Fox News responds to rabbis calling for sanctions on Glenn Beck

Fox News has issued a statement on the full-page ad that a coalition of several hundred rabbis took out in Thursday's Wall Street Journal.

The letter, addressed to News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch (see image here), requests that host Glenn Beck "be sanctioned by Fox News for his completely unacceptable attacks on a survivor of the Holocaust" -- philanthropist and financier George Soros -- and that Fox News chief executive "Roger Ailes apologize for his dismissive remarks about rabbis' sensitivity to how the Holocaust is used on the air." (News Corp. owns both Fox News and the Journal.)

In a statement provided to The Cutline, Joel Cheatwood, senior vice president of development for Fox News, said: "We haven't seen the ad, but this group is a George Soros backed left-wing political organization that has been trying to engage Glenn Beck primarily for publicity purposes."

The rabbi coalition's letter refers in part to Beck's Nov. 10, 2010 broadcast, part of a three-day series about the liberal billionaire. In that broadcast, Beck said that Soros, who lived apart from his parents in his early teens to avoid being apprehended by the Nazis, "used to go around with this anti-Semite and deliver papers to the Jews and confiscate their property and then ship them off. … It was frightening. Here's a Jewish boy helping send the Jews to the death camps." Soros, a Hungarian Jew, has spoken publicly about escaping the death camps by posing as a member of a Christian family. His protector's job was to confiscate property from Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary.

The letter also states that Beck has made "literally hundreds of on-air references to the Holocaust and Nazis when characterizing people with whom [Beck] disagree[s]," and that he "routinely compares American leaders to Nazis."

Back in August, this blog reported that Cheatwood and Ailes met privately with three Jewish leaders over Beck's comments. At the time, Simon Greer, chief executive of the liberal Jewish Funds for Justice, told us that Ailes and Cheatwood acknowledged Beck had crossed a line. He also praised both executives, saying that "they took things very seriously, and I have a lot of respect for that."

The letter's mention of Ailes is a reference to comments the Fox News chief made to Howard Kurtz of The Daily Beast last November. He described complaints as coming from "left-wing rabbis who basically don't think that anybody can ever use the word, Holocaust, on the air."

In the same interview, Ailes called NPR executives Nazis for firing Juan Williams, who also works for Fox News. He subsequently apologized to the Anti-Defamation League for the remark, saying: "I was of course ad-libbing and should not have chosen that word, but I was angry at the time because of NPR's willingness to censor Juan Williams for not being liberal enough."

The signatories of Thursday's letter conclude: "It is not appropriate to accuse a 14-year old Jew hiding with a Christian family in Nazi-occupied Hungary of sending his people to death camps. It is not appropriate to call executives of another news agency 'Nazis.' And it is not appropriate to make literally hundreds of on-air references to the Holocaust and Nazis when characterizing people with whom you disagree."

Beck declined to comment through a spokesman.http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecutline/20110127/ts_yblog_thecutline/fox-news-responds-to-rabbis-calling-for-sanctions-on-glenn-beck

Bailey: The article above was posted on the yahoo website, so you know that it's going to favor the Left-wingers. 

Where the hell is Gore with his million dollars?

http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/us/2011/01/27/end-snowstorm-slams-northeast/#slide=10

3 Supreme Court Justices Skip Obama Speech

Three conservative members of the Supreme Court — Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito — boycotted President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night, one year after Obama castigated the court in his address to Congress.

During last year’s address, Obama criticized the court for its Citizens United ruling that allowed corporate financing of political ad campaigns.http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Obama-justices-Supreme-Court/2011/01/26/id/383974?s=al&promo_code=B8AC-1

Obama the Centrist?

If you’re looking for real specifics at tonight’s State of the Union, don’t hold your breath. The White House is billing the president’s annual January appearance in front of Congress much like something you’d hear at an “inauguration,” more atypical than most speeches that turn into political laundry lists.

If Obama’s inaugural address was any indication, expect a lofty oration that’s thin on details and heavy on the soaring rhetoric that helped propel the president into office. But don’t believe the spin that he’s moved to the middle. To win re-election, President Obama will, in true chameleon-like fashion, return to the man we met on the 2008 campaign trail, but only on the outside.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/01/25/obama-centrist-dont-fooled-state-union-speech/

Over a Million Immigrants Landed Jobs in 2008-10

DALLAS (Reuters) - Over the past two years, as U.S. unemployment remained near double-digit levels and the economy shed jobs in the wake of the financial crisis, over a million foreign-born arrivals to America found work, many illegally.

Those are among the findings of a review of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census Bureau data conducted exclusively for Reuters by researchers at the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston.

Often young and unskilled or semi-skilled, immigrants have taken jobs Americans could do in areas like construction, willing to work for less wages. Others land jobs that unemployed Americans turn up their noses at or lack the skills to do.

With a national unemployment rate of 9.4 percent, domestic job creation is at the top of President Barack Obama's agenda and such findings could add to calls to tighten up on illegal immigration. But much of it is Hispanic and the growing Latino vote is a key base for Obama's Democratic Party.

Many of the new arrivals, according to employers, brought with them skills required of the building trade and found work in sectors such as construction, where jobless rates are high.

"Employers have chosen to use new immigrants over native-born workers and have continued to displace large numbers of blue-collar workers and young adults without college degrees," said Andrew Sum, the director of the Center for Labor Market Studies.

"One of the advantages of hiring, particularly young, undocumented immigrants, is the fact that employers do not have to pay health benefits or basic payroll taxes," said Sum.

From 2008 to 2010, 1.1 million new migrants who have entered America since 2008 landed jobs, even as U.S. household employment declined by 6.26 million over that same period.http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/immigrants-jobs-unemployment-illegals/2011/01/20/id/383360?s=al&promo_code=B81E-1

Bailey: The sentence above that I marked red is written by a person who apparently has never worked a regular job in America!
Americans do not turn up their noses at any job! If we don't take one it's because we're searching for jobs that pay enough to support our families here in America. The average American household usually consist of the Husband, Wife, and Children. That means there are only two people working and paying all the bills to support that family.
When illegals come over they will live together in one house (6 or 8) splitting all of the bills among themselves. Most of the time paying only 10% of what the average American Family has to spend on utilities, water, rent, etc. And on top of all that  for some reason the illegals are able to get all of the government benefits that are denied to the struggling American. Hell yeah! I would take a cheaper paying job if I had 6 or 8 complete strangers living in my house with me and my family splitting the bills!

And if Frogs had Wings!

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