Leftist ‘Consumer Interest’ Groups Are Only Interested in Big Gove

May 31st, 2011 9:15 AM
Editor's Note: This first appeared in BigGovernment.com. We have oft discussed the Orwellian manner Leftists do, well, everything. And specifically how they go about naming their gaggles – the groups they form to advance their Leftist agenda. The Media Marxists looking to eradicate all private ownership of news and communications – so as to have the government be your sole provider of…

‘Community Group’ to Fresno Radio Station: Dump Conservative Hosts

May 20th, 2010 10:58 AM
There's a new speech sheriff in the town of Fresno, California, and they want to silence conservative talk radio.  And they'll say or do whatever it takes to get it done. New "community group" Citizens for Civility & Accountability in Media (CCAM) is super-peeved at Fresno, California radio station KMJ for having the temerity to broadcast (on their two stations) conservative talk radio…

SCOTUS Nominee Kagan for ‘Redistribution of Speech’ (Diversity Cza

May 12th, 2010 11:23 AM
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan wrote in a 1996 article entitled "Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine" that "redistribution of speech" is not "itself an illegitimate end" for government.  As first reported by Matt Cover at the Media Research Center's news wing CNSNews.com, Kagan offers up this gem: "If there is an ‘…

Ed Schultz Dredges Up Completely Discredited 2007 Soros-Funded 'Report

April 5th, 2010 8:48 AM
Equal Time for Equal Minds Last Thursday, on his unwatched and unwatchable MSNBC television program, Equine Ed Schultz stepped into his Leftist Wayback Machine for a little retro-censorship. With the intent of bringing it back to the future. Having first called for a reimposition of the alleged "Fairness" Doctrine the week prior on his…

Chavez Arrests Last Opposition TV Station Owner; Latest Ex. of What F

March 29th, 2010 3:58 PM
Is this what Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd meant when he said (on camera) Venezuelan thug dictator Hugo Chavez (take that, Sean Penn) had begun "to take very seriously the media in his country"- while praising Chavez's "incredible...democratic revolution?" The Associated Press (AP) late Friday night reported "Chavez criticizes US as arrests stir…

WH Chief of Staff Emanuel's Joke - 'The First Amendment...It's Highly

January 18th, 2010 5:14 PM
UPDATE (below the fold): Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity referenced the video from this post on his January 20th show. ------------------------------- The Word of the Day is: Context.First, as to the video at right.  Its context is the May 9, 2009 White House Correspondents Association Dinner.  At which White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel uttered the following:"When you think about the First…

Glenn Beck Revisits the Ample Evidence Against FCC Diversity Czar Mark

January 4th, 2010 8:05 PM
Fox News Channel and radio talk show host Glenn Beck has quickly risen to be one the most prominent targets of the Left.  Radio Talk King Rush Limbaugh is Liberal Enemy #1; there's a strong case to be made that Beck is now running second.One of the myriad feeble way's the Left attempts to deal with Beck - or any conservative - is to dismiss him or her as a liar, without any facts to back up said…

FCC Diversity Officer Lloyd Vociferously Denies Things He’s Written

December 15th, 2009 1:01 PM
How Do You Know Mark Lloyd is Lying? Editor's Note: MRC President and NewsBusters.org Publisher Brent Bozell earlier today issued a statement on this.  Mark Lloyd, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s Chief Diversity Officer, made an appearance outside the confines of the communications Bat Cave yesterday.  He keynoted a morning…

MRC's Bozell: FCC Diversity Czar Lloyd Is a Liar

December 15th, 2009 10:39 AM
Yesterday in a speech for the Media Access Project, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd claimed to refute numerous what he called “exaggerations and distortions” of a wide range of his thoughts, positions and policy prescriptions from what he called a “right-wing smear campaign.”  What Lloyd did was offer numerous falsehoods and denials about things that are…

Diversity Czar Lloyd and Marxist McChesney's Censorship Dream: The FCC

November 19th, 2009 5:37 PM
Multi-Directional Censorship (photo courtesy of) The Wall Street Journal's intrepid and very good Amy Schatz has a piece today updating us on the progress of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s National Broadband Plan.  With all that we have thus far seen, things look quite grim from a free speech, free market perspective. …

If You Like FCC Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd and Van Jones, You'll Love F

November 5th, 2009 9:29 AM
We wrote Monday of Leftist, George Soros-funded "media reform" outfit Free Press, and their extensive relationships with people currently in power at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and in the White House - up to and including President Barack Obama.With current FCC Chief Diversity Officer ("Diversity Czar") Mark Lloyd and the Leftist, George Soros-funded Center for American…

Leftist 'Media Reform' Outfit Free Press and Their Marxist Co-Founder

November 2nd, 2009 10:01 AM
Robert McChesney, Enemy of Free Speech The broader public is finally being introduced to Leftist "media reform" outfit Free Press and its co-founder, avowed Marxist Robert McChesney. (I appeared on the October 7, 2009 edition of the Glenn Beck television show to discuss one and all.) Founded in 2002, McChesney's Free Press seeks to transform…

CNN Again Cites Liberal Study on Talk Radio, Pushes Localism

October 21st, 2009 11:25 AM
CNN’s Carol Costello again omitted the liberal source of a statistic she touted during a report on Wednesday’s American Morning, that 91% of talk radio is apparently conservative. Costello also pushed the left-wing aim of localism in radio programming, playing three soundbites in favor of the proposal, versus two against it.Near the end of her report, which aired at the bottom of the 7 am Eastern…

Obama's FCC Diversity Czar Complained About White-Dominated Media in

October 8th, 2009 7:29 PM
In 2005, President Obama's current chief diversity officer for the Federal Communications Commission, at the time a representative of the liberal think tank the Center for American Progress, said that fundamental policy changes must be made to white-dominated media in order to solve the problems society faces.Speaking as a part of the National Radio Project on May 11, 2005, Mark Lloyd said that…