Fox Attacks: Black America-Let the CBC know that they should drop Fox now

[Omaha Steve]

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Dancing with the Devil
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The CBC Institute should not legitimize Fox
Fox News has consistently attacked Black people, leaders, and cultural institutions. Despite this fact, the Congressional Black Caucus Institute is in negotiations with Fox to co-host presidential debates.

Should the CBC Institute partner with Fox, it would legitimize Fox as a fair and balanced news source, effectively disregarding Fox's clearly hostile stance towards Black political interests. It runs counter to the stated goals of the Institute as well as the CBC's commitment to advocate for racial equality and justice and its desire to be considered the "conscience of Congress."

You can help the CBC Institute do the right thing. Let them know that they should drop Fox now:

Add your voice now!

Fox News has a horrible record of attacking Black people, Black leaders, and Black cultural institutions. But at this very moment, the Congressional Black Caucus Institute is negotiating to partner with Fox to host presidential debates prior to the 2008 elections.

For the CBC Institute to partner with an organization like Fox News—given its hostility to Black political interests—would be shameful. You can help prevent them from making this serious mistake by calling on them to drop negotiations with Fox:

http://www.colorofchange.org/cbci/?

The CBC Institute, an organization led by Black members of Congress, claims to share our goal of politically empowering Black America, and we'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt. But for weeks they've continued to entertain Fox's proposal, even after being presented with the case against Fox1. We expected that they would recognize the obvious: that validating Fox as a legitimate source of news hurts Black America, and undermines the CBC's credibility.

We've spoken several times with the Institute's executive director, and she says that she and the board welcome public comment. So we wanted to invite you to do exactly that. The Institute hasn't made a final decision, but they'll make an announcement in the next few days.

Fox's record is horrible. They regularly select Black guests they know will undermine Black causes. Their on-air personalities and regular guests consistently marginalize Black leaders, culture, and institutions. In fact, Sen. Obama has stopped giving interviews to Fox reporters because of repeated attacks on his character and intimations that he has connections to terrorism. Even the Democratic Party in Nevada backed out of doing a debate with Fox2 because of remarks about Obama, but the CBC Institute hasn't moved.

And it's not just Obama. Here's a sampling of the kind of offensive messages put out on Fox News3:

* 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... 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. 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."

* On The Big Story, John Gibson, warned viewers that nearly half of all children under the age of five in the United States are minorities. "You know what that means? Twenty-five years and the majority of the population is Hispanic." He then urged viewers to "do your duty. Make more babies." He later repeated: "To put it bluntly, we need more babies."

Given its record, Fox News shouldn't enjoy the support of Black political or cultural institutions connected to the Congressional Black Caucus. We believe the CBC Institute will change course once it realizes that Black America, if not all of America, is watching. Please join us in making sure they hear us, loud and clear:

http://www.colorofchange.org/cbci/?id=1488-88032

Thank You and Peace,

-- James, Van, Clarissa, Gabriel, Liat, and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team
March 14th, 2007

References:

1. Letter to the Executive Director of the CBCI, March 1, 2007
http://colorofchange.org/cbci/letter.pdf

2. "Nevada Democracts cancel presidential debate co-hosted by Fox News," Los Angeles Times, March 10, 2007
http://colorofchange.org/ref/cbci_1.html

3. Summary on Fox News and coverage relating to Black Americans
http://colorofchange.org/fox/

[tbyg52]

1. What is with people

who deal with Faux as if it were a news organization? I don't understand.....

[alfredo]

9. Fox is giving the GOP an "In kind contribution" by using their

Network to spread GOP propaganda.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=566719&mesg_id=566719

[Catherine Vincent]

2. Fox Noise is pathetic.

Any network that continously have this Peterson guy on is delusional.

[buff2]

4. I remember the first time the Fox nazis had him on

He had no teeth and his clothes were not very good. Look at him now.He has teeth and is dressed in nice suits. Yep.....the GOP grooms them,gives them Kool-Aid spiked with the GOPervert talking points and then gives them all the free air time they can stand.What a country we live in today.It's a damn shame.:puke:

[IChing]

3. I was going post this then saw you did it

The video did a good job on pointing out their racist point of view.
Nominated

[Pawel K]

5. It pisses me off, everywhere I go Fox News is on

The Gym, the gas station, wtf is wrong with people??? I think the problem is the simpsons and other fox shows as these probably attract the arrogant to fox news.

[TheBaldyMan]

6. the real problem is Murdoch not 20thC Fox

the Simpsons is a positive influence despite the owner of the company. As one of the biggesrt money spinners they are left to get on with it.

RW nuts don't do humour and Murdoch knows this. What the RW specialise in is disinformation and hate. Murdach knows this as well, unfortunately for him it isn't commercial and has to be subsidised or given a monopoly in order to survive.

Anti-trust laws are what Murdoch fears most, he can't handle competition. Where an alternative exists News Corp suffers. News Corps has a virtual monpoly on satellite the and national press in the UK and every paper in the empire runs regular stories about how crap BBC News 24 is. This is because people watch News 24 instead of Sky News, the euro-Fox News channel. It has a fraction of the share that the BBC attracts.

Given an alternative to RW bile people switch channels.

[nedbal]

7. Fox1 Fox2 ???? new to me . I dont get these

[ClassWarrior]

8. .

[IndyOp]

10. Kick! (n/t)