September 13, 2009 - 60 Minutes - NBC Network.
Steve Kroft interviews the president at an important time in his presidency at the White House.
You can see the whole interview by clicking on the link above. In reviewing the entire interview, it did not bring up anything really new than what has already been said at the house speech this week. I found two points in passing that Obama made as amusing and dangerous too.
On Steve Kroft asking about the cost of his Federal takeover programs as perceived by the voters and Obama defined as "the folks taking in the sticker shock". The other when Steve Kroft asked about the outburst in his speech along with the course interaction between both political parties and Obama said "figuring out civility is interesting and a work in progress."
Both comments were sophomoric and naive showing a true lack of Presidential experience or Executive understanding on why voters have reacted to these over-the-top costs and the outrage that is fueling their frustrations about a President and Democrat party that is not listening to them.
A word of caution here, Obama's comment of "figuring out civility is interesting and a work in progress" can be interpreted as his next step is to quiet opposition through the "Fair Practice Doctrine" that is being worked on in the background presently by our new FCC Czar.
As of July 29, 2009, with no public fanfare, Obama did anoint Mark Lloyd your new Federal Communication's Czar. He will dictate all terms through Official Executive Federal Orders issued without any consultation of the American People who are expected to obey without their approval for total Federal Controls of all Communications Airwaves and its content.
"Localism" is a nebulous FCC regulatory requirement that radio stations must meet to get and keep their broadcast licenses. How it is defined and enforced is wide open to the interpretation of whomever is doing the enforcing. It can mean something benign like airing local public service announcements, or it can be used as a weapon by activists to punish, harangue and ultimately shut down stations they don't like.
In a follow-up essay to the CAP report entitled "Forget the Fairness Doctrine," Lloyd specifically instructs liberal activists to do the latter - use the "localism" requirement to harass conservative stations by filing complaints with the FCC. The FCC would then assess these stations fines, with the money going to (very liberal) public broadcasting.
My 08/16/2009 Blog has the complete blog about this media takeover. Listen to Mark Levin's audio link on that blog too.
2 comments:
Okay Teaparters, what’s wrong now? Oh no, another educated black man AKA Bolshevik/Nazi/Czar has taken over the FCC, after overthrowing the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and his ministers (with Obama’s blessing). Now I was under the impression that Mark Lloyd was appointed as the FCC’s Associate General Counsel and Chief Diversity Officer; a position that holds no decision-making authority and no enforcement responsibilities.
So why are right-wing talk radio hosts foaming at the mouth about this guy? Could it be because he pointed out that 91% of all talk radio programming is conservative—which doesn’t, in the words of FOX NEWS, sound very fair or balanced. Maybe we need a little media diversity in this country? What a commie concept! It’s enough to compel poor ol’ Blubbery Rush to double-down his Oxycodone prescription @ his secret south of the border farmacia! This black subversive must be stopped!
I find it remarkable that the Liberal Devil did not mention that the talk show programming is 91% conservative because the free market society decided that is what they wanted, not the left-wing Air America programming which failed because it did not ever gain enough radio listeners that cared.
Radio media diversity in a real free market is not decided by using Federal government edicts to rule what is aired or not, it is decided by simply what people want to hear.
If the Liberal Devil wants to whine about "Media Diversity", then maybe he and his bleeding heart liberals should start listening and by buying the products to support the total 9% of radio programming that the liberals support because the other people in the country are not.
The Liberal Devil conveniently did not add that the Obama Plan is to use that Medias Diversity Plan to fine up to 100% of the Conservative operating overhead as the amount to be distributed to support the left-wing stations so they can broadcast too. They cannot support themselves because they cannot get enough people to listen to them.
It is laughable that the Liberal Dog says that the FCC Czar has no power. Is that fine not power? Boy, it is another reason that no one listens to liberal talk radio shows, they can't even tell the whole truth about the Obama State Radio Police at all.
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