[Peace-discuss] at SignOn: NPR, CFR: Don't Enable Elliott Abrams' Smear Campaign on Chuck Hagel

[Robert Naiman]

I can't change the petition text, but I can change the explanatory text.
I'll try my hand at that now. Also (in response to other feedback) I'll
include the fact that Elliott Abrams pled guilty to lying to Congress in
the Iran-Contra scandal.

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Stuart Levy <salevy at illinois.edu> wrote:

>
> On 1/11/13 12:17 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
>
>
>  It doesn't call for NPR to not say something. It doesn't call for any
> specific action. It just says "not enable."
>
>  I think there two acceptable paths:
>
>  1) not have someone like Elliott Abrams on as a guest
> 2) have him on, but have him seriously challenged.
>
>  NPR did neither one.
>
>  This would be a good thing to say as part of the text of the petition.
> I did sign, but would be happier - and maybe others would too - with more
> guidance as to what it means to not be an enabling news source.   (1) + (2)
> make sense to me.
>
>
>  The BBC, if they were going to do an interview like that, would have
> someone who was prepared to really challenge, either a reporter who was
> prepared to really challenge, or another guest who was prepared to really
> challenge, *at the same time.* It doesn't undo the damage of a smear to
> have someone else on at another time who says something else.
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu
> > wrote:
>
>> And it calls for NPR *not* to say something.
>>
>>  NPR has become a shameful apologist for government crimes, but the cure
>> for bad speech is more speech, not less.
>>
>>
>>  On Jan 11, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Robert Naiman <
>> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:
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>>  The point here is Elliott Abrams, not Chuck Hagel or Barack Obama.
>> There's nothing in the petition that says I support Obama or Hagel. It's
>> all about Elliott Abrams.
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Carl G. Estabrook <
>> galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> And give Obama cover for his child-murders?
>>>
>>>
>>>   On Jan 11, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Robert Naiman <
>>> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>    Can you help me get this rolling?
>>>
>>>
>>> http://signon.org/sign/npr-cfr-dont-enable-elliott?source=c.url&r_by=1135580
>>>
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> Just Foreign Policy
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> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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