Freedom of speech - remember when?

History does like to repeat itself.

If there has been any doubt about the news media being in the tank for the White House, and simply being an arm of their propaganda, there should be no more doubt now:


White House boasts: We 'control' news media

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=113347

No wonder they have decided to go after FOX, at this point they are the only national news media that seems to actually be asking questions.

White House Escalates War on Fox News

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/18/white-house-escalates-war-fox-news-1925819282/


The White House stopped providing guests to 'Fox News Sunday' after Wallace fact-checked controversial assertions made by Tammy Duckworth, assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, in August. Dunn said fact-checking an administration official was "something I've never seen a Sunday show do."
"She criticized 'FOX News Sunday' last week for fact-checking -- fact-checking -- an administration official," Wallace said Sunday. "They didn't say that our fact-checking was wrong. They just said that we had dared to fact-check."


I guess being in lock step with the administration and it's plans is required by the White House now. There is no room for opposing ideas. This is a very scary development, in an ever increasingly restrictive government. The transparency that was promised during the campaign has not only not occurred, but the depth of secrecy has actually grown.

Add to this the assault on private citizens, being targeted by the White House, and it is hard not to imagine the early years of the Nazi movement when they were consolidating power. They too had the media on their side, and went after at first private citizens, then entire groups of the population.

Something to think about.