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FCC 'Diversity' Czar Mark Lloyd: Another one under the radar
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Van Jones, need I say more?
The self admitted Communist and 9/11 truther was finally brought to light from the effort of bloggers, and it took a video of him calling Republicans 'assholes' to get it done.
Surely if Van Jones was a radical of this magnitude, there has to be more.
In comes FCC “Diversity” Czar Mark Lloyd.
Lloyd was first appointed on July 29th and given a position just created for him, the “Chief Diversity Czar” at the Federal Communications Commission.
To give you a background about Lloyd, he wrote the 2006 book, Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America.
Within this book he calls for a “confrontational movement' against the private media. To Lloyd this would be achieved through political pressure from the government and left wing activists using untenable operating fees, regulations, and fines.
This would be his way of monitoring 'diverse views' on the radio:
“Federal and regional broadcast operations and local stations should be funded at levels commensurate with or above those spending levels at which commercial operations are funded,” Lloyd wrote. “This funding should come from license fees charged to commercial broadcasters. Funding should not come from congressional appropriations. Sponsorship should be prohibited at all public broadcasters.”
Controlling the content on the radio, or in lament terms, controlling Conservative talk radio by stripping them of their funding until they are bankrupt and turning it over to public broadcasting, is his ultimate end goal.
More troubling is Lloyd had this to say about the 1st Amendment:
"It should be clear by now 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.
"[T]he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance."
That's how he interprets the 1st Amendment? Freedom of speech is 'too often exaggerated'?
That's not all. Lloyd has high respect for Venezuelan dictator Huge Chavez and admires the way he governs and his control over the media:
“In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution. To begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela. The property owners and the folks who then controlled the media in Venezuela rebelled - worked, frankly, with folks here in the U.S. government - worked to oust him. But he came back with another revolution, and then Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country.”
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