Glenn Beck's The New Republic: America's Future 8/26 (updated)

Beck is doing a series this week called, The New Republic: America's Future. He will ask the hard questions and talk about the things that no one is talking about. He makes sure to point out that "this show is an opinion show."

I will do my best to detail at least some of the key information that he covers, even if its not on "time" and place the youtube clips below for more detailed information.

Beck does an amazing job of putting a million details into a 1 hour programs and it is sometimes impossible to get everything! So don't forget to tune in all this week at 5 pm on Fox to watch The Glenn Beck program.

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Part 1

Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times

• Movement for a Democratic Society, 2006 founded by Communist Party...just one of the many groups involved in the bills being written.
  
• White House has emailed to tell Beck to stop calling Van Jones a Czar, not address, clarify of rebuke any other of the things he has been talking about. They only thing they wanted to clarify was that Peter Orszag, Czar was approved by Senate.
  
• Speak Without Fear is what he will be focusing on.
  
• Evidence and New Strategy is to Silence Dissent!
• Localism and Diversity will be how they silence public voice, not Fairness Doctrine
• Diversity Czar, Mark Lloyd said, "It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press, This freedom is all to 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."
• Proposed that 100% tax of operating budget be given to government for public radio. If you can't pay it then your license will be revoked and given to a minority group.
  
• Van Jones, "My job is not that different than before...I'm basically a community organizer inside the federal family."

Guest: Seton Motley, Communication Dir, Media Research Center

• WATCH for Mark Lloyd Video on State Control of Media, 2008. Basically talks about how Chavez achieved his democratic advancement by controlling the media. Opposed to ANY private media ownership.
  
• FCC has a new motto: diversity, competition and localism....that was put in place during Bush administration. This is not about Obama these people have been preparing for this moment for a very long time.
  
• Motley: Diversity (Czar) Officer, Mark Lloyd is fundamentally opposed to private ownership of media at all.

• Fairness Doctrine: FCC Policy that controversial subject be fair
  1985: FCC declared Fairness Doctrine wasn't working
  1987: President Reagan vetoed fairness doctrine

PERSONAL NOTE: If you drive down to key west you can hear the radio in Cuba. Sit there for a moment and listen. There is NO news! It is all propaganda. "Porque los yankees.." (translation: because those Yankee's)..then they blame the U.S. for not having toilet paper or whatever. Things in Venezuela are the same! Yet we have people in our government that want these things??? VERY SCARY!

• Mark Lloyd: "...and social Change. In Venezuela, with Chavez, really an incredible Revolution- a Democratic Revolution- to begin to put in place saying that we're going to have impact on the people of Venezuela... the property owners and the folks who were then controlling the media in Venezuela rebelled --work frankly with folks here in the U.S. government-worked to oust him and came back and had another revolution. And Chavez then stated to take the media very seriously in this country. " (2008)

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Part 2

Reasonable Question for Unreasonable Times

Guest: Seton Motley, Communication Dir, Media Research Center

• Motley: "The New FCC Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd plans is to use the nebulous regulations of diversity and localism to use alternate routs to get to the same destination as the Fairness Doctrine. Which is to shut you up by shutting you down. He want to as salt the radio industry to assault the idilogical outcome. He will do this by taxing 100% of operating cost for the year."
  

• Motley: On top of that if you arent meeting his definition of media diversity and localism he wants to fine you. He has actually come up with a Media Diversity and Localism mathematical equation. There are issues with this equation because he has 4 numerator all multiplied by each other, so if you mess up one you fail and are fined. Also the way it is set up, if you hire 3 white guys that are local then that doesn't help your diversity and you fail and are fined.

• We're only talking about race not diversity of opinion.
  

• Motley: Don't forget he is working with the Diversity Panel/Committee that has about 31 organization on there and none of them are conservative. So there is certainly no ideological diversity on the Diversity Committee.

• Lloyd: "In our report, we call for ownership of Rules that we think will create greater local diversity of programming, news and commentary and we call for more localism by putting more teeth into licensing rules."
  

• Motley: Basically he wants to set up 8 Diversity Boards across the country that will regulate: Political Advertising and Commentary, number of Commercials and Ratings information about programs before they are broadcast.
  

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Part 3

Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times

Guest: Rush Limbaugh

• Limbaugh: Sarah Palin tweeted urging people to watch this week.
  Obama doesn't like to debate his opponents he just want to obliterate them.
  It's simply Un-American what the Diversity Czar Lloyd is doing.
  Fairness Doctrine is too obvious so they are going to try to backdoor.
  Radio means to much to people so I don't think it will work. People are too informed!
• Lloyd traces rise of conservative radio to "relaxed ownership rules"
• Loyd worked at NBC, CNN Prior to Becoming a Communication Attorney
• Limbaugh: Obama army isn't showing up with any passion for Obama's...Passion, Love of Country will outmaneuver fake passion. Dangerous time for freedom and liberty in this country.
• Limbaugh: This is not politics as usual, this not democrat vs. republican, this is totalitarianism vs freedom.
  
  

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Part 4

Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times

Guest: Rush Limbaugh

• Why doesn't media report this?
• Limbaugh: Because they think that they will end up in the inside circle of this thing. I have a question: How is it that people know what is in this bill? The Media sure hadn't told them. People are informed...The effort to discredit us will always fail as long as we stay true to ourselves...I am confident that this will pass.
  
• Cute little exchange between Glenn and Limbaugh
  

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Part 5

Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times

• There is something going on and something doesn't feel right and your freedom is at stake.

Guest: Karl Rove, Fox news Contributor

• Beck: Lets not talk about Politics, lets talk about the Constitution
  
• Rove: We face a very real dancer of changing what our country it, by centralized power in government in Washington. Everyone has had Czars, but not Czars like this.
  
• Beck: No one is taking the facts of this show on. 3 million people watched the show. Not one has taken the facts apart, they've taken me apart. Why is that not a problem?
• Rove: This president is running our country in a way no other president has ever done before. He is running the country centralized from the White House. For example, by what authority did the Car Czar fire the Board of GM? There is no precedence for that. Lloyd is a complete lunatic if he believes that Venezuela is the model to follow. Someone needs to ask these questions?
• Rove: The White House Press Corp is largely compliant....and members of the press tell me that Gibbs doesn't respond to emails and phone calls, he just so comfortable, that he is not going to be challenge and wont deal with tough questions. That is his job.
  

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Part 6

Day 3

• Why does the FCC have a diversity "czar"?

• Who is Mark Lloyd and how does he plan to "balance" the airwaves?

• Will he bring back the Fairness Doctrine or worse?

• Cass Sunstein once said he wants to balance the Internet; is that next?

• Will broadcasters who leave the airwaves be allowed to go to satellite or Internet without government regulation?

• Is there any place (that has a mass audience) where the government wont regulate free speech?

• Why does it seem every member of the Obama advisory team hates capitalism, unless those companies (like G.E.) are in bed with the administration?

• If Lloyd has his way, stations who don't comply to the governments definition of the "public interest" will have to pay a massive fine — that helps support public broadcasting:

• What will be the definition of "public interest"?

• Who defines "public interest"?

• Why should it be balanced? Because it's public airwaves? (Well, there are public roads that go by my house and I don't count how many Republicans and Democrats are driving on them)