WE SURROUND THEM!

“With one hand on the throttle and the other on a bottle.....”

“Ignorance is better than stupidity, unfortunately you choose to stupidly remain ignorant.”

“Maybe it'll finally be like the Wild West of old. Then one of the anti-gun fruitcake predictions will have finally come true.”

“The wild west wasn't wild because of guns, it was wild because of lack of law. The lack of law made the gun necessary. If we have a return to the wild west it will because our legal system has collapsed”

“Please hyway, let them have their fantasies and their own versions of history.”

“Ignorance and stupidity are really unnecessary terms and really are no insult to me. I totally understand that you are not able accept any blame and would think that your religion my make that possible. It amazes me that , for example, our Afghan history with the afghan allies that we used to remove the Russians then packed up and ran away off to take advantage of someone else, can not be our fault. I'm done with dealing with your and many Americans denial of our culpability in matters that cause The USA to be hated.”

“salebored? what the hell are you talking about? Our 'argument' was about your disagreeing with stratdoods use of "at the point of the gun" when he was discussing the democrats taking other peoples money for social justice. You are so locked into your tunnel vision that you can't see beyond your own minds imagings.”

“Ah, the Wild West. Birth place of gun control in this country.”

“
"The Duck of Death....."

”

“LMAO! Salebored thinks if we just keep to our own shores nobody will hate us, yet he's oblivious to the fact that he's so comfortable sitting there typing his childish and naive philosophy in complete safety and freedom, precisely because we're doing everything he thinks is destroying us. It's that kind of delusional self-hatred that is polarizing politics and getting idiots like Bush and Obama elected.”

“Right on cue.”

“Yes, I did follow Mutt and Hyway into the tunnel and haven't yet adjusted my eyes to narrow visibility.”

“Yes Mutt, I'm wanting to withdraw behind our open borders and hide from the world, throw all the guns away and turn b-22 fighters in tractors. No need for military spending , because the whole world loves this country so much they wouldn't want to hurt us.

Do you really think we spend 61% of the worlds military spending because we are the good guys. Do you think we have the highest population of prisoners ITW because we are the good guys.”

“Balance, balance, balance. The left and right wings in this country have no idea of what that six letter word means.”

“
"That's okay ---- it'd be too fast to plow anyway!" � � < rimshot >

”

“you can't even balance your posts.”

“"good guys" - good grief. Then you mention "balance". I think that post deserves a place on the "oh the irony" thread.

I'll give you this, though - that would be a cool tractor.”

“it might work well for plowing, but try to harvest with it and the afterburners will turn that field of corn into popped snack food goodness.”

“I'm a far to serious type of guy to be on this site. I take things so seriously that ulcers run and hide from me. I think I'll go over to Clippers Topbuzz where long time Clipper fans (including myself) meet to show how serious we are about winning basketball games. LMAO

hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=13769
last edited: 9/09/09 11:41:09 AM”

“hehe, salebored cracked a joke. Too serious for this site , hehehe, good one.”

“Mutt I love the liberals...like the Times reporter (talk about Darwin in action) who works for one of the most ANTI Military papers in the world. I wonder how that S-bag feels today knowing "love peace and happiness" didn't save him from the Taliban.

Rather two soldiers gave their lives for his freedom.”

“Then one of the anti-gun fruitcake predictions will have finally come true.”
Nonconformist
10:38:36 AM
9/09/09

The fruitcake with a gun and no nuts is the one to be concerned about.”

“Moonbat is the correct term.”

“Have you ever actually fired a weapon or do you just like to watch, Stobie?”

“I think it's safe to say that we've all learned a valuable lesson today.....”

“�I gotta say; one of my new pet peeves is the ascribing of a belief system or of radical ideas on others in an attempt to insult them of discount them.

You agree with X and the Nazis agreed with X so therefor you are a Nazi.

You agree with y and socialists agree with y so therefor you are a socialist.

You agree with x and Obama agrees with x sot therefor you are a sheepish Obama lover.

This practice doesn't make you smarter. It makes you an intellectual infant.�
Nigal
3:59:03 AM




Nobody finds it ironic that Nigal posted this in the same language favored by the likes of Manson, Gein, Bundy, Dahmer and Gacy?”

“Hey, go piss on someone else's manifesto V! This one's mine!

LOL!”

“Nigal means that's haywood's manifesto.”

“I gotta say; one of my new pet peeves is the ascribing of a belief system or of radical ideas on others in an attempt to insult them of discount them.

