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Tell CBS News not to Legitamize Fringe Group

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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.(petition link at my site figrd thanks for taking the time friends ...) Tell CBS... more

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Appearing a campaign event for Newt Gingrich in Florida, Michael Reagan encouraged attendees not to “go home and forget about it.”

“If you can think of the liberals, think of them as termites eating away at the foundations of your home each and every day,” he advised. “See, that’s what they do every day. See, we can’t afford to let them keep doing that. We can’t just go home and forget about and pick up the torch three days from now or four days from now. We have to be involved each and every day if we’re going to stop all that.”

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“My God, I know there’s a lot of people looking for Ronald Reagan. My God, you gotta know we would all love to have my father back. But let me tell you something, if you wake up in the morning and you yearn to be free, if you wake up in the morning and you see that shining city on the hill and you want that shining city on the hill back where it belongs, and you want America to once again be the proudest nation in the world and have people look up to us then guess what? You found Ronald Reagan. He’s living in each and every one of you.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/31/michael-reagan-think-of-liberals-as-termites/

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