It's Marxism, Stupid

These people just ain't gettin' it. Robert McChesney is a self avowed Marxist who supports the likes of Hugo Chavez and anyone who is in a position, of any sort, that is involved in government policy making that has this position and who is a proponent of Marxism, shouldn't be anywhere near the policy makers that can affect this country.

I have not seen one argument in this article that refutes Glenn Beck's assertions.

Ellen opines:

Beck began his attack, with his sincere, earnest persona, talking about the importance of free speech. “If we cannot speak freely to each other, we lose the essence of who we are. Remember that.” Probably, what Beck meant was that he needed to speak freely so that he could smear and attack without repercussions. Because everyone else seems to be subject to Beck’s hammy hate mongering.

Hate mongering? Since when is reporting facts considered hate mongering? I think she means that anyone with a differing opinion and those who disagree are hate mongers. If Glenn Beck was wrong in any way, then why doesn't Mark Lloyd and Robert McChesney sue him for slander or defamation?

She goes on by using the ad hominem:

Maybe Beck was just feeling sorry for himself for losing 19 more advertisers. Whatever the reason, no sooner had he lauded the value of free speech than he began attacking others’. First, Beck lit into Obama’s “FCC divserity czar,” Mark Lloyd for saying that there was an “incredible revolution” in Venezuela and saying that “You have to say who is going to step down so someone else can have power.” As usual, Beck offered only inflammatory soundbites, used in a monologue of attacks, rather than any dialogue that Beck had claimed to endorse moments earlier. “Boy, that sounds positively un-American,” Beck said, topping off the attack with a smear.

And the issue is? Beck has said numerous times that he doesn't care about the financial aspects of his shows. If it were an issue with him, I am sure that he would be saying something about it, as well as the advertisers if it were an issue. Inflammatory soundbites? I would say that they were rather revealing and yes, those soundbites from self avowed Marxists is un-American. I have yet to hear anyone of those people that Glenn Beck "smeared" refute any of it. Come to think of it, the FCC won't allow Mark Lloyd to be interviewed. Now, why is that?

Ellen goes on:

Then, Beck moved on to “introduce” us to “a friend of” Mark Lloyd who also happens to be “a friend of” Van Jones (one of Beck’s previous targets). That was Robert McChesney. McChesney has a long and distinguished record of accomplishments. But Beck ignored almost all of it in order to cherry pick what he could use to attack McChesney – and, of course, spice up his own monologue. Noting that McChesney is the cofounder of the media reform organization Free Press (disclaimer: this blog has been a supporter of Free Press and many of our bloggers have attended their conferences), Beck said, “They are looking for anything but free press.”

Although Beck never said that they were friends, I will say it's what he was alluding to. However, since Mark Lloyd, van Jones and Robert McChesney are either self avowed Marxists and Communists to one degree or another. Well, birds of a feather flock together, Ellen. As to McChesney's long list of "accomplishments", I get the feeling of nausea when someone says the incredible filth that he has about overthrowing our Republic and in the same breath claims that Venezuela is a Republic that allows freedom of speech and the press. Yet, Ellen seems to conveniently forget what Chavez done in regards to the "free" press in his country.

Beck skipped right over discussing anything Free Press actually does or supports (media reform, not Marxism) in favor of going straight for an attack on McChesney. “He is the former editor of Monthly Review which he, himself, has described as one of the most important Marxist publications in the world… He is a backer of Hugo Chavez… and even suggested that an owner of a TV station that was critical of Chavez should be arrested for treason. Wow, that sounds like Mark Lloyd. I wonder if they know each other… (McChesney) has said, quote about the U.S. ‘Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself.’

He "skipped" over it because Free Press's "reform" espouses Marxism by taking over the media through a revolution, McChesney's words not mine, "There is no real answer but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles." Sounds like a revolution to overthrow our current form of government to me. Of course, former president Bush felt the same way when he said he had to abandon free market principles to save a free market society.

Try as you might, Ellen, but, McChesney is what he is and Glenn Beck exposed this reprobate to the American people.

Moving on, Ellen further bemones:

Next target, FCC head Julius Genachowski who chose Free Press’ Jen Howard to be his press secretary. “The Marxist group? The most important Marxist group?” Beck mugged, forgetting apparently, that he had just misrepresented his own smear. According to Beck, McChesney had called Monthly Review “one of the most important Marxist publications,” not Free Press.

And, of course, Ellen is completely missing the point. So, I'll reiterate: Anyone that is a self avowed Marxist, Communist, et al should not be anywhere near policy makers that has the ability to alter our way of life. 'Nuff said.

