Posted on 08/19/2007 11:13:35 AM PDT by kristinn
I have been invited to appear on the Andrea Shea King Show tonight to speak about the defamation of Free Republic by Fox News and Fox's Washington, D.C. affiliate WTTG Fox 5.
The Andrea Shea King Show is broadcast live Sundays from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. on WDBO-AM 580 in Orlando, Florida. The show is live streamed on the Internet. I am scheduled to be on at the top of the 10 o'clock hour after the news break.
To listen online click the source link above.
I held a press conference Friday morning to fight back against the outrageous false charges being leveled against FR by Fox. CNN and Fox News sent cameras to record it. CNSNews.com and CNN sent reporters. I told them that while FR was not inclined to sue, the defamations by Fox must be resolved with retractions, public apologies and substantial donations to charities for our troops in order to avoid any prospective legal action.
WTTG Fox 5 pulled their defamatory story off their website Friday afternoon after I spoke with an assistant to the station's general manager. That was the first step of several that will have to made to end this matter.
FYI.
You’re a Godsend
thanks for the info!
I’ve been less attentive than I should be - what did they say?
You could randomly pick a time and compare the last few hundred posts of FR and hold them against any liberal site, and I guarantee the posts at the liberal sites would be far more vulgar and hateful than what is found here. I also know that any truly racist or hateful post would be pulled from this site far faster than any of the leftwing sites.
Great work.
I wonder if that FoxNews bit was fallout from Bill O’Reilly’s inaccurate segment about FR. It is outrageous that BOR did not go on the air and admit that the quotes he claimed were “hate” on FR were either made-up or taken out of context.
BOR slimed FR in order to equate it with DailyKos so as to appear “fair and balanced.” But it is a telling point that the F-bomb is found thousands of times on Kos, but not on FR.
Said that FreeRepublic was a right-wing hate site {Bill O’Reilly-O’Reilly Factor). WTTG, Channel 5, a FOX affiliate made similar charges but later, the story was deleted from it’s website.
We’re fortunate to have such an articulate and media-savvy spokesman in you. Thanks for all you do, Kristinn.
Will be listening! Get out the truth.....FR is a site where patriots ‘gather’ to express their love of country and our brave troops and their families.
God bless you, Kristinn, for standing up for our country and for being a great representative of all of us who support America and our troops.
I've been on FR for more than ten years, and have never even THOUGHT about using the F-bomb.
I've rarely seen it (before the trolling post is deleted) in all those years.
The MSM is trying to take out Free Republic before the next election.
BOR has done a great service in a number of areas, especially shining a light on out-of-control judges and their loony rulings. I would really hate for him to alienate himself from FR and Freepers in a Don Imus type scenario. Imus at least apologized and took it like a man.
For those inclined to believe shutting up and letting the story die is the answer instead of fighting back, it has been a policy of the adults too long, and hasn’t succeeded. We cannot let THEM get away with their LIE.
Thank you Kristinn for your efforts. We need to get retraction, and apologies, and make that the NEWS.
BOR may, or may not have done what he did (LIE) for the purpose of “Fairness and Balance, but the fact is he LIED, and the results are defamation of a truly Patriotic site.
Thanks again Kristinn for representing FR, and thanks for your great work.
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Do you have a link to a post outlining the defamation of Free Republic by Fox News and Fox's Washington, D.C. affiliate WTTG Fox 5? I am afraid I missed it.
Check out the top FR thread at the search below. BOR is a nutcase.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=oreilly
You could read all day here and probably not see anything particulaly offensive.
If it is suggested that even a small amount of offensive material is unacceptable, one might bring up Julianne Malveaux who has appeared on CNN, PBS, &c. AFTER suggesting concering Supreme Court Justice Thomas:
The man is on the Court. You know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that’s how I feel. He is an absolutely reprehensible person.At least FR bans people like this from offending again.
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Fox5 anchor Shawn Yancy: "Well you don't have to hit the GW Parkway to find those racist rants. They're as close as your home computer." Fox5 anchor Brian Bolter: "That's right, even hatemongers have figured out the Internet is out there. It's a way to take their movement mainstream. And as Fox5's Sherri Ly reports, they are taking their hate high tech"
The segment opens up with footage of hooded Klansmen, KKK cross burnings and skinhead rallies with voices screaming, "We are the Ku Klux Klan, we are one race!" and "White power!" Then the reporter, Sherri Ly, says: "Rallies, protests, cross burnings. These are the methods used by hate groups--until now. Through videos on the Internet, blogs and websites, hate groups can spread their message to millions. Activist Gustavo Torres has seen it first hand."
Gustavo Torres: "They are going to kill me. That they are...I need to go back to my country. If I disappear for two or three hours, people are starting to be concerned about that."
