FCC promotes Soros propaganda network

[MaggieMae]

Kudos to the 'Paul Revere of USMB': Mr. F!

More links folks should know about:

1. “Net neutrality” rules must be implemented while the government should quintuple federal funding for public and community broadcasting, argued Ben Scott, the State Department’s recently appointed policy adviser for innovation.

2. Scott was writing last year in a radical magazine in an article co-authored by Robert W. McChesney (left), an avowed Marxist activist who has called for the dismantlement, “brick-by-brick,” of the U.S. capitalist system, with America being rebuilt as a socialist society.

3. McChesney is the founder of the George Soros-funded Free Press, which petitions for more government control of the Internet and news media.

4. Scott and McChesney also recommended the U.S. impose ownership limits on local radio, TV, and cable channels while pushing for more control of the media by the FCC.

5. In February 2009, McChesney wrote in a column, “In the end, there is no real answer but to remove brick-by-brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.”

6. The board of Free Press has included a slew of radicals, such as Obama’s former “green jobs” czar Van Jones, who resigned after it was exposed he founded a communist organization.

7. In May, Free Press published a study advocating the development of a “world class” government-run media system in the U.S.

8. Free Press has ties to other members of the Obama administration:

Obama’s “Internet czar,” Susan P. Crawford, spoke at a Free Press’s May 14, 2009, “Changing Media” summit in Washington, D.C.

Crawford’s pet project, OneWebNow, lists as “participating organizations” Free Press and the controversial Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.

Crawford and Kevin Werbach, who co-directed the Obama transition team’s Federal Communications Commission Review team, are advisory board members at Public Knowledge, a George Soros-funded public interest group.

A Public Knowledge advisory board member is Timothy Wu, who is also chairman of the board for Free Press.

Like Public Knowledge, Free Press also has received funds from Soros’ Open Society Institute.

Klein: Look who wants to quintuple funding for government media. State adviser, Marxist also want more FCC control of airwaves RBO

Ooooohhhh, another major conspiracy brewing to take over all media. Uh huh... I wonder why the right wasn't complaining when some _______ist advisor to George Bush tried to feed news to al Jazeera to make it appear the U.S. were such good guys in Iraq, or allow the FCC under Republican control to approve a monopoly by News Corps to own and operate all Clear Channel airwaves, or even to attempt to censure scientific data. Where was the outrage then?

Can I assume that your post was an admission that you found no errors in my post, the post to which you are ostensibly replying?

And, while the facts listed pose no problem for the left, for you, can you understand that freedom loving, anti-censorship, free-market folks may object to:

1. the government 'should quintuple' federal funding for public and community broadcasting, or any such funding

2. the dismantlement, “brick-by-brick,” of the U.S. capitalist system, with America being rebuilt as a socialist society

3. an unbalanced and undue influence by George Soros-funded Free Press founder...

4. more control of the media by the FCC, control meaning censorship

5. undue access to government officials by an organization that is inimical to a free-market socieety, ACORN.

6. and undue access to the government by board members at Public Knowledge, a George Soros-funded public interest group.

I have no doubt you see the point.

No, you're simply reaching into your vast repertoire of information that you THINK implies the country is becoming a commie nation. You really do need to expand your reference points, because for every one you make, counterpoints are always available. However, neither I (nor anyone else except on a rare occasion) has the time that you seem to have to do such heavy and rather unimportant research just to confirm that your opinions are consistently lop-sided.

George Soros is not the enemy, Fox Fanatics. I do think it's sad that even YOU, who likes to think she is above all the chatter, gets sucked into their daily rants about Soros to the point where you too suffer from severe gullible-itis.

 

[MaggieMae]

You are forgetting willful blindness caused by the ingestion of koolaid

And it's so very clear that your flavor must always be red.

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

George Soros is not the enemy, Fox Fanatics. I do think it's sad that even YOU, who likes to think she is above all the chatter, gets sucked into their daily rants about Soros to the point where you too suffer from severe gullible-itis.

