November 7, 2003 6:32 AM

Ma'am, I think I'm going to need that air-sickness bag....

Conservatives Celebrate Winning One for the Gipper

I have maintained, many people have maintained, that the far right has extraordinary power. We've now learned they not only have power in politics, they have power in entertainment and news as well. They totally collapsed...a clear victory for the far right. I have to conclude if they can do it with CBS, they can do it with anybody else. They are going to be watching for the next target of opportunity and use it for whatever they can. I don't think there is any doubt that we'll see more of it in the future.

- Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD)

Apparently, the wanton stifling of free speech and dissent is a perfectly acceptable objective if you're a Conservative. So much for the Bill of Rights....

"Right-Wing Thought Police Have Declared Reagan, Like Dissent, Off-Limits," People for the American Way cried yesterday as conservatives did a victory dance over CBS's decision to yank its controversial miniseries about former first couple Ronald and Nancy Reagan....

Michael Paranzino, the Maryland lawyer who had launched the Web site BoycottCBS.com that led the march to get the miniseries squashed, called it "a great victory for all fair-minded Americans" and "a wakeup call to the out-of-touch liberals in Hollywood."

"It should not have taken a national groundswell of hundreds of thousands of Americans to make Hollywood and CBS realize that an attack on the Reagans is seen by most Americans as an attack on our values," he said.

Paranzino said he is being urged to turn the boycott to Showtime and other Viacom properties. Viacom also owns UPN, MTV, VH1, Spike TV and Paramount Pictures, among other properties.

Sorry to wake you from your dreamy reverie, y'all, but this is little more than CENSORSHIP (there, I said it, Mark...). Having proven their ability to intimidate and influence what the American public is allowed to view on their televisions, what will be their next target? I'm not sure the Bill of Rights can take much more of this.

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(It's time for the 5.30 national news. It's 2009, and the nation is now completely ruled by the rich, white, Conservative oligarchy. Dissent has been crushed and "Free Speech" is free in name only....

"Greetings, Amerikan Citizens, from the Glorious Shining City on the Hill, where it is a glorious day in our Glorious and All-Powerful Aryan Fatherland. In today's top story, our Benevolent, Glorioius, and All-Knowing Maximum Leader, Jeb Bush....")

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