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YelliChink 10/18/2009 2:37:59 PM

Wait, there's more:

Kevin Jennings, Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools at the U.S. Department of Education, describe opponents of gay-only school as racists.

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sentinel28a 10/19/2009 2:02:36 AM

I think the Obama administration should just issue a blanket statement that anyone who opposes, opposed, or even considered opposing anything they come up with, came up with, or consider coming up with is a racist. It would save a lot of time and trouble.

By the way, YelliChink, you're a racist.

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usajoe1 10/19/2009 4:42:36 AM

By the way, YelliChink, you're a racist.

According to Obama, so are you and me. Just look a what they are doing to Fox News. Like Chris Wallace said, this administration is the biggest cry babies of all time. I don't see them criticizing CNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, NY,LA Times, etc... for there one sided coverage.

I guess as long as they are cheerleading for team Obama it's ok, but god help us if someone criticizes the chosen one! then they are raciest and biased.

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YelliChink 10/19/2009 10:29:41 AM

For the record, until now, 19/10/2009, Obama himself has not made any statement relating people against his policy and racists. Nevertheless, it is still bone chilling fact that he is surrounded by people and media who will make that kind of announcement without second thought.

Just imagine how his advisors would talk to him.

Nevertheless, my observation is that people deserve the quality of governance reflecting their very own quality in a democracy. Since it is Americans who put themselves into this Repucrat/Demoblican party politics, you Americans are free to accuse me being a racist against US Citizens for believing you people are just that shallow and gullible. Buwahahaha.....

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reefdiver 10/19/2009 4:07:15 PM

. Since it is Americans who put themselves into this Repucrat/Demoblican party politics, you Americans are free to accuse me being a racist against US Citizens for believing you people are just that shallow and gullible. Buwahahaha.....

Driveby 2 for the day: "We have met the enemy and he is us."

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reefdiver Dunn's defense 10/19/2009 4:25:18 PM

Dunn's defense:
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Her defense - many, including Newt Gingrich, quote Mao. Quite frankly - her mistake was not the quote but calling Mao "one of her favorite political philosophers". Perhaps we should cut her some slack...or not.

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YelliChink 10/19/2009 8:17:44 PM

John Holdren featured on HowTheWorldWorks:

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reefdiver Manufacturing Czar Ron Bloom 10/20/2009 3:19:19 PM

"we know that the free market is nonsense" - Ron Bloom, Manufacturing czar (!)

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reefdiver 10/20/2009 4:25:07 PM

When I watched that video of Anita Dunn, I almost threw up. I kind of whish I could of been there when that POS made those remarks. It is really troubling to me to see how this far left loons have jobs in our government. If someone said the same thing about Hitler there would of been outrage in the MSM but as long as it's a communist/socialist killer like Mao, Castro etc.. its ok. Mao was responsible for more deaths than Hitler, some say as high as 70 million and we have a government official saying he is one of her favorite philosophers?

God save us all

Quite frankly, I thought Mark Lloyd, FCC diversity czar's comments about "Hugo Chavez's wonderful revolution" were far more chilling. I certainly agree with you on "God save us all".

If we were to start putting video here of all the wacko members of Congress like "we'll nationalize you" Waters, we'd get even more frightened faster.

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PlatypusMaximus 10/20/2009 4:46:53 PM

"The failure of the supposed 'free market' regulation of the U.S. radio industry to address the public-interest needs of listeners. Our analysis revealed that conservative talk radio dominates the airwaves of our country — to the detriment of informed public discourse and the First Amendment."

--Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd

...It's fun because anybody can play along.

Excerpts from Lloy'd 2006 book ?Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy?:

Private news-media organizations are destroying American democracy because they do not equally and adequately inform the public. "The ongoing American experiment in democracy is failing," he writes. "And it is failing because we have allowed our public sphere to be dominated by the interest [James] Madison called merchants" (page 11).

Wars and elections are used to increase the profits of media corporations. Lloyd writes: "The news media in America most people rely upon, whether newspaper or television, is first and foremost a space for advertisements. After every war and every election the barons of mass media express a befuddled guilt about the superficiality of their reporting and they promise to do better. But they fail to tell the public about their increased profits. The fire of cannon in the night sky, the loss of human lives, the campaign rally, and the final vote count are simply spectacles to bring audiences in the tent to hear the latest pitch for a rejuvenating shampoo" (page 14).

Lloyd describes as an "outdated canard" Thomas Jefferson's famous quotation "That government is best which governs least" (page 14).

He hails government as "the only mechanism that can help us improve our society" (page 15).

He states that allowing private companies to operate telegraph systems in the 19th century represented a "government abdication of a responsibility," adding, "The most powerful communications tool was deliberately placed in the hands of one faction in our republic: commercial industry . . . The failure of market-driven journalism and the failure of democratic politics are both related to the structural fault created by this and subsequent political decisions — decisions deep within the American system, asleep under the rubble of history" (page 15).

Lloyd, served as an adjunct professor of public Policy at Georgetown University, and taught communication policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from the fall of 2002 to the summer of 2004. He then became a senior fellow for the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress, which is directed by John Podesta, who was chief of staff for former President Bill Clinton. Lloyd also served as the vice president for strategic initiatives for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (CivilRights.org). He has cited radical organizer and author Saul Alinsky as one source of "inspiration."

Among Lloyd's other remarks that have drawn criticism, particularly from conservatives:

In a 2007 article written for the Center for American Progress titled ?Media Maneuvers: Why the Rush to Waive Cross-Ownership Bans,? Lloyd urged progressives to adopt the anti-media tactics FDR adopted to quell criticism of his Depression-era, New Deal policies. This included using the Justice Department to file legal actions against media moguls on anti-trust grounds. ?He understood not only how to use media effectively," Lloyd wrote of FDR, "but also the importance of media ownership and the rules that determined media ownership.?

In his July 2007 article "Forget the Fairness Doctrine," Lloyd voiced support for Fairness Doctrine provisions and wrote: "The other part of our proposal that gets the dittoheads upset is our suggestion that the commercial radio station owners either play by the rules or pay. In other words, if they don't want to be subject to local criticism of how they are meeting their license obligations, they should pay to support public broadcasters who will operate on behalf of the local community. Commercial broadcasters want to be trustees of public property but without responsibility."

In June 2007, Lloyd co-authored a Center for American Progress report on "The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio" that reported 91 percent of

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