You agree with X and the Nazis agreed with X so therefor you are a Nazi.

You agree with y and socialists agree with y so therefor you are a socialist.

You agree with x and Obama agrees with x sot therefor you are a sheepish Obama lover.

This practice doesn't make you smarter. It makes you an intellectual infant.�
Nigal


Nigal, I agree with your conclusion that Violin's a Nazi....and that he wears diapers on his head”

“Awesome! Thanks for outting yourself Strat. :)”

“completely different......


Mark Lloyd , diversity czar
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/52435


CNSNews.com
FCC�s Chief Diversity Officer Wants Private Broadcasters to Pay a Sum Equal to Their Total Operating Costs to Fund Public Broadcasting
Thursday, August 13, 2009
By Matt Cover




Seal of the Federal Communications Commission(CNSNews.com) - Mark Lloyd, newly appointed Chief Diversity Officer of the Federal Communications Commission, has called for making private broadcasting companies pay licensing fees equal to their total operating costs to allow public broadcasting outlets to spend the same on their operations as the private companies do.

Lloyd presented the idea in his 2006 book, Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America, published by the University of Illinois Press.

Lloyd�s hope is to dramatically upgrade and revamp the Corporation for Public Broadcasting through new funding drawn from private broadcasters.

The CPB is a non-profit entity that was created by Congress and that currently receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal subsidies each year. In fiscal 2009, it is receiving an appropriation of $400 million.

�The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) must be reformed along democratic lines and funded on a substantial level,� Lloyd wrote in his book.

�Federal and regional broadcast operations and local stations should be funded at levels commensurate with or above those spending levels at which commercial operations are funded,� Lloyd wrote. �This funding should come from license fees charged to commercial broadcasters. Funding should not come from congressional appropriations. Sponsorship should be prohibited at all public broadcasters.�

Along with this money, Lloyd would regulate much of the programming on these stations to make sure they focused on �diverse views� and government activities.

�Local public broadcasters and regional and national communications operations should be required to encourage and broadcast diverse views and programs,� wrote Lloyd. �These programs should include coverage of all local, state and federal government meetings, as well as daily news and public issues programming.

�In addition, educational programs for children and adults, and diverse, independent personal and cultural expression should be encouraged,� he wrote.

Dennis Wharton, Executive Vice President of Media Relations at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) told CNSNews.com that his organization, which represents radio and television broadcasters, supports public broadcasting, but that that support should come from the public in general not broadcasters alone.

�NAB supports federal funding for public broadcasting,� said Wharton. �However, we would oppose efforts to fund public broadcasting through fees assessed against free and local broadcasters who are experiencing the worst advertising recession in 50 years.�

Lloyd wrote Prologue to a Farce while a senior fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress. In that capacity, he co-authored the 2007 report The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio, which concluded that 91% of talk radio programming is conservative and 9% is �progressive.�

The report argued that large corporate broadcasting networks had driven liberals off the radio, and that diversity of ownership would increase diversity of broadcasting voices.”

“http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/53055

Inspired by Saul Alinsky, FCC 'Diversity' Chief Calls for �Confrontational Movement� to Give Public Broadcasting Dominant Role in Communications
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
By Matt Cover




Federal Communications Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Photo courtesy of FCC)(CNSNews.com) � Mark Lloyd, chief diversity officer of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), called for a �confrontational movement� to combat what he claimed was control of the media by international corporations and to re-establish the regulatory power of government through robust public broadcasting and a more powerful FCC.

Lloyd expressed his regulatory call to arms in his 2006 book, �Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America� (University of Illinois Press).

In the book, Lloyd also said that public broadcasting should be funded through new license fees charged to the nation�s private radio and television broadcasters, and that new regulatory fees should be used to fund eight new regional FCC offices.

These offices would be responsible for monitoring political advertising and commentary, children�s educational programs, number of commercials, and content ratings of the programs.

Frequently referencing one of his heroes, left-wing activist Saul Alinsky, Lloyd claims in his book that the history of American communications policy has been one of continued corporate control of every form of communication from the telegraph to the Internet.

�Citizen access to popular information has been undermined by bad political decisions,� Lloyd wrote. �These decisions date back to the Jacksonian Democrats� refusal to allow the Post Office to continue to operate the telegraph service.�

Lloyd claimed that neither technology nor liberal reforms have been able to overcome the damage caused when government fails to give everyone an equal voice.

