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A must see video and a sign-up at this link:
http://www.colorofchange.org/turnofffox/sticker/tof580.html Glenn Beck and Fox News Incites Violence "If you needed any more evidence that Fox News is dangerous, here it is: Byron Williams, who engaged in a shootout with police on a California highway this summer, later explained that he was headed to San Francisco to kill staff at two progressive organizations and "start a revolution." His targets? The Northern California ACLU and the Tides Foundations, the latter being repeatedly vilified by Glenn Beck and otherwise unheard of to most people. Williams praised Fox News host Glenn Beck, saying he turned to him for the facts. It's time to do everything we can reduce Fox News' influence and stop them from spreading divisive propaganda and inciting violence. Join us in calling on businesses and other public places to become Fox free. It starts by signing on to the petition below, which we will present to businesses in your name." 
"Many of us already know that Fox News is biased -- but it's actually much worse than that. For years they have used lies, distortions, and race-baiting to divide this country. Recently, it's gotten downright dangerous. Earlier this summer, a heavily armed man got into a gun fight with police after he was pulled over on his way to kill people at the Tides Foundation[1] -- an obscure non-profit that Glenn Beck regularly demonizes on his Fox News TV show.[2] Fox News is bad news for America -- and it spreads, and is legitimized, partly through TVs in public places. That's why I've joined the TurnOffFox campaign -- the first part of a larger campaign to diminish the influence of Fox. It's about educating people about Fox and getting it turned off in stores, restaurants, and other public places. Will you join me? It takes just a moment to declare your own household "Fox free", and at the same time appeal to public establishments in your community to stop playing Fox. And you'll get a FREE Turn Off Fox sticker when you do. Click here: http://turnofffox.org/landing/?id=2176-1077699 "No other news organization that's considered legitimate consistently wages smear campaigns based on lies and race-baiting. But for years Fox News has done exactly that, and the pattern has only gotten worse since Barack Obama entered national politics. Here are just a few examples: -- A frequent Fox guest, Jesse Lee Peterson, said that the majority of Black people have poor moral character, and cited "what they did to the dome" after Hurricane Katrina as evidence.[3] Peterson has also used his platform on Fox to claim that 90% of Black people are racists -- against Whites.[4] -- In a case of naked race-baiting, Fox host Glenn Beck called President Obama a "racist" who had a "deep-seated hatred for White people or the White culture."[5] Earlier that week, Beck claimed that the President's health insurance reform proposals were a form of "reparations" designed to "settle old racial scores."[6] -- Fox host John Stossel argued that the public accommodations section of the Civil Rights Act -- which prevents businesses from discriminating based on race, sex, and other factors -- should be repealed.[7] -- Fox News hosts Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity were the first to air deceptively edited and incomplete video of Shirley Sherrod's remarks to the NAACP.[8] The video made it seem like Sherrod was confessing to using her position at the USDA to discriminate against White farmers, when she was really talking about the importance of overcoming prejudice. Sherrod lost her job over this misrepresentation, which Fox enthusiastically repeated without seeking the facts. Fox has since tried to pretend it had nothing to do with this smear -- but Fox is the number one reason these kinds of distortions and smears have any part in our national dialogue. The examples above aren't even a tenth of Fox's vicious lies and smears, and over the years they've just gotten more brazen. The goal of Turn Off Fox is to reduce the number of public TVs showing Fox News, while spreading the word about Fox's poison (and how it works) to those who don't know. Signing up for the campaign is just the first step. We make it easy for you to tell us about businesses playing Fox. If you're willing to talk with them, we'll provide you with straightforward materials that explain why they shouldn't be a party to what Fox is doing. And if there are businesses you know that want to tell the world they would never play Fox, you can help them declare themselves a "Fox-free zone." As businesses Turn off Fox and stand up as Fox Free, and as we encourage our friends and family to do the same, we'll help make clear, to people across the country, what Fox is about. And we'll reduce their ability to do harm. Please join me in signing up for the TurnOffFox campaign:" http://turnofffox.org/landing/?id=2176-1077699 |
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A must see video and a sign-up at this link: http://www.colorofchange.org/turnofffox/sticker/tof580.html Glenn Beck and Fox News Incites Violence "If you needed any more evidence that Fox News is dangerous, here it is: Byron Williams, who engaged in a shootout with police on a California highway this summer, later explained that he was headed to San Francisco to kill staff at two progressive organizations and "start a revolution." His targets? The Northern California ACLU and the Tides Foundations, the latter being repeatedly vilified by Glenn Beck and otherwise unheard of to most people. Williams praised Fox News host Glenn Beck, saying he turned to him for the facts. It's time to do everything we can reduce Fox News' influence and stop them from spreading divisive propaganda and inciting violence. Join us in calling on businesses and other public places to become Fox free. It starts by signing on to the petition below, which we will present to businesses in your name."
