Fox News Network October 7, 2009 Wednesday BECK: Boy, that sounds positively un-American. Yesterday, we had two stories that seemed like no big deal if you didn't know what was behind them. The first story was about the government getting into Internet regulation. Remember, protect you from the shady Internet blogger trying to scam you into buying the perfect pancake maker. Oh, the government is here just trying to help you. Remember that?
Also, the other story was the FTC - not the FCC, but the FTC - they are just getting together for a little lunch, you know, a conference in December, the 1st and 2nd in December. They just want to talk about how they can help journalists do their job. Oh, I would like to have a little speech there, too. They want to know, should there be extra funding for journalists? Should there be tax credits for certain news organizations? Rupert, gravy train is about to come, I'm sure. Should the government be more involved? OK. Remember those two stories here. Now, let me introduce you now to a friend of Mark Lloyd's. In fact, he is also a friend of Van Jones. He founded a little group called Free Press. They are looking for anything but free press. Let me tell you a little bit about the founder, Robert McChesney. He is the former editor of "Monthly Review," which he himself has described as one of the most important Marxist publications in the world, let alone the United States. He is a backer of Hugo Chavez, the crackdown on the media, and even suggested that owners of a TV station that was critical of Chavez should be arrested for treason. My, that sounds like Mark Lloyd. I wonder if they know each other. He has said, quote, about the U.S. "Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to be necessarily part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself. Also, there is no real answer, but to remove, brick by brick, the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles." Well, why not? We're all socialists now. "We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it." Quote "The fight against hyper-commercialism becomes especially pronounced in the area of digital communications." Wow, that wouldn't be the Internet, would it? Here is yet another far-left radical who hates capitalism. Now, let me tell you a little bit more about Free Press. Free Press worked with Obama during his to help develop his tech policies. Whoa! What were some of those quotes we just had? And he was there helping develop the tech policies of this White House? Free Press has three confirmed meetings now with Obama's FCC to work on new Internet regulations - "Hi, we're from the government, and we're just here to help." The FCC chairman, not to be confused with the diversity czar - this is the chairman of the FCC, Julius Genachowski - chose Free Press spokeswoman, Jen Howard, to be his press secretary. Yes. The Marxist group, the most important Marxist group, possibly in the world, but definitely in America - that person was taken to be his spokesperson? Free Press also co-authored "The Structural Imbalance of Talk Radio." They do know Mark Lloyd, because that's the book that Mark Lloyd - and in that book they argued for the government to remedy the problem of conservative voices on talk radio by, among other things, forcing commercial owners who fail to abide by their rules to pay a fee that would subsidize public broadcasting. I said at the beginning, freedom of speech is the most important right, because if I can't meet you with tonight and, in the same breath, let me say this, if Keith Olbermann cannot meet with you every night, if we're not allowed to say things that other people find offensive, if we're not allowed to talk to each other and express opinions, well, then anyone could get away with just about anything, don't you think? Will the press, the actual free press, at least today at - what time is it? Yes, still free today - will they even bother to question a group with a radical Marxist founder based in Marxism? Will they even question that group that wants to drastically change their own industry? You know what? Maybe they'll become interested if McChesney calls a Republican a naughty name. I'm not sure. But let me just say this to members of the press that are ignoring this or thinking, "Well, it's no big deal." If you embrace these people, or if you sit down and work with these people, you might as well just go out and purchase your own blindfold and cigarette for the firing squad, because I don't see the difference here. More on Free Press, next. BECK: There is an assault on free speech in this country that nobody really sees coming and nobody is looking into all of the connections. And some of these stories are hidden. They seem harmless. If you want to follow this and more on Free Press and the other stories that we follow, sign up for my free E-mail newsletter at "GlennBeck.com." Now, with the details on Free Press, Seton Motley, director of communications for Media Research Center and contributing editor to "NewsBusters.org." You have been digging into these guys for a while now. Tell me, because they sound really nasty. SETON MOTLEY, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: Well, they are the media reform wing of the social justice movement. BECK: OK. MOTLEY: They want to level the electronic playing field, whether it's radio or it's Internet. And now they're expanding into print, the old school journalism. They're seeing this crisis as an opportunity to broaden into that field as well with the FTC, et cetera, et cetera. The FCC, as a matter of fact, has started a notice of inquiry which is the first step in the rules-making process called the state of media journalism. They're going to look at the business angles and the business models and see where this is going - totally outside their purview. That is not what the FCC should do. So they're all moving forward in this uniform movement. And as you pointed out, Van Jones, Mark Lloyd, Robert McChesney - they all know each other. BECK: They're all Marxists? MOTLEY: In varying degrees, yes. BECK: Varying degrees? MOTLEY: McChesney has avowed to be a Marxist. Van Jones, as we know, has avowed to be a Marxist. Certainly, you find a lot of similarities and thought between what McChesney and Lloyd have said about Marxist Hugo Chavez. So you would say that, yes, this is the social justice Marxist movement in the realm of media and communications. BECK: They say - McChesney said when it comes to Chavez, give me - call for number six and seven. Here's six, "Venezuela is a constitutional republic. Chavez has won landslide victories that would be the envy of almost any elected leader in the world, in internationally monitored elections." I find this amazing. And call for number seven, "Aggressive, unqualified political dissent is alive and well in the Venezuelan mainstream media in a manner few other Democratic nations have ever known, including our own." Free speech alive and well in Venezuela? MOTLEY: And I would just say if he thinks it is more free than what we have here in our media, then, he has probably been reading Media Research Center materials about the media. If you want to talk about state-controlled media, we might have that now. But yes, he is totally in the Marxist tank. Chavez can do no wrong. He was attacked unfairly. BECK: How - because he said - and it wasn't Free Press that was the staple of - MOTLEY: What he said was it wasn't Free Press that was the most important Marxist organization in the world, let alone in the United States. He said that about his publication. BECK: OK. He is playing a role. His people are at the FCC. And they are meeting now? MOTLEY: Policy director, Ben Scott, as you mentioned, has met at least three times to develop tech policies. BECK: And they have been doing tech policy for the White House before with candidate Obama? MOTLEY: They started during the presidential race and developed his tech policy portfolio. And now, since then, he's been meeting with the FCC. BECK: Net neutrality is part of their deal. MOTLEY: It's socialism for the internet. Everybody gets equal amounts of nothing. ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