Throughout history, Lloyd said, �[t]he most powerful communications tool was deliberately placed in the hands of one faction in our republic: commercial industry.�

�Neither Progressive era reforms nor new communications technologies have been able to correct the problems resulting from government abdication of a responsibility to advance the equal capability of citizen discourse,� Lloyd added.

�Corporate liberty has overwhelmed citizen equality,� he wrote.

Government, Lloyd said in his book, is the �only� institution that can manage the communications of the public, arguing that Washington must �ensure� that everyone has an equal ability to communicate.

�The American republic requires the active deliberation of a diverse citizenry, and this, I argue, can be ensured only by our government,� he says. �Put another way, providing for the equal capability of citizens to participate effectively in democratic deliberation is our collective responsibility.�




FCC sealLessons for Radicals

Lloyd relies heavily on the left-wing radical Saul Alinsky in explaining his strategy.

Alinsky (1909-1972) was a community organizer and activist from Chicago and the author of the book, Rules for Radicals, which opens with an acknowledgment "to the very first radical ... Lucifer." As for political tactics, Alinsky said, �The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away. In this book we are concerned with how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people. This means revolution."

With Alinsky as the political guide, Lloyd outlines nine �lessons� that people can draw on when trying to combat international businesses.

1. �Organizing people must be a priority. In order to counter effectively the power of major corporations we understood that we had to be able to demonstrate the support of hundreds of thousands of people. As Alinksy wrote: �Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.��

2. �Understand where people stand on your issue. Once we were clear that we needed to drum up the support of people, we needed to understand what people knew about our issues. As Alinksy wrote, �if people feel they don�t have the power to change a bad situation, then they do not think about it.��

3. �Connect with groups that have already organized the community. Our means of reaching local communities was through existing national organizations. We reached out to groups that had large constituencies and articulated our message by identifying how our goals fit their core interests.�

4. �The strategy must have an inside and an outside game. For media reform, this means we needed to embrace the necessity of operating both in and outside Washington [D.C.].�

5. �Don�t wait for events to unfold on their own. Pressure, pressure, pressure. If we wanted events to work in a direction that would benefit us, we knew we needed to push. We needed to apply pressure and to direct that pressure not at the government, but through the government at our true opposition � the broadcasters. Alinsky again: �The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain constant pressure upon the opposition.��

6. �Communications is a priority. Again drawing from Alinksy, we understood that �one can lack any of the qualities of an organizer � with one exception � and still be effective. That exception is the art of communication.� It is not just a matter of getting media to cover your campaign. That is, undoubtedly, a part of it, but it is also about getting the sort of attention you want, so the public and your opposition see you and your issues the way you want to be seen.�

7. �Research is key. We took not only message and public opinion research seriously, we took seriously our obligation to research the activity of our opposition. Our research entailed not only public opinion polling, but academic papers presenting economic and social analysis, legal research�and grassroots research involving the inspections of dozens of televisions station�s public files.�

8. �Establish a broad base of funding and never stop raising money. Alinksy is right that people are a source of power, but without adequate funds organizing people effectively cannot be accomplished.�

9. �Find allies in power. If civil rights leaders such as King had the Kennedys and Johnson, and the anti-Bork campaign had Ted Kennedy, our main ally was [FCC Chairman] Bill Kennard.�

The solution

To combat the control of international business and restore government to what he sees as its rightful place in managing public communications, Lloyd calls for a �confrontational movement� to protest the present order and organize a political movement that could force government to rein the businesses in.

�If our republican form of government is perishing because communications � the infrastructure of that republic � is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it?� he asks. �We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order.�

To do this, Lloyd draws on his experience lobbying the FCC during the Clinton administration, counseling would-be revolutionaries to follow the tactics used by other left-wing movements, such as the followers of Saul Alinsky and the people who ran the campaign to block Republican Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork.

"We understood at the beginning, and were certainly reminded in the course of the campaign," wrote Lloyd, "that our work was not simply convincing policy makers of the logic or morality of our arguments. We understood that we were in a struggle for power against an oppenent, the commercial broadcasters ...."

"We looked to successful political campaigns and organizers as a guide, especially the civil rights movement, Saul Alinsky, and the campaign to prevent the Supreme Court nomination of the ultra-conservative jurist Robert Bork," wrote Lloyd. "From those sources we drew inspiration and guidance."

