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Fox News Horrible Record Attacking Black People! Ban the Presidential Debates Deal! Please Sign Letter

By One Million MySpace Friends for Obama'08 in Ohio! - Apr 9th, 2007 at 1:20 pm EDT

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Dear Friends,

Fox News has a horrible record of attacking Black people, politicians,
and cultural institutions. But, at this very moment, the Congressional
Black Caucus has agreed to partner with Fox News 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--is
shameful. I've signed on with ColorOfChange.org to help prevent them
from making this serious mistake. Will you join us in calling on the
Institute to drop its talks with Fox?

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The CBC Institute, an organization led by Black members of Congress,
claims to share ColorOfChange.org's goal of politically empowering
Black America. But after being presented with the case against Fox
and hearing vocal opposition from over 12,000 ColorOfChange.org
members, the CBC Institute elected to complete a deal with Fox.
We'd expect that they would recognize the obvious: that validating
Fox News as legitimate hurts Black America, and undermines the
CBC's credibility.

Fox's record is horrible. Their on-air personalities and regular
guests consistently marginalize Black politicians, 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 Fox 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 News:

* 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... if 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 (Fox regularly selects Black guests it knows will
undermine Black causes). 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 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 it's record, Fox News shouldn't enjoy the support of Black
political or cultural institutions connected to the Congressional
Black Caucus. We believe (or at least hope) 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.

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Thanks.

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By Jacob P Secrest Apr 17th 2007 at 8:43 am EDT

I have nothing to say about this post itself, this is more a general message about this group, or more specifically, its title.

You never put a dash in between "O-H" and "I-O", you put a space, so it's "O-H I-O", not "O-H-I-O".

Idiots.

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By JoeStout May 4th 2007 at 2:38 am EDT

Discussion in this group has far more potential than how to chant ohio. We have hit a major crossroads in Ohio politics. A State of such potential as Ohio should not be in economic ruins. We are a strong and resourceful state full of patriots. There is an election at hand. A potential change in our current policy. Lets keep our heads to the sky and our feet on the ground. There are extraordinary candidates running in this election and we need to make our voices heard on who we feel is qualified to represent our people.

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By Yvonne H. May 12th 2007 at 3:20 pm EDT

Jacob if that is your name. Please stop using this platform for your ego and superego. We are here to put a man in office to change America for the better. If you are satisfied with the way things are then thats fine, however, we don't need hostility and cruelty on this platform. Save your nasty, senseless and maliciuos rhetoric for another blog that caters to that type of dialogue.
UNDERSTAND.

Have A Blessed Life!

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By daniel Apr 17th 2007 at 8:43 am EDT

he's right you know.

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By Yvonne H. May 12th 2007 at 3:14 pm EDT

What we need instead of grammar lessons are Faith, Hope and Charity. Most of all we need Faith, Faith in the fact that America can change and must change for it's own good and for the good of the entire world. This not just an election for politics this is an election for character, principle and morality. Just remember America was built on "God" some of the bricks have fallen but God is still in control. He sits high and looks low. Please stop using this platform to put your feet on other peoples throat.
If you must be mean and nasty go to those chat rooms that appreciate that kind of rhetoric.
Be Blessed!

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By Dee Oct 18th 2007 at 1:32 pm EDT

Yvonne, I agree. I hope our discussions here (of all places) stay true to the spirit of Barack Obama's message of understanding rather than belligerence.

Peace,
Dee

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By S from Clinton, OH Aug 6th 2008 at 1:09 am EDT (Updated Aug 6th 2008 at 1:09 am EDT)

I am a recent independant voter from Clinton. I realize this article, which ownership is not properly claimed, is dated 2007. I watch the Fox news network, as well as CNN and Headline News, on a daily basis. This article is seriously flawed and inaccurate. Anyone who has watched the Fox News network over the years knows this already. After all, Hillary was brave enough to appear on Bill O'Reilly's show. The hosts on Fox are consistenly asking, begging some political figures to appear on their shows....offering them ANYTHING...! I really would like to vote for Obama....but, I am still not completely on his side...........especially, given the worthless articles I have seen on this site.

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By S from Clinton, OH Aug 6th 2008 at 1:12 am EDT (Updated Aug 6th 2008 at 1:12 am EDT)

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