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POPSHow The FCC and Liberal Churches are Scheming to Shut You Up
from staunch critics of illegal immigration. Open-borders groups have sought to marginalize, criminalize, and demonize those of us who have raised our voices for years about lax immigration enforcement " and to impose an Orwellian Fairness Doctrine-style policy on illegal alien amnesty opponents. During the presidential campaign, the National Council of La Raza launched a “We Can Stop the Hate” project to redefine tough policy criticism from the Right as “hate.” Unsurprisingly, far Left billionaire George Soros’s money is backing the “So We Might See”/National Hispanic Media Coalition effort. And remember that the Soros-funded Center for American Progress has provided the Obama White House with its Fairness Doctrine-embracing “diversity czar,” Mark Lloyd. Jeffrey Lord, who happens to belong to the United Church of Christ, reported in the American Spectator that not long after that speech, the UCC sent out a mass e-mail to its millions of members urging them.......
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POPSObama’s FCC, “Media Justice” Mob, and Liberal Churches * Media change of all kinds must expose and directly confront the mechanics of structural racism and systemic oppression. * Leaders from historically marginalized communities must be developed as effective media activists and strategic movement communicators. * Media policy advocacy and strategic communications are more effective when clearly relevant to the primary justice issues of the movement for racial justice, economic and gender equity, and youth rights. * Compelling communications and media activism campaigns must be both rooted in critical issues and coordinated across issue, sector, and region for national impact. * When justice sectors strengthen communications strategies, center the use of culture as a communications tool, employ winning frames and messages, and strengthen their influence over media rules and rights, the possibilities for transformative change skyrocket. “Transformative change” = a media landscape purged of the Right’s most powerful voices.
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POPS Is Barack Obama Anti-American? And with other dreams (for example, the Second Amendment) he’s doing a fancy dance by which he tries to hide his authoritarian impulses. But it doesn’t matter. This post isn’t about what Obama will actually do. It’s about what he wants to do, what his desires are vis a vis the American people " and it’s very clear that his desire is antithetical to the American essence. He wants to limit or destroy individual liberties. Politically, too, Obama’s impulses are all antithetical to liberty. Again, some examples: He has turned against the only democratic nation in the Middle East (that would be Israel), in favor of the bloodied tyrannical theocracies on her borders. By reversing his pledge to keep a missile defense system in place in Poland and the Czech Republic, he has favored Iran’s Muslim tyranny Figuratively and literally, he bows to dictators (Saudis, Venezuelans, Russians, Iranians, Cubans). In Honduras, he sided with the delusional Zelaya against the . . .
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POPSFCC Backs Google/Soros ‘Net Neutrality’ Internet providers in the past have rejected what they see as government interference in their networks and how they manage traffic. The US Congress has also been looking into the issue and a net neutrality bill is expected to be introduced shortly in the House of Representatives. From the Agence France-Presse: Related Articles: Soros: Obama Improves Openness Dems Block ‘Fairness Doctrine’ Ban Minority Broadcasters Ask For Bailout Soros: Crisis Is Culmination Of Life’s Work Waxman Wants ‘Fairness,’ The Internet Reposting Obama's 'Disappeared' Agenda Schumer Compares 'Talk Radio' To Porn Behold ACORN's 'Communist Manifesto' Who Is In The Soros 'Democracy Alliance' Democrats Work To Silence Limbaugh MoveOn, Google Seek To Control Internet http://sweetness-light.com/archive/fcc-backs-googlesoros-net-neutrality
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POPSMichael Savage Dropped From "Flagship" Radio Station The San Francisco Chronicle attempted to reach Savage for comment. It went about as well as you might expect: So we called Michael to ask him what's up. His response: "Why don't you call Mao Zedong? He's your boss." After we stopped laughing, we called back, noted that Mao is still dead and asked for a call back. Until we get one, we'll be reading our favorite little red book. Don't worry about Michael -- for those of you who are. Not only are his ratings strong across the country, he's already called at least one San Francisco station Thursday, presumably in search for a new home.
