Tell CBS News not to Legitamize Fringe Group
source: http://figrd.blogspot.com/2012/02/tell-cbs-news-dont-legitimize.html
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Tell CBS News: Don't Legitimize Discredited Fringe Groups
We find ourselves in the odd position of needing to convince CBS News not to legitimize a viciously anti-gay, widely discredited, birther organization.
Accuracy In Media (AIM) recently announced that it will be giving its annual award to Sharyl Attkisson, a CBS News journalist, at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference. Now don’t let the name fool you, Accuracy In Media is not remotely concerned with accuracy and is actually a fringe group. AIM’s record includes:
In the wake of a string of gay teen suicides, AIM attacked anti-bullying efforts, arguing that it was straight kids who were actually the victims of gay bullies citing "lesbian gangs assaulting innocent girls;" AIM was also a staunch defender of Uganda's 'Kill The Gays' legislation.
AIM is a birther organization that, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, feeds the right-wing lie that President Obama was not born in the United States.
AIM also peddles climate science misinformation, claiming that global warming is a "fraud" and even challenging the scientific fact that carbon dioxide is a "planet-heating pollutant."
Now to be clear, we’re not making hay merely because AIM named a CBS News journalist as a recipient of this award. After all, CBS can’t control what another organization does, let alone a fringe group. We didn’t expect CBS News to treat AIM or this award seriously, let alone attend CPAC to accept it.
Click Here To Tell CBS News not to legitimize discredited fringe groups.
But yesterday, other news outlets began wondering about this award and asked CBS about it. CBS glossed over AIM’s despicable record and simply stated that its "journalists are regularly honored by a broad spectrum of organizations..." Adding insult to injury, it was subsequently confirmed that Attkisson will accept the award "in person" and deliver an 8-10 minute speech at the extreme right-wing CPAC gathering.
Of note and concern, CBS' Attkisson will be the first reporter from a mainstream network to receive the award. Attkisson’s co-recipient this year is a Breitbart blogger and past recipients include Andrew Breitbart and Michelle Malkin.
By showing up to accept the award, CBS News lends credence to an otherwise discredited fringe organization and helps pave the way for wider acceptance of AIM when just the opposite should be the case.
We're asking CBS for a simple thing: to reconsider its decision to treat a fringe right-wing group seriously by accepting this award in person.
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MSII
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Excellent! A good outcome!
http://action.mediamatters.org/cbs_aim?utm_campaign=cbs_aim&utm_medium=email... - 4 months ago
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MSII
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good_stuff
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Yeah, I'm not sure how a group title Accuracy In Media, that reports lies as truth, has not been sued for false advertising.
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good_stuff
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Tayllerand
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And the sheepple say BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH,BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH........
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Tayllerand
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sugarmountian
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Signed. Thanks Figg.
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sugarmountian
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The_Wanderer_Kansas
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The insane cling to insane ideas... simple psychological principal.
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The_Wanderer_Kansas
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joeredford [removed]
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Some here say that this would be silencing people. How is requesting that an organization not accept awards from bigots silencing them? Preventing a group of haters from achieving recognition and being legitimized is not silencing them. They still have the right of free speech to spew their hate. Nothing will ever stop that.
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warman1138
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Signed, AIM sucks, in marvel comics there is an evil organization called AIM.
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warman1138
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northernexpat
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warman1138:
LOL. I wonder if that is where they got their name.
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northernexpat
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MSII
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warman1138:
I'd say they were the same, except in the comics they were super-scientists and used super technology. These people are obviously not science users. More along the lines of snake-handler-cultists.
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MSII
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nanac
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The mass media is in bed with the Right Wing whores, and that is the reason for the enormous amount of misinformation/propaganda in circulation. They try to suppress the Progressive message while allowing the Conservatives lies to pass as factual information. This is not by accident, but by design. They are no better than Fox News when they give so-called journalists like Andrew Brietbart credibility by giving him airtime, when he is an established racist/liar.
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nanac
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Itsbatman_Durr
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i believe even stupid hateful speech is free. but that doesnt mean they shouldnt be pointed out as the hateful idiots they are, and clearly shown to not be anything close to legit. signed
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Itsbatman_Durr
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SFirman
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Signed! Thanks for the post.
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SFirman
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Leen61
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Signed! Fringe groups who promote hate and intolerance should not be legitimized.
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Leen61
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northernexpat
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CBC should not accept awards from groups that promote intolerance. It is bad enough that these groups actually exist. But I guess it is okay to be homophobic but not gay.
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northernexpat
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trut
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northernexpat:
That's CBS, not CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. There's a big difference in those 2 networks.
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trut
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maasanova
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Silencing people you don't agree with doesn't help solve problems, it only makes them worse.
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maasanova
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TanzaniteDiamonds
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maasanova:
True and that's an understatement.
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TanzaniteDiamonds
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Milieu
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maasanova:
Heart-attack and big one.
We agree on something.^+
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Milieu
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joeredford [removed]
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Milieu:
Sure you don't want to reconsider that agreement? How is trying to prevent a hate group from being legitimized by a well known news organization equal to silencing them?
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joeredford [removed]
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joeredford [removed]
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TanzaniteDiamonds:
Why do you say that ?
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joeredford [removed]
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maasanova
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Milieu:
Finally we agree on something!
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maasanova
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Milieu
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joeredford:
Living in the South in the 50s and 60s, I promise you that the only way to shut insane groups up is by exposing them, not trying to hide them.
Much as SPLC did to Klan. Only after the Klan was exposed did they have to "begin" their collapse.
The main thing that bothers me is that in the current climate (bad pun, I know) of the MSM, they probably won't expose these @$$es for what they are. They'll just let them talk as if they were actually legitimate group.
Much as they do with the Paulistas.
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Milieu
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Milieu:
That's what worries me , allowing them to gain credibility. I don't want them silenced, I just don't want a situation like the one with ABC and that crazed lunatic Andrew Breitbart who achieves journalist status because of the network he is on.
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Milieu
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joeredford:
yep, gotta agree with that.
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Haley35
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I,m Drunk or I dont get it.
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