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Radio Diversity - "The Venezuelan Solution"

Well, while it wasn't much of a prediction, I had stated on Friday during the TEA Party Express rally that Van Jones would be gone by Tuesday morning. And while anyone who was listening and watching could have suggested the long holiday weekend would be used to mitigate the "newsworthiness" of the event, his departure marks the first of what we hope will be many departures from the Czarist regime of Barrack Obama.

It is interesting that the administration went to great pains to note that the president did not order the termination of Van Jones. He, in light of his continued distraction to the president's message, decided to resign. It is amusing that the president could not make a decision to terminate a known communist-social justice-name calling-truther believing-green jobs czar, but COULD quickly make the decision to terminate a capitalist CEO and head of General Motors within weeks of his ascendancy to the presidency. But alas, I digress, Van Jones was simply a victim of a smear campaign. After all, he would ask, do you believe me or your lying eyes?

Yes, in the internet age, you don't say or write what you don't want to come back to you later. The fact that his videos, speeches and actions were evidence enough to "convict" didn't diminish his position in the eyes of this president. Van Jones simply did the right thing and removed himself from the controversy. Never mind that Glenn Beck and those TEA Party people mobilized to make sure the press, our legislators and the general public knew of this man's predilection for radicalism. But in the end, it was the enormous pressure to make sure the slate was clean as the president was preparing to address Congress this week that likely caused the green jobs czar to vacate.

So where do we go from here? Well, I would suggest that we need to continue the pressure to remove the entirety of the czarist infrastructure of the Obama administration. And the next man that needs to go is the FCC Diversity Chief. He is a clear and present danger to our free speech through his radical views of the airwaves and in context of conservative radio in particular. As Glenn Beck has provided, this is a man whose radical views of democracy suggest that the Venezuelan dictator, Hugo Chavez is a role model for "democratic revolution" and the appropriate use of media generally. As you will find in the video below, Mark Lloyd is particularly impressed with Hugo and his democratic revolution. And he has a few "taxing" ideas on how to level the playing field through localization in radio. Check out the link below along with Glenn Beck's commentary.

FCC Diversity Chief Extolling the Virtues of Chavez

So let's examine the current events in Venezuela that Mark Lloyd found so inspiring! Reuters UK published the following article providing the status of that free speech bastion Venezuela and the Chavez regime that Mr. Lloyd thought so much of only a short time ago! Read on and consider why Mark Lloyd must be the next to go.

Chavez minister vows more Venezuela radio closings

Sat Sep 5, 2009 10:14pm BST

* Radio stations to be pulled after 34 closed in August

* Critics say hits free speech, government says democratic

* Anti-Chavez TV network in the spotlight over coup rumor

CARACAS, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Venezuela will pull the plug on 29 more radio stations, a top official in President Hugo Chavez's government said on Saturday, just weeks after dozens of other outlets were closed in a media clampdown. Infrastructure Minister Diosdado Cabello closed 34 radio stations in July, saying the government was "democratizing" media ownership. Critics say the move limits freedom of expression and has taken critical voices off the airwaves.

The powerful Chavez ally has threatened to close over 100 stations in total, part of a long-term campaign against private media that the government says are biased against Chavez's government. "Another 29 will be gone before long," he told thousands of Chavez supporters at a political rally, without giving details which stations would be closed or when. Cabello also said he was launching a new legal case against Globovision, the country's most prominent anti-government television network, accusing it of inciting a coup against Chavez.

Text messages circulated Last week in Venezuela saying a coup against Chavez was imminent. Other messages circulated among Chavez supporters calling for them to be on the alert. The government quashed the rumors quickly and said all military units were acting normally. "They (Globovision) aired a tape supposedly with telephone messages calling for a coup d'etat," said Cabello, a member of Chavez's inner circle who took part in the president's first bid for office -- a violent and abortive coup in 1992. Chavez was himself ousted for 48 hours 10 years later in a short-lived army rebellion after he won office democratically. That putsch had the support of some of the country's television companies.

In 2007, Chavez took revenge, refusing to renew the concession of Venezuela's oldest and most widely watched private station, RCTV, which is now visible only on cable. 9/6/2009 Chavez minister vows more Venezuela.

Now to be sure, Mark Lloyd was only trying to demonstrate his international bonafides in referencing the Chavez democratic revolution. I am certain that we have all misunderstood his views in context of this video, the current events in Venezuela and the alignment of numerous writings of the learned and "informed" Mr. Lloyd. And of course, the president really didn't know anything about Mark Lloyd except that he liked his "diversity" of opinion when it came to radio station ownership, tax policies regarding that ownership and of course the elimination of conservative talk radio. You see, as Mr. Chavez understood, you need to control the media and eliminate your enemies so as to limit their damage to your "democratic" efforts to level the playing field and provide equal outcome!

No, this administration is either the dumbest bunch of thugs to ever come out of the city of Chicago or the shrewdest group of schemers ready to restrict your freedoms and ensure their agenda through the deployment and hiring of this shadow government. I hope that you will pick up your phone, dial your representative and request that they investigate these people and the constitutionality of these czars, special advisers and avowed radicals. And in the meantime, arm yourself with the facts and read, view and assess the words of these people who would remake our country. In the end, perhaps we can actually gain some valuable insight from the Venezuelan solution - and that is once you get the bums out, keep them out!