|
Author
|
Topic: End of Day -- 3/7/2011
|
7x7
New Member
Member # 8408
|
posted
Well first of all, he wasn't kicked off the air He was requested to stop spreading potentially unfounded accusations, and he threw a fit and resigned. That isn't an action that was taken by the station, so you can't blame them.
Second, this doesn't have anything to do with free speech. The government wasn't "censoring" him. Besides, the radio station was asking him to tone it down. Not stop completely. If this is the second guy who's been ranting about Islam, obviously the radio station doesn't have anything against people with a bone to pick about Islam. Seriously, this guy reminds me of a kid; "if I can't have it my way, then I don't want it at all!"
Finally, I love how, even though they couldn't find any evidence of CAIR influence, they totally just KNOW that it was them. Here's an idea, why don't we just kick all of them dastardly Muslims out of the country? Just in case, right? Never can be too safe, huh?
Oh, and while President Obama sure isn't doing a lot of good for the economy right now, let's all remember who put us in this septic tank in the first place, eh?
[ April 06, 2011, 09:52 AM: Message edited by: Carol Swenson ]
Posts: 3 | From: Rapid City | Registered: Dec 2010
| IP: Logged | 
|
|
WildB
Moderator
Member # 2917
|
posted
Monday, March 7, 2011
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
BREAKING NEWS
The Associated Press is reporting that after a two-year delay President Obama will restart military trials for terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo Bay.
The Media's "Jihad" Against Peter King
Rep. Peter King (R-NY), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, will do something this week that is long overdue: He will hold a hearing to determine "the extent of radicalization in the American Muslim community." In announcing the hearing, set for Thursday, King said:
"We will examine al Qaeda's latest and dangerous tactic of radicalizing members of the American Muslim community and recruiting them to engage in jihadist attacks against innocent Americans. We will also examine the American Muslim community's response to the growing threat. … This life-and-death issue is too important to ignore in the name of political correctness."
Why is Rep. King holding this hearing? In December, Attorney General Eric Holder told ABC News that Islamic radicalization is "one of the things that keeps me up at night … worrying about people … who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born."
Holder is right to be worried. In the past two years, more than a third of those indicted in America on terrorism charges have been American citizens, such as Major Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square bomber, and Antonio Martinez, a Baltimore construction worker who tried to blow up a military recruiting station.
Faced with these facts, the "mainstream media," instead of investigating what is happening in U.S. mosques to cause radicalization, has launched an investigation against Rep. King. Today's Washington Post features what is by my count the fifth article in recent weeks attempting to distort King's motives. I suspect that is five more articles than the Post has devoted to Islamic radicalization.
Not surprisingly, Muslim advocacy groups like CAIR are outraged by King's plans. In response, the White House dispatched its deputy national security adviser to a northern Virginia mosque this weekend to demonstrate its sensitivity to the Muslim community.
Muslim American Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) has condemned the hearing, saying that it is wrong to investigate a particular religious minority, and prefers instead to focus on radicalization generally. But we're not being attacked by radical Baptists. When was the last time Episcopalian extremists tried to blow up a military recruiting station? The jihadists do not attempt to hide what motivates them. What Rep. King wants to find out is how widespread the problem is and what can be done about it.
Others are also critical. A professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University authored a column in USA Today condemning the hearing, fearing it "might intensify fear, hatred and mistreatment of Muslims." The professor also fretted about the "rapidly spreading anti-Muslim hysteria among us."
Mosques are being built all over America. Universities and school systems are accommodating Muslim students. Reported hate crimes against Muslims are very low. And while reported hate crimes against Jews are up, I don't recall reading any articles condemning the "rapidly spreading anti-Semitism" or "anti-Semitic hysteria" in America.
ACTION ITEM: In spite of the relentless attacks, Rep. King isn't backing down. Good for him! Please take a moment to encourage him for his willingness to investigate Islamic radicalization in America. Pete.King@mail.house.gov to send an email to his office thanking him for his leadership.
CAIR Claims Another Scalp?
Former Congressman Fred Grandy (R-IA) recently resigned from his morning radio show on Washington's WMAL after the station banned Grandy's wife from appearing during the broadcast. Catherine Grandy, known as "Mrs. Fred" on the show, had appeared regularly in segments that exposed radical Islam in America and abroad.
After one recent episode in which she quoted a rabbi who compared radical Islamists to Nazis and expressed her concerns about President Obama's treatment of Israel, station managers kicked her off the show. They also told Fred Grandy to "really tone it down on the Islam stuff." He refused and resigned. While Fred Grandy can't confirm that CAIR was directly involved, this is the second time that a WMAL host critical of Islam has been kicked off the air.
Granted this is just one local station, but if this kind of censorship is happening at a major radio station in the nation's capital, it can happen anywhere in America.
If you care about free speech and support those like Fred Grandy who are willing to speak up, please take a stand. Call WMAL today and tomorrow at (202) 895-2350 or (202) 686-3100. Tell them to stand up for free speech and to stand up against CAIR. It is especially important for folks in the greater Washington area, including Virginia and Maryland, to call and to tell WMAL that its political correctness is costing it listeners.
Don't Be Fooled
According to the latest government figures, the unemployment rate fell below 9% last week. The media were quick to trumpet this "good news" report of an improving economy as evidence that America is on the right track. Don't be fooled.
Experts who have taken a closer look at the report are concerned. As CNBC's Rick Santelli notes, the jobs report has a dark side: "The official size of the U.S. labor force is shrinking. …the percentage of Americans not working or even trying to join the work force is at a near three-decade high," Santelli wrote.
In other words, there are fewer Americans working and fewer Americans paying taxes to support the left's bloated, big government agenda. That's why even with "good news" on the economy, we can still get headlines like this: "Government Posts Biggest Monthly Deficit Ever."
* * * * *
If you are interested in receiving Mr. Bauer’s daily report by e-mail, please call 703-671-9700, visit SIGN UP FOR GARY BAUER’S "END OF DAY REPORT" or simply send a reply e-mail titled
![[Cross]](graemlins/cross.gif)
--------------------
That is all.....
Posts: 8775 | From: USA, MICHIGAN | Registered: Mar 2004
| IP: Logged |
|
|
|
Printer-friendly view of this topic