“The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.”—George Soros

 

[MaggieMae]

And, while the facts listed pose no problem for the left, for you, can you understand that freedom loving, anti-censorship, free-market folks may object to:

1. the government 'should quintuple' federal funding for public and community broadcasting, or any such funding

2. the dismantlement, “brick-by-brick,” of the U.S. capitalist system, with America being rebuilt as a socialist society

3. an unbalanced and undue influence by George Soros-funded Free Press founder...

4. more control of the media by the FCC, control meaning censorship

5. undue access to government officials by an organization that is inimical to a free-market socieety, ACORN.

6. and undue access to the government by board members at Public Knowledge, a George Soros-funded public interest group.

I have no doubt you see the point.

PC: For all of your unfounded allegations that the most influential lobbyists are those such as Acorn, I invite you to peruse this website, which may come as a shock to you. It seems those wonderful "capitalist" organizations you so highly embrace top every single list.

For starters, here's just one example of the information you'll find.
Lobbying Spending Database | OpenSecrets

 

[MaggieMae]

George Soros is not the enemy, Fox Fanatics. I do think it's sad that even YOU, who likes to think she is above all the chatter, gets sucked into their daily rants about Soros to the point where you too suffer from severe gullible-itis.

“The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.”—George Soros

Is there more context there? Probably, but how 'bout YOU find it.

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

George Soros is not the enemy, Fox Fanatics. I do think it's sad that even YOU, who likes to think she is above all the chatter, gets sucked into their daily rants about Soros to the point where you too suffer from severe gullible-itis.

“The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.”—George Soros

Is there more context there? Probably, but how 'bout YOU find it.

It stands on its own merit.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Ooooohhhh, another major conspiracy brewing to take over all media. Uh huh... I wonder why the right wasn't complaining when some _______ist advisor to George Bush tried to feed news to al Jazeera to make it appear the U.S. were such good guys in Iraq, or allow the FCC under Republican control to approve a monopoly by News Corps to own and operate all Clear Channel airwaves, or even to attempt to censure scientific data. Where was the outrage then?

Can I assume that your post was an admission that you found no errors in my post, the post to which you are ostensibly replying?

And, while the facts listed pose no problem for the left, for you, can you understand that freedom loving, anti-censorship, free-market folks may object to:

1. the government 'should quintuple' federal funding for public and community broadcasting, or any such funding

2. the dismantlement, “brick-by-brick,” of the U.S. capitalist system, with America being rebuilt as a socialist society

3. an unbalanced and undue influence by George Soros-funded Free Press founder...

4. more control of the media by the FCC, control meaning censorship

5. undue access to government officials by an organization that is inimical to a free-market socieety, ACORN.

6. and undue access to the government by board members at Public Knowledge, a George Soros-funded public interest group.

I have no doubt you see the point.

No, you're simply reaching into your vast repertoire of information that you THINK implies the country is becoming a commie nation. You really do need to expand your reference points, because for every one you make, counterpoints are always available. However, neither I (nor anyone else except on a rare occasion) has the time that you seem to have to do such heavy and rather unimportant research just to confirm that your opinions are consistently lop-sided.

George Soros is not the enemy, Fox Fanatics. I do think it's sad that even YOU, who likes to think she is above all the chatter, gets sucked into their daily rants about Soros to the point where you too suffer from severe gullible-itis.

My agenda is to spotlight at every opportunity- and thank you for giving me same, the enemies of freedom and liberty that have gained more than a foothold in this nation.

I am invigorated by the resurgence of conservative thinking and the new interest that Americans have in the Constitution, and the Founders, that presages the end for big government progressives.

I wish I could give full credit to Ronald Reagan, or William Buckley, or even the innate intelligence of our people...but, in all honesty, had it not been for the presidency of Barak Obama, I'm afraid the clarion call would not have been heard.

I must admit, not to despair, but to a sinking feeling about the political future of our great country until 2008...What an irony that the nation may have been saved by this left wing empty suit.

Too many folks don't believe the 'Wet Paint' sign without touching it...and our warnings about what progressive-socialist governance would look like went unheeded.

I give full credit to this President for showing the people what oppressive overreaching progressive government looks like. The last election showed that the folks said "Ohhhhh..so that's what you meant!!!"

