It's Only Diversity If I Agree

At least, that's what Mark Lloyd believes. Who's Mark Lloyd? He's one

of those non-vetted, non-Congressionally approved "czars" that Obama has

appointed. His realm is "diversity", he works out of the FCC and his

goal is the elimination of anything Americans would recognize as free

speech. This man has spoken publicly of getting white media executives

to "step down" in favor of minorities, prescribed policies to make

liberal talk radio more successful, and described Hugo Chavez's rise to

power in Venezuela "an incredible revolution."

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at-over-remarks/>

His idea of diversity is to eliminate any and all programming that

challenges the "progressive" liberal agenda, i.e. Marxism. What he would

put in place instead is government-approved "progressive" local radio

and an overwhelming National People's Radio. One leg of his attack could

be through the "Fairness Doctrine", which is far from fair, singling out

one viewpoint (conservative) to be curbed and eliminated.

The Fairness Doctrine is based on the idea that the airwaves are

overwhelmingly conservative, with no liberal voices to be heard.

Remember Air America Radio? That was the liberal attempt to compete with

conservative talk radio, like Rush Limbaugh. It has failed miserably,

even in urban areas, hotbeds of progressivism. It is obviously not what

the open market wanted, so Lloyd wants to fix that. He believes "...

that conservative talk radio dominates the airwaves of our country to

the detriment of informed public discourse and the First Amendment."

<http://www.nrapublications.org/SG/index.asp> Meaning he believes that

free, open and competitive airwaves are the opposite of freedom of

speech! Which makes perfect sense, because in his 2006 book, "Prologue

to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America," he wrote: "It

should be clear ... that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the

press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least,

blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a

distraction from the critical examination of other communications

policies."

This is the kind of person Obama is putting in positions of power,

with no check or balance system. It is such an abuse of power, and such

an anti-Constitutional farce as to make it seem like the plot of a bad

novel. But it is real, it is scary and it is a threat to our country and

Constitution. We need to keep up the pressure (a la the Van Jones

success) and constantly fight against it. Our way of life and our

country's future depends on it.