"Many of us already know that Fox News is biased -- but it's actually much worse than that. For years they have used lies, distortions, and race-baiting to divide this country. Recently, it's gotten downright dangerous. Earlier this summer, a heavily armed man got into a gun fight with police after he was pulled over on his way to kill people at the Tides Foundation[1] -- an obscure non-profit that Glenn Beck regularly demonizes on his Fox News TV show.[2] Fox News is bad news for America -- and it spreads, and is legitimized, partly through TVs in public places. That's why I've joined the TurnOffFox campaign -- the first part of a larger campaign to diminish the influence of Fox. It's about educating people about Fox and getting it turned off in stores, restaurants, and other public places. Will you join me? It takes just a moment to declare your own household "Fox free", and at the same time appeal to public establishments in your community to stop playing Fox. And you'll get a FREE Turn Off Fox sticker when you do. Click here: http://turnofffox.org/landing/?id=2176-1077699 "No other news organization that's considered legitimate consistently wages smear campaigns based on lies and race-baiting. But for years Fox News has done exactly that, and the pattern has only gotten worse since Barack Obama entered national politics. Here are just a few examples: -- A frequent Fox guest, Jesse Lee Peterson, said that the majority of Black people have poor moral character, and cited "what they did to the dome" after Hurricane Katrina as evidence.[3] Peterson has also used his platform on Fox to claim that 90% of Black people are racists -- against Whites.[4] -- In a case of naked race-baiting, Fox host Glenn Beck called President Obama a "racist" who had a "deep-seated hatred for White people or the White culture."[5] Earlier that week, Beck claimed that the President's health insurance reform proposals were a form of "reparations" designed to "settle old racial scores."[6] -- Fox host John Stossel argued that the public accommodations section of the Civil Rights Act -- which prevents businesses from discriminating based on race, sex, and other factors -- should be repealed.[7] -- Fox News hosts Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity were the first to air deceptively edited and incomplete video of Shirley Sherrod's remarks to the NAACP.[8] The video made it seem like Sherrod was confessing to using her position at the USDA to discriminate against White farmers, when she was really talking about the importance of overcoming prejudice. Sherrod lost her job over this misrepresentation, which Fox enthusiastically repeated without seeking the facts. Fox has since tried to pretend it had nothing to do with this smear -- but Fox is the number one reason these kinds of distortions and smears have any part in our national dialogue. The examples above aren't even a tenth of Fox's vicious lies and smears, and over the years they've just gotten more brazen. The goal of Turn Off Fox is to reduce the number of public TVs showing Fox News, while spreading the word about Fox's poison (and how it works) to those who don't know. Signing up for the campaign is just the first step. We make it easy for you to tell us about businesses playing Fox. If you're willing to talk with them, we'll provide you with straightforward materials that explain why they shouldn't be a party to what Fox is doing. And if there are businesses you know that want to tell the world they would never play Fox, you can help them declare themselves a "Fox-free zone." As businesses Turn off Fox and stand up as Fox Free, and as we encourage our friends and family to do the same, we'll help make clear, to people across the country, what Fox is about. And we'll reduce their ability to do harm. Please join me in signing up for the TurnOffFox campaign:" http://turnofffox.org/landing/?id=2176-1077699 Wasn't aware that news media outlets, entertainment, and sports figures were responsible for the mental instabilities of the populous.........didn't believe it's the responsibility of these media propaganda forums and outlets which is driving you forcing you to negate constitutional rights and beliefs of freedom of speech and press and somehow sublimating facts of some sort of responsibility towards angry and mentally unstable individuals............makes a person go hmmmmmm? |
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A must see video and a sign-up at this link: http://www.colorofchange.org/turnofffox/sticker/tof580.html Glenn Beck and Fox News Incites Violence "If you needed any more evidence that Fox News is dangerous, here it is: Byron Williams, who engaged in a shootout with police on a California highway this summer, later explained that he was headed to San Francisco to kill staff at two progressive organizations and "start a revolution." His targets? The Northern California ACLU and the Tides Foundations, the latter being repeatedly vilified by Glenn Beck and otherwise unheard of to most people. Williams praised Fox News host Glenn Beck, saying he turned to him for the facts. It's time to do everything we can reduce Fox News' influence and stop them from spreading divisive propaganda and inciting violence. Join us in calling on businesses and other public places to become Fox free. It starts by signing on to the petition below, which we will present to businesses in your name."
