400 Rabbis Demand Fox News Sanction Beck And Ailes

[lakhota]

400 Rabbis Demand Fox News Sanction Beck And Ailes For ‘Unacceptable’ Holocaust Imagery

Today, 400 rabbis will mark International Holocuast Remberance Day with a letter demanding Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch sanction CEO Roger Ailes and incendiary host Glenn Beck “for repeated use of Nazi and Holocaust imagery” and for “airing attacks on World War Two survivor George Soros.” The letter will run as an ad in Thursday’s editions of the Wall Street Journal and other media owned by Murdoch’s News Corp.

The nonprofit advocacy group Jewish Funds for Justice is running the $100,000 ad that states, “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.” Prompted by Ailes’ wanton vilification of NPR executives as Nazis and Beck’s three-part program accusing Soros of “sending his people to death camps,” the rabbis demanded Fox sanction them for continuing “unacceptable attacks” and “dismissive remarks”:

“It is not appropriate to accuse a 14-year-old Jew hiding with a Christian family in Nazi-occupied Hungary of sending his people to death camps,” says the ad. “It is not appropriate to call executives of another news agency ‘Nazis.’ And it is not appropriate to make literally hundreds of on-air references to the Holocaust and Nazis when characterizing people with whom you disagree.”

“We respectfully request that Glenn Beck be sanctioned by Fox News for his completely unacceptable attacks on a survivor of the Holocaust and that Roger Ailes apologize for his dismissive remarks about rabbis’ sensitivity to how the Holocaust is used on the air.”

Having catalogued “literally hundreds” of Beck’s Nazi on-air anti-Semitic “dogwhistling” and Ailes’ weak excuses and dismissal of Beck’s critics as “left-wing rabbis,” the rabbis told Murdoch “you diminish the memory and meaning of the Holocaust when you use it to discredit any individual or organization you disagree with. That is what Fox News has done in recent weeks, and it is not only ‘left-wing rabbis’ who think so.”

More: thinkprogress.org/2011/01/27/fox-news-rabbis/

[ugonow]

Big deal.There are a lot more Fox viewers than jewish people.

[billisonboard]

TOTALLY OFF TOPIC:
Hell getting old and needing reading glasses. At first glance I thought it was an Onion piece about 400 rabbits demanding something from Fox News.

[ugonow]

Nothing worse than those high maintenance demanding rabbits.

[ed1066]

If anyone is wondering about the political bent of this organization, here's a picture from their website:

[billisonboard]

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[lakhota]

bill, although I enjoy Elmer Fudd, I consider it rude for this thread.

[billisonboard]

Jan 27, 2011 17:38:50 GMT -5 @lakhota said:

bill, although I enjoy Elmer Fudd, I consider it rude for this thread.

Agree. Fixed belatedly.

Note to self: Think twice before posting something, especially if you "think" you are being "cute" (you rarely are).

[Tennesseer]

Ed-there is no picture. I cannot determine the political bent of this organization.

[billisonboard]

Jan 27, 2011 17:48:23 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Ed-there is no picture. I cannot determine the political bent of this organization.

They attack Beck and ed attacks them. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

My money is on "left".

[lakhota]

Thanks, bill.

[billisonboard]

Jan 27, 2011 18:06:13 GMT -5 @lakhota said:

Thanks, bill.

I owe you the thanks (especially for being kind instead of delivering the slap along side the head I deserved).

[fairlycrazy23]

Jan 27, 2011 17:48:23 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Ed-there is no picture. I cannot determine the political bent of this organization.

No there is no spoon

[lakhota]

Jan 27, 2011 17:25:52 GMT -5 @ed1066 said:

If anyone is wondering about the political bent of this organization, here's a picture from their website:

I find it amusing that ed, of all people, would try to discredit 400 Rabbis.

BTW, ed, here's the link to the picture you were trying to post:

www.jewishjustice.org/sites/jfsj.aegir.purpose.com/files/imagecache/page_617/NY%20JwJ%20Photo%20from%20Coney%20Island%20City%20Hall%20Action%20(7%201%2009).JPG

[steff]

I find it amusing that ed, of all people, would try to discredit 400 Rabbis.

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I LoL'ed.... finally Jewish folks that ed won't defend and call everyone anti-semitic over.

[verrip1]

I see we have at least two posters who are so ignorant about Jews that they do not know that there are major schisms in religious and political opinions. They think all Jews hold the same opinions about belief and politics.

IOW, they are ignorant about what they post.

[ed1066]

I see we have at least two posters who are so ignorant about Jews that they do not know that there are major schisms in religious and political opinions. They think all Jews hold the same opinions about belief and politics.

There are two on this thread, and several others on the board. That's where you see the bigotry coming through, when they pre-suppose that a religious or ethnic group is monolithic in it's thinking. These same folks probably think all black people like fried chicken and all Mexicans are lazy criminals...

[b2r]

Israel regards Iran as its principal threat, after repeated predictions by its hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of the Jewish state's demise.

The Iranian leader has also frequently and publicly denied the Holocaust, calling it a "myth."

Netanyahu said world leaders were aware of the mass murder of the Jews being carried out by the Nazis during the Holocaust but failed to act, and urged them not to make the same mistake today.

"They knew and did not act," Netanyahu said.

"Today they know, they hear, they see, they film," Netanyahu said of Iran's threats. "Will they act, will they speak, really speak, attack or condemn?"

"I expect the world will learn the lesson and act with words and deeds against the new anti-Semitism," Netanyahu said.

www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=news&cd=8&ved=0CHEQqQIwBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhostednews%2Fafp%2Farticle%2FALeqM5iXhwJPdM_YZWujgcKy5G-vfmEhIg%3FdocId%3DCNG.32ed027d9136847068e1420850fb9209.3b1&ei=hvZCTcmxM4iusAPB_7mxCg&usg=AFQjCNGNGVYiszQ8KcvwCH8PKoXH_h2cQw

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jan 27, 2011 17:14:06 GMT -5 ugonow said:

Big deal.There are a lot more Fox viewers than jewish people.

Ironic. Beck is a staunch defender of the Jews whereas George Soros (who is Jewish- I know) worked with the NAZI guards during WWII. Soros has a number of quotes that indicate he's really no friend of the Jewish people or the state of Israel. He's done all but renounce his heritage.

[Deleted]

I find it humorous that Lakhota continuously starts threads that portray Fox-news, or Fox-news employees in a negative light. The 40 year major media monopoly of delivering the evening news with a liberal left approach is over. All the news that ABC, NBC, and CBS conveniently leaves out is being picked up by Fox. Get over it Lakhota, they're not going anywhere. If Fox's success is any cue we will soon have more than one right of center media outlet. Just think, two more stations like Fox and we'll have fair and balanced reporting.

[lakhota]

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jan 28, 2011 15:16:56 GMT -5 @jma23 said:

I find it humorous that Lakhota continuously starts threads that portray Fox-news, or Fox-news employees in a negative light. The 40 year major media monopoly of delivering the evening news with a liberal left approach is over. All the news that ABC, NBC, and CBS conveniently leaves out is being picked up by Fox. Get over it Lakhota, they're not going anywhere. If Fox's success is any cue we will soon have more than one right of center media outlet. Just think, two more stations like Fox and we'll have fair and balanced reporting.

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