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November 17, 2008

'Localism' and Obama's use of Alinksy's method to assault free speech

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Often during the 2008 election campaign we saw Obama attempt to silence his critics, so surely Obama's plans to use Alinsky's principle of "localism" to silence talk radio will come as no surprise to free-thinking Americans - better known as those who never swallowed the Obama Kool-Aid and refused to allow the drive-by media's and Team Obama's tactics of misinformation throughout the campaign to fool them into submission to and belief in Obama's "hope and belief" mantra; they will recall the center-right blogoshere's frequent and consistent warnings of Obama's history and allegiances to Marxist principles and associations, particularly those related to Saul Alinsky's teachings, and have seen Obama's plans to decare war on Conservative talk radio coming.

And indeed, it is: Obama Declares War on Conservative Talk Radio:

Obama is on record as saying he does not plan an exhumation of the now-dead "Fairness Doctrine". Instead, Obama's attack on free speech will be far less understood by the general public and accordingly, far more dangerous.

The late community organizer Saul Alinsky taught his followers to strike hard from an unexpected direction, an approach known asAlinsky jujitsu.

Obama himself not only worked as an organizer for an Alinsky offshoot organization, Chicago's Developing Communities Project, but would go on to teach classes in Alinsky's beliefs and methods.

"Alinsky jujitsu" as applied to conservative talk radio means using vague rules already on the books to threaten any station which dares to air conservative programs with the loss of its valuable broadcast license.

Team Obama and the "localism" weapon

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule in question is called "localism."  Radio and television stations are required to serve the interests of their local community as a condition of keeping their broadcast licenses. 

Obama needs only three votes from the five-member FCC to define localism in such a way that no radio station would dare air any syndicated conservative programming.

Localism is one of the rare issues on which Obama himself has been outspoken. 

On September 20, 2007, Obama submitted a pro-localism written statement to an FCC hearing held at the Chicago headquarters of Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.'s Operation Push.

Furthermore, the Obama transition team knows all about the potential of localism as a means of silencing conservative dissent.  The head of the Obama transition team is John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress.

In 2007, the Center for American Progress issued a report, The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio.  This report complained that there was too much conservative talk on the radio because of "the absence of localism in American radio markets" and urged the FCC to "[e]nsure greater local accountability over radio licensing.

Podesta's choice as head of the Federal Communications Commission's transition team is Henry Rivera.

Since 1994, Rivera has been chairman of the Minority Media Telecommunications Council.  This organization has specific ideas about localism:

In other words, it would not do for broadcasters to meet with the business leaders whose companies advertise on their station.  Broadcasters must reach beyond the business sector and look for leaders in the civic, religious, and non-profit sectors that regularly serve the needs of the community, particularly the needs of minority groups that are typically poorly served by the broadcasting industry as a whole.

Rivera's law firm is also the former home of Kevin Martin, the current FCC chairman.  Martin is himself an advocate of more stringent localism requirements.

Continue reading: Obama Declares War on Conservative Talk Radio

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Posted by Hyscience at November 17, 2008 9:20 AM

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