Talk radio, cable news, the Internet and all modern technologies used to help the people of America exercise their Constitutionally protected right to assemble and petition the government for redress have started to get on Obama's last nerve.
Remember his arrogant declaration "I won" and his complaint that "I'm the President...I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talkin', I want them to just get out of the way?"
Well his latest move is designed to do just that, stop the talking and take control. This time, his newest czar is not the least bit timid about saying so.
Mark Lloyd, newly appointed Chief Diversity Officer of the Federal Communications Commission, has called for making private broadcasting companies pay licensing fees equal to their total operating costs to allow public broadcasting outlets to spend the same on their operations as the private companies do.
Along with this money, Lloyd would regulate much of the programming on these stations to make sure they focused on “diverse views” and government activities.
“Local public broadcasters and regional and national communications operations should be required to encourage and broadcast diverse views and programs,” wrote Lloyd. [CNSNews.com]
At least one source has identified this as a bold step toward silencing conservative talk radio.
What’s a poor liberal progressive to do when the radio airwaves are dominated by conservative talk and they can’t seem to “get a word in”? Why not diversify it? After Dan Rather got hammered recently for suggesting the news media needs a public handout, now on the horizon is an FCC Diversity Czar calling for private broadcasting companies to fund public broadcasting companies their total operating cost.
Pravda anyone?
Lloyd wrote a book back in 2006 that must have caught someone in the Obama administration’s eye titled Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America, published by the University of Illinois Press. Matt Cover explains that “Lloyd wrote Prologue to a Farce while a senior fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress. In that capacity, he co-authored the 2007 report The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio”
The report argued that large corporate broadcasting networks had driven liberals off the radio, and that diversity of ownership would increase diversity of broadcasting voices
Did you catch that? These unfortunate liberals have been “driven” off the radio. Why wait for the liberals to produce a fairness doctrine when you’ve got a Diversity Czar under the White House’s thumb?
So this is the reaction to a nation of people freely expressing themselves trying to take back control of their government? Where in history have we seen this before, and shouldn't we take time to tell everyone what comes next, before it's too late?
Why do the liberal care if talk radio and ONE tv station are conservatives, when most tv stations...especially NBC/GE associates (who paid HUGE bucks to get Obama in office) .. are liberal? They have more voices!
Oh...but wait!! Liberal tv news stations are SINKING in the ratings!! Could it be that NO ONE TRUSTS THEM??? I just gave up on The Today show after Matt was rude to Michelle Malkin, and sooo chummy with liar press twister Gibbs.
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Posted by: C Kelly | August 15, 2009 at 03:32 PM
Come Again Moon - that's EXACTLY what I've been trying to tell everyone since the Bush/Gore 2000 debacle. It's the government that is racist, sexist, homophobic, atheist, and elitist NOT the American public! BOTH parties twist and distort reality to manipulate along the lines of these "wedge" issues that they themselves have created. Why? Because if we are too busy fighting each other, we don't pay attention to their criminal activity. Because they can always hide behind one group or the other to push their agenda through. If WE THE PEOPLE can band together and drop the wedge issues and focus our attention on government, there would be a whole lot of elected and appointed officials, even in the judicial system, locked behind bars. I'm pretty sure there are some that would even deserve charges of treason. WAKE UP AMERICA!!
Posted by: Alternative Candidate? | August 15, 2009 at 02:24 PM
Yes, tell people... but they probably won't like it. Democrats don't know their party has been hijacked by the "progressives and don't wish to accept the possibility. The truth is that both parties have taught us to fight amongst ourselves, while their leaders, when elected, play aristocracy with our government and our rights. They give us "Party favors," to shut us up. While they start wars, or government programs, as a reason to take away our personal rights. We need to protest this GAG CZAR, like we're protesting the health care bill. Call your congress and representatives and complain.... and check this out... www.firecongress.org
Posted by: Come Again Moon | August 14, 2009 at 11:27 PM
What is next with this administration. I tried to tell people what a mistake they were making when they made their uneducated vote.
Posted by: Simone Williams | August 14, 2009 at 05:59 PM