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Holding Fox News Accountable – Stop the Ads Now!
Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog ^ | 20 Oct 2010 | Wade Rathke

Posted on 10/20/2010 7:20:38 PM PDT by combat_boots

New Orleans It’s amazing how we become inured to the ridiculous, even when it is abusive and preposterous. That’s my cut on Glenn Beck and his ranting, especially when he evokes me as anti-christ and revolutionary. Over the last couple of years, whenever I would mention the absurdity of it all, too often it would end up on Beck’s show on another whiteboard of whackiness, so I followed Huey Long’s old dictum that there is no real defense for a public attack and let it all run off of me like water off a duck’s back.

When I flew into San Francisco a couple of months I got there just as a crazy was in the news having been arrested in a fire fight with the cops as he was headed to do damage to the Tides Foundation, ACLU and others. He’s now conceded he was revved up by Beck and the Fox News fanatics. I didn’t enjoy seeing my name in those articles either, but what can you do, move under a rock? Nada, me! Not because I’m such a cowboy anymore (I swear!), but the work has to be done, and it’s the risk we’ve always lived with….

Well, my friend, Drummond Pike, Tides Founder and CEO, has had enough of this shit and though generally much, much more mellow than me, has reared back and lofted spit right in the eye of not Beck, the puppet, but Rupert Murdoch, the grand master of Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and more. Drummond wrote an excellent letter that’s getting good reviews asking Fox to stop the hate speech before someone else is hurt or killed, and going one better and demanding that Fox advertisers back away from this insanity before it’s too late. Working with Media Matters and

(Excerpt) Read more at chieforganizer.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aclu; acorn; beck; drummondpike; fox; glennbeck; hueylong; mediamatters; rupertmurdoch; soros; tidesfoundation; waderathke; wallstreetjournal
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To: combat_boots
Well, he's wandered outside of the beltway - no slobbering media, no "acting" president...

I love how these great pretender liberals think the world stops and starts at the snap of their fingers...maybe they learned it from catering parents, who knows.

FOX doesn't have to stop any ads. They derive their income from ads.

And shouldn't one be in a position of authority to hold anyone - or anything - "accountable"?

Why isn't this person demanding that michelle obama be "accountable" for her Spain gravy train? Why doesn't he insist the kenyan be "accountable" for the deficit? Maybe a work asking for "accounability" for the housing debacle from Barney Frank?

But Wade Rathke demanding accountability from anyone is a stretch in itself. Was he accountable for orgaizing "draft dodgers"? How about some accounability for the $350K his brother embezzeled?

Maybe he's accountable for his group advising people on how to start brothels with underage, illegal alien girls?

Accountability is not a trademark of the left...and certainly not from Wade Rathke.
41 posted on 10/20/2010 8:11:15 PM PDT by FrankR (You are only obligated to obama to the extent you accept his handouts.)
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To: combat_boots

So Rathke, do you like Gladiator movies?

Have you ever been to a Turkish bathhouse?

Do you sleep under your bed at night?


42 posted on 10/20/2010 8:27:17 PM PDT by Gator113 (Beauty will devour the Beast in 2012. Kill "Obamamosque"@ Ground Zero)
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To: combat_boots

Watch the Media Matters video/audio of the supposed “brainwashed would-be assassin” and it sure seems like a fraud to me. Loaded with weapons and ammo, with a detailed plan to murder the heads of the Tides Foundation and the S.F. ACLU, yet he drives like an idiot on the highway, practically hitting people until he is leading cops on a chase? Gets into a “gun battle” with cops yet survives? when interviewed by cops, and without a lawyer present, spouts more details about what Glenn Beck has said in the past year than I even know (and I DVR it every day)? And how did Media Matters get the police tapes anyway? SUSPICIOUS!


43 posted on 10/20/2010 8:30:27 PM PDT by montag813 (http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona)
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To: Army Air Corps

Is this the Rathke that embezzled a million$ or two (taxpayer money) from ACORN? or the brother who bailed him out and made the problem go away?


44 posted on 10/20/2010 8:33:43 PM PDT by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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To: Publius6961

I believe this is the douchebag who founded ACORN.


45 posted on 10/20/2010 8:41:24 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: combat_boots
Drummond wrote an excellent letter that’s getting good reviews asking Fox to stop the hate speech before someone else is hurt or killed...

This guy lost me here. The only mention is the assertion that hate speech occured. I must confess I have not watched every Beck TV episode, so I may have missed it.

Any progressive troll reading this have a clue what Rathke is talking about?

46 posted on 10/20/2010 8:43:10 PM PDT by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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To: combat_boots
I think Wade should march right over to Beck's studio and have it out with him. Give Beck a good what for. Come on, Wade, man up and prove Beck wrong. Stop using union thugs to do your dirty work.
47 posted on 10/20/2010 8:52:26 PM PDT by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: kcvl

Why the picture of Cindy Sheehan?


