CEO of Fox News personally intervenes to block it from airing ad for anti-Nazi documentary.

[DetlefK]

https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/fox-news-bans-ad-for-documentary-about-american-nazi-ra-1832616819

Fox News has refused to air an ad for the short documentary film A Night at the Garden, according to a new report from the Hollywood Reporter.

The 7-minute movie, which was recently nominated for an Academy Award, explores the terrifying day on February 20, 1939 when thousands of American Nazis held a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York. The CEO of Fox News reportedly claims that an ad for the anti-Nazi movie is “not appropriate for our air.”

...

“It’s amazing to me that the C.E.O. of Fox News would personally inject herself into a small ad buy just to make sure that Hannity viewers weren’t exposed to this chapter of American history,” the film’s director told the Hollywood Reporter in a statement.

People might see footage of a Nazi-rally that was held in 1939 NY and compare the speeches and slogans to contemporary rallies...

[malaise]

1. Wasn't the Con's father at that rally? n/t

[riversedge]

33. um..

[malaise]

40. Looks like his arrest at a KKK rally was earlier

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/charlottesville-latest-donald-trump-father-fred-arrested-ku-klux-klan-kkk-rally-riot-queens-new-york-a7891701.html
<snip>
But this incident also brings to mind another report, unearthed in September by the technology blog Boing Boing.

On Memorial Day 1927, brawls erupted in New York led by sympathisers of the Italian fascist movement and the Ku Klux Klan. In the fascist brawl, which took place in the Bronx, two Italian men were killed by anti-fascists. In Queens, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighbourhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested.

[dchill]

62. SOMEBODY's nervous, that's for sure.

[marmar]

2. Clearly they don't want to offend their Nazi sympathizing viewership.

[luvtheGWN]

28. Well, that tells you all you really need to know

about Fox News, doesn't it? I hope other media pick this up and run with it. In fact, I hope other media run the ad OFTEN.

[defacto7]

31. +1

[The Genealogist]

3. We can't have the deplorables seeing the comparisons to Trump's hate rallies, now can we?

Perhaps a few of them might just realize what is truly going on and withdraw their support. I doubt most of them would care, but who knows.

[rampartc]

4. "dictators playbook" on pbs

these are the entire shows. i've watched franco, and mussolini. it is obvious that trump aspires to be our "el duce." (or perhaps trump is the front man for a cabal.) at some point his followers will openly kill anyone they cant buy or intimidate.

https://www.pbs.org/video/benito-mussolini-pluih0/

[bdamomma]

7. thank you

nt.

[volstork]

17. I would LOVE

to see him end up like Mussolini.

[rampartc]

26. or perhaps he could repent and retire to a monestary

i really don't care, as long as he does "end up." and soon.

at spme point, i'm afraid, his cultists will have to be dealt with harshly.

[bdamomma]

50. His cultists

will lash out at innocent people or may cause trouble for journalists or politicians. For example pipe bombs.

[rampartc]

57. these deplorables have been a problem for a long time

and i don't figure it to end on its own.

[defacto7]

39. I think tRump has the potential to be worse than

Mussolini. At least el duce was reasonably intelligent and was politically capable. tRump is neither but definitely has all the fascist machinations.

[rampartc]

44. mussolini, hitler,and franco had all served in war

they at least knew the consequences of their orders. trump may be "smarter than the generals," but i doubt many generals are among his "true believers."

[smb]

45. True

As contemptible as they were in a plethora of other ways, they didn't offer lame bone-spur excuses to save their own sorry skins.

[bdamomma]

5. Yes he was

here is an article pertaining to his father.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/charlottesville-latest-donald-trump-father-fred-arrested-ku-klux-klan-kkk-rally-riot-queens-new-york-a7891701.html

a snip of the article:

The predication for the Klan to march, according to a flier passed around Jamaica beforehand, was that “Native-born Protestant Americans” were being “assaulted by Roman Catholic police of New York City.” “Liberty and Democracy have been trampled upon,” it continued, “when native-born Protestant Americans dare to organise to protect one flag, the American flag; one school, the public school; and one language, the English language.”

It's not clear from the context what role Fred Trump played in the brawl. The news article simply notes that seven men were arrested in the “near-riot of the parade,” all of whom were represented by the same lawyers. Update: A contemporaneous article from the Daily Star notes that Trump was detained “on a charge of refusing to disperse from a parade when ordered to do so.”

When news of the old report surfaced last year, Donald Trump vehemently denied his father's arrest. “He was never arrested. He has nothing to do with this. This never happened. This is nonsense and it never happened,” he said to the Daily Mail. “This never happened. Never took place. He was never arrested, never convicted, never even charged. It's a completely false, ridiculous story. He was never there! It never happened. Never took place.”

[jcgoldie]

6. That last paragraph Trump quote just WOW

Dost protest too much?

[bdamomma]

8. I'm sorry I thought I deleted that.

Is that what you think too? I was thinking about ending it like that.

