Ethnic Separatist Groups Push For Talk Radio Crackdown

FIGHTING FREE SPEECH

UC Activists Take Talk Radio Crackdown To Obama's FCC







Establishing a new front in the left's war on free speech in America, a group of fringe separatists associated with the University of California, Los Angeles have issued what they claim is a "groundbreaking" research report on "hate" in conservative talk radio.

Armed with their "case" against the medium, groups including the (partially taxpayer-funded) UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and National Hispanic Media Coalition have begun a campaign to push Obama's FCC into holding sham hearings on conservative talk's future. So far, they've utilized lefty websites and newspapers for their campaign.

The battle coincides with other efforts by the Obamists, largely behind-the-scenes, to remove their Dear Leader's key media opposition without resorting to a controversial, high-profile Fairness Doctrine reinstatement (though some Democratic Party senators do favor that approach).

Funded in part by liberal donors including the Ford Foundation, the "Hate Speech on Commercial Talk Radio" study includes only conservative, populist and right-wing programs, which it improperly lumps into a single "conservative" category.

In what was chosen for monitoring, they've been strangely selective: major conservative talkers such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin are not included. Instead, "researchers" opted to cover top-rated KFI / Los Angeles afternoon drive mainstays John & Ken (above left image), plus syndicated hosts Michael Savage and Lou Dobbs.

Left out entirely, of course, are left-wing shows featured on Air America Radio and elsewhere (even those easily heard in UCLA's listening area). Interestingly, UCLA's own press office made no effort to mask the partisan nature of this phony study. More on this in a moment.


From the UCLA release, this example of "hate" was cited:

As an example, "The John and Ken Show" aired this statement concerning the city of San Francisco's "sanctuary policy" for undocumented immigrants: "And this all under the Gavin Newsom policy in San Francisco of letting underage illegal alien criminals loose."

Researchers said that the statement used false facts. The sanctuary policy preceded San Francisco Mayor Newsom's tenure and neither Newsom nor the sanctuary policy supports "letting underage illegal alien criminals loose."

It also used flawed argumentation. Guilt by association was used to make the hosts' points, researchers noted. Undocumented youth and those who are perceived as their endorsers at the institutional level are stigmatized by being associated with criminality, they said.

The statement also used divisive language. Researchers said that undocumented youth and their perceived supporters — Newsom and the sanctuary policy — were depicted as a threat to San Francisco citizens, setting up an "us versus them" opposition.

Left out, of course, is that Newsom only opposed the policy under pressure after illegal aliens were suspects in the brazen, senseless and high profile road rage murders of an innocent family in broad daylight. And even then, some of the mayor's commissioners fought to keep the dangerous sanctuary law in place.


Certainly, that well-documented examples of violent hate speech from the left are intentionally omitted from the report says a lot about its complete lack of credibility. Since they aren't willing to do even a quick Internet search, let's provide some here, all caught on tape:


In November 2007, NovaM syndicated libtalker Mike Malloy called for violence against White House spokesperson Dana Perino, as well as the Bush family. Removing any doubt about his wishes, he spoke of "violence fantasies" toward Perino.


In December of that year, Malloy was at it again, this time calling for the hanging death of Internet star Matt Drudge.


During a Randi Rhodes Show broadcast in February 2008, the host aired a prerecorded skit which claimed Mitt Romney supporters would go on a "killing rampage" if John McCain emerged as the GOP's presidential nominee.


In 2005, Rhodes aired another bit that suggested the Bush family be taken out Sopranos-style.


Heading into the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Southern Californian libtalker Roseanne Barr called for violent riots during the Denver-based event.


And in November, Barr went on a verbal rampage against African-Americans for overwhelmingly supporting California's Proposition 8 at the ballot box.


Finally, in a story just reported today by Tim Graham at NewsBusters, Malloy has called for the execution of Republicans (in addition to any Democrats who voted with President Bush).


What are the odds the racially-divisive separatists behind this warped crusade will include these examples in their FCC petition? Don't hold your breath.


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