>From one of Glenn Beck's followers:
>Original-recipient: rfc822;[email protected] >From: [email protected] >Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:23:21 -0400 (EDT) >Subject: [MCM] Say NO to FOX News, and Glenn Beck! >To: [email protected] >X-AOL-IP: 205.188.169.199 > >It's too bad you are not a patriot instead of >being a good candidate to live in the old Soviet >Union. Glenn Beck is presenting truth and you >people can't stand to let him have a free stage >to present truth. You promote intolerant >marxism hatred and you people need to be >silenced. You will be silenced but it will be >by the public provided they have an opportunity >to hear the truth. Media Matters.... meaning >media control of propaganda. Get a life! > >Return-Path: <[email protected]> >Received: from rly-dc05.mx.aol.com >(rly-dc05.mail.aol.com [172.19.136.34]) by >air-dc04.mail.aol.com (v123.4) with ESMTP id >MAILINDC043-b2449e5e5b1270; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 >09:48:53 -0400 >Received: from col0-omc2-s8.col0.hotmail.com >(col0-omc2-s8.col0.hotmail.com [65.55.34.82]) by >rly-dc05.mx.aol.com (v123.4) with ESMTP id >MAILRELAYINDC058-b2449e5e5b1270; Wed, 15 Apr >2009 09:48:33 -0400 >Received: from COL101-DS16 ([65.55.34.72]) by >col0-omc2-s8.col0.hotmail.com with Microsoft >SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); > Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:48:33 -0700 >X-Originating-IP: [71.38.101.118] >X-Originating-Email: [[email protected]] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >From: "ALAN ENGLAND" <[email protected]> >To: "1 Bert Nieman at CS" <[email protected]> >Subject: Fw: [MCM] Say NO to FOX News, and Glenn Beck! >Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:48:26 -0700 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----=_NextPart_000_1C14_01C9BD96.2DB10610" >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: MSN 9 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By MSN MimeOLE V9.60.0053.2200 >Seal-Send-Time: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:48:26 -0700 >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Apr 2009 13:48:33.0509 >(UTC) FILETIME=[DE2CB950:01C9BDD0] >X-AOL-IP: 65.55.34.82 > >Norm is a Sun City radical, Glenn Beck must be >getting close with his analysis. >----- Original Message ----- >From: <mailto:[email protected]>Norman Jenkins >To: <mailto:[email protected]>norm >Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 8:54 PM >Subject: Fw: [MCM] Say NO to FOX News, and Glenn Beck! > > >fyi = > > >--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Mark Crispin Miller ><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> >wrote: > > >From: Mark Crispin Miller <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> >Subject: [MCM] Say NO to FOX News, and Glenn Beck! >To: ><mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 1:26 PM > >#yiv876547645 BLOCKQUOTE { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; >PADDING-TOP: 0px } #yiv876547645 DL { >PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } >#yiv876547645 UL { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; >PADDING-TOP: 0px } #yiv876547645 OL { >PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } >#yiv876547645 LI { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; >PADDING-TOP: 0px } >Glenn Beck is today's Father Coughlin: a >demogogue who skillfully incites his audience to >homicidal passion and, tacitly, seditious >violence. His innuendo works as Coughlin's did >back >in the Thirties, because his viewers feel so >threatened and disoriented by the economic crash. > >Coughlin had a national paramilitary movement >called the Christian Front. What Beck has >is not that organized, but far more lethal, what >with all the automatic weapons circulating >coast to coast (and no "well-regulated militia" >to absorb and discipline the shooters, as the >Second Amendment stipulated there should be). > >William Rivers Pitt has written brilliantly >about the obvious connection between Beck's >incitements--as well as Limbaugh's, Savage's, >O'Reilly's, Hannity's et al.