COLD WAR COMMUNISM By: Doug Schmitz

“When Rush Limbaugh has more listeners than NPR, or Tom Clancy sells more books than Noam Chomsky, or Motor Trend gets more subscribers than Mother Jones, liberals want to convince us (or themselves, perhaps) that it’s all because of some catastrophic market failure or a grand corporate conspiracy to dumb down the masses.

“In reality, it’s just the result of consumer choice. All the opinions that the Left’s media critics favor are now readily available to us via multiple platforms. But that’s not good enough, it seems: they won’t rest until all of us are watching, reading, and listening to the content that they prefer.”

— Adam D. Thierer, Frontpagemag.com, April 17, 2007

It really wasn’t a coincidence that Joseph McCarthy and Ronald Reagan were exposing the Soviet threat right around the same time the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” emerged out of the dark shadows of Communist infiltration that lurked on Capitol Hill, in Tinseltown and U.S. newsrooms. With McCarthy in D.C. and The Gipper in Hollywood, the Left’s Communist Utopia was showing signs of cracks in its faulty foundation. That’s why McCarthy and Reagan – two of my favorite political heroes of the 20th Century – deserve tremendous credit for entering the political fray with conservative principles they wouldn’t rescind, and were willing to pay the ultimate price to defend.

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