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POPSThe Valerie Jarrett Show the leftist group Jones helped to found, and which launched the advertiser boycott against Fox News host Glenn Beck. The counsel's office places part of the blame on the Office for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, which is overseen by Obama Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President Valerie Jarrett. "This wasn't simply Valerie Jarrett rubberstamping her guy," says a White House source. But Jarrett did view Jones as a critical member of the administration for her outreach efforts, in part, because he was so well known and respected in the radical-left world Playing to those types is another reason Jarrett's office approved the invitation of Jameel Jaffer, who runs the ACLU's "national security project," to the White House Ramadan dinner last week. Jaffer, a Canadian citizen, attended the dinner, which President Obama said was being held for American Muslims. Jaffer is a cause célèbre to the far left for his career of litigating against
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POPSNew Democrat Town Hall Strategy: Have Constituents Arrested Today's Democrats use the instrumentalities of government to suppress free speech (consider the "Fairness Doctrine", the "Local Diversity Rule" and other mechanisms to silence conservative opinion). Liberals simply cannot compete on a level playing field, so they try to control the flow of information in this country at every turn, as they have done with academia, Hollywood, and are now even starting to do with the Internet.
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POPSBold and Honest Questions • What will be the definition of "public interest"? • Who defines "public interest"? • Why should it be balanced? Because it's public airwaves? (Well, there are public roads that go by my house and I don't count how many Republicans and Democrats are driving on them) Day 2 • Who is "surrounding" the president in the White House? • Do any of the president's advisers have criminal records? • Are the president's advisers working to better the country or their own ideals? • Who are the anti-capitalists in Washington? • What role do they have in crafting bills? • What was "STORM"? What happened to the founders; where are they now? • What qualifications must one have to be a presidential adviser? • What is the difference between a community organizer and a community activist? • Do the "czars" have power? • Should a communist have the ear of the president of the United States? • What role did the Apollo Alliance play i
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POPSNow Why Would a “Diversity Czar” Worry Anyone? Naturally, these strategies all come complete with the usual, harmless-sounding calls for “diversity” and “community.” Seton Motley, of the conservative Media Research Center, said Lloyd “laid out a battle plan” in a 2007 report for the George Soros-funded progressive think tank, Center for American Progress. According to Motley, Lloyd wanted “the FCC to threaten stations’ licenses with whom they do not agree with politically, and now he’s at the FCC waiting to take their calls. This is not about serving the local interest, it’s about political opposition.” Like I said, start worrying! And get ready to fight! Explore posts in the same categories: News You Can Use, Our precious Liberty New FCC Officer's Proposed Regs Would Stifle Free Speech According to Jillian Bandes, localism (read: government-forced diversity) and progressive radio proponent Mark Lloyd has been named to the position of Chief Diversity Officer at the Federal Communications Commission.
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POPSSmall Banks Fail in Big Numbers
Closures and government takeovers of failing banks have become so routine that they barely gets noticed each Friday when the FDIC makes its announcements. While the banking crisis began with escalating defaults and foreclosures on home mortgages, the increase of bank failures in recent weeks has been driven by rising losses on commercial real estate loans, which are starting to default in large numbers. Community and regional banks hold a disproportionate share of commercial real estate and construction loans. My sister-in-law works at a local bank and says they are only accepting signature loan applications, fixed 5-yr home loans, and no car loans. My brother-in-law sells commercial real estate and every loan he has setup this year has been denied. My wife works for a car dealer who is losing his lines of credit after years of pristine credit. Our home value lost $50,000 and our property taxes went up $500. How the middle class is going to survive this mess is anyone
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POPSInsidious Form of Thought Control a la 1984 In Near Future . . . lines when critics of Barack Obama appeared on radio call in shows. The "authoritarian tactics being employed by the Obama campaign to stifle and intimidate its critics" were on full display. Of course, the specter of the Fairness Doctrine being passed by Congress is also another card in the deck meant to chill criticism of Barack Obama and his fellow travelers. Now comes a more insidious form of thought control a la 1984 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 . . .
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POPSHealthcare 'Special' ABC Refuses Paid Ads That Oppose Obamacare It is unfortunate--and unusual--that ABC is refusing to accept paid advertising that would present an alternative viewpoint for the White House health care event. Health care is an issue that touches every American and all potential pieces of legislation have carried a price tag in excess of $1 trillion of taxpayers' money. The American people deserve a healthy, robust debate on this issue and ABC's decision--as of now--to exclude even paid advertisements that present an alternative view does a disservice to the public. Our organization is more than willing to purchase ad time on ABC to present an alternative viewpoint and our hope is that ABC will reconsider having such viewpoints be part of this crucial debate for the American people. We were surprised to hear that paid advertisements would not be accepted when we inquired and we would certainly be open to purchasing time if ABC would reconsider.
