Malignant Liberal Idiocy

Rep. Anna Eshoo “gesundheit” (D - CA 14th) has introduced legislation that would seem potentially helpful at first thoughtless glance. H.R. 6209, “The Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act” (CALM,) aims to create a standard that would not allow commercial producers to make their product louder than the show during which it will be aired.

My initial reaction was to recall how annoying it is to be watching a show and when it goes to commercial, noticing the difference in loudness. My wife has complained countless times about the commercials being so much louder than the scheduled programming. As much as we hate the increase in loudness, it pales in comparison to our hatred and fear of limitless government control!

Rep. Eshoo (Sneezy from here on, although Dopey might be more appropriate for this mental dwarf) has placed a Pandora’s Box of limitless government before her fellow representatives. Let us hope that a majority of reps have some respect for liberty and personal responsibility, which is obviously lacking in Superdelegates pledged to Barry Obamantion. Of course Sneezy is one of Barry’s pledged Superdelegates, which I suppose offers at least a partial explanation of her libiocy, or at the very least reason to not be surprised.

You might be wondering why this seemingly helpful little bill is so alarming. After all, isn’t Sneezy just looking out for her constituency? The answer would be yes, assuming her constituency is comprised of helpless children that require total control of every facet of their lives. Maybe this answer is inaccurate, since many children can operate the volume control of a remote control. Perhaps the residents of Sneezy’s Magic Kingdom district do not want to be responsible for turning down their own television sets when an all powerful federal government could take care of the volume from D.C.

The cause for alarm is revealed when one realizes that the initial reaction to a bill like this is often positive. How many assaults on liberty get passed without being scruitnized for unintended (or perhaps intended) consequences? If Sneezy and her fellow Marxists can control the decibel level of commercials, they will. If they can control the decibel level of scheduled programming, they will. If they can control what you eat, they will. If they can controlwhat you buy, they will. If they can control what you earn, they will. If they can control how many children you have, they will. A terrifying precedent is set each time a piece of legislation is passed that enables the bloated and inefficient bureaucracy to engorge its breadth of control!

Here are a few suggestions for regular people that get ticked off when the commercial is louder than the show:

• Turn the volume down.
• Hit the mute button.
• Stop watching the show and tell the network why (apparently ratings are important.)
• Boycott loud advertisers.

Isn’t that crazy? Imagine the notion that a free person could possibly control the volume of his own damn TV! Give the power-hungry Marxists a window of opportunity and they will grab all the power they can. Thoughtless libiots are already prepared to endorse the move toward Obamunism, are they also prepared to give the government control of their remotes?