Alan Grayson: "Fox News Is Attacking Me"

[red dog 1]

Saturday, January 8, 2014
I've signed up for e-mail alerts from Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FLA)
I got one today at 12;48 PM, and it's a little long, but I hope that Skinner will allow it.

"Fox News Is Attacking Me..They Want me Out Of Congress and They Want It bad
Some background...A while back, two peace groups called "Reprieve" and "Code Pink" organized a briefing on Capital Hill regarding the consequences of drone warfare.
The participants included innocent drone attack victims from Yeman.
(Maybe you didn't realize that we are at war in Yemen .According to The Guardian our drone attacks in Yemen killed over 500 people in 2012, and almost 300 in 2013)
Fox News didn't report on the drone death figures in Yemen, because the military-industrial-complex wouldn't like that.
Nor did Fox News report on the dozens of innocent children who have been killed in those attacks.
Nor did Fox news report on the bold efforts by Reprieve, Code Pink and allied organizations to inform the public about these awful acts of war.
Which, according to Fox News means that I pal around with terrorists.
Say what?

I think you know what I'm talking about.
In 2008, Fox News incessantly dropped garbage on candidate Barack Obama's head, because Obama had once been in the living room of Bill Ayers, and 40 years ago, Ayers helped to fund the Weather Underground.
Muttonhead Sarah Palin chimed in, accusing candidate Obama of palling around with terrorists.
Pretty thin gruel, right?..But Fox News didn't think so, and now Fox News is doing the same hit on me.
Here is Fox News' malicious expose against me.

The peace organization Reprieve invited someone named Mohammed Al Ahmady to the briefing.
I didn't invite him, Reprieve did...But what if I had invited him, wonders Fox News?
Mohammed Al Ahmady is a member of a human rights group called Al Karama.
Al Karama is not a terrorist organization..Al Karama works with the United Nations and
Human Rights Watch...If anything, it's a non-terrorist organization..But what if Al Karama were a terrorist organization, wonders Fox News?
One of the leaders of Al Karama is named Abdul Rahman Naimi..At the time of the Yemen drone briefing, he had no known connection to terrorists or terrorism.
But what if he had, wonders Fox News?
So here is the scandal, according to Fox News..I didn't invite someone who wasn't a terrorist,
to a briefing that he didn't show up for.
Oh, but you see, the person who I didn't invite, and never met, and who isn't a terrorist- he belongs to an organization one of whose leaders subsequently was charged with providing funding to a terrorist group...You see?.You see?...Now you know why I call Fox News Monty Python's Lying Circus...This is how Fox News spun it.,that I attended a briefing on the effects of drone strikes in Yemen that almost included someone from an organization whose leader has ties to Al Qaeda...Almost...Well, by that logic, a horse is almost a horseshoe, A straw is almost a strawberry.And Fox news is almost a news organization.
I told Fox News.This is guilt by non-association..I have as much in common with Al Karama as with Kevin bacon...Doesn't matter - not to Fox news...As far as Fox News is concerned, I'm palling around with terrorists.
Look, Fox News put this nonsense on it's 6 PM news report, which has over 2 million viewers.
Grayson is Bad -- that's what the right-wing bullhorn is blasting out today
Roger Ailes, the head of Fox news, knows how to play the game.
He is trying to drag my name through the mud, so that some right-wing foe can beat me in November.
I feel like saying to Fox News just what Joe Welch said to Sen. Joseph McCarthy in 1954:
'Have you no sense of decency, sir?..At long last, have you no sense of decency?"
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[Sunlei]

1. fox is just an arm of the republican party. constant, 24/7, media whores of the RW

I think by now everyone knows fox lies for their lover$$

[bvar22]

2. Always a Rec for Alan Grayson.

Both Grayson and Warren remind me of the DEMOCRATS that I loved in the 60s & 70s.
Not too many of them left these days.


[font color=firebrick][center]"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone [/font][/center] [center] [/font]
[font size=1]photo by bvar22
Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed[/center][/font]

[red dog 1]

3. "Not too many of them left these days" is right!

Grayson & Warren remind me of the Dems from the '60s & '70s too.

I love that Paul Wellstone quote also.

Just days before his plane crashed, Cheney warned Wellstone that there would be "severe repercussions' for his not supporting the Iraq War bill

There is no doubt in my mind that Dick Cheney ordered his murder via plane crash

[debunkthis]

5. It wouldn't be the only blood

on that bastards hands!

[Cal33]

4. I realize that the news media are 90% Repblican-owned. This makes things difficult to fight

back. What can Democrats do? Compete with the Republicans in buying media, and
not rest until we own at least 50%?

I sure wish more Democrats in Congress would speak up the way Warren, Sanders, Waxman
and you do. Point out their failures and kick their butts!

[red dog 1]

7. In the 2012 Presidential campaign, the largest donation to a Democrat PAC

...was Telecom's Irwin Jacobs, who gave $2 million to Priorities USA.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002995144/

Also, "Priorities received $1 million each from Chicago media mogul Fred Eychaner and actor
Morgan Freeman.
Billionaire Jon Stryker gave $750,000 to Priorities.
Billionaire media entrepreneur Haim Saban gave $333,333


I wish these billionaires that support Democrats would buy or start syndicated radio networks like
Clearchannel, so we could hear again what we used to hear on "Air America"

In San Francisco, for example, Green 960, which used to have progressives like Stephanie Miller, Randi Rhodes, Thom Hartmann & Norman Goldman, now only have the right-wing hacks like Limbaugh & Hannity.

I'm sure that, if done right, a nationwide progressive radio network could be profitable for any billionaire who might care to start one.

The same is true for syndicated television networks, if progressive billionaires chose to buy or start one

[Cal33]

8. How could one persuade the billionaires to do so? Would writing them en masse do so?

[red dog 1]

9. "Writing them en masse" is not a bad idea.

How would one start such a "campaign"?

I have very limited computer skills, so I would not be the best one to get such a "writing them en masse" campaign started.

Perhaps other DUers, especially those with advanced computer skills,
could launch an "en masse e-mail campaign to progressive billionaires asking them to start new syndicated progressive radio and TV networks"?

Green 960 in San Francisco was very profitable, even when it had Air America, and later, when it was sold to Clearchannel, which allowed Randi, Thom, Stephanie & Rachel to stay.....briefly.

The reason Clearchannel fired the progressives had nothing to do with profit making or ratings.

It was a purely political move on Clearchannel's part.

[L0oniX]

6. He must be doing something right.

[SmittynMo]

10. Dear Alan

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No one should be surprised by FAUX news doing this. The GOP hates everything good you stand for. They did it years ago, and they're at it again. They are relentless in their attempts to destroy this country, and all the good hearted Americans that want the right things done for everyone, not the 1%.

Screw them!!!

I say, fight fire with fire.

You go Alan!!!! We love ya man

[red dog 1]

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