OBAMA APPOINTEE: "FREEDOM IS EXAGERATED"

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EDITORIAL:
Obama appointee: Freedom is exaggerated
The FCC's chief diversity officer attacks the Constitution


By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Yesterday's huge Supreme Court victory for free-speech rights
in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission serves
as a warning to the Obama administration on other speech-related issues.
Several Obama appointees have denigrated the importance
of the First Amendment, and one presidential appointee, Mark Lloyd,
holds views fundamentally at odds with the Supreme Court
and America's whole tradition of protecting free speech.

Mr. Lloyd was President Obama's choice to fill a newly created
position at the Federal Communications Commission called the
"chief diversity officer." When a government agency starts to define
what sorts of speech do and don't qualify as "diversity," it's time
to worry about your freedom - especially when Mr. Lloyd is in charge.

Conservative groups have been sounding the alarm about Mr. Lloyd
for several months, and rightly so. Consider Mr. Lloyd's 2006 book,
"Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America,"
in which he calls for a "confrontational movement" against private media.
"It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech
or the press," he admits. "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."

As reported by the Media Research Center, Mr. Lloyd in 2005 said,
"We have really, truly good white people in important positions.
And the fact of the matter is that there are a limited number of
those positions. And unless we are conscious of the need to have
more people of color, gays, other people in those positions, we will
not change the problem. We're in a position where you have to say
who is going to step down so someone else can have power."

Does Mr. Obama agree with Mr. Lloyd that white broadcasters should
be forced by government to "step down so someone else can have power"?
Mr. Lloyd, like the president, is an open disciple of radical community
organizer Saul Alinsky. While writing that the "true opposition" is
"the [private] broadcasters," Mr. Lloyd repeatedly cited Alinsky while
advocating hugely punitive fees on private broadcasters in order
to finance expanded government-sponsored broadcasting.

Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling stands as a rebuke to Mr. Lloyd's dangerous creed.
There's nothing exaggerated about the importance of the First Amendment.
[Bolding added by David]