Posted on 08/23/2005 6:39:18 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
Tell the gutless weasels at WMAL and ABC Radio what you think about their actions here:
http://www.abcradio.com/index.cfm?bay=comm.vpcontact
http://www.630wmal.com/contactus.asp
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2005
IT'S NICE TO KNOW ABC RADIO MADE SOMEBODY HAPPY: "CAIR applauded WMAL's decision [to fire Graham]. The organization had asked the station for a retraction or an apology, but 'we didn't get specific on what [Graham] should say,' said Rabiah Ahmed, a spokeswoman. 'We were looking for an acknowledgment that his statements were anti-Muslim and hateful, and harmful to our community and our country's image.'
DOES ANYONE REALLY "CAIR?" Some of the CYA spin now coming from the folks who caved into CAIR's demands is that CAIR's pressure had nothing to do with my firing. Instead, I was fired because...and then the story breaks down. Because I wouldn't apologize (would you be asking for an apology if CAIR weren't protesting?), or because the station found my comments offensive (then why did you let me spend FOUR DAYS IN A ROW saying them on the air without objection?).
Well, let's check the record. After four days of happily broadcasting my "controversial comments" on 630 WMAL, CAIR mounts a campaign of complaint. Listeners support my comments on loaded phone lines. Result: I'm suspended without pay.
After I'm suspended, CAIR issues a press release (July 29th) complaining that suspension isn't enough and I should be fire. Listeners swamp the station to support me and oppose my suspension. Result: I'm fired.
Now, it could be that ignoring your own listeners and making decisions to outrage them is a new business model for successful talk radio. It could be a mere coincidence that the station happened to give CAIR what it wanted.
Hey--I report, you decide.
Again when has SH been overseas to see the troops.
As long he toes the cooperate bottom line he can say anything he wants, and get all the free vacations at mouse land he needs.
Does anyone have info on Michael Graham's ratings? In Washington, he's up against some tough competition: Laura Ingraham and Tony Snow. Maybe WMAL just took this as an opportunity to get rid of him. I hope their decision comes back to bite them.
Thanks for the ping
This guy needs to write a book and go on the lecture circuit and bring the light of day to the activities and motives of CAIR!
ABC/Disney is one of the most pathetic, craven anti-American corporations on the planet. One does well to avoid them, whether working for them or making use of their "entertainment" services. Mr. Graham is better off shaking the mouse-droppings from his shoes. Guys like him and Bob Grant know all too well the kind of feckless vermin that run Disney.
This is broadcast radio - not XM or Satellite and thus controlled by the FCC - so in a way there actually is government involvement.
Better think that through again. If this is a First Amendment issue, then the liberals can claim conspiracy to suppress their views.
The Fairness Doctrine has been scrapped. Broadcast radio companies have no obligation to air all political views. Graham's silly hyperbole is the stuff of liberal whingers.
OK but IIRC muslims have sued private companies (I think DELL) that wouldn't allow them to stop working so they could pray.
So when muslims want to tell a private business when they will work it's OK and now it looks like muslims can tell another private company (ABC) what their talk show hosts can talk about.
Looks like they just win all the way around.
And wasn't there a case here down in FL where a non-muslim woman was working for a muslim company and she was fired because she ATE FOOD the muslim owners didn't approve of?
> private employers are not required to air every view.
Right, but free speech is an American thing. His employer is Anti-American.
ABC radio isn't interested in presenting two sides of any story, only the left wing cloying stance of here we are, lovers of Muslim killers and killers of truth tellers.
Trying to wrap one's own situation in the First Amendment is enough silly hyperbole for me. That's a liberal crying tactic.
If he doesn't sue ABC and CAIR for at least a billion dollars then he is just a whiner.
I would love to see ABC make the case that Islam isn't related to terrorism before a citizen jury.
I wonder if he'll be a guest on any talk show?
Has the ACLU offered their 1st Amendment support to
Graham? (sarcasm)
Paging XM Radio....
That would be true, except ABC didn't have a problem
with what Graham said until CAIR complained.
Give them an inch and nothing would satisfy CAIR until he
was fired.
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