As for this thread, it is important that the links between Soros, Van Jones (who admits to being a communist), anti-capitalist Marxist Robert McChesney, Ben Scott, the FCC, “Internet czar,” Susan P. Crawford, ACORN, Kevin Werbach, who co-directed the Obama transition team’s Federal Communications Commission Review team, and, as the buck-stops-there, Barak Obama.

"...your opinions are consistently lop-sided."
Guilty as charged.
The amusing thought is that you don't realize that those on the right having 'lop-sided' opinons is an absolute necessity in order to counter the Soros-fundes and totalist-inspired folks like yourself.

As I belive in the market place of ideas, I always appreciate our back and forth, as I see it as advancing the conservative agenda.

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

My agenda is to spotlight at every opportunity- and thank you for giving me same, the enemies of freedom and liberty that have gained more than a foothold in this nation.

I am invigorated by the resurgence of conservative thinking and the new interest that Americans have in the Constitution, and the Founders, that presages the end for big government progressives.

I wish I could give full credit to Ronald Reagan, or William Buckley, or even the innate intelligence of our people...but, in all honesty, had it not been for the presidency of Barak Obama, I'm afraid the clarion call would not have been heard.

I must admit, not to despair, but to a sinking feeling about the political future of our great country until 2008...What an irony that the nation may have been saved by this left wing empty suit.

Too many folks don't believe the 'Wet Paint' sign without touching it...and our warnings about what progressive-socialist governance would look like went unheeded.

I give full credit to this President for showing the people what oppressive overreaching progressive government looks like. The last election showed that the folks said "Ohhhhh..so that's what you meant!!!"

As for this thread, it is important that the links between Soros, Van Jones (who admits to being a communist), anti-capitalist Marxist Robert McChesney, Ben Scott, the FCC, “Internet czar,” Susan P. Crawford, ACORN, Kevin Werbach, who co-directed the Obama transition team’s Federal Communications Commission Review team, and, as the buck-stops-there, Barak Obama.

"...your opinions are consistently lop-sided."
Guilty as charged.
The amusing thought is that you don't realize that those on the right having 'lop-sided' opinons is an absolute necessity in order to counter the Soros-fundes and totalist-inspired folks like yourself.

As I belive in the market place of ideas, I always appreciate our back and forth, as I see it as advancing the conservative agenda.

Not so different then myself and Islam. "Opinions" about Islam are always an opportunity to explain the genocidal supremacy ideology .

 

[kiwiman127]

You are forgetting willful blindness caused by the ingestion of koolaid

And it's so very clear that your flavor must always be red.

No shit! Joe McCarthy must be doing flips in hell!

 

[Trajan]

Here's more on the subject and why the requirement was imposed. Ironically, there's this caveat, so I think those freaking out over this can calm down now.

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2011/01/18/48457/fcc-imposes-new-obligations-on-nbc-oos

well here are few things that I caught and are of concern to me;

which started it all-
-In addition, the outline says, some of the stations must enter into cooperative arrangements with locally focused nonprofit news organizations and they must provide free, on-demand local programming.



-The FCC is also requiring Comcast to expand its Spanish-language programming on the stations as well as on on-demand and online platforms. The Telemundo stations now air Spanish-language programming only.

Q- is telemundo going to add English programming?

-Other conditions attached to the grant would require Comcast to offer broadband services to low-income households at reduced prices and provide high-speed broadband to schools, libraries and underserved communities.

Q- what does this have to do with the comcast nbc merger?

-The grant also contains safeguards designed to prevent Comcast from discriminating against other cable programmers seeking carriage on Comcast systems and other cable systems seeking to carry Comcast’s cable networks.

humm sounds iffy to me,whats the reason for this?

and
-FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a statement. "The conditions include carefully considered steps to ensure that competition drives innovation in the emerging online video marketplace."

why is the breakup of ma bell occurring to me? perhaps because they used exactly the same reasoning..and that got us where? The gov. making market place decisons to enhance innovation & competition.... ..what could go wrong?

Interesting comment at the link, which says it all.

