Is Mark Lloyd the new Van Jones? Jones was Barack Obama’s “Green Jobs Czar” who was forced out after, among other things, it was revealed that he was a “truther.” Turns out, he’d signed a petition which alleged that the Bush administration had prior knowledge of the 9/11 terror attacks.
Well, there’s yet another wacko in the Obama administration. Mark Lloyd is President Obama’s “Diversity Czar” at the Federal Communications Commission, a fellow who has decidedly questionable views.
This gentleman has spoken about having white media executives step down out of deference to minorities; called what’s going on inside of Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela “” title=”2007 study”> 2007 study for the ultra-liberal Center for American Progress which examined what they called the “structural imbalance of talk radio.” In media interviews, Lloyd has whined incessantly about how 91 percent of talk radio is controlled by conservatives. But so what?
As a former radio talk show host, I knew that my show would live or die based only on ratings. It was the marketplace of ideas that would determine my fate. Lloyd seems to have little understanding of this.
The liberal answer to conservative talk radio, Air America, was launched in 2004. By 2006 it was bankrupt. Why? Listeners quickly labeled it boring and humor-less. Now re-named Air America media, and with new owners, listeners still find the station boring and humorless and it struggles to attract listeners.
Will Obama’s Diversity Czar follow Van Jones into oblivion? Only time will tell. Stay tuned.
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