Media Matters for America, [ http://mediamatters.org/ ] who is always on guard and on the ball against conservative disinformation in the mass media, and the ones who broke the study that the so-called “liberal bias” in media is a provable myth: [ See: So Much for the Liberal Media… Highlighting “If It’s Sunday, It’s Conservative…” ] have come to the fore again highlighting the actions of CNN, who has recently hired Glenn Beck, far-right conservative hatemonger, to host a show on CNN Headline News.

CNN has one of the most lucrative and accessable news networks in the world, and one would have thought that they would have more journalistic integrity and forethought than to allow a man on the air who has called illegal immigrants “terrorists,” or “people who can’t make a living in their own dirtbag country,” carte blanche to bring his not-at-all unique brand of hatred and ignorance to the airwaves and into millions of homes. I’m sure he’s dancing a jig to have the opportunity to make his horrible beliefs mainstream, but Media Matters (and I) won’t let him if we have anything to say about it.

Just in case you don’t know the oozing scab on the face of mass media that is Glenn Beck, allow me to give you some of his statements, highlighted thanks to Media Matters, and then we’ll finish up on how to contact CNN and let them know you hate him as much as the rest of America does:

In anticipation of Beck’s scheduled May 8 debut, Media Matters has compiled these and other Beck comments (which, although recent, for the most part precede Jautz’s laudatory press release):

* On antiwar protestor Cindy Sheehan: “That’s a pretty big prostitute.”

* Also on Cindy Sheehan: She is “pimping out the tragedy of her own son’s death for her own agenda.”

* On former President Jimmy Carter: “Is there a bigger waste of skin than Jimmy Carter?”

* On a Nigerian public information campaign to fight bird flu: “They’ve actually resorted to radio jingles. … Are we as dumb as Nigeria?”

* To the 7-year old African-American author of a controversial poem: “You want to go to Africa? I will personally purchase your airfare.”

* On immigration protests: Mexico “is a country that has been overtaken by lawbreakers from the bottom to the top. And now, what you’re protesting for is to have lawbreakers come here.”

* Responding to criticism of his remarks on immigration protests: “[I] pretty much stand by” the assertion that “Mexico is run by nothing but criminals.”

* On American Indians in South Dakota considering skirting a state ban on abortion: They “will have found something that can be more profitable than casinos, and that’s abortion clinics.”

* Suggesting “politically correct” names for bunker-buster nuclear weapons: “[B]utterfly bomb,” “climate-control device,” “[b]omb de tropical. … We could use that one in Venezuela.”

* On immigrants entering illegally from Mexico: Either “they’re terrorists,” “they’re escaping the law,” or “[t]hey can’t make a living in their own dirtbag country.”

Additionally, during a discussion of George Clooney’s remarks at the March 5 Academy Awards ceremony, in which Clooney argued that Hollywood had been advocating action on civil-rights issues and AIDS before it was popular to do so, Beck responded to Clooney by imitating the voice of a “blackface” actor.

Oh but the parade goes on! Allow me a few more:

* A mock radio jingle for the species of grouper formerly known as the “jewfish,” containing the line: “Close your eyes and try to picture a great big friendly jewfish — that is unless you’re Jewish. Oh yeah, and that reminds us: Jewfish get real stinky if you leave them in the car.”

* Several short segments listing “rejected NCAA team names,” including: “the Los Angeles Limp-Wrists,” “the New Jersey Jumpin’ Jews,” and “the Atlanta Murdering Rampage of Savage Rapin’ Injuns.”

* A satirical song about the reformed “New KKK”: The song details the fictitious organization’s practice of “close-to-painful murdering of the dark people.”

* A musical mock-tribute to illegal border crossers: The singer refers to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) as a “wasted” “leprechaun.” An announcer says Mexico’s “main contribution to American society is the deflowering of our teenage daughters on spring break.”

* A segment titled “Real Iranian A-holes”: The narrator alleges that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “had relations with a goat.”

* Several segments featuring the misadventures of “Middle Eastern superheroes” named “Kandahar” and “Jalalabad”: The two blow themselves up at the end of many episodes.

* A mock preview of High Beams, a “five-minute movie” featuring “still pictures” of Jennifer Aniston’s “jugs.”

* A song titled, “I Like Chinese”: The singer brands the Chinese “small” and “cuddly,” stating that “they only come up to your knees” and “they all have names like Wang and Chung and Sun-Ji.”

And that’s not all he’s got either. He’s dissed Nicholas Berg’s grieving father, whose son was beheaded in Iraq, survivors of Hurricane Katrina, and even the families of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

People like Beck believe they’re “edgy” and “in touch” with their hateful rhetoric, they think that by being “un-policitally correct,” they somehow validate the racism, sexism, homophobia, and all-around hate that they embody, and the rest of us level-headed Americans are here to say it’s not true. It aggrivates me to no end that people like Beck think that their bigotry and ignorance is acceptable, much less worthy of praise. Well, let’s do something about it, and send Beck back to the spiderhole he crawled out from.

Email CNN and let them know how you feel. My email’s already sent, and I can only suggest that you send one too. You may wish to include the fact that you’re passing along word of CNN’s transgression, and I know I for one have every intention or not just changing the channel if this man gets his chance to be on television, but I’ll reccomend everyone else do the same, and talk with your dollars too-choose competitors and alternatives of products and services advertised on Headline News and that support his show. More information on the hatemonger himself as well as contact information for him, CNN, CNN Headline News, and their feedback form (which is what I used) are at the link below.

[ Bigoted Beck Set for CNN Debut ]
Source: Media Matters for America