Kevin Roberts: “I wish to return to the discussion of the constitutional amendment to restrict speech. I made considerable comments…”

“I wish to return to the discussion of the constitutional amendment to restrict speech. I made considerable comments yesterday, and there are some other comments I feel should be said about this--probably a dozen or more things. However, I wish to return to that discussion. We have heard a lot in this debate about commercials. Everybody is concerned about commercials--those 30-second ads that are driving everybody crazy, that everyone wants taken off the air, and that we want to regulate and restrict and punish. We don't like them. No one likes them. We want to make them go away. Well, let's forget about the commercials for just a second. Let's talk about the show. Does anybody watch the show? It sometimes seems as though the only thing on TV that my colleagues care about are the commercials about themselves. But there actually are other things on TV. There are actual programs that fill up the time between the commercials. Let's talk about those. There is, of course, all sorts of programming on television: sports, movies, sitcoms, reality shows. Pretty much everything--and I mean everything--is on TV now. There are a lot of politics on TV. The politics come in a range of formats. It comes unvarnished on C-SPAN. It is delivered through news and commentary on cable channels. It is satirized and made fun of on the late night shows. It appears in documentaries and feature films.…”