Lloyd proposes six initial goals for wresting control of communications from the corporate interests he claims control it. As his book details:

1. �End the federal subsidy of commercial media, particularly cable and broadcast television. Broadcasters should pay for the great privileges of a federally protected license to operate a business by using the publicly owned [radio or television] spectrum.�

2. �The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) must be reformed along democratic lines and funded at a substantial level. The CPB board should be elected, [with] eight members representing eight regions of the country (New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Midwest, Plains States, Southwest, Mountain States, and the Pacific Coast) and a chairman appointed by the president, with the advice and consent of the Senate.�

�Federal and regional broadcast operations and local stations should be funded at levels commensurate with or above those spending levels at which commercial operations are funded,� said Lloyd.

�This funding should come from license fees charged to commercial broadcasters. � Local public broadcasters and regional and national communications operations should be required to encourage and broadcast diverse views and programs. � Spectrum allocations should be established that create clear preferences for public broadcasters ensuring that regional, local, and neighborhood communities are well served,� he added.

3. �The FCC should be fully funded with regulatory fees from broadcast, cable, satellite, and telecommunications companies. The FCC should be staffed at regional offices, matching those CPB regions, at levels sufficient to monitor and enforce communication regulation.

�Clear federal regulations over commercial broadcast and cable programs regarding political advertising and commentary, educational programming for children, the number of commercials, ratings information about programs before they are broadcast, and the accessibility of services to the disabled should be established and widely promoted.�

4. �Universal service support provided by all commercial telecommunications providers (whether they are classified as information services or not) to fund access to advanced telecommunications services should be expanded to all nonprofit organizations, including higher-level academic and vocational schools, community centers, and 501(c) (3) organizations unaffiliated with either business or government.�

5. �Postal subsidies should be fully restored to small independent nonprofits presses. Postal subsidies should be reduced for commercial and business operations. The postal service should be returned to congressional control with the central mission of ensuring that all Americans have access to the post.�

6. �Public secondary schools should be required to include civics and media literacy as part of their core curriculum. Testing on civic, media, and computer literacy should be required and national standards set.�

For those who think any or all of these recommendations might infringe on the free speech rights of broadcasters, Lloyd says his concern is not the �exaggerated� concerns over the First Amendment.

�It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press,� he said. �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,� said Lloyd. �[T]he problem is not only the warp to our public philosophy of free speech, but that the government has abandoned its role of advancing the communications capabilities of real people.�”

“http://www.cnsnews.com/news/print/53136

CNSNews.com
FCC Diversity Chief Asked Liberals to Copy FDR, Take on Limbaugh, Murdoch, Supreme Court
Thursday, August 27, 2009
By Matt Cover




FCC seal
(CNSNews.com) � Federal Communications Commission Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd called on fellow liberals to follow the model of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and challenge conservative media moguls and station owners, particularly figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Rupert Murdoch, and �a pro-big business Supreme Court aligned� with them.

Lloyd made the call in a 2007 article for the liberal Center for American Progress while he was a senior fellow there.

Entitled �Media Maneuvers: Why the Rush to Waive Cross-Ownership Bans,� the article ostensibly talks about the Federal Communications Commission�s (FCC) decision to allow Chicago real estate mogul Sam Zell to purchase the then-failing Chicago Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Tribune newspaper.

Lloyd, however, uses the Zell case, in which Zell ultimately prevailed, to make a broader argument that liberals should look to the tactics employed by FDR to combat his conservative critics in the media, saying that liberals must challenge outspoken conservatives who own media outlets.

�Progressives should take a page from FDR�s media diversity playbook,� Lloyd wrote. �[A]t the end of a second FDR administration [in 1940] when the New Dealers were still battling a conservative print media and a conservative Supreme Court to fix the great debacle of American capitalism � the Great Depression.

�FDR�s fireside chats and his ready access to radio allowed him to speak directly to Americans and continue to push a progressive agenda,� said Lloyd. �But FDR was becoming increasingly concerned about the purchase of radio operations by the newspaper publishers.�




Former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Lloyd highlights one Roosevelt tactic in particular, using the Justice Department to take his conservative media critics to court on anti-trust grounds. He highlights the case of then Chicago Tribune publisher Col. Robert R. McCormick, a stalwart Roosevelt critic.

Says Lloyd: �One of the most vehement Roosevelt-haters was Col. Robert R. McCormick, the longtime editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune. McCormick considered it his duty to remove Roosevelt from office and he used every means at his disposal to further this aim, including his radio station WGN (AM).

