Rahm Emanuel’s ‘First Amendment’ Joke and its Proper Context

by Seton Motley 1/18/2010

The Word of the Day is: Context.

First, as to the video (below). Its context is the May 9, 2009 White House Correspondents Association Dinner. At which White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel uttered the following:

“When you think about the First Amendment…you think it’s highly overrated.”

Emanuel said […]

AFP: Team Obama Keeps Pushing to Take Over the Internet

If our government does end up in control of the Internet, they could potentially restrict it as a medium of dissent, blocking the ability to communicate, educate, and organize.

January 12, 2010 By Phil Kerpen Americans for Prosperity

Glenn Beck and I exposed how radical White House Internet czar Susan Crawford was in 2009 and […]

Glenn Beck Revisits the Ample Evidence Against FCC Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd

Seton Motley Newsbusters.org January 4, 2010

Fox News Channel and radio talk show host Glenn Beck has quickly risen to be one the most prominent targets of the Left. Radio Talk King Rush Limbaugh is Liberal Enemy #1; there’s a strong case to be made that Beck is now running second.

One of the myriad […]

Bozell: ‘Mark Lloyd: FCC Chief Diversity Officer — And a Liar, Too’

Brent Bozell President of the Media Research Center December 15, 2009

Alexandria, VA – Yesterday in a speech for the Media Access Project (http://ow.ly/Mldt), Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd claimed to refute numerous what he called “exaggerations and distortions” of a wide range of his thoughts, positions and policy prescriptions from […]

FCC Official Says He’s Not Carrying Out ‘Secret Plot Funded by George Soros to Get Rid of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck’

By Matt Cover CNSNews.com Monday, December 14, 2009

(CNSNews.com) – Mark Lloyd, the chief diversity officer and associate counsel at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), says he is not carrying out a “secret plot funded by George Soros” aimed at getting rid of conservative talk-show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

Lloyd, the keynote speaker […]

Panel OKs key regulatory measure; House vote next

By JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press Writer December 2, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats cleared a crucial hurdle Wednesday in their drive to expand the government’s power over Wall Street even as black lawmakers warned that they would use their votes as leverage to secure more economic aid to African-American communities.

The House Financial Services […]

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