I didn't see any WHY there MM can you just snip it? maybe we don't see it the same way

The requirements imposed on the Comcast-GE joint venture are hardly onerous. Anyone who remembers the broadcast license renewal regime in the pre-Mark Fowler era knows that. Thousands of hours of additional local programming spread across how many O&Os with all their sub-channels? It is barely a return to our local public service requirements that were in force until the mid 1980s.

so they used a pre 80s model and though it appears this will still be short of that, so THAT model was what they were basing this on?

so, the 64K$ question is; what was in force until the middle of the 80's that they want to harken back to, ala mark Fowler?

Answer?- the Fairness Doctrine.

In addition, requirements for local programming sometimes, if not often, bring out some genuine creative genius in the program and news staff. Some of the programs they created went on to success in syndication. One in particular comes to mind...it used to be a local show on New York's WABC-TV. It is now "Live with Regis & Kelly." Local programming is not only good business for a TV station, but it also creates a farm team for bigger platforms. If broadcasters are to remain central to the mass media business, they have to be creative. If Comcast and General Electric found the requirements at odds with their business model, they could have fought them or dropped the joint venture plan.

this sounds like a rationalization...if comcast didn't think they would MAKE MONEY they would not have gone ahead.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Remember kids - if you don't say your prayers, George Soros is gonna come out from under your bed and devalue your currency markets.

 

[MaggieMae]

Can I assume that your post was an admission that you found no errors in my post, the post to which you are ostensibly replying?

And, while the facts listed pose no problem for the left, for you, can you understand that freedom loving, anti-censorship, free-market folks may object to:

1. the government 'should quintuple' federal funding for public and community broadcasting, or any such funding

2. the dismantlement, “brick-by-brick,” of the U.S. capitalist system, with America being rebuilt as a socialist society

3. an unbalanced and undue influence by George Soros-funded Free Press founder...

4. more control of the media by the FCC, control meaning censorship

5. undue access to government officials by an organization that is inimical to a free-market socieety, ACORN.

6. and undue access to the government by board members at Public Knowledge, a George Soros-funded public interest group.

I have no doubt you see the point.

No, you're simply reaching into your vast repertoire of information that you THINK implies the country is becoming a commie nation. You really do need to expand your reference points, because for every one you make, counterpoints are always available. However, neither I (nor anyone else except on a rare occasion) has the time that you seem to have to do such heavy and rather unimportant research just to confirm that your opinions are consistently lop-sided.

George Soros is not the enemy, Fox Fanatics. I do think it's sad that even YOU, who likes to think she is above all the chatter, gets sucked into their daily rants about Soros to the point where you too suffer from severe gullible-itis.

My agenda is to spotlight at every opportunity- and thank you for giving me same, the enemies of freedom and liberty that have gained more than a foothold in this nation.

I am invigorated by the resurgence of conservative thinking and the new interest that Americans have in the Constitution, and the Founders, that presages the end for big government progressives.

I wish I could give full credit to Ronald Reagan, or William Buckley, or even the innate intelligence of our people...but, in all honesty, had it not been for the presidency of Barak Obama, I'm afraid the clarion call would not have been heard.

I must admit, not to despair, but to a sinking feeling about the political future of our great country until 2008...What an irony that the nation may have been saved by this left wing empty suit.

Too many folks don't believe the 'Wet Paint' sign without touching it...and our warnings about what progressive-socialist governance would look like went unheeded.

I give full credit to this President for showing the people what oppressive overreaching progressive government looks like. The last election showed that the folks said "Ohhhhh..so that's what you meant!!!"

As for this thread, it is important that the links between Soros, Van Jones (who admits to being a communist), anti-capitalist Marxist Robert McChesney, Ben Scott, the FCC, “Internet czar,” Susan P. Crawford, ACORN, Kevin Werbach, who co-directed the Obama transition team’s Federal Communications Commission Review team, and, as the buck-stops-there, Barak Obama.

"...your opinions are consistently lop-sided."
Guilty as charged.
The amusing thought is that you don't realize that those on the right having 'lop-sided' opinons is an absolute necessity in order to counter the Soros-fundes and totalist-inspired folks like yourself.