Continuing on:

“Free Press also co-authored The Structural Imbalance of Talk Radio,” Beck continued. Aha! Now we know that Beck has a financial incentive to attack these folks. That report, which is actually titled “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio” (Beck conveniently left out the word “political”), is about the disparity between conservative and liberal views on talk radio and the ways to make the political discourse more representative. Not surprisingly, Beck didn’t tell his viewers that, either. Instead, he distorted the report by saying that it sought to “remedy the ‘problem’ of conservative voices on talk radio by, among other things, forcing commercial owners who fail to abide by their rules to pay a fee that would subsidize public broadcasting.” Beck made it sound as though a station would be fined if it didn’t follow “the rules” of having more liberal voices and shutting down conservatives. But the report’s recommendations are actually more about restoring caps on the number of stations a corporation can own and ensuring greater local accountability of radio licensing.

Mindless claptrap. That report was nothing short of hammering broadcasters if they don't play nice by airing more liberal talk shows. Ellen fails to mention that radio talk shows are in a free market system and liberal talk shows fail, because people are sick and tired of listening to people, like Ed Shultz, talk without substance. It's the listeners, or the lack thereof, that decides if a product is successful or not. And talk radio is a product.

The First Amendment is about freedom of speech. It does not say anything about free speech only if one is in agreement. Robert McChesney, Mark Lloyd, van Jones, Cass Sunstein and the rest of Obama's ilk are disgusting reprobates that do not belong in this America. If they desire to live in a country that oppresses and supresses its people, then they can practice one American right and leave.

And I'll remind Ellen that vomiting her bile is covered under the First Amendment, just like mine is.

Note: If you want to read the full transcript of the discussion between Glenn Beck and Seton Motley, click here.

Want An Interview With Mark Lloyd? The FCC Says NO!

By Matt Cover(CNSNews.com) –The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) won't allow its Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd to be interviewed by the news media about his views and past statements on federal communications policy. Lloyd, who cites the radical author Saul Alinsky as an inspiration, has argued that public broadcasting outlets in the United States should be funded on a level equal to the funding of private broadcasting companies--with the money coming from licensing fees levied on private broadcasters by the government. Read the rest at CNS News

Clamping Down On the First Amendment

The Obama administration doesn't need to bring back the Fairness Doctrine to silence the opposition, all they need to do is attack local radio stations and impose impossible fines to do it.

And if Mark Lloyd, Obama's "Chief Diversity Officer" has his way, that's what's going to happen. Not by reimplementing the Fairness Doctrine, but, doing so by imposing fees that would financially break a broadcasting company and he would also do it by threatening local radio stations.

The Fairness Doctrine was created in 1949 by the Federal Communications Division that made companies with broadcasting licenses to present controversial political issues in a fair and balanced way. Back in those days there were only three stations broadcasting news and political topics and the Fairness Doctrine was necessary to present fair and balanced points of view. In 1987, the FCC did away with it and placed broadcasting into the market place and since then, broadcasting companies have either failed or succeeded based on consumer support or the lack of it. Essentially, this means that if you don't like what you are hearing or seeing then you can change the channel.

Politicians, both Democrat and Republican, have stated repeatedly that reimplementing the Fairness Doctrine is not going to happen. Back in March, Harry Reid said, “The Fairness Doctrine, what a ghost that doesn’t exist. None of us want to go back to the way it was before. It is an issue they brought up to talk about. No one wants to re-establish the Fairness Doctrine, Democrats or Republicans.”

The month prior, Senator Jim DeMint proposed an amendment to the D.C. Voting Rights Act that would permanently ban reimplementation of the Fairness Doctrine. The amendment passed 87-11 and Reid voted for the amendment. However, Dick Durbin proposed a separate amendment that says certain affirmative actions are required of the FCC, including actions to encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership and to ensure that broadcast station licenses are used in the public interest. This amendment also passed, on a vote of 57-41 and Harry Reid voted for it.

Conservative talk radio sees Dick Durbin's amendment as a means to shut them down. But, his amendment isn't what Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck among others are worried about. They are more concerned about Mark Lloyd, a Saul Alinskyite who's recent rhetoric smacks of fascism, communism and all those other isms that this country can do without.

In his 2006 book, “Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America”, Lloyd called for a “confrontational movement” to combat what he claimed was control of the media by international corporations and to re-establish the regulatory power of government through robust public broadcasting and a more powerful FCC.

Glenn Beck did a piece on his show and this disgusting reprobate said this:



And it doesn't stop with Mark Lloyd. Senator Rockefeller has introduced S. 773 Cybersecurity Act, which gives the president the power to shut down the Internet in the private sector in the event of an "emergency". What classifies as an emergency can by anyone's guess, but, suffice it to say that this is just another means of clamping down on opposing point of view.

So, it goes something like this: Mark Lloyd thinks that there is too much free speech and wants to curb that pesky First Amendment right and Rockefeller takes it a step further and wants to give the president power to shut down the Internet in the private sector in the event of an "emergency". Recalling the outrage over the Patriot Act the silence is deafening about these issues.