaker.
The people in WV need to wake up that this man is a moral charlatans. Unless that is what they really want. They have not elected people of sterling character to be their Senators (Byrd, Rockefeller, now Manchin).
Dennis Prager
That little bug in you is the
Submitted by Ryan Mc. on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 6:23pm.
That little bug in you is the thug dictator in all Democrats.
Iranian Strategy
Submitted by stanmo42 on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 6:25pm.
Just like Iran who will fry every Arab and Muslim within 100 miles of Tel Aviv when they get nukes. It's a small price to pay to wipe out Jews. MSNBC is a very small price to pay to get rid of FOX. No deal!
Let's swap FOX for stations of the same viewership
Submitted by TheHistorian on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 6:43pm.
Let's start with the next guys below them, and keep shutting down until the same viewership is gone. That ought to shut off at least a couple major networks, not just the vainglorious MSNBC.
Dennis Prager
MSNBC goes then ...
Submitted by okiehawk44 on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 7:19pm.
Let me try to follow Rockefeller's thinking here. First you have GE dump Schultz (wanted to do that bigtime anyway) then on to Olbermann (we'll pick him up on the big network NBC he has those "photos" you know) and of course Maddow (we'll put him in as an analyst on Brian's show) then demand (I mean DEMAND) that FOX News be cancelled (we don't really give a damn where those conservatives go) and then we celebrate. Second...(we don't really have a second because just getting rid of FOX News is enough)
The Censorious Left Strikes Again
Submitted by Tenebrous on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 8:19pm.
Once again, a leftist gets tired of opposing views and so what does he do? Debate them? Discuss them? No, he wants to GET RID OF THEM. Sure, Rockefeller is an elitist/establishment moron, but all the angry turds in Media Matters, Move.On, Code Pink, and the Obama Zombies all have the same idea -- shut down the opposition, and once opposition has been made illegal, then they can start up the firing squads and gas chambers.
Visions and Principles blog
Us Dumbsh#ts in Alabama
Submitted by HogTideRebelCats on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 8:48pm.
Heck, we'all are too dumb to know what is best for us. Shucks, sure glad we got them smartum's up in Washington that know what we need to see or watch on that picture tube. Ma, git me 'nother beer.
Would anybody notice if
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 8:51pm.
Would anybody notice if PMSNBC were off the air???
You Are The Biggest Bunch Of Hypocrites I've Ever Seen...
Submitted by TheReal7Sticks on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 9:00pm.
"Rockefeller, of course, has no authority or constitutional right to limit free speech."
Read more: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/erin-brown/2010/11/19/mrc-s-gainor-left-would-shut-down-msnbc-heartbeat-get-fox-air#comment-form#ixzz15mOqbg7t
Yeah, try saying that again when your sister organization, the Parents Television Council, quotes him in support of exactly what you are against:
"“We commend the leadership of Senators Rockefeller, Inouye, and Stevens for their support and affirmation that profanity and indecent images should be prohibited on the publicly owned airwaves at times when children are in the audience. Congress needs to reinstate the FCC’s authority to uphold the decency law after the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that so-called ‘fleeting’ expletives were appropriate to air on the public airwaves. We urge the full Senate to pass this bill before Christmas to ensure that children are not bombarded by indecent material in the New Year,” said PTC President Tim Winter." (http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/news/release/2007/1206.asp)
Care to explain that one, yes?
Seriously?
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 9:12pm.
You're equating the desire to limit vulgarity on public airwaves during primetime to shutting down a network?
Well, I'm against teachers distributing heroin to children on school grounds. If I'm okay with kids going to school, does that make me a hypocrit?
Apples and truck tires. But I'll bet you really thought you had something there, huh?
BK,
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 9:22pm.
LOL - As per usual, 7SticksInTheMud is a few sticks short of a full load.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Dave---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 10:19pm.
Did you notice the username?
TheReal7Sticks.
Used to be 7Sticks, until he went on a nasty rampage against Catholics and got banned for bad language. Or maybe bigotry.
Within 36 hours, he was back as The Real7Sticks, bragging about "Thought you could get rid of me that easily?", or some such nonsense.
Good info to have in case I get banned for bad language.
I can come back as "TheRealDealmatthewdean".
Great disguise, no?
MD
MD,
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 10:37pm.
Yeah, nobody would ever figure that one out. :-^)
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Yeah, but what about the rest...
Submitted by Phryj1 on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 10:22pm.
...of the predominantly left-wing media? While MSNBC may the the farthest left, as Newsbusters has shown over the years, most of the other networks are still overwhelmingly leftist.
Also, it's a false equivalence. Fox News is by no means the right-wing couterpart to MSNBC. Yes, their opinion and analysis shows feature more or less conservative hosts, but they welcome a diversity of dissenting viewpoints. Also, their actual news reporting is about as objective as you can get, and their star anchor Sheppard Smith is a Democrat.
MSNBC on the other hand, is shamelessly, unabashedly far-left across the board. Even the token "conservatives" they have are about as liberal as you can get and are only considered "conservative" by virtue of the fact that all the other hosts are hard-line leftists. Their political lean permates their news reporting in addition to their op-ed type programs. They also spew some of the most vicious and hateful bile you can see on TV, in addition to skewing and twisting facts to suit their needs. Maddow and Olbermann are on record as saying MSNBC is completely justified in doing this.
Fox News is news and opinion. MSNBC is propaganda and opinion. False equivalence.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
Other trades, past and future, the leftists think are "fair"
Submitted by ThisnThat on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 10:34pm.
Just for comparisons,
I really don't need to suffer any more tradeoffs from the left.
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