As I belive in the market place of ideas, I always appreciate our back and forth, as I see it as advancing the conservative agenda.

If George Soros had all the power attributed to him by the far right, he could have easily made sure that a new world order was already in place. The people assisting Obama were small potatoes, especially the insistence that Acorn had any grant influence on election outcomes. Up against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, I'd say its like comparing a pea to a meteor. Nice try, but no cookie.

 

[MaggieMae]

Here's more on the subject and why the requirement was imposed. Ironically, there's this caveat, so I think those freaking out over this can calm down now.

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2011/01/18/48457/fcc-imposes-new-obligations-on-nbc-oos

well here are few things that I caught and are of concern to me;

which started it all-
-In addition, the outline says, some of the stations must enter into cooperative arrangements with locally focused nonprofit news organizations and they must provide free, on-demand local programming.



-The FCC is also requiring Comcast to expand its Spanish-language programming on the stations as well as on on-demand and online platforms. The Telemundo stations now air Spanish-language programming only.

Q- is telemundo going to add English programming?

-Other conditions attached to the grant would require Comcast to offer broadband services to low-income households at reduced prices and provide high-speed broadband to schools, libraries and underserved communities.

Q- what does this have to do with the comcast nbc merger?

-The grant also contains safeguards designed to prevent Comcast from discriminating against other cable programmers seeking carriage on Comcast systems and other cable systems seeking to carry Comcast’s cable networks.

humm sounds iffy to me,whats the reason for this?

and
-FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a statement. "The conditions include carefully considered steps to ensure that competition drives innovation in the emerging online video marketplace."

why is the breakup of ma bell occurring to me? perhaps because they used exactly the same reasoning..and that got us where? The gov. making market place decisons to enhance innovation & competition.... ..what could go wrong?




I didn't see any WHY there MM can you just snip it? maybe we don't see it the same way

The requirements imposed on the Comcast-GE joint venture are hardly onerous. Anyone who remembers the broadcast license renewal regime in the pre-Mark Fowler era knows that. Thousands of hours of additional local programming spread across how many O&Os with all their sub-channels? It is barely a return to our local public service requirements that were in force until the mid 1980s.

so they used a pre 80s model and though it appears this will still be short of that, so THAT model was what they were basing this on?

so, the 64K$ question is; what was in force until the middle of the 80's that they want to harken back to, ala mark Fowler?

Answer?- the Fairness Doctrine.

In addition, requirements for local programming sometimes, if not often, bring out some genuine creative genius in the program and news staff. Some of the programs they created went on to success in syndication. One in particular comes to mind...it used to be a local show on New York's WABC-TV. It is now "Live with Regis & Kelly." Local programming is not only good business for a TV station, but it also creates a farm team for bigger platforms. If broadcasters are to remain central to the mass media business, they have to be creative. If Comcast and General Electric found the requirements at odds with their business model, they could have fought them or dropped the joint venture plan.

this sounds like a rationalization...if comcast didn't think they would MAKE MONEY they would not have gone ahead.

Your last comment says it all.

The Fairness Doctrine simply required licensed broadcasters to provide BOTH SIDES of a specific issue. That was usually done by way of an on-camera editorial. What a novel idea in these trying times!! (The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the validity of the Fairness Doctrine.)

 

[MaggieMae]

I have to wonder why no one answered this question:

I wonder why the right wasn't complaining when some _______ist advisor to George Bush tried to feed news to al Jazeera to make it appear the U.S. were such good guys in Iraq, or allow the FCC under Republican control to approve a monopoly by News Corps to own and operate all Clear Channel airwaves, or even to attempt to censure scientific data. Where was the outrage then?

Especially since the highlighted action was far more pervasive in an attempt to control the media than the one being debated here.

 

[Trajan]

Here's more on the subject and why the requirement was imposed. Ironically, there's this caveat, so I think those freaking out over this can calm down now.

well here are few things that I caught and are of concern to me;

which started it all-
-In addition, the outline says, some of the stations must enter into cooperative arrangements with locally focused nonprofit news organizations and they must provide free, on-demand local programming.



