tilting at liberals

A certain Mr Thomas Crosbie has called on the Irish government to impose further compulsory taxation on the Irish citizenry in order to finance failing media groups.
Mr Crosbie is envisioning an extension of the Stalinist law which currently requires Irish citizens to finance a Stalinist anti Catholic television station called RTE.
Mr Crosbie wants a bit of the pie for the Stalinist anti Catholics of the newspaper industry.
Of course Mr Crosbie is not an entirely objective commentator on these matters.
Mr Crosbie has a horse in this race.
He is the proprietor of Thomas Crosbie Holdings.
That is to say he is the owner of a failing newspaper called The Examiner, formerly the Cork Examiner, and sundry other failing regional titles.
The Examiner is a would be national newspaper which has negligible sales outside the town of Cork.
Mr Thomas Crosbie and his Holdings have gone bust attempting to make it and themselves into a national newspaper group.
Their media strategy was to compete with the bankrupt anti Catholic Independent Newspapers and the bankrupt anti Catholic Irish Times by aping the bankrupt anti Catholic Independent Newspapers and the bankrupt anti Catholic Irish Times in their mawkish pathetic conformist pseudo radical anti Catholicism.
The Cork Examiner dropped the name Cork from its title and became as bankrupt and anti Catholic as the others.
Now the Crosbies and their Holdings (and indeed Independent Newspapers and the Irish Times and their Holdings) want the citizenry to be compelled to finance their bankrupt lifestyles, their bankrupt houses in the country, their bankrupt cocaine habits, their bankrupt mistresses, their bankrupt petrol for their bankrupt BMWS, their bankrupt holidays in Belize, their bankrupt pension funds, and their ever more bankrupt anti Catholic culture wars, they want us to finance all of this I say, regardless of whether we read their bankrupt morally abysmal fervourless feckless cosmically useless readerless newspapers, or not.
Ah yes.
Compulsory taxation on the citizenry.
The last refuge of a scoundrel.
As for censorship of the internet...
For one and a half centuries, anyone who wanted to work in a newspaper in Cork had to tug their forelock to Thomas Crosbie and/or his ancestors, and say: "Please Misther Crosbie Sorr, I was wundherin iffen I could ever have an oul job in a newspaper Sorr. Top o' the mornin to you Sorr."
Likewise nationwide if you wanted to be a journalist you had take Tony O'Reilly's shilling at the Independent or the KGB's shilling at the Irish Times.
The internet has made all of them irrelevant.
They're nearly gone.
Their last gasp is to seek Soviet style financing through central government taxation on the citizenry while undermining, subverting and ultimately hijacking the freedom of speech that has flourished worldwide on the internet.
Listen bold readers.
The internet is not the last bastion of free speech.
The internet is the first ever bastion of free speech in human history.
And that's why Thomas Crosbie and his bankrupt friends want to destroy it.
I ask you.
Just look at them.
Look at Thomas Crosbie's and his friends and allies and fellow travellers.
Look at those who are seeking to censor the internet.
Look at them.
Bankrupt newspaper groups.
Corrupt Judges.
The Chinese Communist Party.
The Assad government in Syria.
The Islamic Republic of Iran.
And.
Er, that's it.
Lovely lovely people.