I have two questions for Mr. Bush:
1. After eight years of Clinton-Gore and the omniscience of political correctness--a nice term for the piecemeal destruction of freedom of speech in the mainstream media--will your presidency change things and will the changes usher in a return to a time when journalists and editors could say and print what they felt without fear of being called "hate criminals" and without having to pander to select special interests? What I mean of course is RESPONSIBLE freedom of speech. I don't mean having the right to use racial slurs or words like "faggot" or "broad" to describe gays and women, respectively. I would never condone this. But will reporters and their bosses continue to have to "watch what they say" so as not to "offend" anyone?
Corollary to this: Are you going to punish press organs that stuck it out supporting Gore, to the point that you wind up doing what you and supporters (and closet supporters in the libertarian-right wing-alternative/online media) have accused Clinton-Gore of doing, that is, attacking them with spin, intimidation and your own version of political correctness? I saw on "http://www.townhall.com", a conservative forum/columnist site, an article where you say that the New York Times spin against you was a bit more free speech than you liked, or words to that effect.
So, as with Mr. Clinton on MTV several years back, are you saying that we have "too much" free speech? Are you planning to curtail free speech? How? By turning political correctness on its head so that now your "compassionate conservativism" will unseat liberal/big government/left-wing-ism as politically correct?
2. Before I can ask this other question I need to give a bit of history: while Clinton-Gore made political correctness the byword, the seeds of left-wing domination of the mainstream media were sown in the seventies in journalism schools right on the heels of the Vietnam war protests and the sixties counterculture. This was a time when those entering college and journalism programs had already been partially inculcated with progressive-leftist ideology and when programs were run by professors (like, say, Barbara Ehrenreich, whose husband John taught journalism at SUNY Old Westbury, one heck of a radical college, politically correct ten years before its time) that were closet Communists and "New World Order" apologists from before the sixties even. Thus now one can hardly enter a journalism program -- a pre-requesite for attaining a reporter job on any influential newspaper/TV station/radio station/web site -- where liberalism/left-wing-ism isn't dominant (or even total).
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