"To stem the criticism [of Obama from minority groups], NBA legend Magic Johnson plans to meet with Obama in Washington, D.C., this week to suggest the president appoint a high-profile liaison between the White House and the black and Latino communities — a minority czar, of sorts. "The next 12 months will really be the test for him," Johnson tells NEWSWEEK. "I think we in the community will really have to begin to see the changes needed to get us back on track in 2010." Among the issues Johnson wants Obama to address: the growing number of unemployed black men; the continued practice of big banks refusing to lend money to minority businesses; and the rise in HIV and AIDS in the black and Latino communities. [But he won't address the black abortion rate, which is three times higher than the white abortion rate.] Johnson plans to nominate himself for the job: "And if he wants someone else, that's fine, too. But the sooner the better."
Obama already has a diversity czar at the FCC, but that just isn't enough. Barack Obama, America's first black president who worked on the streets of Chicago, apparently needs a czar to tell him what's going on in black and Latino communities. This will be his 35th czar.
It’s fun to laugh at Barack Obama’s blunders on his one-year anniversary, but remember that the president is a radical Chicago pol. He’s inexperienced of course, but he’s also gotten away with some pretty egregious things during his first year. Here are 25 of the worst, in no particular order.
1)Obama’s communications director, Anita Dunn, says that Fox News isn’t a real news network. Days later, Fox is denied an interview with Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg, even though Feinberg is made available to the other networks. The White House ultimately retreats from this sinister and anti-American activity.
2)Obama appoints John Holdren to be his Science Czar. Holdren is a eugenicist who believes overpopulation will destroy the planet and who has written that forced abortions or sterilizations could be justified under the Constitution.
3)Obama appoints Kevin Jennings to be his Safe Schools Czar. Jennings once headed up GLSEN, a radical gay group that promoted pornographic sex books for children. When asked by a young student what to do about a sexual encounter with an older man in a bus station, Jennings dismissively said, “I hope you used a condom.”
4)Under the influence of Obama’s Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd, and following widespread attacks on the "The Fairness Doctrine", the FCC embraces “localism” and starts thinking of ways to take down large radio companies (most of which employ conservative personalities) and redistribute their money to smaller, minority-owned stations.
5)Obama appoints Ron Bloom to be his Car Czar, a union hack who once called the free market “nonsense.”
6)Obama tries to jam the Employee Free Choice Act through Congress, a union grab bag that would shift power to Big Labor and eliminate the secret ballot for workers voting on whether or not to unionize.
7)Obama gives the United Auto Workers labor union massive ownership stakes in General Motors and Chrysler after both businesses accepted government bailouts. Using the government to hand companies over to their workers? Classic Obama Marxism.
8)Obama’s Office of Management and Budget and the Congressional Budget Office use Enron-style accounting tricks to disguise the negative consequences of their radical policies. Most recently, the OMB announced it would be counting jobs “funded” rather than actually “created” by its stimulus bill.
9)Obama’s Pay Czar, Kenneth Feinberg, is given truly tyrannical power. He can determine the salaries of corporate CEOs and mid-level employees, and “claw back” money already paid.
10)Obama nominates Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Sotomayor has previously stated that empathy is a crucial factor in judging, and that her Hispanic upbringing somehow made her more qualified to sit on the highest court in the land.
11)Obama’s Justice Department sues the state of New Jersey because they administer an exam to aspiring police sergeants which more whites pass than minorities. The lawsuit is purely racial and resembles the Ricci case in Connecticut that got Sotomayor in so much trouble.
12)Hillary Clinton gives a speech celebrating the creation of the UN Population Fund, a group dedicated to providing women with “reproductive services” and that has been convincingly accused of working with China to enforce its one-child policy.
13)After Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona criticized Obama’s stimulus, the White House phones up Arizona’s governor and threatened to withhold stimulus funds to that state if Kyl kept up his criticisms.
14)Obama makes another sick deal with Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska. In exchange for Nelson abandoning his concerns about abortion in the health care bill, Obama offers to have the federal government pay all of Nebraska’s Medicare costs…at the expense of taxpayer money from the other 49 states.
15)Obama is caught at the center of a scheme to sell his former Senate seat in Illinois. Most of the blame appropriately falls on Governor Rod Blagojevich, but some of the president’s chief advisers are implicated on tape as well, including Rahm Emanuel and Valerie Jarrett. Neither is fired nor disciplined in any way.
16)Obama pays off the AARP. With A. Barry Rand, a longtime Obama crony, helming the AARP, Obama bought off the organization by giving them an astonishing $18 million in stimulus money. In return, the AARP strongly supported the health care bill, even though it included massive Medicare cuts, which the group had criticized in the past.
17)Obama brings in Van Jones as his Green Jobs Czar. Jones was entrusted to coordinate the president’s strategy on so-called green jobs, despite his former membership in a group called STORM that advocated the overthrow of the government, and despite a long history of radical and inappropriate comments. Jones later resigns after it’s revealed he signed a petition questioning whether the government destroyed the World Trade Center on 9/11.
18)Obama brings in Jeff Jones. This Jones is a former Weather Underground terrorist (along with Bill Ayers) who later established a group called the Apollo Alliance. The Apollo Alliance wrote the cap and trade bill that Obama later tried to ram through Congress.
19)Obama appoints Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, (Rahm’s brother), to be one of his budget advisors. Emanuel has previously written at length about the need to ration health care.
