March 15, 2005
I Don't Believe It!
Via Best of the Web, through New Sisyphus, to P.J. O'Rourke at the Weekly Standard:
John Kerry finally gave the speech I prophesied he would give -- back on August 12, 2004!
John Kerry on February 28, 2005 at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston (quotation taken from O'Rourke's article):
We learned that the mainstream media, over the course of the last year, did a pretty good job of discerning. But there's a subculture and a sub-media that talks and keeps things going for entertainment purposes rather than for the flow of information. And that has a profound impact and undermines what we call the mainstream media of the country. And so the decision-making ability of the American electorate has been profoundly impacted as a consequence of that. The question is, what are we going to do about it?
John Kerry on November 3, 2004 on the steps of the Capitol Building (quotation taken from my August 12, 2004 prophetic speech):
Posted by nopundit at March 15, 2005 09:17 PM
So today John Edwards and I are introducing in the United States Senate the Kerry-Edwards Political Speech Reform Act of 2004. Once this legislation is enacted, the first step of course is to assemble a Blue Ribbon Commission to study blog and its effects on the electoral process. Our wish is to see this Commission made up of the best and the brightest in American media: the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Reuters, Associated Press, and of course, the BBC. Their mandate will be two-fold. First, answer the obvious questions: What is blog? How does blog taint actual news? Children and blog: a recipe for disaster? Second of course are the regulatory recommendations: Should there be mandatory blog safety classes? Should the government establish a national blog registration database? Should blog be regulated? Should blog be restricted in election years? These recommendations will then be handed over directly to the Federal Communications Commission so they can enact them without delay. The very safety and well-being of the United States government is at stake. There can be no foot dragging - the American people will not stand for it.