Dick Morris offers a critical review of Obama's latest attack on the free press. You need to know . . . . .

Editor's notes: here are the opening remarks taken from an editorial by Dick Morris, Bill Clinton's one time campaign manager. Understand that Obama is an anti-free speech capitalized (having to do with money) Marxist. He hates opposition and is quite "thinned skinned" in the face of its occurrence. After 17 months acting as president, he knows who his friends are in the media and which of the media is willing to give him a critical review. It is his intention to limit the effects of the critical media and his third attack on the free and critical press will be through the regulatory power of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). His second line of offense was the regulatory process of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). A Federal court of appeals ruled against this strategy earlier this year. Let's not forget that the "fairness doctrine" and its identical twin, "net neutrality," were part of Obama's original [first] strategy to shut down free political speech in this country. Even with super majorities in both houses of congress, this Marxist plan, ala Hugo Chavez, did not capture a majority opinion in congress and appears to be dead, as well.

What is left, is a legislative effort to "bail out" the financially troubled m edia (CNN, the Boston Globe, the New York Times etc.) in exchange for favors and the power of continued biased reporting. Morris details the players in this fourth effort and reviews the weaknesses of the Obama plan. Ultimately, Obama has his evil eye set on limiting the influence of FoxNews, Rush Limbaugh, Drudge, RAsmussen Reports and on and on.

By Dick Morris - 06/15/10

Jon Leibowitz, the chairman of Obama’s Federal Trade Commission, is at the epicenter of a quiet movement to subsidize news organizations, a first step toward government control of the media. In our book, 2010: Take Back America — A Battle Plan, we reported that he had commissioned a study to examine plans for a federal subsidy for news organizations. Among the measures under consideration are special tax treatment, exemption from antitrust laws and changes in copyright laws.

Now Leibowitz has begun to pounce. A May 24 working paper on “reinventing” the media proposes that the government impose fees on websites such as the Drudge Report that link to news websites or that it tax consumer electronics such as iPads, laptops and Kindles. Funds raised by these levies would be redistributed to traditional media outlets. . . . . . .Once such a subsidy is extended to news organizations, every company in the business must have it. Otherwise, the competitive advantage for the subsidized companies would prove too steep an obstacle to overcome. read the full article at The Hill.

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