[Peace-discuss] Fw: Tell CNN: stop spreading FOX’s lies

Sat Jul 10 17:19:44 CDT 2010

"What the Liberal Media Allows":

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/07/08/media/index.html


On 7/10/10 3:06 PM, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
> If y're so inclined, pls sign the petition... --Jenifer
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> --- On *Sat, 7/10/10, James Rucker, ColorOfChange.org
> /<no-reply at colorofchange.org>/* wrote:
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> *Tell CNN to stop parroting FOX*
>
> <http://act.colorofchange.org/go/292?id=2143-1141418&akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=1>
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> FOX is using blatant race-baiting to scare White Americans. Now CNN is
> following their lead.
>
> Tell CNN to stop taking FOX's bait and report the full story:
>
> Click here
> <http://act.colorofchange.org/go/292?id=2143-1141418&akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=2>
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>
> Dear Jenifer,
>
> *FOX is up to its old race-baiting tricks. But this time, CNN is repeating
> FOX's distortions and taking them mainstream.*
>
> FOX is claiming that under President Obama, the Department of Justice (DOJ)
> is refusing to prosecute voting rights offenses when the victims are White
> and the perpetrators are Black.^[1] It's a bogus story based on the
> allegations of one former Republican DOJ attorney, and it sidesteps a
> mountain of facts.^[2]
>
> *On Tuesday, FOX complained that other news outlets weren't covering the
> story. The next day, CNN uncritically echoed FOX's distorted story, lending
> it mainstream credibility.* We expect FOX to engage in this kind of
> race-baiting. But CNN should know better, and we need to hold them publicly
> accountable.
>
> *Click the link below to send a message to Jon Klein, head of CNN*, demanding
> CNN stop running with half-baked, racially charged stories from FOX. And then
> please ask your friends and family to do the same:
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> FOX consistently plays to the fear that President Obama will not govern
> Blacks and Whites equally, and they're hard at work promoting this twisted
> narrative again.
>
> The story that FOX is pushing revolves around an incident on election day
> 2008 in which several men from a small, fringe organization called the New
> Black Panther Party (NBPP -- no relationship to the original Black Panther
> Party) stood in front of a polling place in a majority Black voting district,
> one of them carrying a nightstick. The Bush Justice Department charged them
> with civil voter intimidation charges, after deciding that the case didn't
> meet the bar for criminal charges.^[3] After Obama took office, the
> Department of Justice dropped most of the remaining charges, saying that they
> weren't supported by the facts and the law, while obtaining an injunction
> against the man who had been carrying a nightstick.^[4]
>
> But in FOX's hands, the story has become that the case was dropped because of
> anti-White policies in the Obama administration, with Andrew Breitbart and
> host David Asman effectively calling the President a racist.^[5] *CNN's
> willingness to follow FOX's lead is inexcusable.*
>
> The New Black Panther story is built on the claims of one man -- J. Christian
> Adams, a former Justice Department official who claims that the Obama
> administration dropped the NBPP case because of race.^[6] But even the most
> basic digging reveals that Adams is nothing more than a conservative activist
> hired by a Bush administration that was hell-bent on politicizing the Justice
> Department and subverting its civil rights enforcement mission.^[7] *During
> the Bush years -- the bulk of Adams' tenure at the DOJ -- civil rights
> enforcement decreased. The DOJ failed to even investigate numerous clear
> civil rights violations when the victims were Black and Latino, especially
> allegations involving voting rights.*^[8]
>
> CNN has repeatedly allowed Adams to air his twisted views without allowing
> opposing perspectives or telling the full story of Adams' past. CNN calls
> itself "the most trusted name in news," but they just became complicit in a
> right wing effort to smear President Obama and Attorney General Holder as
> racists. Help hold them accountable now:
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> The fact is that there's simply no evidence to support Adams' claims. No
> "victims" -- White or otherwise -- have stepped forward to say that they were
> intimidated on the day in question.^[9]
>
> Even Abigail Thernstrom, GOP-appointed vice chair of the U.S. Commission on
> Civil Rights, which is now investigating the situation, blasted Adams, his
> theory, and the path it's forced the commission to pursue. She sees it as an
> embarrassment. Thernstrom said, "I know Chris Adams very well, and he doesn't
> know why the decision was made." She goes on to call the DOJ's position
> "perfectly plausible" and concludes "I don't think that this inquiry has
> served the interests of the Commission as being a bipartisan watchdog for
> important civil rights violations, and I do not believe it has served well
> the party to which I belong."^[10,11]
>
> *The real danger of FOX*
>
> FOX has consistently stoked the fears of some White Americans that President
> Obama might favor Blacks over Whites -- an irresponsible and dangerous game.