-The FCC is also requiring Comcast to expand its Spanish-language programming on the stations as well as on on-demand and online platforms. The Telemundo stations now air Spanish-language programming only.

Q- is telemundo going to add English programming?

-Other conditions attached to the grant would require Comcast to offer broadband services to low-income households at reduced prices and provide high-speed broadband to schools, libraries and underserved communities.

Q- what does this have to do with the comcast nbc merger?

-The grant also contains safeguards designed to prevent Comcast from discriminating against other cable programmers seeking carriage on Comcast systems and other cable systems seeking to carry Comcast’s cable networks.

humm sounds iffy to me,whats the reason for this?

and
-FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a statement. "The conditions include carefully considered steps to ensure that competition drives innovation in the emerging online video marketplace."

why is the breakup of ma bell occurring to me? perhaps because they used exactly the same reasoning..and that got us where? The gov. making market place decisons to enhance innovation & competition.... ..what could go wrong?




I didn't see any WHY there MM can you just snip it? maybe we don't see it the same way



so they used a pre 80s model and though it appears this will still be short of that, so THAT model was what they were basing this on?

so, the 64K$ question is; what was in force until the middle of the 80's that they want to harken back to, ala mark Fowler?

Answer?- the Fairness Doctrine.

In addition, requirements for local programming sometimes, if not often, bring out some genuine creative genius in the program and news staff. Some of the programs they created went on to success in syndication. One in particular comes to mind...it used to be a local show on New York's WABC-TV. It is now "Live with Regis & Kelly." Local programming is not only good business for a TV station, but it also creates a farm team for bigger platforms. If broadcasters are to remain central to the mass media business, they have to be creative. If Comcast and General Electric found the requirements at odds with their business model, they could have fought them or dropped the joint venture plan.

this sounds like a rationalization...if comcast didn't think they would MAKE MONEY they would not have gone ahead.

Your last comment says it all.

The Fairness Doctrine simply required licensed broadcasters to provide BOTH SIDES of a specific issue. That was usually done by way of an on-camera editorial. What a novel idea in these trying times!! (The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the validity of the Fairness Doctrine.)

yes, I understand. my comment speaks to the reason they went forward, my other points speak to what I consider the purview of the market place, not the gov. who, in this day and age especially with the proliferation of sources, is imho laughably attempting to make it appear that their is a paucity of choices if a citizen wishes to avail themselves of them. And the the usual social engineering- why does comcast have to supply free product dsl etc...to whomever? Telemundo?

*shrugs*yes, but congress could not muster the votes to get it past veto, when they wanted to rewrite it to render Reagans exec. order moot......

 

[MaggieMae]

Final note is that if Comcast apparently didn't dispute the requirement, it really can't be that big of a deal.

 

[PoliticalChic]

No, you're simply reaching into your vast repertoire of information that you THINK implies the country is becoming a commie nation. You really do need to expand your reference points, because for every one you make, counterpoints are always available. However, neither I (nor anyone else except on a rare occasion) has the time that you seem to have to do such heavy and rather unimportant research just to confirm that your opinions are consistently lop-sided.

George Soros is not the enemy, Fox Fanatics. I do think it's sad that even YOU, who likes to think she is above all the chatter, gets sucked into their daily rants about Soros to the point where you too suffer from severe gullible-itis.

My agenda is to spotlight at every opportunity- and thank you for giving me same, the enemies of freedom and liberty that have gained more than a foothold in this nation.

I am invigorated by the resurgence of conservative thinking and the new interest that Americans have in the Constitution, and the Founders, that presages the end for big government progressives.

I wish I could give full credit to Ronald Reagan, or William Buckley, or even the innate intelligence of our people...but, in all honesty, had it not been for the presidency of Barak Obama, I'm afraid the clarion call would not have been heard.

I must admit, not to despair, but to a sinking feeling about the political future of our great country until 2008...What an irony that the nation may have been saved by this left wing empty suit.

Too many folks don't believe the 'Wet Paint' sign without touching it...and our warnings about what progressive-socialist governance would look like went unheeded.

