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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

Rathke should be grateful his income doesn’t depend on having the ability to write coherently. He’d be living on the street.


61 posted on 10/21/2010 6:36:45 AM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: Tex-Con-Man
Could this creepy dude be Bill Maher's long-lost bottled-blond twin brother?

Leni

62 posted on 10/21/2010 6:39:26 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Are any Americans better off than they were 13 trillion dollars ago?)
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To: harmonium
Pike seems to be afflicted with a paranoia and inability to prove claims that's common among the left.

This is neither a hollow request, nor one rhetorically made. There is an urgency to it born of our own direct experience as the target of a would-be assassin inspired by Fox's Glenn Beck Show.

On July 19th of this year, I arrived at our San Francisco office to learn that a misguided person carrying numerous guns and body armor had been on his way to start a "revolution" by murdering my colleagues and me. The Oakland Police Department called to tell us that, following a 12 minute shootout with the California Highway Patrol, law enforcement officials arrested an assailant who had targeted the Tides Foundation, an organization which I founded and currently serve as CEO, and the ACLU for violence.


Well those are claims but I'm not seeing anything more than your word that it happened. I suppose you could have posted the police report to prove your claims but oddly enough, you chose otherwise.
63 posted on 10/21/2010 6:58:46 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Publius6961

I think his brother’s the embezzler.


64 posted on 10/21/2010 10:12:10 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: kcvl

He got that nose from having his face smashed in by pi$$ed off men that he hit on and that crushed chin has seen more than a few crotches.

LLS


65 posted on 10/21/2010 6:08:17 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: FrankR

I just posted a comment at the link, thanking them for making
me aware of this issue, and letting them know that I’ll be supporting those companies that advertise on Fox News whenever I can.


66 posted on 10/21/2010 6:26:18 PM PDT by macrahanish #1
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To: combat_boots
Drummond is giving them 30 days to back off. Or else!

Bwahahahahahahahahaha. Oh stop. Please I can't breath. hahahahahahahaha.

67 posted on 10/22/2010 2:54:54 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Palin Haley O'Donnell - mmm mmmm mmmmmmmmm)
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To: combat_boots

Interesting. I leave comments laughing at Pike tough guy stance and they are dissapeared in a number of minutes.


68 posted on 10/22/2010 3:00:31 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Palin Haley O'Donnell - mmm mmmm mmmmmmmmm)
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To: Drill Thrawl

Where’d you leave the comments? There?

The one you left here is still here...........


69 posted on 10/22/2010 3:05:22 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: cripplecreek

Are you Kidding? Almost every show this week, Glen has been exposing the links between The Tides Foundation, Soros, and the rest of the radical left organizations and people.

He has especially been poking Tides and Soros this week. Mocking Soros “spooky dude” and imitating him. Sort of like SNL does with conservatives.

This comes as no suprize to me. Beck had better start wearing a bullet proof suit like Robo Cop.


70 posted on 10/22/2010 3:29:40 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: greeneyes
This comes as no suprize to me. Beck had better start wearing a bullet proof suit like Robo Cop.

He did during the 8/28 rally.
71 posted on 10/22/2010 3:37:53 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek

Not really - it was just the vest. His head and the rest of his body was exposed.


72 posted on 10/22/2010 3:40:03 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: combat_boots

I posted three. All are gone now.


73 posted on 10/22/2010 4:39:22 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Palin Haley O'Donnell - mmm mmmm mmmmmmmmm)
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...
Thanks combat_boots. Some ravings of a leftist nutter:
Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog... Glenn Beck and his ranting... I followed Huey Long's old dictum that there is no real defense for a public attack... my friend, Drummond Pike, Tides Founder and CEO... Beck, the puppet... Rupert Murdoch, the grand master of Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and more... Working with Media Matters and...

74 posted on 10/28/2010 4:17:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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