[smb]

46. Like Father, Like Son

"It's a completely false, ridiculous story. He was never there! It never happened. Never took place."

Hoax! Fake News! Witch Hunt!

[volstork]

19. I'm sure there has to be

a record of his arrest. I’m equally sure trump is lying.

[SCantiGOP]

20. I think I have read before

That the best evidence is that he was held briefly with a group of people at the site but the decision was made not to arrest any of them, but to order them to disperse.
So there may be a mention or two of him in contemporary media accounts but no official record.

[calimary]

43. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. from The Hollywood Reporter

Fox News Rejects National Ad for Oscar-Nominated Anti-Nazi Documentary (Exclusive)

3:05 PM PST 2/13/2019 by Jeremy Barr

[ ... ]

Cable networks like Fox News do not oversee locally bought ads but can reject national advertising spots. In August 2017, CNN declined to run a paid advertisement from the Trump re-election campaign because it portrayed some of the network's news personalities as "enemies" of the president, a decision the campaign decried as censorship.

"The film shines a light on a time when thousands of Americans fell under the spell of a demagogue who attacked the press and scapegoated minorities using the symbols of American patriotism," Night at the Garden director Marshall Curry said in a statement to THR.

He added, "It’s amazing to me that the CEO of Fox News would personally inject herself into a small ad buy just to make sure that Hannity viewers weren’t exposed to this chapter of American history.”

To fulfill Monday's aborted local ad buy, the documentary's ad will run during Thursday night's episode of Hannity in Los Angeles, through Charter. The film's backers also plan to advertise on other national cable news networks.

[ ... ]

[sarcasmo]

10. The GOP and Fox loves Russia because they hate the same groups.

[Cartoonist]

11. How hard can it be to say Nazis are bad?

I love that line from Obama.

[Johnny2X2X]

12. The Right has a big lie about the Nazis

They push that Nazis were somehow leftists. I know, that's completely far fetched and insane to anyone who's ever read a shred of history. But the Nationalist Socialist Party tag is all they need to push this lie and have it believed.

And any, even cursory, look at Nazis shows how the language they used was identical to the language Trump uses.

Those who do not accept and learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

[keithbvadu2]

18. Trump card... Wow! Prescient... Nostradamus type stuff.

Trump card...

Wow! Prescient... Nostradamus type stuff.

[kwolf68]

61. The biggest argument...

against those who say Nazis were leftist is to ask

-Was there a socialist party in Germany in the early 1930s? YES

What happened to it?
The Nazis banned it and killed many leftists. Others who would eventually be killed (other than Jews of course) other than political Liberals were the handicapped, homosexuals, etc.

"National Socialism" was not about socialism, rather Nationalism, although the early works of NSDAP thinker Strasser did support some "socialistic" principles, such as full employment (a staple of Marxism). However, it quickly morphed from a Nationalistic ideology with some egalitarian principles to one where government and industry "collaborated" and Nazi focus then shifted more toward imperialism, genocide and societal cleansing.

We are in the early stages of fascism now. How far will it go?

[Pachamama]

13. Nazi's in America? No way....not possible....

[czarjak]

64. And racism is dead too!

[VOX]

14. Fox shows its true colors: a bunch of crooked black sticks in a white disk on a blood-red field.

I cannot for the life of me remember what that flag is and what it represents.

[jodymarie aimee]

15. Maybe I am slow this AM

but I had a hard time getting thru the title...too many negatives in one sentence to decipher!! Confusing, but got it now...

[Garrett78]

21. There's no greater threat to the Republican Party than anti-racism and anti-sexism.

Right wing viability is wholly dependent upon racism and sexism. It's not right wing economic policy or right wing health care policy or right wing environmental policy that maintains support for the Republican Party. It's racism and sexism.

And the last thing they want to face is a diverse and youthful ticket in 2020. The contrast of Harris-O'Rourke with Trump-Pence could hardly be more stark and would result in record-breaking turnout for Dems.

[Bradshaw3]

38. Questionable, based on voting patterns and the electoral college

There's no evidence that younger voters will carry the day; they haven't voted in the past like you describe and having those two candidates changing things may just be wishful thinking. Fact is, the upper midwest will again be the battleground and you have to win MI, WI and PA towin the electoral college. Of all the announced candidates I think Harris has the hardest time doing that and is in fact the candidate they want to face.

Also, as 2016 showed, winning the popular vote doesn't matter. Winning the electoral college is what it is about.

[Garrett78]

42. While Beto would boost youth turnout, it's persons of color who would be difference-makers.

Just as in 2018 when Black voters, particularly Black women, were key in so many races.

PA and MI were blue in 6 of the last 7 presidential elections. WI was blue in 7 of the last 8 presidential elections. In 2016, Trump had newness and Comey's announcement going for him. And Clinton had faced 25 years of hate. Those won't be factors in 2020.

Harris-O'Rourke would force Republicans to spend more resources in NC, GA, AZ, TX, etc.