> But it's even more dangerous when other news networks amplify and validate
> what they're doing. This is FOX's plan, and it's important to note that just
> before the story got covered on CNN, FOX spent the previous day accusing the
> other news organizations of not covering the story. They set the bait and CNN
> took it.
>
> It's the same pattern that was used to put ACORN out of business. FOX ran a
> smear-campaign with partial or fabricated information and then got other news
> outlets to follow and run with the same story without digging deeper. Once
> the truth came out, it was too late.^[12]
>
> We expect FOX to lie and distort. But for CNN and others to fall into the
> trap of repeating FOX's claims is a different story. Now, in hopes of
> preventing similar situations in the future, we must fight back. Join us in
> calling on CNN to do real reporting, and not mainstream FOX's distortions and
> lies. And when you do, please ask your family and friends to do the same. It
> only takes a moment:
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>
> Thanks and Peace,
>
> -- James, Gabriel, William, Dani, Milton and the rest of the
> ColorOfChange.org team July 10th, 2010
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> References:
>
> 1. "Fox hypes GOP activist’s “explosive new allegations” against Obama DOJ,"
> Media Matters, 6-30-10
> http://act.colorofchange.org/go/293?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=8
> <http://act.colorofchange.org/go/293?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=7>
>
> 2. “Almost Everything You Need To Know About The New Black Panther Party
> Case,” The American Prospect Blog, 7-6-10
> http://act.colorofchange.org/go/294?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=10
> <http://act.colorofchange.org/go/294?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=9>
>
> 3. “O’Reilly Factor ludicrously blames Obama for not pressing criminal
> charges in New Black Panthers case,” Media Matters, 7-7-10
> http://act.colorofchange.org/go/295?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=12
> <http://act.colorofchange.org/go/295?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=11>
>
> 4. Judgment, US vs. New Black Panther Party for Self Defense, 5-18-09
> http://act.colorofchange.org/go/306?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=14
> <http://act.colorofchange.org/go/306?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=13>
>
> 5. "Breitbart, Asman agree Obama is 'defending racism' in Black Panthers
> case, which is 'virtually the same' as being racist," Media Matters, 7-6-10
> http://act.colorofchange.org/go/296?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=16
> <http://act.colorofchange.org/go/296?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=15>
>
> 6. “CNN omits GOP criticism of Black Panther investigation,” Media Matters,
> 7-7-10 http://act.colorofchange.org/go/297?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=18
> <http://act.colorofchange.org/go/297?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=17>
>
> 7. “Christian Adams’ case continues to implode: Bush-era DOJ declined to
> charge Minutemen for voter intimidation,” Media Matters, 7-1-10
> http://act.colorofchange.org/go/298?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=20
> <http://act.colorofchange.org/go/298?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=19>
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> 8. “Flashback To The Bush Days At The DoJ,” The American Prospect blog,
> 7-6-10 http://act.colorofchange.org/go/299?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=22
> <http://act.colorofchange.org/go/299?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=21>
>
> 9. US Commission on Civil Rights hearing, 4-23-10
> http://act.colorofchange.org/go/300?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=24
> <http://act.colorofchange.org/go/300?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=23>
>
> 10. “Adams' credibility continues to crumble,” Media Matters, 7-5-10
> http://act.colorofchange.org/go/301?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=26
> <http://act.colorofchange.org/go/301?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=25>
>
> 11. “The New Black Panther Case: A Conservative Dissent,” National Review
> Online, 7-6-10
> http://act.colorofchange.org/go/302?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=28
> <http://act.colorofchange.org/go/302?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=27>
>
> 12. "Extra, Extra—Read All About ACORN," The Nation blog, 1-5-10
> http://act.colorofchange.org/go/303?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=30
> <http://act.colorofchange.org/go/303?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=29>
>
> Additional resources:
>
> “Manufactured scandal: Right wing’s phony allegations against the Justice
> Department,” Media Matters, 7-7-10
> http://act.colorofchange.org/go/304?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=32
> <http://act.colorofchange.org/go/304?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=31>
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> “New Black Panther Party Primer,” The American Prospect blog, 7-7-10
> http://act.colorofchange.org/go/305?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=34
> <http://act.colorofchange.org/go/305?akid=1502.394109.znUSH3&t=33>
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