Defend Paul Harvey Against CAIR Attacks!!
12/24/2003 ConservativeAlerts .Com
ISSUE: According to a report from CNSNews.com, "General Electric, in response to Muslim complaints, has decided to pull its lighting advertisements from Paul Harvey's syndicated radio show, at least for the time being."
On Dec. 4, the 84-year-old Harvey was describing cockfighting in Iraq when he made the following comment on-air: "Add to the thirst for blood a religion which encourages killing, and it is entirely understandable if Americans came to this bloody party unprepared."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim "civil rights group", objected to the phrase "a religion which encourages killing," and it demanded an apology. About a week later, Harvey issued an apologetic statement through a fill-in host.
And who is this CAIR? According to terrorism expert Daniel Pipes, CAIR "presents itself as just another civil-rights group... In reality, CAIR is something quite different. For starters, it's on the wrong side in the war on terrorism."
CAIR has said that depicting Osama bin Laden as "the sworn enemy" is "offensive to Muslims"; when President Bush closed the "Holy Land Foundation" for collecting money he said was "used to support the Hamas terror organization," CAIR decried his action as "unjust" and "disturbing"; and the FBI's former chief of counterterrorism, Steven Pomerantz, has even concluded that "CAIR, its leaders and its activities effectively give aid to international terrorist groups."
And it's THAT group that is now attacking Paul Harvey for a single on-air comment... and what's worse, General Electric is listening to them!
It's time for GE to listen to YOU instead.
ACTION ITEM: Paul Harvey is a true-blue, red-blooded American patriot, and a long-standing icon on American airwaves. Shouldn't hard-working, patriotic Americans like you and I stand up for him when he's attacked by radical groups like CAIR?
A GE spokesman was quoted as saying that the company hasn't yet decided whether to resume its advertising on Harvey's syndicated radio show, which has 24 million weekly listeners on some 1,600 radio stations in this country and around the world.
So, we've set up a quick and easy way for you to have your voice heard LOUD and CLEAR in defense of Paul Harvey. Go to our site below to send a message to GE, urging that company to ignore the complaints of radical groups like CAIR and keep supporting Harvey:
Support Paul Harvey
NOTE: If you prefer, you can also call GE's Public Affairs office at:
203-373-3476 to voice your opinion. |
