To target Fox News over 'Nazi' label, rabbis make use of Murdoch's other media

[kpete]

Source: Washington Post

By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 26, 2011; 11:40 PM

A coalition of rabbis wants Fox News chief Roger Ailes and conservative host Glenn Beck to cut out all their talk about Nazis and the Holocaust, and it's making its views known in an unusual place.

The rabbis have called on Fox News's owner, Rupert Murdoch, to sanction his two famous employees via a full-page ad in Thursday's editions of the Wall Street Journal - one of many other media properties controlled by Murdoch's News Corp.

The ad is signed by the heads of the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements as well as Orthodox rabbis.

"We share a belief that the Holocaust, of course, can and should be discussed appropriately in the media. But that is not what we have seen at Fox News," says the ad, signed by hundreds of rabbis and placed by the Jewish Funds for Justice, a nonprofit advocacy group. Earlier this month, the group organized a letter-writing campaign asking Murdoch to remove Beck from the air.



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/26/AR2011012607540.html?hpid=topnews

[barbiegeek]

1. Any ideas on how we can help them?

[barbiegeek]

5. If only all the anti-fox groups coordinated

[ProudProgressiveNow]

26. I am goiping to do a video on this.

[wilt the stilt]

2. Beck, O"Reilly and hannitty

are the kids who called me chink, my Jewish friends kikes and my black friends niggers growing up. Make no mistake about that. I gurantee it.

[av8rdave]

4. I don't doubt that a bit

And they need to be called out on their present behavior as so-called adults. I would love to see full page print ads across the country, as well as some well placed TV spots.

[Enthusiast]

9. I get the same impression.

And that goes for the entire 'conservative movement'.

[RoccoR5955]

12. They called me guinea, and wop too! n/t

[ProudProgressiveNow]

24. My god I think you are right'

That's why these people get under my skin by the sight of them. They were the one who called me spick, greaser, taco bender, wetback, and other names I cannot use on a family blog. THANK you for this insight!

[Downwinder]

3. Corporations play both sides.

[Beartracks]

6. "Ooh, controversy! Shiny! We can't take him off the air!"

To big media, that's pretty much it in a nutshell.

And furthermore, to Beck fans and rabid RWers, this kind of controversy is only self-validating. "Hey, he must doing something right if he's getting under somebody's skin! 'They' don't like it when Beck shines the light of truth on them!"

I wish they'd stop and think: "Back in 4th grade, when Billy used to lie about me, call me names, and disparage my family, did the fact that it upset me actually mean... that Billy must have been right?? Of course not!! When my coworkers gossip about me sleeping around, should I agree with them... based on the fact that it pisses me off?? No, that would be stupid!!"

But then, empathy and self-reflection are NOT strong points with these people. As a matter of fact, they've been taught that those are signs of weakness.

P.S. Here's a way to get Beck off the air: have his fans launch a major "Save Beck" campaign. He'll be gone in a couple of months. Right? Hey, it worked, for Olbermann!

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[Mopar151]

10. As to your PS:

An excellent idea - wait til "Lonesome Toad's" fan's gibbering, drooling threats start to be received by Faux news!

[sarcasmo]

7. Exactly, the left right paradigm is used to divide and conquer.

[fascisthunter]

11. corporate media agenda: hate speech=free speech

[Kolesar]

20. & Murdoch makes a $100,000 sale of ad space...eom

[Uncle Joe]

8. So Murdoch's other corporate media entity gets a six figure ad they expect Beck and Ailes

to be punished?:shrug:

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[Turborama]

13. The Guardian - Rabbis warn Rupert Murdoch: Fox News and Glenn Beck 'using' Holocaust

Four hundred rabbis, including the leaders of all the main branches of Judaism in the US, have signed an open letter calling on Rupert Murdoch to sanction the head of Fox News and one of the channel's most famous hosts for frequent inappropriate references to the Nazis and the Holocaust.

The rabbis chose a poignant place to make their protest: they took out an advert costing at least $100,000 in one of Murdoch's own newspapers, the Wall Street Journal. The advert was printed today – the UN-designated Holocaust Remembrance Day.

In the letter, the Jewish coalition calls on Murdoch to take action against Roger Ailes, the bombastic president of Fox News, as well as against Glenn Beck, the channel's most notorious rightwing commentator. "We share a belief that the Holocaust, of course, can and should be discussed appropriately in the media. But that is not what we have seen at Fox News," the letter says. "You diminish the memory and meaning of the Holocaust when you use it to discredit any individual or organisation you disagree with. That is what Fox News has done in recent weeks."

Last November Ailes called executives of the public radio network NPR "Nazis" for having sacked a news analyst, Juan Williams, who also worked for Fox News, after Williams said he felt nervous flying on the same plane as passengers in Muslim dress. Ailes apologised to a Jewish group for the expression, though not to NPR.

Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/27/rabbis-murdoch-fox-glenn-beck-holocaust

[66 dmhlt]

34. "Remembrance and Beyond"

http://www.un.org/en/holocaustremembrance/index.shtml

[jwirr]

14. Good, they are the only ones who can do this in a non-censoring

manner. They are asking for truth not censor.

[MicaelS]

15. This is wonderful...

Let's see Beck attack them for this. I willing to be he steps way over the line when he does.

[era veteran]

16. Right on

Shame the murdoch creature in his own rag.

[femrap]

17. Encouraging. nt

[The Wizard]

18. Glenn bek Laden

is a failed test tube experiment. He looks Aryan, but his doughy physique indicates one testicle.
Murdoch has too much media influence and is an alien fifth column infiltrator determined to use his media megaphone to destroy American democracy and ideals.
Beck and Murdoch pander to America's most ignorant and fearful and easily get them to vote against their own best interests.
The Pox treason network and its terrorist air staff are the greatest threat to democracy and liberty.

[Ken Burch]

19. I'd like to suggest that any liberal guests on Fox

wear yellow stars on their clothing during the broadcasts.

[trud]

21. tough luck

No one must mention the Holocaust, out of respect, but I don't notice the rabbis saying anything about the brutalization of the Palestinians at Israeli hands. I guess human rights are reserved for a few groups, not everyone.

[COLGATE4]

33. Nice try at hijacking the thread but no cigar. Thanks for playing, though.

[trud]

40. yeah, God forbid we talk about ethnic cleansing n/t

[mstinamotorcity]

22. Glen will be talking

smack and will say his Freedom of Speech is Guaranteed under his precious Constitution. And then he will say that God has called him to tell the truth and the Liberals want to work their wonders of evil to silence the only voice that will speak up for American Freedoms and he will tearfully act as if he is being picked on by the Liberal Media. His viewers won't get that his employer is in charge of the Wall Street Journal.

[Buddha2B]

23. I wonder if

this will ramp up his Anti-Semetic conspiracy paranoia?

Methinks the Jewish lobby is just using the 'Nazi' talk as a way to approach this. I'd be more concern with Beck's labeling prominent Jewish folk in some sort of conspiracy.

[bobthedrummer]

25. God bless them, confronting the Nazi influence peddlers headon...

Rupert Murdoch rolls up his sleeves as he confronts phone-hacking scandal by Dan Sabbagh (1-26-11 Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/26/rupert-murdoch-phone-hacking-edmondson-sacked?intcmp=239

Fox News Gives GOP Free Advertising (1-25-11 Steve Horn post PR Watch)
http://www.prwatch.org/node/9893

WikiLeaks: Julian Assange has Rupert Murdoch "insurance files" (active LBN thread started 1-12-11 by sabra)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4693835

[forty6]

27. I really hope this goes somewhere...I really do

But I'd be happier if Beck simply got fired from the network.

That would send a message to the other goons over there.

[demosincebirth]

28. Most, on fox news, would fit nicely within the Nazi propaganda machine. nt

[1American]

29. Bachman and CNN

CNN was not supportive of that whacko! THEY WERE EXPOSING HER IGNORANCE, HER VICIOUSNESS, AND HER SOCIOPATHY.

Fox News just didn't have the balls.

[1American]

30. All the Fox Nuts

I don't have the computer skills, but I would love to see the faces of Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, Palin, Bachman, Angle, Paul all morph into each other.

Anybody out there who can do that and put it on YouTube?

[1American]

31. Another point about Nazis....

In Germany during the 1930's, the Nazi Party was the CONSERVATIVE movement there, much like the Tea Party and the radical evangelical right wing Republicans here.

[Dave From Canada]

32. Are they gonna target Rep. Steve Cohen too?

[mdmc]

35. r

[sasha031]

36. why are these psychopaths called conservatives by the media

[RamboLiberal]

37. Faux Response: Rabbis George Soros backed left-wing political organization

In a statement provided to The Cutline, Joel Cheatwood, senior vice president of development for Fox News, said: "We haven't seen the ad, but this group is a George Soros backed left-wing political organization that has been trying to engage Glenn Beck primarily for publicity purposes."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecutline/20110127/ts_yblog_thecutline/fox-news-responds-to-rabbis-calling-for-sanctions-on-glenn-beck

[Fire1]

38. Oh that's interesting. Why didn't the rabbis join the

crusade with Rev. Sharpton relative to the same issues?! Of course now, something will be done about it for the Jewish community and the people of color will remain fair game. Same ole shit different day.

[saras]

39. One of these centuries...

We'll figure out that controversy bears the same relationship to debate that the Monty Python "Argument Clinic" sketch bears to debate.

"No, we won't."
"Yes, we will."
"Won't."
"Will."
"Won't. Besides, they're not related."
"They are."
"They aren't."
"Are."
"Aren't."
"Are."
"Aren't. And your mother wears Army boots. And she got them from the Gestapo."