Obama's Newest Czar Wants To Quiet The Opposition

by Marcus Carey, BluegrassBulletin: 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?

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