"Many of us already know that Fox News is biased -- but it's actually much worse than that. For years they have used lies, distortions, and race-baiting to divide this country. Recently, it's gotten downright dangerous. Earlier this summer, a heavily armed man got into a gun fight with police after he was pulled over on his way to kill people at the Tides Foundation[1] -- an obscure non-profit that Glenn Beck regularly demonizes on his Fox News TV show.[2] Fox News is bad news for America -- and it spreads, and is legitimized, partly through TVs in public places. That's why I've joined the TurnOffFox campaign -- the first part of a larger campaign to diminish the influence of Fox. It's about educating people about Fox and getting it turned off in stores, restaurants, and other public places. Will you join me? It takes just a moment to declare your own household "Fox free", and at the same time appeal to public establishments in your community to stop playing Fox. And you'll get a FREE Turn Off Fox sticker when you do. Click here: http://turnofffox.org/landing/?id=2176-1077699 "No other news organization that's considered legitimate consistently wages smear campaigns based on lies and race-baiting. But for years Fox News has done exactly that, and the pattern has only gotten worse since Barack Obama entered national politics. Here are just a few examples: -- A frequent Fox guest, Jesse Lee Peterson, said that the majority of Black people have poor moral character, and cited "what they did to the dome" after Hurricane Katrina as evidence.[3] Peterson has also used his platform on Fox to claim that 90% of Black people are racists -- against Whites.[4] -- In a case of naked race-baiting, Fox host Glenn Beck called President Obama a "racist" who had a "deep-seated hatred for White people or the White culture."[5] Earlier that week, Beck claimed that the President's health insurance reform proposals were a form of "reparations" designed to "settle old racial scores."[6] -- Fox host John Stossel argued that the public accommodations section of the Civil Rights Act -- which prevents businesses from discriminating based on race, sex, and other factors -- should be repealed.[7] -- Fox News hosts Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity were the first to air deceptively edited and incomplete video of Shirley Sherrod's remarks to the NAACP.[8] The video made it seem like Sherrod was confessing to using her position at the USDA to discriminate against White farmers, when she was really talking about the importance of overcoming prejudice. Sherrod lost her job over this misrepresentation, which Fox enthusiastically repeated without seeking the facts. Fox has since tried to pretend it had nothing to do with this smear -- but Fox is the number one reason these kinds of distortions and smears have any part in our national dialogue. The examples above aren't even a tenth of Fox's vicious lies and smears, and over the years they've just gotten more brazen. The goal of Turn Off Fox is to reduce the number of public TVs showing Fox News, while spreading the word about Fox's poison (and how it works) to those who don't know. Signing up for the campaign is just the first step. We make it easy for you to tell us about businesses playing Fox. If you're willing to talk with them, we'll provide you with straightforward materials that explain why they shouldn't be a party to what Fox is doing. And if there are businesses you know that want to tell the world they would never play Fox, you can help them declare themselves a "Fox-free zone." As businesses Turn off Fox and stand up as Fox Free, and as we encourage our friends and family to do the same, we'll help make clear, to people across the country, what Fox is about. And we'll reduce their ability to do harm. Please join me in signing up for the TurnOffFox campaign:" http://turnofffox.org/landing/?id=2176-1077699 Wasn't aware that news media outlets, entertainment, and sports figures were responsible for the mental instabilities of the populous.........didn't believe it's the responsibility of these media propaganda forums and outlets which is driving you forcing you to negate constitutional rights and beliefs of freedom of speech and press and somehow sublimating facts of some sort of responsibility towards angry and mentally unstable individuals............makes a person go hmmmmmm? Then perhaps we can make people aware that POX is not legitimate news and it's programming should have a disclaimer stating that it's an intended HATE PROGRAM that's not recommended for the mentally unstable. The more people turn this inciteful crap off the less likely people will plot mass murders like the guy in the video. Inciting crime is NOT "freedom of speech"....it's a crime. 
