At least according to Mark Cooper who should know. Marc worked at Pacifica’s KPFK doing a drive time show from 1998 - 2001.

You have to read the post. It is a fantastic insiders look and critique of the moonbat left, and the communists who run KPFK by intimidating and slandering anyone who differs with their written in stone ideology or crazy conspiracy theories.

The best part is how Marc’s post could be applied to the Democratic Party as a whole which is controlled today by the Pacifica / Moveon / Daily Kos crowd.

Like his opening line:

Everything in me screams to NOT write this posting. It’s just not worth the pain such endeavors normally evoke. When I’ve done it before, I’ve been slandered, muddied, slashed, booed down, accused of everything short of being Jack Abramoff’s secret lover.

Now couldn’t that apply to anyone like me for instance who tried to critisize his own party?

Yes It could I know first hand because these kind of statements have been directed at me since starting this blog.

How about this one?

But what catches the eye is how Guma – who will now oversee the five stations—has written with enthusiasm about truly off-kilter conspiracy theorists like David Ray Griffin who argue that 9/11 was NOT caused by the four Al Qaeda—commandeered planes. Instead, Guma asks us to take seriously the proposition that the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were the product of a Reichstag-like plot engineered by the Bush Administration.

Ahh didn’t Howard Dean the Democratic Party Chair entertain the theory that Bush knew about 9/11 before hand?

Marc follows up with:

The Bushies may be liars but that is no reason to lie to ourselves and swoon over preposterous conspiracy theories.

Thats great advice Marc maybe you can get that memo to Howard Dean. He doesn’t take my emails or calls.

It gets better:

To be frank, for those of us who actually pay some attention to this matter, the selection of a non-credible fringie like Guma is hardly a surprise. Pacifica has been in accelerating decline for two decades

Substitute “Democratic Party” for “Pacifica” and you might just be able to save the party Marc! I am with you 100%

I quit when an extreme know-nothing faction who believed that I and others were engaged in a dark “corporatist” conspiracy to -gasp!- “mainstream” the programming took over the entire organization.

Kinda like all of us 9/11 Dems who voted for Gore in 2000 but really had no choice but to vote for GWB in 2004.

the network’s growth – its real listenership– stunted and atrophied a long time ago.

Again just change the wording a little bit to “the Democratic Party’s growth Its real base stunted and atrophied a long time ago. And you have nailed it Marc!

White guilt, and a veritable PC-cult that permeates the internal Pacifica culture, has constrained the network from turning that station into what it ought to be

Hello you are talking about the party again.

KPFA in Berkeley, whose core paid staff has been the same for 25 years, is but an echo-chamber of its pony-tailed, core community

Now you are talking about the party in California!

When Pacifica was once a magical place that taught you how to think it is now a dreary drumbeat telling you what to think. Its air is filled with shrill, clumsy and dogmatic denunciations of “fascism.”

Yes Marc it is sad indeed.

The program schedule is divvied up among self-appointed “community leaders” and paid staff who – for the most part—could never dream of earning a paycheck from any other media entity in the world. What paid and volunteer programmers have in common is a death-grip on their personal slice of air time. Try to take it away and you became the target of a virulent campaign accusing you of being a sexist, racist, and corporatist nazi.

Am I the only Democrat that sees the uncanny similarity in criticizm here?

The success the current management group had in taking over the organization derives not at all from talent or intelligence but principally from its immeasurable tenacity – a super-human capacity to outlast everyone else in endless rounds of meetings and to shout down its opponents. That, along with a fervent belief that they, alone and against all odds, are saving the world by making sure air time is given to only fellow true-believers who meet some sort of bizarre political litmus test.

Yeah! This is almost as bad as applying a litmus test to SCOTUS nominees! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

Now brace yourself for this one:

I begrudge them nothing. They perform exactly as one would expect. Instead, our recriminations should center on those who know better, or at least, ought to know better. Whether it is in Los Angeles, or New York or Washington, serious, otherwise intelligent liberals and progressives have sat back and quietly watched this half-billion dollar network slowly slip into the sea. In their worst moments, these liberals and lefties have signed onto idiotic crusades aimed at “saving” Pacifica by cleansing it of any trace of nuance, ideological diversity and, for that matter, debate and dialogue. And even in their better moments, these same supposed political grown-ups, even when they can sense that the network is being squandered, and after the umpteenth time that they have heard their local station raise money by pitching crank videos “exposing” 911 as a White House-engineered hoax, they bite their tongues, shrug their shoulders and remain silent lest they be publicly heard criticizing “our own side.”

**Cough*** Michael Moore sitting next to Jimmy Carter at the Democratic National Convention ***Cough*** Harry Belefonte Meeting with Hugo Chavez **** Cough***

Exuse me I had to clear my throat. I had some nasty green stuff stuck in there.

and the coop de gracie:

Well, nice work, folks. The nesting chickies have indeed come home to roost. Your network, as you would have it, is now officially run by someone who thinks we ought to seriously consider that something other than those airplanes took down the towers. Look forward, if you can, to more programming and fund-raising that would be better suited for a UFO cult than for a serious or credible political and cultural opposition. And all at the cost of only a cool half-billion.

or one might say we have squandered any credible position as a national political party.

Again Marc brilliant post! I sincerely hope you think about this one and how it applies to the party as a whole. Maybe they will listen to you. God knows they won’t listen to me.

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