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Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 4852
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 04:36 pm: | 
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Black Online Activists Call on Black Leaders to Reject Fox for Presidential Debates
Message to CBC Institute: "Fox consistently marginalizes Black leaders, culture, and institutions ... Validating Fox as a legitimate source of news hurts Black America."ColorOfChange.org &am...
By PR Newswire
WASHINGTON, March 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ColorOfChange.org -- an online citizens' lobby of 70,000 members dedicated to advocating for the interests of Black Americans -- launched a national letter writing campaign today calling on the Congressional Black Caucus Institute to reject Fox as partner for their presidential debates.
"Fox News is not a 'fair and balanced' source of information or political debate, and it has repeatedly proven itself hostile to the interests of Black Americans," says a letter online activists can sign on the group's website, http://www.ColorOfChange.org. "Fox on-air personalities and regular guests consistently marginalize Black leaders, culture, and institutions."
Last week, the American Prospect quoted the CBC Institute as saying a decision will be made within days about whether Fox or CNN would host the organization's 2008 presidential debates. ColorofChange.org asked Outfoxed director Robert Greenwald to compile an online video detailing Fox's record of attacking Blacks-which debuted today at Brave New Films' website, http://www.FoxAttacks.com.
"No network that calls Black churches a cult, implies that Senator Barack Obama is a terrorist, and uses the solemn occasion of Coretta Scott King's funeral to call Black leaders 'racist' should be given a stamp of approval by the CBC Institute," said James Rucker, Executive Director of ColorOfChange.org. "Validating Fox as a legitimate source of news hurts Black America."
Black bloggers and media experts also joined the call for the CBC Institute to freeze out Fox from presidential debates. One of those experts is Benjamin Todd Jealous, former executive director of the National Newspaper Publishers Associations (NNPA), a 98-year old federation of more than 200 Black community newspapers.
"Fox has a long history of treating Black people unfairly," said Jealous, "They are not a trusted news source for most Black Americans." Chris Rabb, Founder/Chief Evangelist of Afro-Netizen.com -- a top African American political blog -- added, "We urge the CBC Institute to lead with integrity and to not make a deal with the devil."
Key Links
Politico.com: Anti-Fox Campaign, African-American Edition politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0307/AntiFox_Campaign_AfricanAmerican_Edition.html
CBC says it is choosing between Fox and CNN -- American Prospect, March 8, 2007 http://www.prospect.org/weblog/2007/03/post_3051.html#015806
ColorOfChange.org's email action alert to 70,000 members: http://www.colorofchange.org/cbci/message.html Letter from activists to CBC Institute http://www.colorofchange.org/cbci/ Afro-Netizen.net blog asks Black Americans to contact CBC Institute: http://www.afro-netizen.com/2007/03/make_our_cbc_me.html YouTube video -- Fox Attacks: Black America http://www.foxattacks.com To embed video on your site, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY04gIruZ4E Here's a sampling of the kind of offensive messages put out on Fox: -- Commenting on Hannity & Colmes about the speakers at Coretta Scott King's funeral, featured guest Mary Matalin said, "I think these civil rights leaders are nothing more than racists" who are keeping "their African-American brothers enslaved." -- Jesse Lee Peterson, a regular guest who is Black said: "Kwanzaa is a racist, pagan, Marxist holiday" and then claimed that the "so-called seven principles of Kwanzaa are socialist, Marxist, separatist ideas... if a white man started a white holiday, seven-day white holiday, black folks would be burning down America." -- Erik Rush, another Black guest, labeled Sen. Obama's church as cultish and separatist for espousing values of black unity and black empowerment (Fox regularly selects Black guests it knows will undermine Black causes). Rush said he replaced the word "black" with "white" in the church's mission statement and "Suddenly, I was looking at this really scary doctrine. You know, it was something that you'd see in more like a cult or an Aryan Brethren church ... I would go beyond saying they're Afrocentric. They're African centric. They refer to themselves as an African people and that somewhat disturbs me from the viewpoint of well, do they consider themselves Americans? Do they consider themselves Christians?" -- On Hannity and Colmes, David Horowitz said: "The only lynch mob in America that is allowed to exist in America is a black lynch mob."
SOURCE ColorOfChange.org
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 7815
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 04:50 pm: |
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They Fox network should change its name to the Skunk network. Its nothing more than a conservative mouthpiece with halitosis. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 8874
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 12:43 am: |
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Tonya,
Fox maybe all that's being describe here. But, honestly, the sh*t they do over there is so gotdayam unintentionally COMICAL I'm usually too busy LAUGHING at it to become kneegrow indignant about it. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 3898
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 10:22 am: |
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I hate them too, but they ought to go on there and beard the lion in his den. |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4030
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 02:43 pm: |
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This boycott is a joke. A letter writing campaign to the CBC will change NOTHING. In order for any boycott of a television network to have an impact the ADVERTISERS must be targeted.
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Yukio
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Username: Yukio
Post Number: 2004
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 16, 2007 - 09:29 am: |
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abm: i dont think its unintentional at all; did you view that short video and the attendant black conservatives? |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 8908
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 16, 2007 - 11:51 am: |
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Yukio,
Perhaps. But, understand. I pretty much laugh at EVERYTHING those foks do over there at Fox, most of which do NOT involve some lampooning of Black foks.
I consider the entire network to be one biga$$ JOKE. |
Dahomeyahosi
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Username: Dahomeyahosi
Post Number: 235
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 16, 2007 - 12:22 pm: |
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ABM I'm with you. I find Fox hilarious! O'Reilly and Colbert are equally funny for a reason. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 8909
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 16, 2007 - 12:33 pm: |
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Dahomeyahosi: "O'Reilly and Colbert are equally funny for a reason."
Indeed. To me, the ONLY major difference between the Fox Channel and Comedy Central is that the foks over at Comedy Central are actually TRYING to be funny.
Hahahahaha!!! |
Dahomeyahosi
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Username: Dahomeyahosi
Post Number: 236
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 09:33 pm: |
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ABM you are so right. Ann Coulter is one of my favorite comedians. |
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