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Newt: "Business" Should Boycott Media That Does Not Toe Their Line

By Big Tent Democrat

Via Paul Rosenberg, this is an interesting call for class warfare from Newt Gingrich:

Mr. Gingrich said today that there were "socialists" on many newspaper editorial boards, and he suggested that businesses reconsider advertising in papers that oppose their views. "I think it's perfectly legitimate in a free society for people to decide where they'll put their money and their impact," he said in an interview on the Fox television network.

I happen to think it is perfectly legitimate too. I think it would be absolutely imbecilic for corporations to do this -- they would be inviting themselves to be targets of retaliatory boycotts. In short, they will not do it imo. They'll try to influence politics in more traditional ways (by contributing, through individuals and lobbyists of course, to political canmpaigns.) But I would find it rather hypocritical of the Right to not denounce Gingrich's statements in light of their constant cries of "censorship" from the Left. I expect that I will hear crickets from the Right on this.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 14, 2009 (boomark / email).