Easy Target Blogging continues. What do we find at Townhall today? Doop de doo, doo de doop...
Why, it is League of Extra-idiotic Taxpayers lunatic David Strom! Take it away, Dave!
Freedom is lost one bit at a time
Imagine this: in 1776, the Founders of our country concluded that the most important means of communication—at that time the printing press—was so vital to the economic and political development of America that they decided to issue, along with the Declaration of Independence, a national office of printing presses that would supplant the existing free presses of the day.
Any free rational individual at the time would have risen up in opposition, justifiably accusing the founders of hypocrisy, and of setting up the conditions of tyranny by using a government-subsidized press to squeeze out the free and open media of the day. The revolutionaries would have first turned on their leaders, before taking on the British Redcoats.
Ahem.
Dear Dave:
The most important means of communication at this time was not "the printing press." There is a difference between "printing" and "communication."
The most important means of communication at this time was the mail.
When the Founders established the United States Postal Service, it did not lead to the overthrow of the young republic, and there was a spectacular amount of silence on the subject of hanging Ben Franklin from a tree limb.
Love,
Thers
The column goes on, but doesn't get any smarter (he's blithering about municipal wireless).
It's less like shooting fish in a barrel than like harpooning whales in a shotglass.