Fox Dangerously Close To Making Explicit Call For Repeal Of 20th Century

[babylonsister]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012210031

Fox Dangerously Close To Making Explicit Call For Repeal Of 20th Century

December 21, 2010 6:15 pm ET by Matt Gertz


In September, I laid out how Fox News had spent the months since President Obama's election attacking and calling for the repeal of virtually every progressive accomplishment of the 20th century, from Social Security to Medicare to parts of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to constitutional amendments. More recently, they've added to the mix the estate tax, first passed in its current form 90 years ago.

Tonight during Glenn Beck's special on the Constitution, Fox Business host Andrew Napolitano -- who has called for the repeal of the 16th and 17th amendments -- came closer than any other Fox figure has to using the network to openly call for the repeal of the century:

NAPOLITANO: The 20th century is a disaster for the Constitution, in large measure because of the way it began with Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the way it moved up to FDR, the three of them together demonstrating publicly and privately utter contempt for the natural law, the concept that individuals have natural rights that the government can't interfere with, and the concept that the Constitution was written to keep the government off the peoples' backs. Teddy Roosevelt, his cousin Franklin Roosevelt, and their mentor, Woodrow Wilson, basically ushered in periods of government in which the government took the position that it could write any law, regulate any behavior, tax any event, and seek any goal, whether authorized or permitted by the Constitution or not.

Beck has previously used his radio show to call the 20th century the "greatest lie ever told" and say it was "one of the most stunning con jobs ever - it is the big lie."

[Arkana]

1. The fucking Constitution once counted black people as 3/5 of a person

and prevented women from voting. That's why it should never, ever be thought of as a static set of rules--it has to change with the times.

[toddwv]

2. It's truly difficult to find the words to respond to these people.

It's hard to be shocked by what comes out other their mouths these days but the fact that there is a large group of people who think that they are actually good for America? Unbelievable. My hope is that the American people as a whole catch on before we reach the point where it would take us another 100 years to reverse their destruction.

[Denninmi]

3. Well, I'm torn between 'Moron' and 'Lunatic'

With a side order of 'fascist' for good measure, especially in Beck's case.

[villager]

6. Sadly, it may require self-destruction of the Empire

...before we are rid of such people.

In other words, the fact they can say these things and still have media jobs the next morning tells you how far we have fallen, and how credulous our "free" "fellow" Americans really are...

[obxhead]

4. The Constitution wasn't written to keep the government off

peoples backs. It was written to protect the peoples backs.

It was simply a starting point and the founding fathers knew changes would have to be made to the Constitution as the nation developed.

Thomas Jefferson said:


"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."

While some take this to only mean we should fight tyrants I see a deeper meaning. Things change, people change, values change and we need to accept and force that change as needed. Adding to and altering the Constitution is part of that process of change.

[butterfly77]

5. Kicked&Recommended!

:kick:

[DBoon]

7. preferring instead the sweatshops and tenements of the 19th century

What was the average lifespan in 1900 versus 2000?

How much of the increase had to do with government intervention (called "public health")?

[FiveGoodMen]

8. The fact that they have an audience for this strongly suggests that America isn't worth saving.

I almost no one in real life who is even opposed to this shit.

[EC]

9. They sure do talk a lot about a persons

individual natural rights...then proceed to tell us we can't act naturally and try to outlaw and regulate behavior...that's the lie...they don't give a damn about individual rights, they care about the rights of corporations and the rich hirerarchy...

[Blue_In_AK]

10. That was a phrase that Scott McAdams used here in Alaska

to describe Joe Miller. It always made me smile whenever he said it.

[Leftist Agitator]

11. "...Teddy Roosevelt, his cousin Franklin Roosevelt, and their mentor, Woodrow Wilson..."

Just to reiterate, "...Teddy Roosevelt, his cousin Franklin Roosevelt, and their mentor, Woodrow Wilson..."

Do you think that the dumb prick knows that Teddy Roosevelt held the office of the Presidency *before* Woodrow Wilson?

Jesus Christ, these fucking idiots are so monumentally stupid that it literally makes my head hurt.