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How the FCC and Liberal Churches Are Scheming To Shut You Up
Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The war on conservative speech has moved from the White House to your
neighborhood pews. Left-wing church leaders want the Federal Communications
Commission to crack down on "hate speech" over cable TV and right-leaning
talk-radio airwaves. President Obama's speech-stifling bureaucrats seem all
too happy to oblige.
Over the last week, an outfit called "So We Might See" has conducted a
nationwide fast to protest "media violence" -- specifically, "anti-immigrant
hate speech, which employs flawed arguments to appeal to fears rather than
facts." Their ire is currently aimed at Fox News and conservative talk-show
giants. But how long before they target ordinary citizens who call in to
complain about the government's systemic refusal to enforce federal
sanctions against illegal alien employers or the bloody consequences of lax
deportation policies?
The "interfaith coalition for media justice" is led by the United Church of
Christ. Yes, that's the same church of Obama's race-baiting, Jew-bashing
ex-pastor Jeremiah Wright. Other members include the Presbyterian News
Service, the Evangelical Lutheran Church and the National Council of
Churches. These religious liberals have partnered with the National Hispanic
Media Coalition, which filed a petition in January demanding that the FCC
collect data, seek public comment and "explore options" for combating "hate
speech" from staunch critics of illegal immigration.
Open-borders groups have sought to marginalize, criminalize and demonize
those of us who have raised our voices for years about lax immigration
enforcement -- and to impose an Orwellian Fairness Doctrine-style policy on
illegal alien amnesty opponents. During the presidential campaign, the
National Council of La Raza launched a "We Can Stop the Hate" project to
redefine tough policy criticism from the right as "hate." La Raza President
Janet Murguia called for TV networks to keep immigration enforcement
proponents off the airwaves and argued that hate speech should not be
tolerated, "even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment
rights," according to Broadcasting and Cable News.
Now the gag-wielders have a friend in the White House -- and they won't let
him forget it. Their FCC petition calling for a crackdown on illegal
immigration critics cites Obama's own words in a fall 2008 speech to the
Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Obama told his amnesty-supporting audience
that he knew they were "counting on us to stop the hateful rhetoric filling
our airwaves."
Unsurprisingly, far-left billionaire George Soros' money is backing the So
We Might See/National Hispanic Media Coalition effort. And remember that the
Soros-funded Center for American Progress has provided the Obama White House
with its Fairness Doctrine-embracing "diversity czar," Mark Lloyd.
Last week, United Church of Christ officials met privately with FCC
Commissioner Michael J. Copps in advance of the So We Might See campaign.
Copps then delivered a lecture at the UCC's Riverside Church in New York
City, expressing solidarity with the liberal church leaders' goals and
egging the congregants to take action on "media reform: "We are taking huge
risks with our democracy. We need to change that, and we need to do it now.
We need to get a grip on what's happening, and we need to fix it."
Jeffrey Lord, who happens to belong to the United Church of Christ, reported
in The American Spectator that not long after that speech, the UCC sent out
a mass e-mail to its millions of members urging them to join the nationwide
fast and regulatory drive. The church-state alliance missive directed its
followers: "As a participant, you will be asked to sign a petition to the
Federal Communications Commission asking that it open a notice of inquiry
into hate speech in the media."
No word on when they'll be launching an inquiry into the fear-based,
fact-free "hate speech" from the mouth of Florida Democratic Rep. Alan
Grayson, who accused Republicans of wanting sick patients to "die quickly,"
likened health care problems to the "Holocaust" and attacked an adviser to
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as a "K Street whore."
Or when they'll be going after MSNBC and Air America radio hate-mongers who
have openly wished on their airwaves for the deaths of George W. Bush, Rush
Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.
But I digress. In the age of Obama, the targets of left-wing hate speech
don't have a prayer. |
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