NPR Double Standard: Taxpayer Funds Pay for Racist Rant

Soon After Juan Williams Firing, Black Conservatives Question Subsidies for Divisive Rant Recalling Arizona Shooting

Washington, D.C. – Project 21′s Jerome Hudson is calling for an end to all National Public Radio subsidies in light of NPR’s broadcast of a racialist rant on January 12.

The broadcast of Hispanic activist Daisy Hernandez featured derogatory racial language.

“Hernandez’s comments and NPR’s poor decision to air them highlights a hypocrisy at NPR,” said Project 21′s Hudson. “That, and the separatism voiced in the Hernandez essay, nightmarishly blur the lines between legal and illegal immigration. NPR, in airing it, effectively perpetuated America’s racial divide.” Read more

Project 21 Condemns Efforts to Use Arizona Tragedy to Curtail Free Speech

Washington, D.C. – Members of the Project 21 leadership network are condemning efforts by liberal lawmakers to impose restrictions on free speech in light of the tragic shooting spree in Arizona that critically injured Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ).

“Loss of humanity is the issue at hand in the assassination attempt on Gabrielle Giffords and the senseless murder of a nine-year-old girl, among others. Losing liberty and finding ways to silence conservative views shouldn’t even be on the table,” said Project 21 member Lisa Fritsch, a guest host at KLBJ radio in Austin, Texas. “Those who use this tragedy as anything more than a reason to pray, reflect and call each of us — as brothers and sisters — to stand united in humanity and love are acting as tools of evil.”

Despite no evidence that the man charged with the shootings, Jared Lee Loughner, was motivated in any way by political speech, liberal politicians are using the Arizona shootings to launch a campaign to resurrect regulations to curtail freedom of speech in the media and possibly other aspects of American life.

Representative James Clyburn (D-SC), a member of the liberal leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives, has called for a reinstatement of “Fairness Doctrine” regulations that once allowed government to oversee and police political content. In a January 10 interview on National Public Radio, Clyburn said, “I really believe that everybody needs to take a look at where we are pushing things, and [we] may need to take a serious step back and evaluate what’s going on here.” Asked if this would constitute censorship to “an unfortunate degree,” Clyburn responded, “I don’t know that it’s necessarily to an unfortunate degree.” Clyburn’s daughter, Mignon, is a commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency that administered the Fairness Doctrine in the past.

Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY) similarly complained that the FCC is “not working anymore,” claiming that blame for flared tempers and violence, such as was experienced in Arizona, was due to “what they’re hearing over the airwaves.”

Project 21 member Joe R. Hicks, the host of the PJTV internet television network’s “The Hicks File,” said: “Along with the nation’s liberals and leftists, mainstream journalists and pundits spent the past week acting like vultures — picking at the bones of a national tragedy. Now liberal members of Congress are shamelessly seeking political advantage from the actions of a madman. Make no mistake, these members of Congress, in alliance with racial hucksters like the Reverend Al Sharpton, want to slam the door on free speech and limit the diversity of viewpoints that are currently available to the American people.”

“Those squealing the loudest about injustice and dangerous points of view seem most often to be guilty of the same. And I think, to their peril, the controls they now want would be more applicable to their ilk,” said Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie. “For example, Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy complains now about conservatives who are ‘[t]rading in ambiguity and veiled threats,’ but the Post published a column by him last March in which he expressed his desire to ‘spit on [tea party activists]… and knock every racist and homophobic tooth out of their Cro-Magnon heads.’ That’s the type of person who now, without apparent remorse for his own actions, wants to arbitrate acceptable speech?”

Massie additionally warned: “A re-evaluation of our guarantee of freedom of speech in favor of undefined civility would — by necessity — silence people such as Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond and Louis Farrakhan because they all have long and proven records of using their own voices to poison minds and incite mayhem. I know Representative Clyburn would likely think otherwise, but fairness means you can’t go after Sarah Palin and the tea party movement without going after the race hustlers.”

Convicts as a Protected Class?

