TIDES CEO told FOX that they would have blood on their hands if they didn't drop Beck

[tblue37]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/15/tides-foundation-ceo-glenn-beck_n_764470.html

"Tides Foundation CEO To Fox News Advertisers: Drop Glenn Beck Or Have Blood On Your Hands"
Sam Stein

In an extraordinary move to nip the inflammatory commentary coming from Glenn Beck, the founder and CEO of the Tides Foundation (a frequent Beck target) has written advertisers asking them to remove their sponsorship of the Fox News program or risk having "blood on their hands."

Drummond Pike, who along with his organization was recently targeted by an assassin inspired by Beck's program, penned a letter on Friday to the Chairmen of the Boards of JP Morgan Chase, GEICO, Zurich Financial, Chrysler, Direct Holdings Americas, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Lilly Corporate Center, BP, and The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

In it, he detailed the alarm he felt over having a "person carrying numerous guns and body armor" attempt to start a "revolution" by murdering "my colleagues and me." <snip>

This is from the letter the TIDES CEO wrote to FOX's advertisers:

To say we were "shocked" does not adequately describe our reaction. Imagine, for a moment, that you were us and, had it not been for a sharp eyed highway patrolman, a heavily armed man in full body armor would have made it to your office with the intent to kill you and your colleagues. His motive? Apparently, it was because the charitable, nonpartisan programs we run are deemed part of a conspiracy to undermine America and the capitalist system, which is hogwash.

I respectfully request that you bring this matter of your company's sponsorship of hate speech leading to violence to the attention of your fellow directors as soon as possible. I believe no responsible company should advertise on Fox News due to its recent and on-going deplorable conduct.
While we may agree to disagree about the role our citizens and our government should play in promoting social justice and the common good, there should be no disagreement about what constitutes integrity and professionalism and responsibility in discourse - even when allowing for and encouraging contending diverse opinions intelligently argued. This is not a partisan issue. It's an American issue. No one, left, right or center, wants to see another Oklahoma City.

The next "assassin" may succeed, and if so, there will be blood on many hands. The choice is yours. Please join my call to do the right thing in this regard and put Fox News at arm's length from your company by halting your advertising with them.

We should make sure this is kept front and center, too, during this awful time, to remind everyone that this is exactly what happens when such rhetoric gets ramped up.

Don't forget, hate radio was the driving force in the Rwandan genocide!

[FreakinDJ]

1. FUX News - All Hate all the Dam Time

[enough]

2. Your point about Rwandan hate radio is extremely important. (nt)

[Lifelong Protester]

3. We must keep this point front and center. There are consequences

for allowing this type of inflammatory rhetoric to continue unabated on the airwaves.

[gateley]

4. Good letter - I think asking them to put themselves in his place

might give them food for thought. On the other hand, if they receive business and revenue as a result of their advertising, that will be the determining factor.

America. Sigh.

[HughBeaumont]

5. K & R.

These pigs don't even get it. AT all. Hate wields a mighty hand on the weak-minded.

[Rex]

6. And as teh evidence starts piling up, the enablers spin faster

and faster...

[tblue37]

7. Ann Coulter on killing liberals:

I started another post, to showcase Ann Coulter's remarks about how we liberals should be physically intimidated and killed. (Intimidated = terrorized, of course).
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

This quote is proudly displayed on Conservapedia:

"We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors," Conservative Political Action Conference, January 2002. Coulter later clarified what she meant; "when I said we should "execute" John Walker Lindh, I mis-spoke. What I meant to say was 'We should burn John Walker Lindh alive and televise it on prime-time network TV'. My apologies for any misunderstanding that might have occurred" <emphasis added>. http://www.conservapedia.com/Ann_Coulter

I think we should keep their vicious words in front of the public right now.

[Kurovski]

8. Oh, no. That's just satire.

Alcoholic, sociopathic, manipulative, and well-paid satire.

maybe even borderline psychotic. But I'll leave that to the experts.

[tblue37]

9. One of my links isn't working, and I can't edit any more, so here is

a new link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x151595

[Enthusiast]

10. K&R! Fantastic OP! nt

[OneGrassRoot]

11. I've interacted with Mr. Pike...

Wonderful gentleman. He resigned his position after that incident, not necessarily because of what happened, but it's hard to imagine it wasn't part of the reason.

Beck and Palin are circling the drain. Limbaugh started this divisive, violent rhetoric in the 90s. He's the one that needs to be off the airwaves NOW.