>From: "Elijah Zarlin, CREDO Action" <[email protected]> > >Subject: Tell Los Angeles' KRLA: Take Glenn Beck off the air > > >CREDO Action | more than a network. a movement. > > ><http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7092&id=17362-72596-TCLLeUx&t=1>Beck >is off the air in New York and Philadelphia. How about LA? ><http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7092&id=17362-72596-TCLLeUx&t=2>Tell >KRLA: Stop broadcasting Beck's dangerous rhetoric. ><http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7092&id=17362-72596-TCLLeUx&t=3> >Take action! > > >Clicking here will add your name to this petition to KRLA AM 870: > ><http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7093&id=17362-72596-TCLLeUx&t=4>"Glenn >Beck's rhetoric has sparked violent threats and >assassination attempts. By airing it, you risk >promoting another violent tragedy in America, >and Los Angeles. Please, do the responsible >thing, and remove Glenn Beck's dangerous show from your radio lineup." > ><http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7093&id=17362-72596-TCLLeUx&t=7> >Take action now! > > >Dear Michael, > >Glenn Beck's radio show has been dropped from >stations in New York, Philadelphia and just last week, Madison, WI. > >But if you want to hear his violent, paranoid >rants, tune in every weekday from 6 am to 9 am >on Los Angeles' KRLA AM 870 or the 25 other >radio stations in California that broadcast Beck. > >You, and whoever else is listening, will be >treated to the type of rhetoric that, just in >the last year, led Gregory Giusti to threaten to >firebomb Nancy Pelosi's house,1 drove Charlie >Wilson to make repeated death threats to Senator >Patty Murray,2 and inspired Byron Williams to >attempt to assassinate officials at the Tides >Foundation and ACLU. Williams himself says of >Beck "it was the things he exposed that blew my mind."3 > >Beck's radio show is dangerous, inflammatory, >irresponsible. And it doesn't belong on LA's airwaves. > ><http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7093&id=17362-72596-TCLLeUx&t=9>Tell >KRLA AM 870: Stop broadcasting Glenn Beck's >dangerous rhetoric. Click here to automatically sign the petition. > >Beck's television ratings have plummeted in the >last year,4 a promising sign that more and more >people are realizing that Beck's reckless hate, >misinformation, and division don't belong on our airwaves. > >Beck even called his own show "a recipe for >disaster" in a stunning moment of clarity last >week, while issuing a rare apology for his >comparison of Reform Judaism to "radicalized Islam." > >"...here's the thing. I'm on the air for four >hours, every single day. Four hours every day, >live, without a script. That is a recipe for disaster." Glenn Beck, 2/24/115 > >Given his proclivity for incendiary statements, >we couldn't agree more. Already this year, Beck >has repeatedly equated "Nazi tactics" with >"progressive tactics,"6 spouted deranged >theories about how the uprising in Egypt, and >the protests in Wisconsin, are evidence of the >coming "new world order" of progressives,7 and >ramped up his lies and rhetoric about Frances >Fox Piven, the 78-year-old Professor and civil >rights activist that Beck has falsely accused of >advocating violence. Even after numerous death >threats to Piven were posted on Beck's website, he refused to back off.8 > >While Beck certainly has a right to have a show, >KRLA doesn't have to broadcast it. In choosing >to do so, they are choosing to amplify Beck's >violent message and the risks that come with it. > >The larger the audience of people who can be >exposed to his violent, paranoid, anti-semitic, >hate-mongering, the more dangerous it is. KRLA >should do the responsible thing and stop >promoting Beck's rhetoric in Los Angeles. > ><http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7093&id=17362-72596-TCLLeUx&t=10>Tell >KRLA: Take Beck's dangerous rhetoric off LA's >airwaves. Click here to automatically sign the petition. > >Elijah Zarlin, Campaign Manager ><http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=11&id=17362-72596-TCLLeUx&t=11>CREDO >Action from Working Assets > > >1. >"<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7094&id=17362-72596-TCLLeUx&t=12>Following >Fox's violent rhetoric, mother blames network >for son's alleged Pelosi threats," Media Matters, April 7th, 2010 >2. >"<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7034&id=17362-72596-TCLLeUx&t=13>Relative: >Man convicted of threatening Sen. Murray was >inspired by Beck," Media Matters, October 28th, 2010 >3. >"<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7095&id=17362-72596-TCLLeUx&t=14>Jailhouse >Confession: How the right-wing media and Glenn >Beck's chalkboard drove Byron Williams to plot >assassination," Media Matters, October 11, 2010 >4. >"<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7036&id=17362-72596-TCLLeUx&t=15>Glenn >Beck Limps Into 2011 With Falling Ratings," Media Matters, January 27th, 2011 >5. >"<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7211&id=17362-72596-TCLLeUx&t=16>Glenn >Beck Apologizes For Slandering Reform Jews," Media Matters, February 24th, 2011 >6. >"<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7096&id=17362-72596-TCLLeUx&t=17>Beck: >'Nazi Tactics Are Progressive Tactics'," Media Matters, January 20th, 2011 >7. >"<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7215&id=17362-72596-TCLLeUx&t=18>Beck's >Latest Evidence Of Coming New World Order: >Protesters in India, Egypt, And Wisconsin All >Wave Red Flags," Media Matters, February 24th, 2011 >8. >"<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7037&id=17362-72596-TCLLeUx&t=19>After >Piven Received Death Threats, Beck Continues To >Vilify Her," Media Matters, February 3rd, 2011
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