20)Obama appoints Patrick Gaspard to be his political director. Gaspard is all tied up in the network of corrupt community organizations that produced Obama himself, including the SEIU, ACORN, and the Working Families Party. He has observed that his greatest achievement is "raising two children of color in the U.S." Instead of, say, the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he was born?
21)Obama’s National Endowment of the Arts, under the leadership of Rocco Landesman, tries to coax artists into creating pieces that lionize Obama. In other words, taxpayer money is used to fund artistic propaganda.
22)Obama appoints Robert Bauer to be his White House counsel. Bauer is an ardent ACORN defender and wrote a memo to the Justice Department during the 2008 election asking them to investigate whether the McCain campaign broke the law by criticizing ACORN.
23)Obama gives a speech at the University of Cairo in which he constantly praises the Muslim world and attempts to whitewash its problems with terrorism. The speech is appeasing and useless, since a Muslim bomber would attempt to blow up a Detroit flight less than a year later.
24)Obama attempts to pass a health care bill that, among other egregious provisions, requires every American citizen to purchase health insurance. This tyranny is unprecedented in America’s history, as a requirement for citizenship has never before been in place.
25)Obama joins Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez in failing to accept the election results in Honduras, where a peaceful coup overthrew brutal Marxist Manuel Zelaya, who had refused to leave after being voted out of office. Zelaya is now hiding out in the Brazilian Embassy.
Robert McDowell is one of two Republican commissioners at Barack Obama's Federal Communications Commission. Today, McDowell wrote an op-ed for the Daily Caller warning that the FCC would probably move to promote greater localism in the coming year. "In that arena [of broadcast regulation], we often aren’t talking about the future, or even the present–instead, we keep talking about the past. And so, as the FCC undertakes a new review of its broadcast ownership rules this year, I expect to hear renewed calls for reimposing various 'localism' rules on TV and radio stations."
Localism is a radical codeword for taking power from broadcasting companies and giving it to smaller, minority-owned TV and radio stations. It's a scheme to censor conservative radio personalities like Rush Limbaugh without passing messy legislation like the Fairness Doctrine. It is also a wealth distribution scheme designed to tax private broadcasters and pass the money to NPR. Mark Lloyd, Barack Obama's diversity czar at the FCC, is a huge fan of localism and has even praised Hugo Chavez for shutting down commercial broadcasting stations in Venezuela.
The FCC's Mark Lloyd, more commonly known as Barack Obama's radical Diversity Czar, gave a speech at something called the Media Access Project this week. Needless to say, he emitted so many toxic lies, the EPA may need to investigate. Here's a rundown.
Lloyd: "What is diversity? Diversity is not synonymous with minorities. I am not the Chief Minority Officer."
The truth: Lloyd views diversity exclusively in terms of minorities. His background is in civil rights, specifically minority rights for African-Americans. At a speech in 2005, Lloyd discussed why communications must be seen through a racial prism, saying, ""There's nothing more difficult than this. Because we have really, truly good white people in important positions. And the fact of the matter is that there are a limited number of those positions. And unless we are conscious of the need to have more people of color, gays, other people in those positions we will not change the problem." His speech focused on ways to get those powerful whites to step down in order to make room for minorities.
Lloyd: "There should be little doubt that the voices of family farmers or recent immigrants or the disabled are barely heard in our local or national media. For all the great diversity of our nation, media voices do not seem particularly diverse."
The truth: Some of the most popular radio personalities in the nation are women (Laura Ingraham, Stephanie Miller), African-Americans (Joe Madison, Larry Elder), and Jewish (Mark Levin, Michael Medved). Sean Hannity is the grandson of impoverished Irish immigrants. Television programming is incredibly diverse as well, with entire channels dedicated to African-Americans (Black Entertainment Television), women (Oxygen, Lifetime), and Catholics (EWTN). Oprah Winfrey, perhaps the most successful TV personality in history, is an African-American woman. Late night TV features a Scottish immigrant (Craig Ferguson), a Jewish liberal (Jon Stewart), and an African-American woman (Wanda Sykes). In fact the problem is the exact opposite of what Lloyd claims. According to news insider Bernard Goldberg's book Bias, TV journalists often blow out of proportion issues that primarily affect the disadvantaged, such as AIDS or homelessness.
Lloyd: "I am not a czar appointed by President Obama."
The truth: "Czar" is shorthand in Washington for an unelected special advisor, which Lloyd most certainly is. And given that he previously served as vice president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, an umbrella group of unions and community organizations, it seems very likely that Lloyd got his job through Obama.
Lloyd: "I am not at the FCC to restore the Fairness Doctrine through the front door or the back door, or to carry out a secret plot funded by George Soros to get rid of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck or any other conservative talk show host."
The truth: Lloyd has repeatedly says he opposes the Fairness Doctrine legislation, but he agrees with the general premise. He has proposed an 100% tax on the operating costs of radio stations to divert money towards more local (ie: diverse) programming. He sees powerful conservative broadcasters like Limbaugh and Beck to be problematic. He also proposed an FCC plan in 2007 while he was working for the Soros-funded Center for American Progress that counseled the FCC to threaten the licenses of stations with which it disagreed politically.
Lloyd: "I am not a supporter of Hugo Chavez."
The truth: At a 2008 media reform conference, Lloyd said, "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. And we've had complaints about this ever since."
Lloyd: "I do support free speech."
The truth: In his 2006 book Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America, Lloyd wrote, "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."
