Note: I used to live in Chafee country (Cranston, RI) and at the time rated him as a little left of center. As far as I'm concerned, the statement he made in the commentary that follows should give him a free pass to the house of Marx...Karl Marx! ~ Norman E. Hooben
Source for the following: Ballot News
Rhode Island Governor calls for advertisers to “shut down” talk radio hosts
January 14, 2011
SANFORD, Rhode Island: Speaking with reporters after a meeting concerning health care in the state, Independent Governor Lincoln Chafee said that talk radio hosts who choose to use harsh and divisive language in their programs should have their advertisers “shut them down.” [1] Chafee has become part of an ever increasing list of center/left of center politicians and pundits who have attacked what they consider to be the vitriolic hate of the “far right-wing” of American politics. Though the Governor did not mention the Tucson shooting in responding to reporters, the timing of his response, at a time when the media has suggested divisive political debate, particularly from conservatives, might have motivated the young man who killed six individuals and injured 12 others, including a recovering Democratic Arizona Congresswoman, over the weekend, seems implied.
Chafee’s comments after the health care meeting appear to be just another step in his ramped up efforts to counter Republican/conservative influence in the state and distinguish himself from his Republican predecessor, Donald L. Carcieri. The day after the massacre in Tucson, the independent politician said he did not “plan to spend his own time on talk-radio, and he intends to ban state employees from spending their state-work time talking on talk radio.” [2] He claimed his decision was based on his belief that taxpayer resources, in the form of state employee work-time, should be wasted on “support for-profit, ratings-driven programming.” [2] A spokesman for the Governor claims that the ban had been in the works for some time before the event that occurred in Arizona over the weekend. Again, however, the timing is suspect.
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Any connection to the shooter and the right has been thoroughly debunked.
ReplyDeleteThey even went so far as to claim he was Jewish and attended the same Synagogue as did Giffords, also debunked.
But, since when do Democrats, especially the leftist hate mongering Democrats, allow facts to get in the way of the agenda?
I commented on another blog about those T-shirts the day after the so-called memorial...I knew something was fishy about them, including the turn-around time to have them printed up...well lo and behold, Rush proved me right...they must have had them printed in advance waiting for another crisis to take advantage of...check it out over at Maggies:
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Norm
ps to my last comment:
ReplyDeleteI copied that Obama website's referenced by Maggie for I'll bet they take it down so they can deny the connection:
Together We Thrive by John Berry
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/johnberry_iv/C94H
Lincoln Chaffee is that Chinless, spine less Former Rino with the brain Capcity of a deranged amoeba... but as Usual the Eastern Elites have made another deranged driven decision to elect him. On another tact... How many days off did Congress take after the Terrorist killings at Ft Hood??? and did any of the Progressive Deranged Corral ( Msnbc, Cbs, Ny Slime etc etc oh and Daffy Durbin)go on spewing anti Ilamo Venom on TV?
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