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Monday, February 24, 2014

Democrat threatens TV stations with loss of license for running GOP ads



Liberal Fascism
  • Fascist Democrat Senate candidate Gary Peters threatened TV stations with the loss of their Federal licenses if they do not pull ads by his opposition.
  • The Bill of Rights and the 1st Amendment has no meaning to whores like Peters.  It is all about raw power.
  • Goofball liberal Democrat Gary Peters also just threatened a mom with cancer. 


By Eric Dondero
Libertarian Republican.net 

This could go down as election 2014's biggest flub, a Todd Aitken type of mistake. 

To recap, a libertarian group, Americans For Prosperity is running an ad in Michigan portraying a middle-class mom stricken with cancer, on camera talking about how Obamacare has made access to doctors, and ability to afford prescription medicine much more difficult.  

The campaign of Democrat Rep. Gary Peters sent a letter to the FCC suggesting that a local TV station pull the ad.
 
Neo-Fascist Democrat Gary Peters

As PowerLine explains this morning:

So the Democrats’ thugs are trying to silence Mrs. Boonstra. Contemptibly, the Obama administration’s lawyers have threatened to use the Democrat-dominated Federal Communications Commission to take away the licenses of television stations that run the AFP ad:

You have an obligation “to protect the public from false, misleading or deceptive advertising.” Licensee Responsibility With Respect to the Broadcast of False, Misleading or Deceptive Advertising, 74 F.C.C.2d 623 (1961). Failure to prevent the airing of “false and misleading advertising” may be “probative of an underlying abdication of licensee responsibility” that can be cause for the loss of a station’s license. See Cosmopolitan Broad. Corp. v. FCC, 581 F.2d 917, 927 (D.C. Cir. 1978).
In other words: Nice television station you’ve got here. Shame if anything should happen to it.

The most likely outcome here, is that Peters and the Democrats will back off. The station will most likely continue running the ad. But in public opinion in Michigan it could be an entirely different matter. 

Daily Caller managing editor Christopher Bedford makes a very cogent point this morning, This "Democratic Senate wannabe just picked a fight with a mother who has cancer":

Mr. Peters will almost certainly be shown wrong. But even if he isn’t, what are the optics of all this? Let’s lay them out: Mr. Peters goes to Washington and votes for Obamacare. Because of this, back home, Ms. Boonstra, a mother who was given a 20 percent chance of surviving her cancer, looses her health insurance. It takes her two uncertain, sleep-deprived months to replace her plan, with Obamacare delaying every step of the way through its broken website, weeks of snail-mail delays and days of backed up phone lines. 
Ms. Boostra finally ended up with a plan she doesn’t think is even comparable to the security of her old plan. And when she told her story, Mr. Peters, the politician who wants to be her senator — and represent her in Washington — sicced his lawyers on her, questioning her trials and, in a page right out of Richard Nixon’s playbook, threatening the license of the station that dared to air it. (BEDFORD: The (real) life of Julie) 
In November, Mr. Peters is likely to face off against another mother, Republican Terri Lynn Land. (Emphasis added.)
Right on! How does this look to your average Michigan voter, say an independent who votes occasionally for Democrats, other times for the GOP? How does this look to the all-important single mom voter in Michigan who typically sides with Democrats? It's still in its early stages, but a week or two from now, we could be calling Democrat Gary Peters the Todd Aitken of 2014. 
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And as we've mentioned repeatedly here at LR, we Republicans do not need this seat to win the Senate. This is gravy. The GOP looks to already have enough seats to secure the majority. Republican Senator Terri Lynn Land from blue state Michigan, will just be the ultimate icing on the cake.

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