George Soros pumps in the dollars, and a media conference is born.

Accuracy in Media has its own report on how the moonbats argue for more government “control” in the media, “equal time,” and much more…including remarks by Tennessee’s newly elected Congressman Steve Cohen:

At the same time, Kincaid noted that one conference speaker, freshman Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), pledged to protect or even increase taxpayer funding for public broadcasting that he admits is on the “left hand side of the dial.”

And this:

Less than two weeks after Democrats took control of both houses of Congress, Accuracy in Media has exposed a plan by congressional liberals to use the federal government to silence conservative voices in the media.

Reporting from a so-called National Conference on Media Reform, organized by “progressive” activists, AIM editor Cliff Kincaid has revealed, in an exclusive report now available on the AIM web site (www.aim.org), that liberals in the House and Senate intend to push legislation giving the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) the authority to monitor and restrict what conservatives in the media say and how they say it. Kincaid quotes Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) as saying that he wants to put an end to the influence of conservative media personalities he finds to be “neo-fascist” and “neo-con.” Their legislative vehicle is revival of a “fairness doctrine” giving FCC bureaucrats the ability to grant liberal activists “equal access” to conservative programs on radio and television. Senator Bernie Sanders, an avowed socialist, told the conference he would push such a measure in the Senate.

Kincaid calls the approach “authoritarian” and a threat to freedom of speech in the U.S.

You can access Kincaid’s report here. It is a great read, with stuff like this from the Memphis Conference:

The Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), which opposes the Chinese communist government as too capitalist, was one of the official exhibitors. Also on hand, displaying banners calling for the impeachment of President Bush, was the so-called 9/11 truth movement, which holds that Muslims were blamed for the 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon when U.S. officials actually carried them out.

Other exhibitors included the Newspaper Guild, Consumers Union, Mother Jones magazine, Pacifica Radio, and Amy Goodman, host of “Democracy Now.”

Why is it that people who call themselves LIBERAL actually want more government control?

There’s more golden nuggets too in the report, like this:

Sanders, who votes with the Democrats in the Senate despite his official status as an independent socialist, claimed conservatives were 99 percent in control of talk radio and that it was time “to open the question of the fairness doctrine again” to restrict what they say and how they say it.

He faulted the media for covering two sides of the global warming debate “when there is no debate in the scientific community.”

Hmmm. No debate in the scientific community?

Don’t forget to check out Tennessee’s own Mick Wright and his report on the Marxists in Memphis.

UPDATE: Bill Hobbs has a write up with a good excerpt from a Democrat blogger, as well as this link to Mick’s Part II on the Media Conference.  Hobbs writes:

…media blogger Richard Thompson, a Democrat and journalist, who wrote at his thoughtful MediaVerse blog:

The NCMR says its non-partisan but it isn’t.

This conference has been a pseudo-Democratic convention, complete with a party presidential hopeful dropping in for a “surprise” appearance. (Do you think I’m that gullible?) I’m a lifelong Democrat, but as a journalist I can step outside of that allegiance because at times it’s necessary for the sake of credibility.