First they ignore you.
Second they ridicule you.
Third they lie about you.
Fourth they try to silence you.
This pattern is followed daily by the far left in attacks on both internet bloggers and talk radio.
Who are they? The far left consisting of Marxist, Communists, Progressives, Radicals Socialist of the far left Democratic Party.
The two new point men for Obama’s attempt to silence his critics is Mark Lloyd, FCC Diversity Czar or Commissar and Cass Sunstein, Regulatory Czar.
Trying to silence talk radio is a dangerous game for anyone for the simple reason they forget that millions are listening.
Glenn Beck on Obama’s New ‘Fairness Doctrine’, FCC Diversity Czar [Chief Diversity Officer]
Background Articles and Videos
FCC’s Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd’s Effort To Silence Free Speech
“…It appears as though Mark Lloyd, Obama’s new Diversity Czar, has been given his marching orders. He is charged with a back door effort to bring back the fairness doctrine.
Lloyd is a Senior Fellow from the far left Center for American Progress, which is an organization that already has their finger prints on much of Obama’s agenda.
Lloyd wrote in his book, Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America..
“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) must be reformed along democratic lines and funded on a substantial level,”
“Federal and regional broadcast operations and local stations should be funded at levels commensurate with or above those spending levels at which commercial operations are funded,” Lloyd wrote. “This funding should come from license fees charged to commercial broadcasters. Funding should not come from congressional appropriations. Sponsorship should be prohibited at all public broadcasters.”
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. link
It’s plainly clear that Lloyd wants government control over all radio content, thus silencing free speech, specifically ideas with a conservative or libertarian viewpoint. Believe me, if radio was dominated by a progressive point of view from the extreme left, there would be no push to regulate free expression on the airwaves. This is just an attempt to back door the fairness doctrine and shut down dissenting views.
http://thelibertyjournal.com/2009/08/25/fccs-diversity-czar-mark-lloyds-effort-to-silence-free-speech/
“Regulatory Czar” Wants Bloggers to Just Shut Up
“…Sunstein’s First Amendment
It is Sunstein’s “Global Chilling” position on the First Amendment about which Kyle Smith writes:
- Cass Sunstein, a Harvard Law professor who has been appointed to a shadowy post that will grant him powers that are merely mind-boggling, explicitly supports using the courts to impose a “chilling effect” on speech that might hurt someone’s feelings. He thinks that the bloggers have been rampaging out of control and that new laws need to be written to corral them.
Advance copies of Sunstein’s new book, On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done, have gone out to reviewers ahead of its September publication date, but considering the prominence with which Sunstein is about to be endowed, his worrying views are fair game now. Sunstein is President Obama’s choice to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. It’s the bland titles that should scare you the most.
“Although obscure,” reported the Wall Street Journal, “the post wields outsize power. It oversees regulations throughout the government, from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Obama aides have said the job will be crucial as the new administration overhauls financial-services regulations, attempts to pass universal health care and tries to forge a new approach to controlling emissions of greenhouse gases.”
Smith assumes Sunstein got his gig due his earlier book, Nudge, “which suggests that government ought to gently force people to be better human beings.”
Although that could be the reason, the fact that Sunstein is a long-time Obama fan — and married to Samantha Power, another Obama cheerleader — most likely weighed heavily in POTUS’s choice.
Bloggers beware. Smith informs:
- Sunstein also believes that – whether you’re a blogger, The New York Times or a Web hosting service – you should be held responsible even for what your commenters say.
[...]
“As we have seen,” Sunstein writes, having shown us no such thing, “falsehoods can undermine democracy itself.” What Sunstein means by that sentence is pretty clear: He doesn’t like so-called false rumors about his longtime University of Chicago friend and colleague, Barack Obama.
RBO agrees with Smith, this sounds like a lot of stuff and nonsense: …”
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/regulatory-czar-wants-bloggers-to-just-shut-up/
http://www.netcaucus.org/biography/mark-lloyd.shtml
NCMR 2008 Media Reform and Social Change w/Mark Lloyd 1/2
Mark Lloyd on the need for independent news]
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