Arab groups protest Beck's hiring - Three groups are urging ABC News not to keep Glenn Beck on GMA

[Kadie]

Arab groups protest Beck's hiring
5 minutes ago


NEW YORK - Three groups are urging ABC News not to keep CNN Headline News personality Glenn Beck on as a "Good Morning America" commentator because they believe he's biased against Arabs.

The Arab American Institute, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and the Muslim Public Affairs Council all said Thursday they had written to ABC News President David Westin about Beck.

"Good Morning America" executive producer Jim Murphy has spoken to a representative of the groups and has invited them on the air to talk about their grievances, said ABC News spokeswoman Jeffrey Schneider. Beck has appeared twice on the show, once together with a Muslim religious leader.

The groups said that Beck _ who's drawing strong ratings with his evening show on CNN Headline News _ has stated on his show that Arab and Muslim Americans are apathetic to terrorism. During an interview in November with Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison (news, bio, voting record), the first Muslim member of Congress, Beck asked him to "prove to me that you are not working with our enemies."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070126/ap_en_tv/tv_beck_arabs_2

[Olney Blue]

Strong ratings? Ya gotta be kidding.

[Malikshah]

1. AADC, CAIR, and GLAAD... The fact that they have raise a stink

Shows that bigotry and hatred of Arabs, Muslims and the GLBT community is still Okey Dokey in this country.

[Tom Joad]

2. For those who think that the influence of the above groups is any way

comparable to pro-Israel policy groups that support extremist policies, just watch beck stay on gma for the next year.

If anyone had said about Jewish Americans what Beck has said about Muslim americans, he would not be hired anywhere in the mainstream media, and rightly so. But it seems that there is no consistency here.

[leeroysphitz]

3. I don't get it.

If all you had to do to get ahead and have a "risng star" on TV was to be an ill-informed lud mouthe jack ass like Beck then the television industry would be filled with...

Oh wait.

[haymark]

4. CNN and ABC acts in its own interest

Beck is bring good ratings and buzz. Why would you want to get rid of that?