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POPSHow Did FoxNews Do It? The Hypno-toad orders you to resist Obamunism! # CNN Reporter and Amanda Bearse like-a-look Susan Roesgan, while berating tea-party participants with TeamObama talking points, blamed FoxNews for the tea parties. (Perhaps a bit bitter that they had twice rejected her application for employment). # Bitter scientologist Janeane Garofalo disconnected the E-meter long enough to appear with Keith Olberdouche and sputter, “Fox News loves to foment this anti-intellectualism because that’s their bread and butter.” # Failing left-wing newspaper the New York Waste o’ Times also blamed FoxNews, giving cover to certain websites run by opportunistic butt-pirates to proclaim it as true gospel. # Far lefty and Fairness Doctrine proponent Bill Press declared, “Without Fox News, the wouldn’t exist.”
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POPSToledo Blade Resorts To Cry Baby Censorship As It Ignores Its Own Bias
The Toledo Bladeless Blunder shows us how the moronically biased mainstream media can be by providing us with an inexplicably self-contradictory editorial. The scatterbrained thought processes that led to this embarrassing abomination are illuminating because they provide proof to the assertion, which I have made myself, that there will be attacks against conservative talk radio, despite President Obama's statement that he does not support a return to the so-called Fairness Doctrine. (Remember his promise, err, lie, about campaign funding?) Actually, the president is disingenuous because he knows the attack will be subtle, and my point is proven by the dim-witted Toledo Bladeless Blunder editorial board brain trust that has been sipping the liberal mainstream tonic a bit too much. The editorial's first three graphs prove my point. What star-crossed geniuses they have at The Toledo Bladeless Blunder, which lacks intellectual honesty and clarity concerning talk-radio's his
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POPSTreason Committed Against The Sacred Motherland Should Be Punished, Comrades! Only a dictatorial wanna-be could propose something like this, but the problem is that Washington is filled with such power-hungry simpletons. I have a few questions for our Hugo Chavez: Who will determine what is "in the public interest" and what "community needs and opinions" are? How will the FCC prevent "community advisory boards" from becoming de facto station managers since their reports, and the FCC summaries that will follow, could result in losing a license? I'll give you a specific example: On a national Christian radio station several years ago, I was taken to task by a Christian host, even though my newspaper and name were not mentioned; however, if memory serves me correctly, this host said something like "a newspaper in Eureka in Northern California" was allowing a Muslim (horror of horrors) to publish a column. Although his intolerance of Islam led to a repugnant and unfair attack on me and the columnist, who is a very devout man, I would defend to the dea
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POPSWelcome To The 'Censorship Doctrine' And Advisory Boards, My Fellow Comrade Censorship proponents proudly pontificate their "tolerance" and pledge they “only” want “both” sides heard, yet they cannot hide their Goebbelesque subterfuge from me. In convincing tones, they mock our innate B.S. detectors by telling us they only want balance, but their true objective is to get as many conservative talk-show hosts off the air as possible. Want proof? If radio stations are forced by the government to halve their conservative offerings, then that means some conservative commentators will lose affiliates carrying their radio shows, thereby causing a reshuffling in which some hosts will be dropped. This would result in the diluted message of what censorship proponents call "opposition media." So much for tolerance. Censorship storm troopers show their views are more akin to Karl Marx's than to the Founding Fathers' because most self-described liberal talk-show hosts and stations have failed because they are not economically viable. For the uninitiate
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POPSDemocrats Sneak Net Neutrality Rules Into 'Stimulus' Bill last year that they could "inefficiently skew investment, delay innovation, and diminish consumer welfare, and there is reason to believe that the kinds of broad marketplace restrictions proposed in the name of 'neutrality' would do just that, with respect to the Internet." A report from the Federal Trade Commission reached the same conclusion in 2007. As recently as one day ago, a Democratic Senate aide was saying the topic would be addressed in the Judiciary Committee in the near future; there seems little reason to rush to lard up this particular legislation. But it always seems to happen. Last fall's TARP bailout bill included IRS snooping. A port security bill included Internet gambling restrictions; the Real ID Act was glued onto a military spending and tsunami relief bill; a library filtering law was attached to a destined-to-be-enacted bill funding Congress itself. It's enough to make you want to force our elected representatives to actually read the bills they pass.