And "change" is always a big motivator for the US electorate, especially when the incumbent is despised. Greater contrast with the incumbent ticket will pay dividends.

[Bradshaw3]

47. It was white suburban women who made the difference in 2018

They made the difference in 2018:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/7/18064260/midterm-elections-turnout-women-trump-exit-polls

and

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-gops-deficit-with-suburban-women-starts-at-the-white-house/2018/11/13/e453fa60-e768-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.fc98685a5a87

Your reasons are all hopes, not facts. There will be voter suppression and meddling again in 2020. Dems have to nominate a candidate who is much more likely - by margins wide enough to counteract the repub tactics - to return the upper midwest to blue status, not just in theory but based on demographic voting patterns.

And remember, tRump may not be the nominee in 2020. Kasich would be hard to beat in the upper midwest by the ticket you suggest.

[Garrett78]

49. Kasich would get destroyed. As for your links...

...they don't dispute what I'm saying, they enhance what I'm saying. And here are 2 more links:

https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/the-blue-wave-was-propelled-by-black-voters-survey-finds

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-12-17/black-voters-lead-a-democratic-surge

[Hortensis]

22. Would be surprising if he did not intervene.

Would be surprising if he did not intervene.

The meme that it was not appropriate to compare the right to fascists in every political conversation turned out to be very short-lived. But he’s fighting for it anyway.

[mia]

23. A Night at the Garden (film)

https://vimeo.com/237489146

[RoBear]

27. OMFG!

It's the model for tRump rallies!

AMERICA! WAKE THE FUCK UP...NOW!!!

[rurallib]

29. If this hasn't been posted as an OP yet, it would be nice if you would

Jeez, that was eerily similar to what is happening today. Almost frightening.

[mia]

30. Here's a link to an OP

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211818750

[rurallib]

35. thanks so much to those who hearted me

[bdamomma]

52. OMG

I feel sick really how can be people be so twisted.

[Mr. Sparkle]

24. Its a bit to close to the bone for Rupert Murdoch.

He is worried some of his viewers will wake up and smell the coffee.

[IronLionZion]

25. We can't erase history!

so the only thing left to do is build Nazi statues (just like Confederate statues) because F the history books and documentaries and close the libraries and cut funding for education. We get all the history education we need from looking at statues in parks and naming things after people.

[backscatter712]

32. If any of you can get past this asshole's bodyguards and security, PUNCH HIM!

[donkeypoofed]

34. My 1st thought was that they didn't want to advertise hate & nazis!

How silly of me !

[lark]

36. drumpf's dad was part of it, I bet.

This wasn't a small whim, it's the drumpf protection racket once again kicking into gear.

[atreides1]

53. Probably not

The Trump family claimed to have been from Sweden, this made it easier for Fred Senior to go after those US government housing contracts!

[lark]

54. They were German and his grandfather was a Nazi.

His father was a KKK man and got arrested at a KKK riot in NYC.

[Gothmog]

37. Nazis are a major part of the fox audience

[JHB]

41. FOX likes to play the "Nazis were socialist lefties" card...

...and a short film showing English-speaking Nazis who look, act, and respond to the same rhetoric as the FOX audience might be off-message.

[muntrv]

48. Can't lose that base.

[shanny]

51. So: pro-Nazi. Check.

Hang that around the neck of Fux like an anchor (only a few might get it but any would be an improvement).

[colsohlibgal]

55. A Pox On Fox News

They have done, along with Limbaugh, incalculable damage to this Country. Maybe a narcissistic, brain damaged egotistical right winger like that Orange Creep was inevitable. It is so worrisome. As Creepy and damaged as Nixon was he was at least mostly competent acting in public.

Jeff Lynne and ELO anticipated what was coming pretty well in their early 80s release “Time”.

[ooky]

56. Obviously because of its haunting resemblance to Trump rallies.

Redhats instead of swastikas everything else pretty much the same shtick.

[SunSeeker]

58. K & R for exposure.

[JAD]

59. That is Anti-Semitic if you can't show an anti-nazi film

The CEO of Fox News is anti-Semitic.

[calimary]

60. Welcome to DU, JAD!

I noticed nobody identifies her by name - the CEO of Pox Noise. Gonna have to look it up.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

63. Reason why: Fox's goal is to pretend all is normal

Fox is trying to prevent America from recognizing the national emergency in our midst. Because if they can convince the country all is normal, they can keep rolling back government protections and keep stuffing the courts with unqualified rightwing judges.

[Cha]

65. That CEO is Busted. he knows 1939

Nazism is akin to what Puppetrump is trying to whip up NOW.

And, he doesn't give a fooking Shite.

[DFW]

66. Fox is probably scared their viewers will find the rally so inspiring

They will want to stage a repeat with Trump and Hannity as the featured speakers, and then get a little riled when three thousand show up with Maga hats and Swastika armbands.

[KayF]

67. change the name to "Good people on both sides"

then they'd run it because it's fair and balanced.