I give full credit to this President for showing the people what oppressive overreaching progressive government looks like. The last election showed that the folks said "Ohhhhh..so that's what you meant!!!"

As for this thread, it is important that the links between Soros, Van Jones (who admits to being a communist), anti-capitalist Marxist Robert McChesney, Ben Scott, the FCC, “Internet czar,” Susan P. Crawford, ACORN, Kevin Werbach, who co-directed the Obama transition team’s Federal Communications Commission Review team, and, as the buck-stops-there, Barak Obama.

"...your opinions are consistently lop-sided."
Guilty as charged.
The amusing thought is that you don't realize that those on the right having 'lop-sided' opinons is an absolute necessity in order to counter the Soros-fundes and totalist-inspired folks like yourself.

As I belive in the market place of ideas, I always appreciate our back and forth, as I see it as advancing the conservative agenda.

If George Soros had all the power attributed to him by the far right, he could have easily made sure that a new world order was already in place. The people assisting Obama were small potatoes, especially the insistence that Acorn had any grant influence on election outcomes. Up against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, I'd say its like comparing a pea to a meteor. Nice try, but no cookie.

The links, Maggie.

Folks should be aware of the connections between sound bytes like 'Geogre Soros' and the other apparatchiks whose names are less well known.

Uncovering same diminishes their ability to work behind the scenes. Americans are not stupid, merely kept in the dark about folks such as the ones linked in this thread...case in point, Van Jones: exposed by Glenn Beck, his political roots identified, and he is forced to resign.

If communist-left wing bias isn't deleterious to this nation, why did his masters dismiss him?

Thus, the value of exposing the links.

Q.E.D.

 

[PoliticalChic]

I have to wonder why no one answered this question:

I wonder why the right wasn't complaining when some _______ist advisor to George Bush tried to feed news to al Jazeera to make it appear the U.S. were such good guys in Iraq, or allow the FCC under Republican control to approve a monopoly by News Corps to own and operate all Clear Channel airwaves, or even to attempt to censure scientific data. Where was the outrage then?

Especially since the highlighted action was far more pervasive in an attempt to control the media than the one being debated here.

But...but...but..don't you lefties want to have a 'balanced' medai? Of a 'fair' one?
(I didn't want to put those two words together and cause you to have a conniption.)

"...News Corps to own and operate all Clear Channel airwaves..." you know, as an antithesis to this kind of tsunami:

Dan Rather, Katie Couric, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, Edward R. Murrow, Ted Koppel, Andy Rooney, Leslie Stahl, George Stephanopoulos, Mike Wallace, Barbara Walters, Ed Bradley, Campbell Brown, Jack Cafferty, Walter Cronkite, Jim Lehrer, Roger Grimsby, Soledad O’Brien, Keith Olbermann, Cokie Roberts, Diane Sawyer, Bob Schieffer, Paula Zahn, Sam Donaldson, Brian Williams, Judy Woodruff, David Shuster, Bernard Shaw, Jessica Savitch, Harry Reasoner, Sally Quinn, Gwen Ifill, Douglas Kiker, Charles Kuralt, Roger Mudd, Robert MacNeil, Charles Osgood, Douglas Edwards, John Chancellor, Charles Gibson, Christiane Amanpour, Anderson Cooper, Ann Curry, Marvin Kalb, Bryant Gimbel, Andrea Mitchell, Jeanne Moos, Bill Schneider, Daniel Schoor, Richard Threlkeld, Jake Tapper, Ann Compton, Lester Holt, Michael Beschloss, Norah O’Donnell, Chris Matthews, Joy Behar, Jon Stewart, Ric Sanchez, Rachel Maddow, Bill Moyers, Fareed Zakaria, Oprah Winfrey, Arianna Huffington, Paul Krugman, Ed Schultz, Paul Begala, James Carville, Linda Douglas, Howie Kurtz, Phil Donohue, Tavis Smiley, Mark Shields, Bill Press, Larry O’Donnell, Joe Conason, Margaret Carlson, Bob Beckel, Larry King, Alan Colmes,