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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"news",<br>"author":"texasnationalist",<br>"permlink":"2874-2",<br>"title":"Trump Threatens NBC's License: Why This is Awful",<br>"body":"In a gesture that is only half-surprising,<br> this morning,<br> President [Donald Trump tweeted (https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/918112884630093825) out a thinly veiled threat to pull NBC\u2019s broadcasting license,<br> inferring his reason was the network\u2019s severe Trump administration criticism.\n\n> With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks,<br> at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!\n\nBefore we start celebrating,<br> let\u2019s stop and think about this. Yes,<br> NBC news and programming tend to be biased against Trump and Republicans,<br> like the rest of the big three. A reasonable person can be honest about that. However,<br> the president doesn\u2019t have the power to shut them down because they\u2019re biased against him. Now,<br> it may be that Trump isn\u2019t serious. This President says a lot of things he doesn\u2019t mean\u2026 a LOT of things. However,<br> at some point Trump needs to accept that,<br> as president,<br> his meaningless words carry more weight than most,<br> and it should be beneath his office for a president to behave that way. Besides,<br> the \u201cGee,<br> this is a nice place! Sure would be a shame if something happened to it\u201d routine that Trump likes to use in making threats is hardly compelling for establishing plausible deniability,<br> and it really is getting tiresome.\n\nI\u2019m old enough to remember a little thing called the _[Fairness Doctrine (http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/government-regulation\/report\/why-the-fairness-doctrine-anything-fair)_,<br> supposedly created to prevent bias on the public air-waves. To the contrary,<br> what it did was put a stranglehold on free-speech and limited options for consumers. Its removal was as the fall of the Berlin Wall,<br> and led to the rise of personalities such as Rush Limbaugh and other media alternatives. And whenever the left tried to revive fairness doctrine,<br> the right side of the aisle screamed _bloody murder_,<br> and rightly so. We don\u2019t need the president or anyone else regulating the content of our political speech,<br> especially if the standard is \u201chow fair is it to the president?\u201d\n\n![ (https:\/\/texianpartisan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/TrumpNBC-300x148.jpg)From Donald Trump\u2019s verified Twitter account.I know it\u2019s fun to listen to the president attack the press. They really are awful,<br> having long ago squandered what little credibility they had as an unbiased news source in their shilling for left-wing causes. However,<br> if the president creates powers for himself,<br> not granted to him by the FCC (or more importantly the Constitution),<br> he will be contributing to the downward slide towards federal authoritarianism. Such things are bad enough for a president to _threaten_,<br> let alone _do_. And if you are a Trump supporter,<br> and Trump saying or doing such things doesn\u2019t faze you\u2026 pretend Obama said it. Would you have liked to see Obama with those powers? I doubt it! But make no mistake,<br> such authority,<br> once created,<br> won\u2019t go out with Trump.\n\nTrump showed certain instincts during his campaign that demonstrated his lack of knowledge\/concern for concepts such as limited government and separation of powers. The thought that Trump might rule the U.S. as a third-world banana republic worried many,<br> especially after coming-off the previous administration which was all too well known for favoring executive fiat. If all we have is a choice between total-government from the right or total-government from the left,<br> I say that is no choice. As Washington continues to grab up powers for itself,<br> powers over all of us,<br> at some point we Texans need to recognize that this isn\u2019t what we signed up for,<br> an this further illustrates of the urgent necessity for Texas independence. For freedom\u2019s sake,<br> it\u2019s time we wish the U.S. \u201cBest of luck\u201d with their experiment in authoritarianism,<br> say \u201cGood-bye\u201d to this plague of _imperial presidents_,<br> and go our own way. In fact,<br> it\u2019s past time. Texit.",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"news\",<br>\"texas\",<br>\"politics\",<br>\"texit\" ,<br>\"canonical\":\"https:\/\/texianpartisan.com\/2874-2\/\",<br>\"app\":\"wp-steem\/1.0.4\",<br>\"community\":\"blogs\" " |
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