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don't blame fox news, blame the individual - the individual is responsible for his/her own actions.
It's really pretty simple. How many people heard the same broadcast, and how many of them chose to grab a gun? *sigh*... $.02 
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don't blame fox news, blame the individual - the individual is responsible for his/her own actions. It's really pretty simple. How many people heard the same broadcast, and how many of them chose to grab a gun? *sigh*... $.02
Agreed......reporting or opinioned based talk shows such as Glenn Beck...give an opinion no different than a newspaper opinion based editorial and if someone mentally unstable takes that opinion and article and commits a crime.......then that crime lies upon the individual committing it and no incited by an opinion based show or article..........personal responsibility for actions.......Glenn Beck didnt buy a gun and kill anyone......nor did FOX |
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don't blame fox news, blame the individual - the individual is responsible for his/her own actions. It's really pretty simple. How many people heard the same broadcast, and how many of them chose to grab a gun? *sigh*... $.02
So Glenn Beck is not responsible nor held responsible for his urging on the nut cases in this country to attack Civil Rights orgs? I bet most people that reply here do not watch the video at the link I provided... Maybe Charlie Manson can get out of prison and have his own show on POX...since they have similiar agendas. |
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don't blame fox news, blame the individual - the individual is responsible for his/her own actions. It's really pretty simple. How many people heard the same broadcast, and how many of them chose to grab a gun? *sigh*... $.02
So Glenn Beck is not responsible nor held responsible for his urging on the nut cases in this country to attack Civil Rights orgs? I bet most people that reply here do not watch the video at the link I provided... Maybe Charlie Manson can get out of prison and have his own show on POX...since they have similiar agendas. No Charlie Manson actively participated in the planning and urging of a crime with criminal intent......making an unfounded wish upon a public forum I would agree as ill advised but bearing no responsibility of the actions of another individual........and how does he urge nut cases......did he say all nut cases please follow me buy a gun and kill another individual over politics........nope dont think so..........obviously you are sitting there listening to his opion based talk show all day........and then trying to kill propaganda you see as evil and inciting......when all other talk shows remain just as guilty look at Nancy Grace she's no different from Glann Beck or Bill Maher another couple of shows that should go if Glann Beck goes............of course how dare anyone speak out against a US President that never happens on any editiorial talk show or public forum ever in history............ |
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Wed 10/13/10 07:37 AM
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don't blame fox news, blame the individual - the individual is responsible for his/her own actions. It's really pretty simple. How many people heard the same broadcast, and how many of them chose to grab a gun? *sigh*... $.02
So Glenn Beck is not responsible nor held responsible for his urging on the nut cases in this country to attack Civil Rights orgs? I bet most people that reply here do not watch the video at the link I provided... Maybe Charlie Manson can get out of prison and have his own show on POX...since they have similiar agendas. Now, you are beginnig to show the signs of understanding personal responsibility. I am impressed with you! As for Charlie Manson... he was given "his own show", at least an interview. Manson wrote a book, "Manson, In His Own Words" - NBC interviewed him in 2006 on the Today show... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uhmtAmwnDQ I did not see people running out commiting mass murder... *sigh* $.02
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don't blame fox news, blame the individual - the individual is responsible for his/her own actions. It's really pretty simple. How many people heard the same broadcast, and how many of them chose to grab a gun? *sigh*... $.02
So Glenn Beck is not responsible nor held responsible for his urging on the nut cases in this country to attack Civil Rights orgs? I bet most people that reply here do not watch the video at the link I provided... Maybe Charlie Manson can get out of prison and have his own show on POX...since they have similiar agendas. |
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while it is true that people are responsable for their own actions and glen beck,however crazy and misguided he maybe,has a right to his opinion fox as a legitimate news station(so called)should at least get their facts straight. although blatenetly labeling someone a racist could be considered slander
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while it is true that people are responsable for their own actions and glen beck,however crazy and misguided he maybe,has a right to his opinion fox as a legitimate news station(so called)should at least get their facts straight. although blatenetly labeling someone a racist could be considered slander And I and others have the right to point out that POX is not a legitimate news outlet and Glenn Beck is a arsehole uring people to take up arms against our government and orgs that promote Civil Rights...creating insurgents. The more people know this then the more likely advertisers will pull their ads from POX and eventually reduce them to AM radio where they belong...static mono...as in "Not interested in facts"...just hate noise. 
