FCC "Survey" Straight From Podesta's Playbook

◼ Last week, after Republicans in Congress attacked the program, the FCC announced it would be suspending a proposed pilot study in Columbia, South Carolina, that would have required television and radio stations to tell the government how they make editorial decisions in newsrooms. -  - Conn Carroll/Washington Examiner @conncarroll

"Any suggestion that the FCC intends to regulate the speech of news media or plans to put monitors in America's newsrooms is false," an FCC spokesman told reporters.

But that is not quite true, as The Washington Examiner's Byron York reports today.

...CAP (The Orwellian named "Center for American Progress") recommended the FCC, "Require radio broadcast licensees to regularly show that they are operating on behalf of the public interest and provide public documentation and viewing of how they are meeting these obligations."

Conservatives have every reason to believe Obama is out to silence them. Clyburn and the FCC are just implementing a plan Obama's new advisor Podesta drew up years ago to do just that.

◼ What was the FCC newsroom 'survey' really about? - Byron York/Washington Examiner @ByronYork

◼ The disintegration of the First Amendment Rick Manning/Net Right Daily

...The Labor Department and the National Labor Relations Board are seeking to tilt the scales toward Big Labor by forcing union elections as quickly as ten days after a union calls for them, and effectively denying a company advice on what can be legally said to their employees and how they can say it.

In Wisconsin, conservative supporters of Governor Scott Walker have had their homes raided by a local prosecutor who doubles as an ardent opponent of Walker’s in a blatant legal attack on these citizens ability to participate in the political process. The simple fact that this Gestapo-like tactic can occur in a state that was the cradle of the original progressive movement which opened politics to public participation is particularly chilling.

The aforementioned FCC is also actively seeking to control content that Internet Service Providers allow to filter through to Internet users through benign sounding net neutrality rules. This extension of government power over Internet content, no matter the stated purpose, necessitates monitoring and bureaucratic judgment over whether ISP providers are complying — effectively giving government veto authority over this democratizing speech vehicle.

We know that Obama’s Department of Justice has wiretapped AP reporters phones in an attempt to break constitutionally protected source confidentiality...