48 posted on 10/20/2010 8:54:16 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: combat_boots

FOX has more viewers than the networks and npr combined. Good luck with that dirtbag. It would make terrible business sense to not advertise on FOX.


49 posted on 10/20/2010 8:54:29 PM PDT by gidget7 ("When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: combat_boots
I was thinking of leaving a comment for wade, but it seems he removes any he does not like. I guess he is as against free speech on his blog as he is on tv and radio.
50 posted on 10/20/2010 9:08:12 PM PDT by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: cripplecreek

Beck has mastered Alynsikiing the libs. geogrie sorass has always worked his sliminess from the shadows. Beck calling him out is the best thing. Roaches never stand there and dare you to stomp them when the lights are turned on, they scamper for the shadows.

This “Bounty on Beck” is just empty threats meant to scare us. I for one have very little fear soros or any of his lib slaves will do anything to Beck, they know well that if anything “happens”, the short fuse is lit by them and they nor many libs will survive 100+ million PO’d well armed Patriots with blood in their eye.


51 posted on 10/20/2010 9:17:21 PM PDT by dusttoyou (Let the other side get all wee-wee'd up, Remember come November)
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To: cripplecreek

“I’ve been thinking about this all afternoon and I can’t decide if Glenn has done something that has stirred them up or he is going to do something that has them riled.”

Beck is on to all of them and calls them out constantly. That’s why they want him off the air. I fear for his safety.


52 posted on 10/20/2010 9:26:11 PM PDT by doesnt suffer fools gladly (Liberals lie.)
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To: combat_boots
Not because I’m such a cowboy anymore (I swear!)...

Wade buddy, any of the cast members of Les Cage Aux Folles, or their stay-at-home life partners, could easily kick your ass.

53 posted on 10/20/2010 9:45:37 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly
"Beck is on to all of them and calls them out constantly. That’s why they want him off the air. I fear for his safety."

I do too. We must defend and support Beck at every opportunity.

55 posted on 10/21/2010 12:15:41 AM PDT by blam
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To: kcvl

Drummond Pike campaign donations.

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=&last=PIKE&first=DRUMMOND&city=&zip=94941&xst=&next=50


56 posted on 10/21/2010 4:06:51 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Army Air Corps

I believe ACORN already existed in some form before the Rathke brothers came along. They weren’t great but they weren’t the criminal organization they are now.

Beck showed an interview with Rathke a while back where Rathke talks about going to ACORN for a job. Rathke told them that he would like to take ACORN in the direction they’re going now but was told that ACORN wasn’t about that. They hired Rathke as some sort of coordinator. As soon as they stopped watching him Rathke says he started doing as he pleased. I assume he had to eliminate a lot of people from his path along the way.

Much like Alinsky, he’s nothing more than a scam artist and wannabe thug who uses others to achieve his goals.


57 posted on 10/21/2010 4:27:17 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek

Thanks for the information CC. So, he reshaped ACORN to conform with his own twisted vision.


58 posted on 10/21/2010 6:31:26 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: combat_boots

Drummond Pike’s long winded letter to advertisers is linked to at the bottom of the ACORN blog post.... read it and tell me it doesn’t sound VERY threatening.

He’s essentially saying, stop advertising on FOX, and WSJ or there will be violence.

Also catch this...how probable is it that a devoted Glenn Beck fan would lose his marbles and decide he’s going to commit violent acts targeting Tides Foundation only to give his first jailhouse interview to....Media Matters.

Something ain’t right.


59 posted on 10/21/2010 6:34:01 AM PDT by harmonium
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To: dusttoyou

Zero tolerance for marxists in US government.

Investigate and arrest members of the “Progressive Congressional Caucus”, send those red sons of bitches back underground.

All States right to work states, no forced compulsory union dues in order to work,

Defund the marxist trade and government worker unions.

No one will pay union dues voluntarily.

Smash the left!

The time for fooling around with RINO’s and marxists who call themselves “Progressives” to hide their marxist agenda (as if that will continue to work forever) is fast coming to a close.

Its a blessed thing that the degenerate slick son of a bitch ROMNEY from a family of cowards is going to try for the GOP nomination because it will once and for all propel a candidate (as yet undetermined) to stop pulling punches and declare WAR ON SOCIALISM.

The candidate must name names, vow to destroy the members of the “Congressional Progressive Caucus” and excoriate geographic areas such as San Francisco and other socialist strongholds as “US AGAINST THEM”

The effin party is over, time to smack down these CPUSA stooges and fellow travelers, put PR mens heads on pikes, and put the fear of God and the sword in the hearts of the ENEMY WITHIN


60 posted on 10/21/2010 6:36:13 AM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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