who knows, why don't you ask one DmanA?
Posted on 09/09/2009 10:42:39 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Move over Van Jones. There's a new enemy in town. His name is Mark Lloyd, and conservative critics are mad as hell that he's working in the Obama administration.
"Fresh off the ousting of former special assistant for 'green jobs' Van Jones, Glenn Beck supporters are calling for the public lynching of FCC Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd," writes Examiner columnist Clifford Bryan.
Beck put out the call on his Twitter page with this ominous posting: "Watch Dogs: FIND EVERYTHING YOU CAN ON CASS SUNSTEIN, MARK LLOYD AND CAROL BROWNER. Do not link before burning to disc."
Beck complains that Lloyd has a problem with capitalism and conservative media outlets and quotes a statement Lloyd made in a 2007 article: "The progressives of today should take a page out of FDR's media playbook" from when the New Dealers were battling conservative print media and a conservative Supreme Court to "fix the great debacle of American capitalism."
But Lloyd's article merely supported the views expressed by Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black to promote as many media outlets as possible by preventing the consolidation of media in too few hands. Lloyd even quotes Justice Black in the article that the First Amendment of the Constitution "rests on the assumption that the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of the public, that a free press is a condition of a free society."
What's so controversial about a free press? In the eyes of Glenn Beck, it's another example of Barack Obama's tyranny.
As for Beck's other two targets, something else is at work here. Cass Sunstein is a Harvard Law School professor appointed by Obama to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and Carol Browner is a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and currently assistant to the president for energy and climate change.
Taken together, the three names -- Lloyd, Sunstein and Browner -- reflect some of the right-wing's biggest fears: diversity, regulation and environmental protection. They also provide convenient targets to accuse President Obama of appointing so-called "czars" to run the government. Never mind that these officials don't actually run the government and not one of them carries the actual title "czar." That's a media fabrication cooked up by people like Beck.
What makes Lloyd stand out, though, is that he's an African American official who is little known in the general population, much like Van Jones before last week. Beck and conservatives may see Lloyd as a proxy for the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright to prove to their followers that Barack Obama is actually a closet radical, despite the fact that the president has already disappointed the far left of his own party with a moderate record in governing.
Lloyd's critics also cite a paper he co-authored, called The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio, when he worked as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank that conservatives despise.
But Lloyd is more than a caricature the right wants to make him out to be. His actual title is associate general counsel/chief diversity officer at the Federal Communications Commission and he formerly served as vice president for strategic initiatives at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, another group not too popular with the right-wing of the GOP.
A graduate of the University of Michigan and Georgetown University Law Center, Lloyd is not only a communications lawyer, but also a former broadcast journalist who worked as a reporter and producer at NBC and CNN. And for two years he served as a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
That puts him well in the mainstream of American institutions, but to hear Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin and other conservative critics, you'd think he was the second coming of Jeremiah Wright.
Or at least that's what they hope to make him.
Good this version of Martin Bormann must bite the dust.
“despite the fact that the president has already disappointed the far left of his own party with a moderate record in governing.”
Boy, if that doesn’t scare you. The left thinks he is too moderate. This coming after taking federal control of everything he could. It shows us all where they are coming from, politically.
Notice how the author carefully avoids saying anything about what he KNOWS is the damning evidence against Lloyd:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF2C235fD7o
Lloyd hails state controlled media a la Chavez.
If obama (and the state run media) likes these czars but Beck and his audience doesn't, the odds are very high that the czars are very bad for the Republic.
Cass Sunstein should be next. He’s the most dangerous of the lot and he does have to be confirmed by the Senate. In fact a vote is scheduled to be snuck in today when nobody is paying any attention.
Actually, calling these various special assistants to the president was not invented by Beck, it goes back at least a decade. Whether a particular individual qualifies for the designation is of course debatable.
Note the attempt to put Lloyd “in the mainstream” while avoiding any mention of his positions on actual issues.
Just keep shinning a light on these cockroaches.
The label “Czar” is not a media fabrication. I seem to recall Robert Gibbs calling them that as well.
One of the oldest and surest of military tactics is to ‘divide and conquer;’ why then shouldn’t cautious people fret about the sudden enshrinement of a movement to ensure the accomodation of exotic cultures among humans any less than the naturalists equally fight against the contamination of the habitats through exotic plants on lower-order species?
If the flora achieve the rights of protection currently afforded the hominoids (another movement of the new age)who steward the planet what then will be the counsel?
Yes indeed, a little racism thrown in for good measure. Despicable!
not sure I wouldn’t have picked that Blum fella
who knows, why don't you ask one DmanA?
amazing the fruits of the minority rising in this nation..whatever minority
they are so humble and tolerant with their achievements
i recall when i was a boy and we were assured that when more blacks entered the professional classes they would become more conservative...which back then (like now sorta actually) meant more “white”..as in like us...better behaved as a group, more intact families, more socially conservative
that worked out great.
now they and most every other minority has been loaded up in all our instittions as recompense and they are not in a get along mood after all
the road to hell...
It looks like the time is long over due when conservative editorialist and reporters go after the lib’s shills in the media and investigate them personally. They have long
held themselves to be above repute but the time has come to really show them for what they really are.
Beck is right on- again !!
One by one, these ‘czars’ have to be taken down once and for all.
One by one, these ‘czars’ have to be taken down once and for all.”
Since these ‘czars’ are only accountable to NObama- I say that this is all a SILENT COUP by Barry Soetero and gang.
There is simply no way to reconcile those viewpoints. Liberals have spent over 100 years laboring to change the meaning of words so that subjective intentions matter more than objective reality.
In their world, if you own a radio station and a government agency issues a rule mandating your station broadcast viewpoints whose content you despise, you must comply or lose your broadcast license. Liberals see no problem with this, because they believe your rights come from the government, not from God or nature. The government represents the "people" - and the people have an interest in "diversity" that supersedes your ownership rights.
Now if you object, it is not because you are demanding your rights - according to liberals, you haven't any rights the government doesn't allow you to have - so it must be because you hate or fear "diversity".
It is not difficult to conclude that two such incompatible views of the proper role of government in society cannot coexist in peace for long.
looks like there’s a conocopia of articles about the guy if you go to news.google.com and you can set the date to any time period you wish.
Here’s an example of one I found:
by inspiring fear for political gains, (Bush) is fanning the fire of racism, one that will continue to burn long after his presidency.
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=41ce849c7bb9a18a3a93230d41c2c3ca
“Beck’s Rules for Patriots”
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