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i completely agree with your opinions on bill o glenn and fox and your right to petition them but you cant blame them for murder just like ozzy wasnt liable for those suicides in the 80 s
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i completely agree with your opinions on bill o glenn and fox and your right to petition them but you cant blame them for murder just like ozzy wasnt liable for those suicides in the 80 s I did not blame them for murder tho~ they should bare some responsibility in this shooting. What I am saying is they are intentionally hyping up, tossing weird rhetoric that is creating an atmosphere of violence as a way to oppose politically. That's over the line. Hardly a comparison to Suicide Solution...great song, a bummer that a poor kid took the words too seriously. Unfortunately we have a whole subculture taking POX and Glenn Beck too seriously. Ozzy didn't start a network and play Suicide Solution over and over. Thanks...I appreciate a rational argument. |
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while it is true that people are responsable for their own actions and glen beck,however crazy and misguided he maybe,has a right to his opinion fox as a legitimate news station(so called)should at least get their facts straight. although blatenetly labeling someone a racist could be considered slander And I and others have the right to point out that POX is not a legitimate news outlet and Glenn Beck is a arsehole uring people to take up arms against our government and orgs that promote Civil Rights...creating insurgents. The more people know this then the more likely advertisers will pull their ads from POX and eventually reduce them to AM radio where they belong...static mono...as in "Not interested in facts"...just hate noise.
Interestingly enough, Gleen Beck is a major proponent of the freedom of speech to which you refer above... ME? I don't support Glenn Beck, an alcholoic self taugh opportunist... but, I also don't think he advocates gun violence.... You judge his rhetoric as "wierd" - that is your opinion, which you are free to express due to the efforts (in part) of people just like Glenn Beck! $.02
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Blame the gun or the man holding the gun?
Fox News is no more guilty than the national Enquirer. The man picked two good targets though. You say people take Fox News too seriously? WELLLLLLLLLLLLLL... Religion! Nuff said? And how about the Violence Islam promotes? If I am to be forced to tolerate Islam You have to tolerate Fox News. Fair is Fair. Why is it a preacher who tells people to kill doctors at abortion clinics get a slap on the back of their hand when they instigate murder? Why are they not treated as accomplices like they should be? |
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while it may be true that they bear some responsabilty its a very slippery slope where do you draw the line between simple racist rhetoric and willful intent?
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while it may be true that they bear some responsabilty its a very slippery slope where do you draw the line between simple racist rhetoric and willful intent? I agree but POX has proven time and time again their intents. I think for example Beck calling President Obama a racist is an irresponsible thing to say...why he's still given a platform to continue to promote CT's against anything "liberal" or "left" is beyond reason. He is urging violence...I hope the advertisers see this and stop funding his racist sideshow on national TV. It's more of a rocky edge with these guys...you might view the doc Outfoxed to see the damage they've caused to America. Great doc exposing a very poisonous situation... |
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it takes the extremes of arguments to help ensrue the pendulum slows toward the middle...
Frankly, I think extremist views are dangerous on both sides, but they seem to help policy be established more toward the reasonable center... $.02
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Blame the gun or the man holding the gun? Fox News is no more guilty than the national Enquirer. The man picked two good targets though. You say people take Fox News too seriously? WELLLLLLLLLLLLLL... Religion! Nuff said? And how about the Violence Islam promotes? If I am to be forced to tolerate Islam You have to tolerate Fox News. Fair is Fair. Why is it a preacher who tells people to kill doctors at abortion clinics get a slap on the back of their hand when they instigate murder? Why are they not treated as accomplices like they should be? FOX will stay as is and make billions more off the advertisement the "ban FOX" extremists give them. Don't know how they do it but, FOX still ranks as the #1 News source. The extremist Libs remind me hyper of chihuahuas. Jumpin' around screamin'," The sky's falling!!!" 
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the one who makes the choice holds the primary responsibility, although I do believe no ONE person or thing is ever SOLELY responsible
I hear Beck and think he is insane, that this man took him seriously is his choice, but that choice is irrelevant to his CHOICE to act on it the way he tried to people SHOULD take responsibility for misleading and deceiving others, BUT we can hardly find the line to draw in the middle of our RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH that will truly be fair to the masses as I have said before, its the right to free speech, not the right to speak how I want you to,,, we have the right to open our mouths and we also have the right to use our brains about what we are hearing,,, |
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