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To: combjelly who wrote (430283)	10/26/2008 1:56:12 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574591

Hmm, let's see. "Protest zones" well away from any rallies or routes of the motorcades. This is, in no way, "stifling" free speech. But let's get you on the record here. Do you support reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, or not? Throwing out, or even arresting, people with the wrong t-shirts or even bumper stickers. There was the t-shirt incident which did not involve Bush in any way. The bumper sticker bullshit you're referring to is a typical KOS lie. As to "protest zones", I would say that giving protesters a place of their own at private events and political rallies is going the extra mile. Half full, half empty. Few press conferences, and when he does have them, no questions are allowed. Yet, as previously pointed out, he has allowed probably more one-on-one interviews than any president since Reagan. You must have forgotten Clinton shutting down any press appearances through most of the four years before Bush. The fact is that Bush has been as open as the next guy. I should stress, however, that none of these rise to the level of the Fairness Doctrine or shutting out media for asking tough questions. Bush had, early on, gone the extra mile by allowing Democrat Hate Monger Helen Thomas to ask questions when she was clearly not even a reporter, but a Democratic Rabble Rouser. Obama has been unwilling to make appearances on the one fair news reporting organization (FNC) until OReilly goaded him into it (before lobbing a series of softballs that would make Larry King blush). I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt right now -- but the trajectory he has set reeks of fascism and frankly, I think that's where we're headed. Whether they will be successful in killing our Constitution? I don't know. But it surely looks like an effort to do so to any objective observer.