�But there is little doubt that FDR understood what he was up against,� wrote Lloyd. �He understood not only how to use media effectively, but also the importance of media ownership and the rules that determined media ownership.�

Roosevelt took the Associated Press and McCormick, an AP member, to court, alleging that they were engaged in illegal, monopolistic practices. Ultimately, a then Roosevelt-friendly Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment did not give newspapers the right to be monopolies.

Lloyd referenced the case to call on liberals to act like Roosevelt and challenge what he saw as conservative dominance in media.

�Just as FDR and the New Deal Progressives understood that media consolidation posed a major problem in a democracy, modern progressives need to understand the importance of this battle,� said Lloyd.

He warned that Zell, who tended to support conservative politicians, could be a modern-day McCormick, ready to ally with other conservative media moguls such as Rupert Murdoch and Rush Limbaugh against liberals.

�[T]he vast majority of Zell�s political contributions go to support conservative candidates and causes,� wrote Lloyd. �Is Zell a modern Col. McCormick waiting in the wings to join forces with Rupert Murdoch and Rush Limbaugh?�

Lloyd said such conservatives were �frantic� to get favorable ownership regulations in place before liberals could re-take Congress and the White House in 2008.

�Conservatives, including conservatives in media, are frantic to get a wide range of regulations that favor the interests of big business in place as soon as possible,� wrote Lloyd. �They are justifiably concerned that a public fed up with seven years of failed conservative policies in Iraq, a souring economy, and rising health care costs will put a stronger progressive voice in Congress and in the White House.�

Lloyd warned that conservatives such as Limbaugh and Murdoch were in league with a �pro-big business� Supreme Court and ready to battle the incoming liberal majority, just like in FDR�s day.

�A pro-big business Supreme Court aligned with Murdoch, Limbaugh, and Zell and ready to battle a progressive in the White House begins to sound a lot like the early years of the FDR administration,� said Lloyd. �Will progressives sound like FDR and commit to creating a media policy that actually serves democracy and promotes diverse and antagonistic sources of news?�”

“FCC Diversity Chief Says Republican Communications Policies Hurt Civil Rights
Friday, August 28, 2009
By Matt Cover

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/53195



FCC seal(CNSNews.com) � Mark Lloyd, chief diversity officer at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), claimed that communications policies enacted by Republicans negatively impacted the civil rights of minorities.

Lloyd made the claim in a 1998 essay he wrote while working for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. He said that two decades of Republican communications policies had eroded the gains made by the civil rights movement in minority ownership in communications.

Lloyd also said that, prior to the Reagan administration, the FCC recognized that civil rights and communications policy were linked, and he said that minority ownership of radio and television stations was necessary to correct the lack of diversity in media.

�In the late seventies, in recognition of the lack of progress made with these [equal opportunity] employment policies, the FCC ruled that minority ownership was essential to create a diverse range of messages over the public�s airwaves,� Lloyd wrote.

Among the requirements the FCC created were licensing rules that required that the public participate in the license renewal process; caps on how many radio and television stations a company could own in one city; three-year license terms; and a process called ascertainment: requiring station owners to canvas the local community to find out what the public was interested in.

Lloyd said that, starting with Reagan, the Republican-dominated FCC had rolled back these rules, and with them the gains of the civil rights community.




Radio station (public domain)�[T]he great progress made by the civil rights communities in the communications policy arena has been rolled back,� Lloyd said. �The Reagan-dominated FCC destroyed the ascertainment process, arguing that it was too much of an administrative burden on the stations and the FCC.

�Licensing renewal can now be accomplished with a postcard,� he wrote. The worst blow, according to Lloyd, would come from the Telecommunications Act of 1996, passed by a Republican Congress allegedly beholden to big business.

�While touted as a landmark bill updating the sixty-year-old Communications Act for the benefit of U.S. consumers, the T96 Act was created by and for a communications industry dominated by global conglomerates,� said Lloyd in his essay.

The law relaxed the ownership restrictions that had prevented broadcasters from growing and competing with one another, something Lloyd says led to the further triumph of international corporations over local, minority-owned ones.

�Despite the promise of greater competition, the effect of the Act has been an unprecedented wave of consolidation,� Lloyd said. �National broadcast ownership limits were increased to 35 percent. Prohibitions limiting ownership of radio, television, and newspapers by one company in the same market were lifted, thus encouraging media consolidation and the crowding out of independent voices.

�Broadcast license periods were increased, making it virtually impossible for local communities to exercise any control over the stations licensed to serve them,� said Lloyd.

These changes combined to replace a civil rights agenda at the FCC with a commercial one, he said.

