Senator John Kerry says the media has a responsibility to not give equal time to the Tea Party

  Back in 2007 John Kerry supported the idea of bringing back the Fairness Doctrine, declaring:

I think the Fairness Doctrine ought to be there and I also think equal time doctrine ought to come back. I mean these are the people who wiped out one of the most profound changes in the balance of the media is when the conservatives got rid of the equal time requirements. And the result is that, you know, they’ve been able to squeeze down and squeeze out opinion of opposing views and I think it’s been an important transition in the imbalance of our public

  In 2007 John Kerry thought it was important to make sure that “opposing views” were not “squeezed out” by the media and supported the Fairness Doctrine as a necessary tool to ensure that liberals had a voice on talk radio. But that was 2007 and this is 2011 and the times have changed. John Kerry was for the Fairness Doctrine before he was against it because when asked about the influence of the Tea Party this morning John Kerry stated the media has a responsibility to not give the Tea Party equal time:

And I have to tell you, I say this to you politely. The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it’s exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual

  Which is it senator? Does the media have the responsibility to provide balanced coverage or do they not have the responsibility to provide balanced coverage?

  John Kerry has decided that the Tea Party’s positions of balancing the budget, shrinking the government, and reigning in government spending is an absurd position to hold, and because of this absurdity he feels as if the media has the responsibility to ignore the opposition’s position. This is a far cry from John Kerry’s 2007 position.

  Because the Tea Party has an opposing opinion, John Kerry has decided that this opinion is not a legitimate opinion and naturally if you oppose John Kerry your position is absurd and should not be validated by receiving coverage in the media. As if one man can decided the absurdity of a position and declare it not newsworthy.

  This highlights the true reasons behind the left’s support of reinstituting the Fairness Doctrine; it is not about fairness at all, but rather about drowning out the opposition and this is evidenced by John Kerry’s remarks earlier today. If you oppose a liberal you hold an absurd position and should be silenced so that all can be awed by the superior intelligence of the left without being distracted by those that do not hold the same beliefs.

  Of course the true reason that John Kerry wants the Tea Party silenced is not because the platform of the Tea Party is absurd, but rather because the Tea Party is winning the argument. The debt ceiling debate has been hailed as a Tea Party victory even though most Tea Party Republicans voted against this legislation, and it is considered a victory because the Tea Party managed to change the debate in Washington even if they did not win the total victory it had hoped to.

  But even though Tea Party members are disappointed with John Boehner and Mitch McConnell for selling out to the Democrats, the fact is that the Tea Party has gained momentum and the left sees the Tea Party as a legitimate threat to their power in the upcoming election in 2012 and so they assault is on; the left is going to attack, denigrate, libel, and lie about the true goal of the Tea Party in an attempt to diminish the influence of the Tea Party in the upcoming elections.

  And now John Kerry has gone so far as to say the Tea Party does not deserve a voice in the media, and should be suppressed by the media–even though back in 2007 he was lamenting what he thought was the suppression of liberal ideals on talk radio–and this is coming from a man who has told us that we should “celebrate diversity.”

  The left is running scared and they do not know how to handle this repudiation of their policies, so instead of debating the issues in an open forum people like John Kerry has decided that media censorship is the only alternative they have left to stop the emergence of the Tea Party. The left laughed at the Tea Party in the beginning, but they are not laughing any more, are they?