(Screen shot of top left corner of Free Republic home page) Sherri Ly: "On the conservative website Free Republic bloggers posted Torres' picture (screen grab of picture of Torres) and veiled threats. (Screen grab of comment focused on phrases: "huge powderkeg") The root of their hatred: illegal immigration. And Torres is enemy number one--as executive director of Casa of Maryland. A group that provides support to Hispanic immigrants."
Gustavo Torres: "The last report that we had is that (there are) more than eight hundred different hate groups since 2000. Many of them are attacking Casa and the immigrant community in the Washington metro area."
(Screen grab of website page graphic: "Civil War and Reconquista" followed by screenshot of a post to tgslTakoma on FR of a sentence with the phrase "threats aginst children" highlighted (timestamped "02/24/2006 12:37:51 P.M. P(ST)), followed by another "Civil war and Reconquista" full screen graphic, followed by what appears to be another screen grab from FR with the phrase "citizenship and a chance to strike a blow" highlighted.
Sherri Ly: "As the immigration debate has grown, Torres says the attacks have become more racist, antagonistic and violent. And the Internet is their breeding ground. Just look at what we found. Skinheads in concert promoting white power. Thousands watch white nationalist news. Then there's the hooded Klansmen, swastikas and neo-nazis. It's all there on You Tube." (Matching video clips played.)
Next there's an interview with David Friedman from the Anti-Defamation League. Ly notes the ADL considers the American Renaissance a hate group. Then American Renaissance leader Jared Taylor is interviewd by Ly. Taylor talks about American Renaissance videos being posted on You Tube.
Ly gives cover to You Tube: "You Tube prohibits hate speech which contains slurs or malicious stereotypes. But with millions of videos, the website counts on its viewers to do most of the policing."
Back to Gustavo Torres and two views of a screen grab of a comment on FR that focuses on the phrases 'huge powderkeg' and 'juggling matches' (timestamped 02/24/06 1:27 (timezone unseen) that sets up this insinuation that FR was behind the attempted torching of a day labor center:
Sherri Ly: "The attacks come in e-mails and blogs, but recently the threats became more than words for Gustavo Torres when someone tried to burn down Casa's worker center in Gaithersburg."
Gustavo Torres: "It was a hate crime."
Sherri Ly: "The center's still standing, but the accelerant left a stain on the ground--a reminder of the threat that still exists."
Gustavo Torres: "We are going to take any, you know, security measure. We are, as I mentioned before, are working with the police to ensure that those kind of different situations again we immediately report to them."
Sherri Ly: "The FBI and police can make arrests, but modern day messengers of hate know they can reach millions over the Internet. Shut down one website another one pops up. In this fight only people can stop hate from spreading. Sherri Ly, Fox5 News."
The report closes out with screen shots including a photo of a tattoed racist with swastika tattoos on his shoulders and 'Hitler' tattooed in large letters across his chest.
Anchor Brian Bolter: "You Tube says alert them to any video and they will take it down. For more information about how you can fight hate go to MyFoxDc.com, click on 'Seen on TV'."
BTW, the reporter's last name is pronounced 'Lee'.
YEA! HALLELUJAH!
CONGRATS ON ALL YOUR EFFORTS AND SUCCESSES.
PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION!
LORD, GOD ALMIGHTY, PLEASE PREPARE THE WAY BEFORE KRISTINN.
OVERSHADOW HIM WITH YOUR SPIRIT, AN EXTRA PLATOON OF ANGELS.
MAY HE FIND SPECIAL FAVOR WITH ALL THE LISTENERS AND WITH ALL WHO NEED TO RECOGNIZE THEIR ERRORS AND MAKE RESTITUTION.
MAY HIS WISE WORDS HAVE INCREDIBLE PUNCH AND MAY THEIR WISDOM AND TRUTHFULNESS LEAVE THE LIBERAL . . . . characters . . . . SHAKING THEIR HEADS IN AWE.
Give him uncommon peace and deep rest as needed.
Give him a holy fierceness that is both fierce and attractive.
Give him crystal clarity to the most clueless.
Give him vividness in ways that strike to the heart of those who listen.
Continue to give him courage and strength.
May all who contend with him feel an overwhelming respect for him and what he says regardless of their biases.
May his inner humility overshadow and outshine all the arrogance on the other side.
May his assertiveness be stalwart and attractive.
May each step and word be ordered of your highest whether he knowns it consciously or not.
May you reward him super abundantly 10 times over for all his caring and efforts in such regards.
May all his family relationships be ever closer and more warmly intimate and mutually supportive, understanding, fun, joyful, enriched.
May his family be super provisioned, super safe, super blessed with joy, fun and all things good, enriched, clearly guided, . . .
Father, God, we so appreciate all his efforts . . . I don’t know how to pray better for him. I just want all things good for him and his and all assistance possible for him.
IN Jesus’ Name.
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