Fear the Left More

I agree completely with Frank Cagle's column:

At the recent Associated Press convention, presidential candidates showed up to kiss the collective butts of America’s newspaper managers. They promised to enact a federal shield law. This is the Holy Grail of corporate newspaper financial officers everywhere, who really dislike spending money defending the First Amendment.

How will the government know to whom it will grant this federal shield? It will be necessary for the federal government to define “journalists.” It is, in effect, a federal license to practice the First Amendment. Won’t it be a comfort when your license to practice journalism is granted by the likes of John Ashcroft or Alberto Gonzales?

While I don't want any attorney general "licensing" journalists, I would expect a John Ashcroft or Alberto Gonzales to be more restrained than a Janet Reno. For some reason those on the left never seem to consider boogymen other then conservatives even when the vast amount of censorship in this country is conducted by left leaning Universities. One need go no further than our northern border to see where leftist political hate speech codes will take us.

h/t Instapundit

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Apr 24, 2008