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POPSObama's State Dept. Praises Venezuela Vote . . . . . . . . . . . . Enabling Hugo Chavez to be Presidente for Life! . . . . . . . Obama's so-called "stimulus" plan hand out billions to reward liberals, including community organizers like ACORN (the equivalent of Venezuela's neighborhood enforcers). That was matched with calls for the Fairness Doctrine to shut down political opposition and moves for greater state control of the banking and automotive sectors. Last, but not least, are Dem efforts to corrupt the census and make Republicans a permanent minority. Reward for Socialist "Democracy?" Food Shortages! And just what has been the reward to the Venezuelan people for all that "democracy" Obama's State Dept. praised? Shortages of everyday staples like milk, eggs, sugar and cooking oil. Shortages we may add, brought about by socialist policies whose stated goal was to protect the poor from price gouging. Much better to starve than pay another bolivar so the kids can have milk.
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POPSFairness Doctrine Again, trying to sneak it past us... Your immediate online donation is vital! Help the ACLJ speak out forcefully against this draconian measure through our nationwide campaign and our crucial efforts on Capitol Hill to support the absolutely imperative Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009. I'm already preparing a litigation strategy to challenge any return of the Fairness Doctrine. If it is reintroduced, we will not let it go unchallenged. With your generous donation, the ACLJ will take legal and legislative action against such unconstitutional threats to free speech!
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POPSFairness doctrine on the internet? Seems liberals in congress aren't happy with just silencing conservatives on the radio. They want to spread it to the internet as well. Seems to me they were speaking specifically of Drudge, but I'm sure he wouldn't be alone. There is also some concern among religious radio programs on how the 'fairness' would be spread to them. The scariest part is that it doesn't look like they will even give this a chance to be debated at all. They look to be bypassing congress altogether and just installing their new doctrine through the FCC. I'm sure the far left clippers here will applaud this new move as they don't believe free conservative speech is something to be tolerated.
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POPSBill Press vs Bill Press Interesting how they only want to apply this so called 'fairness doctrine' to conservative talk radio and not to NPR or to any TV stations.
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POPSFascist Compulsion (What the Left Demands), Not what the market wants Also involved in “brainstorming” on “Fairness Doctrine and online monitoring has been the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, which has published studies pressing for the Fairness Doctrine, as well as the radical MoveOn.org, which has been speaking to committee staff about policies that would allow them to use their five to six million person database to mobilize complaints against radio, TV or online entities they perceive to be limiting free speech or limiting opinion.
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POPS'Danger of the Fairness Doctrine Coming Back Is Completely Imaginary' Dennis Kucinich is also rumored to be involved. The Da Vinci Code it ain't. Wallace asked the top adviser about an issue making the rounds on both conservative and liberal radio shows, where Democratic Congressional leaders ( and even Bill Clinton ) have recently weighed in. "Will you rule out reimposing the Fairness Doctrine?" asked Wallace. "I'm going to leave that issue to Julius Genachowski, our new head of the FCC, to, and the president, to discuss," Axelrod said. "So I don't have an answer for you now." In June, press secretary Michael Ortiz told Broadcasting & Cable that "Sen. Obama does not support reimposing the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters." But since becoming president, it's been difficult to get such a definitive statement. Here's a list of co-sponsors of the Broadcaster Freedom Act. http://demint.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=b21a8827-daa8-cfc0-cb35-5849cc7b2868
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POPSDemocrat Senator Eyeing Freedom of Speech regulations For some reason Democrats feel that the whole world should bow down and worship at the feet of their golden calves. They feel that any opposing view needs to be silenced. Once again the Constitution means absolutely nothing to these DEMON CRATS who force their way into every aspect of American life. Our founding Fathers had the wisdom and foresight to LIMIT government powers for this very reason. POWER corrupts and ABSOLUTE powers corrupts ABSOLUTELY. EXHIBIT A: Today's DemonCrat Congress.
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