posted on December 25, 2003 10:20:14 AM
I found this part regarding the blitz on show sponsors calling for them to pull their advertising especially interesting....
::Comment: CAIR here rejects the American principle of free speech and the belief that differences in opinion should be dealt with through reasoned discourse – it wants to close down debate. I can think of no U.S. organizations – except militant Islamic ones – that deploy comparable tactics. ::
I guess he's never heard of the Christian Right.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on December 30, 2003 09:45:57 AM
On 12-22 G.E. decided to return to the Paul Harvey Show as their sponsors. Because it heard from a "significant" number of listeners who protested the decision to punish PH.
posted on December 30, 2003 12:24:12 PM
How is this any different from the pressure applied to CBS to drop the Reagan tv-movie? Or O'Reilly's successfull campagn toget a fast food chain to drop a certain rapper's commercials? Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
Because it heard from a "significant" number of listeners who protested the decision to punish PH.
