Special Report: The Plan To Silence Conservatives -- Part I

[Terri]

By Cliff Kincaid
January 16, 2007

Memphis, Tennessee: Media reform sounds like a good cause. But the gathering here of more than 2,000 activists turned out to be an effort to push the Democratic Party further to the left and get more "progressive" voices in the media, while proposing to use the power of the federal government to silence conservatives.

In short, triumphant liberals now want to consolidate and expand their power.

Several speakers, including Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Maurice Hinchey, declared that they think Congress should use a new federal "fairness doctrine" to target conservative speech on television and radio.

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[RW]

Anyone notice how this is for Liberals, ONLY? NO talk about Conservatives being allowed to rebut Liberals on their turf.

Part of this Fairness doctrine that is NOT reported, is how radio stations must GIVE prime advertising time to politicians to spew their ideas. TV still will get paid. Newspapers will still be able to charge, but radio, the most powerful medium, will have to give it all away. Even during this period of consolidation, (owners being allowed to own many stations and many in one single market)most stations are owned by Mom and Pops or small groups. Giving prime advertising time away will kill these people financially and kill radio. Already, radio has to offer the lowest possible charge to politicians, and even if they don't agree with the politician, still has to sell them time.

If I could find a link to the McCain-Feingold legislation on this I would post it.

[Terri]

Special Report: The Plan To Silence Conservatives -- Part II

By Cliff Kincaid
January 17, 2007

Protecting Public Broadcasting

Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen, who was just elected to Congress from Memphis, assured the audience that Democrats would protect and possibly increase funding for public broadcasting, which he noted is on the "left hand side of the dial" but has been having problems generating listeners and viewers.

One of the cries of some participants was to "put the public back into public broadcasting," apparently a plea for even more "public" money from Congress.

Public broadcasting's Bill Moyers, who spoke to the conference about the "ravenous" nature of "Big Media," was obviously not referring to public TV or radio's appetite for U.S. tax dollars, even though AIM has documented how these entities have received over $8 billion from the taxpayers since their creation. (web site) The far-left Pacifica Radio, another taxpayer-supported network, had a heavy presence at the "media reform" conference.

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[SewingSusie]

At a panel moderated by Paul Waldman of Media Matters, Steve Freeman of the University of Pennsylvania argued that the 2004 presidential election was stolen on behalf of George W. Bush. His associate, Jonathan Simon of the Election Defense Alliance, took to the microphone during the question-and-answer period to argue that the 2006 elections were rigged as well and that the Republicans are preparing to steal the 2008 presidential election. Waldman, who claimed to be dedicated to factual accuracy in covering current events, didn't dispute any of this. In fact, he stated his belief that Al Gore had won the 2000 election and that the media knew it.

Once again, those who hurl accusations.....
The 2006 elections were rigged?? REALLY?? Hmmmmmm........
Blessings,
Sewing Susie

[RealDeal]

From Part I:

His "media reform" agenda is being pursued primarily though Free Press, which has received at least $400,000 over the last several years from the Soros-funded Open Society Institute. But Soros has also poured money into groups like the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, and Investigative Reporters & Editors.

This is what I mean when I ask "where's our conservative counterpart"? I'm sorry but countering the liberal machine with "fair and balanced" ain't gonna cut it. We need proaction!

One obvious purpose of such grants is to steer the media away from investigating Soros himself.

Which should be exposed every chance we get. I think most Americans don't know who he is, how powerful he has become, or what effect he is having tampering with our politics/policies.

His answer, a bill titled the "Media Ownership Reform Act," would reinstate the federal fairness doctrine and authorize bureaucrats at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to monitor and alter the content of radio and television programs.

Another problem with this "fairness" is that the daily news-shows are decidedly liberal, but treated as "neutral/unbiased" and will not be affected. While Rush and others will.

With passage of his bill, Hinchey said that "progressives" would be able to demand and get "equal access" to programs hosted by conservatives and rebut the "baloney" of people like Limbaugh.

They can't "sell" their ideology (Air America-bankrupt), so they must FORCE it on the rest of us through "our" popular shows. Frankly, Rush would tear them to shreds.

Now from Part II:

Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen, who was just elected to Congress from Memphis, assured the audience that Democrats would protect and possibly increase funding for public broadcasting, which he noted is on the "left hand side of the dial" but has been having problems generating listeners and viewers.

-emphasis mine-

DOIY! But we KNOW it can't be because the socialist view doesn't resonate with the public, so what must be the problem??

One of the cries of some participants was to "put the public back into public broadcasting," apparently a plea for even more "public" money from Congress.

-emphasis mine-

BUT OF COURSE!! The lib answer to all things failing. Mo' monay!!

his [Bill Moyers'] service to LBJ of secret surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr.

HELLO! The party of white sheets goes unexposed once again... while he was doing this GOP, was working to pass Civil Rights Act. HYPOCRITES!


Well... I could go on and on... suffice it to say that they really DO need to get their word out... the more people understand who they are, what they've done, and where they want to take this country, the better off America will be.

I say we should help them, but not through THEIR PR machine... one of our own.

EXPOSE THE HYPOCRITE/RACIST/SEXIST/SOCIALIST PIGS!!

[lpara]

Two things, it's time to not be so pc and tell it like it is on MLK--as Mr. Kincaid has documented (communist ties, etc.)

Secondly,

Making himself out to be a victim, Jackson said that he should be called by the media for comments on foreign policy issues like Iraq, rather than just racial controversies like the Duke rape case.

Give me a break!!!!!! What are his credentials for being an advisor on foreign policy? I just want to scream! :aargh:

One more thing It is so unbelievable that anyone in their RIGHT mind (lol) would possibly thing the conservatives dominate any media outlet (not talking talk radio)

[Charie]

That little get-together must have sounded like a day at The Home.

Conspiracies and cabals abound. What a pack of lunatics!

This bunch is so far out in space you couldn't see them at 40,000 feet on your Southwest flight.

They are communists. There's no point in beating around the bush. They're not socialists, they're out and out communists.

We'd better keep on top of the subject of the "Fairness Doctrine" because if they get that through it will be the end of conservative talk radio as we know it.

I listen to 3 hours of Charlie Sykes and then I have to listen to 3 hours of Al Gore???

I've got news. >click<

I'll just have to get a radio with a clicker because more than 5 seconds of Gore and I'd be ing in my Cheerios.


P.S. Bill Moyers is the most anti-Christian person I've ever seen, except for Islamo-fascists.

[RINOs Gotta Go]

I hope none of our Republicans on the Capitol Hill were duped to agree or knowingly agreed with this anti free speech bill disguised as “lobbyist’ reform bill. When, not if, this bill passes, non-profit organizations that exist solely to inform people about what’s going on in politics will be buried in paperwork and bureaucracies designed by this bill. By the time those organizations have done all that’s required of them, anti-conservative bills would have been voted on already, and people would never get a chance to voice their opposition. Since this bill was authored by the Dems, I’m sure there are some non-profit organizations that exist solely to promote Democratic Party’s leftist causes that will be exempted from filing, and some of them include AFL-CIO, MoveOn.org, and National Education Association. Since Pelosi made an exemption on American Samoans regarding the new minimum wage bill, she could make any exemption on just about anything to continue the culture of corruption in the Democratic Party.

Does President get to veto this bad bill? But we're not going to let things get that far, right? We're going to do our part and let our elected officials know what we think about this bad bill, right?

[qrayjack]

The only media that is not liberal controlled is AM conservative talk radio, and this they find intolerable. They are not happy with letting competition and the market determine viability; they want absolute total control. In short they can't compete with Rush so they want to shut him up.