Federal Agency Thinks Background Checks Can Discriminate Against Blacks, Hispanics

Washington, D.C. – Attorneys at the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission believe new technology that makes it easier for employers to check the criminal and credit histories of applicants also makes it harder for blacks and Hispanics to find jobs. Members of the Project 21 black leadership network fault this position, noting that it unjustly interferes with the ability of employers to build a trusted and coherent workforce. Read more

Cass Sunstein And His Internet Mandates

Because you are stupid, Cass Sunstein, Obama’s Regulatory Czar, thinks you don’t know how to use the Internet for reading, gathering information and disseminating it.

Picture this if you will. One day you sit down to your computer and log onto your favorite website. That of course would be the Black Bear Blog. There you find a story about 300 scientists who have gathered in Chicago to discuss the prospects of global cooling, update everyone on the fallout from Climategate and provide the best available science about our changing climate. In the middle of your reading, this annoying bubble keeps popping up trying to tell you that if you go over to the website Climate Debate Daily, you’ll get an opposing view. Read more

FCC Goes For Nuclear Option – Seeks To Control Interent

If FCC Chairman Genachowski announces his intention to reclassify the Internet as a telephone system, he will be reversing 30 years of precedent

By Phil Kerpen – FOXNews.com

As I have repeatedly warned and noted on www.ObamaChart.com, when Congress blocks the Obama administration, the White House always finds a way to get around the normal policy-making process and pursue its agenda by other means. Today’s reclassification assault on the Internet is the latest-and perhaps the most egregious-example.

In its effort to imposing crippling net neutrality regulations on the Internet-an idea with very little support from the American public or Congress-the Obama administration first turned to the FCC simply to pretend Congress has given it authority to regulate. <<<Read the Rest>>>

Taxpayers, Shareholders Should Be Furious Over Olbermann Comments

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Washington, D.C.: After MSNBC talking head Keith Olbermann predicted the downfall of democracy due to yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court easing restrictions on political speech, a policy expert at The National Center for Public Policy Research notes that taxpayers should be outraged.

Not only is Olbermann calling for reduced freedom in America, but the company that employs him has been using its own influence to save itself at taxpayer expense, says National Center for Public Policy Research Free Enterprise Project director Tom Borelli. Read more

Black Conservatives Condemn Grayson Remarks Comparing Protection of Free Speech to Racist Dred Scott Decision

Washington, DC: Members of the Project 21 black leadership group are condemning remarks today by Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) comparing today’s Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to the Dred Scott case.

The decision in Citizens United eases certain restrictions on the free speech of businesses, associations, organized labor and certain advocacy groups with regard to their participation in political campaigns. In response, Grayson said: “This is the worst Supreme Court decision since the Dred Scott case.”

In the 1857 Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that black Americans who were either slaves or the descendants of slaves could not be, and never had been, U.S. citizens. The decision, formally known as Scott v. Sandford, also invalidated the 1820 Missouri Compromise, which prohibited slavery in portions of U.S. territories in the west. Read more

Hatred Inspired Character Assassination

Don’t Question Al Gore On His “Errors” Or You Might Have Your Microphone Turned Off

The President’s A Liar, Hypocrite, Coward, Intellectually Dishonest And A Sex Addict

I couldn’t say those things if I were a member of Congress on the floor or in chambers, so say the democrats. They’ll show us, that’s for sure.

An Historical moment coming from the halls of Congress.

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one political party to dissolve the political party of another which have connected them with sane and rational discourse and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of the democrats and of Nature’s God entitle them, a disrespect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare certain words and phrases unusable which impel them to the separation with the rest of society, due to elitism, narcissism and ignorance. Read more

Our State-Run Media

I always used to snicker a bit when I heard Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck refer to our mainstream media as being our state-run media. No more snickering. It’s true, at least in the sense of how it is being run. In communist countries the government always ran the media outlets and only provided information to the people that government wanted them to know.

In this country we refer to such blatant biased media as being “in the tank” or “kool-aid drinkers”, etc. We can’t say that our media is directly owned and operated by the government, yet, but the effect is the same. Right now we still have talk radio and the Internet where people who want to know the truth can go and get the truth. But it requires work. Read more

Beck And Rush On Obama

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