--and those >murders perpetrated recently in Pittsburgh by a >Timothy McVeigh wannabe. (Pitt's piece >is at http://www.truthout.org/041009R.) In >short, this sort of highly audible hate >propaganda >has its consequences, just as it was meant to do. > >So read that piece--and sign, and forward, this >petition from Media Matters, because >this sort of fascistic rabble-rousing cannot be >permitted to enjoy the comfortable support >of parent companies like News Corp. and their advertisers. > >MCM > > April 14, 2009 ><http://mediamatters.org/action_center/wallace/?src=w-0> >Dear Friend, > >For news coverage to be "fair and balanced," >there has to be a line separating news and >legitimate commentary from political activism >and demagoguery. > >Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace has >repeatedly characterized his network as "fair >and balanced," and as one that should be taken >seriously. However, several recent actions on >Fox News illustrate that the network is >contributing to a culture of conservative >paranoia and anti-Obama political activism. > >Please join me in asking Wallace to publicly >denounce Fox News' recent actions. If 25,000 >people sign our petition, we'll deliver it to >Wallace and Fox News this week. > ><http://mediamatters.org/action_center/wallace/?src=w-1>http://mediamatters.org/action_center/wallace/ > >Recent events undermine the argument that Fox >News should be treated as a credible, "fair and >balanced" news outlet. For example, since >launching his Fox News show, Glenn Beck, who has >emerged as a prominent player in the network's >lineup of weekday programs, has engaged in >increasingly outrageous rhetoric that promotes a >culture of conservative paranoia. His recent >actions include: > >Imitating President Obama pouring gasoline onto >the "average American": On April 9, Beck >responded to, among other things, reports that >President Obama will pursue immigration reform >by imitating Obama pouring gasoline onto the >"average American." After lighting and >extinguishing a match, Beck asked: "President >Obama, why don't you just set us on fire?" >Mocking Obama's aunt's "limp": On April 2, Beck >-- using a cane as a prop -- devoted large >portions of a segment to mocking Obama's aunt's >"limp." >Portraying Obama and Democrats as vampires: On >March 30, Beck portrayed Obama and Democrats as >vampires "going after the blood of our >businesses" and suggested "driv[ing] a stake >through the heart of the bloodsuckers." >Also, in recent weeks, Beck and Fox News have >engaged in anti-Obama political activism through >their aggressive promotion of the upcoming tea >party protests, which the network has portrayed >as a response to Obama's fiscal policies. In >addition to repeatedly airing graphics >describing the protests as "FNC TAX DAY TEA >PARTIES," Fox News has run advertisements >promoting them, listed information about the >parties on its various websites, and aired >graphics touting the date, time, location, and >website of specific tea parties. And Fox News >hosts such as Beck have encouraged viewers to >attend the protests. > >If Wallace wants to continue to portray his >network and influential Sunday show as a >credible source of news, he owes it to his >viewers to speak out publicly against Fox News' >recent behavior. So please join us and take >action today by signing our petition: > ><http://mediamatters.org/action_center/wallace/?src=w-2>http://mediamatters.org/action_center/wallace/ > >In the past, Wallace has criticized his Fox News >colleagues when they have undermined his >network's credibility. In March 2008, when he >confronted the hosts of Fox & Friends for >distorting Obama's words during what he >described as "two hours of Obama bashing," he >said that "one of the things that's great about >Fox News is that we don't all follow talking >points and we disagree about things." Following >that incident, he said that "we really are, >despite the sniffing or dismissals of our >liberal critics, 'fair and balanced' at Fox >News" and said that the news network does not >"espouse" a "conservative point of view." The >recent actions of his colleagues suggest >otherwise. > >If Wallace wants to repair the damage done to >his network's credibility, he needs to speak out >publicly against the recent political actions by >his colleagues on Fox News: > ><http://mediamatters.org/action_center/wallace/?src=w-3>http://mediamatters.org/action_center/wallace/ > >I hope that you'll join me in asking Wallace to hold his network accountable. > >Thanks for your help. > > >Eric Burns >President >Media Matters for America > ><http://mediamatters.org/donate?src=w-4> ><http://mediamatters.org/action_center/wallace/email?src=w-5> > ><http://mediamatters.org/users/unsubscribe?u=e61f1b37cad59b50d95c1b18dce4945a>You > >can unsubscribe at any time by clicking here > >© 2008 Media Matters for America >1625 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20036 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. 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