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WASHINGTON — Rabbis published an open letter on Thursday urging Fox News to reprimand conservative anchor Glenn Beck for what they called repeated use of inappropriate references about Nazism and the Holocaust.
A group of some 400 Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist and Orthodox rabbis published the demands in a full page ad in The Wall Street Journal.
The open letter to Fox News Channel chairman Rupert Murdoch demanded an apology for Beck's "unacceptable attacks" against billionaire financier George Soros, a liberal philanthropist who also is Jewish.
The rabbis were also critical of Fox News chief Roger Ailes, who has defended Beck's use of Nazi references and called NPR radio executives "Nazis" for firing Fox commentator and former radioman Juan Williams.
Ailes has also dismissed Beck's Jewish critics as "left-wing rabbis".
That last sentence is the funniest part of this whole thing. This is a group of Conservative rabbis, some who are even ultraconservative. What is the response of FOX News to the letter? To call them Leftists and Liberals. This, my friends, is the mindset of FOX News, in a nutshell. Whoever disagrees with them is automatically Liberal.
Finally, the issue here is not about George Soros, who happens to be a Liberal. The issue is this: As we celebrate Holocaust Remembrance Day, which just passed, we need to make damn sure that the remembrance is about the Holocaust. And propagandists masquerading as a legitimate news organization belittles what happened in Germany during that hellish period, when they use it to attack those who disagree with their points of view.
I remember when Bush was in office, and Liberals were calling him a Nazi. FOX News defended Bush, and called those Liberals reprehensible in their portrayal of him as one. Now that a Liberal is in their gun sights, FOX News has absolutely no problem doing the exact same thing the Liberals did, and that FOX News called shameful - Calling opponents Nazis.
So, to FOX News, I say this: By your own standards, you are now Liberals. Now that you know this, are you guys going to go out and commit suicide? :mrgreen:
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