�The civil rights agenda has given way to the agenda of the commercial market,� wrote Lloyd. �The work of the civil rights community has suffered through a sustained assault by the right. The core of that assault is to deny funding to civil rights work, silence liberal voices, and set the agenda of public debate by an opposition that is better funded, more organized, and more savvy about strategic communications.

�Combined with this assault is a relentless marketing of the failed dogma of laissez-faire economics,� he wrote.

However, official reports on minority ownership of media show that while there are far fewer minority-owned outlets than white-owned ones, the reason is not FCC rules or right-wing conspiracies but simple market forces and financial issues.

A 1998 report from the National Telecommunications and Information Agency (NTIA) shows that in 1998 � the same year Lloyd made his claims � increased competition and lack of capital were responsible for the meager 2.9 percent share of minority-owned stations.

�Minority broadcasters are finding it increasingly difficult to compete,� the report found. �Access to capital remains one of the most significant impediments to ownership for minorities.�

Competition, the report found, was responsible for the minority owners� problems, as most had difficulty holding on to popular syndicated hosts and talented employees.

�Minority broadcasters also report that they are facing increased competition in securing nationally syndicated programming,� said the report. �Some minority broadcasters report that their general managers, sales managers, and on-air talent are being hired by competing non-minority group owners who can offer higher salaries and wider exposure.�

Today, the situation apparently is no different. A 2007 report commissioned by the FCC and conducted by researchers from Duke University found that while minority ownership had increased slightly, the reasons for the disparity between minority and white ownership remained.

�Since the observed ownership asymmetries are economy-wide, they are undoubtedly linked to broad systemic factors,� the report said. �[T[he most direct explanation lies in unequal access to capital. Many businesses require individuals to sink substantial financial investments upon entry. This is likely to be especially true in media enterprises.�

The only way to change this, the 2007 report said, was to redistribute wealth or increase minorities� access to capital markets. The report did not mention license terms, renewal procedures, or ascertainment.

�[I]n order to change ownership patterns we need to either change the aggregate distribution of wealth or otherwise increase access to capital markets,� said the report.

The report specifically rejected the idea of ownership bans, saying they would not achieve a diversity of views because content was consumer-driven.

�While it is certainly true that an even distribution of ownership seems �fair� and that it might promote a more balanced airing of voices, it is not at all clear that ownership restrictions are the best way to achieve these goals,� stated the report. �[R]ecent research suggests that media content is driven much more by demand considerations (i.e., consumer preferences) than supply factors (i.e., owner preferences).�

In other words, those stations best able to meet those �demand considerations� � what their customers want � are the ones that profit and prosper, and the ones that do not provide what consumers want do not succeed.

The report said: ��Conservative� newspapers offer a �conservative� viewpoint and �liberal� newspapers a �liberal� viewpoint because that is what their subscribers prefer, not to satisfy the agenda of a specific owner. Since most every owner has the goal of maximizing profits [by best serving customers] it is unclear what impact ownership restrictions would in fact have.�”

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Joe Wilson (R-SC) Apologises For Acting Like A Teabagger

Rep. Joe Wilson, working to control the damage from his eruption, apologizes in a statement:

This evening I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the President�s remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the health care bill. While I disagree with the President�s statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the President for this lack of civility.



You wanna be one of the poor schmucks working in that idiot's office tomorrow morning? LMAO

”

“
Teabaggers Distance Themselves From Wilson

Promoting Oral Hygiene continues to be a priority ---- Ties to Mouthwash Industry continue to be denied despite FEC disclosures.

”

“Other than that, how did your messiah's speech go?
*snicker*”

“Nigal, I one clicked on a link that someone on here provided, this was like 7 years ago...well it was one of those frigging gag deals where you have to go through all these clicks to get it off your screen. Every since then I started posting the articles and the link...it's how I roll, deal with it....more importantly, READ IT!”

“I think that goat had some kind of disease. Better get yourself checked.”

“<<<<< red blackneck >>>>>”

“Don't forget the asscist fasclowns....”

“I think what they've actually been doing is playing "Ring Around the Rosey".

Now they're a wittle bit woozey and need to sit out the next one.”

“If that makes you feel better then you just keep telling yourself that...”

“They're so freaked out they're losing it in the middle of a Presidential Address.

What will they do for an encore?”

“That dude parked his boat with the bow sprit sticking in his favorite hookers window, he's gota be a famble values type a guy.
Potty Pug
youtube.com/watch?v=wIBQO6zrOjY”