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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (347568)	1/24/2003 9:06:19 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

RUSH BOYCOTT BUILDS Radio Shack, Bose Drop Racist Anti-American Fat Man's Attacks On Dissenters Backfires Who Will Be Next? How You Can Help The long-delayed public reaction to the poisonous radio rants of Rush "Fat Man" Limbaugh has reached a critical mass with the revelation that at least two of Limbaugh's sponsors, Radio Shack and the Bose radio company, have dropped his show in response to consumer demands. Limbaugh has earned a fresh round of public scrutiny with his vicious attacks on all who dissent from the Bush Administration's Iraq invasion policy as "fascist" and "anti-American." MWO has earlier given a quick thumbnail account of the racism that Limbaugh has deployed throughout his radio career, beginning with his radio-jock days in Pittsburgh under the name "Bachelor" Jeff Christie. That expose, combined with the Far Man's latest un-American filth, have helped buoy a Boycott Rush movement being led by the Website TakeBackTheMedia.com. Several sponsors have either refused to heed the complaints, or have yet to respond. They include such major enterprises as Amtrak and Pfizer, Inc., the pharmaceuticals giant, as well as much smaller and even more vulnerable firms, including Lazerguide, Avacor, and the Swap Shop. Interestingly, the news media have yet to take the slightest note of the mounting victories for fairness on the airwaves. They're too busy cowering -- or even vaunting the Fat Man, as Howie Kurtz did, as a "mainstream" commentator who basically addresses "policy" issues. But it's time we spoke up even louder. Exile Mark Crispin Miller, a noted authority on the media, had helped lead the way with a letter to one of Rush's unresponsive sponsors, the Blu-Emu company, which we reproduce for your edification: Dear Ms. Golleher: I am a professor at New York University, and also work, as a writer and a commentator, with several publishing houses, magazines and major media organizations. I tell you this to let you know that I have some influence with those who make decisions about buying computer systems and paying for computer services. Beyond that, I also have a large following of readers and listeners-by and large, the sort of people whom Blu-Emu might be interested in cultivating as new customers. Let me urge you, therefore, to reconsider your company's sponsorship of Rush Limbaugh, whose broadcasts have lately become dangerously irresponsible. As the people of this country turn against the coming war in ever greater numbers, Limbaugh refers to those who demonstrate as "fascists and anti-Americans." This is deeply offensive. A good many of those protesters are veterans of Desert Storm and the US war in Vietnam. Like those vets, moreover, those protesters who did not serve in the military all enjoy, as US citizens, the right to voice their views-and as US citizens, in fact, those people have a civic duty to protest the president's policies, if they regard such policies as detrimental to the nation's health. (Our Declaration of Independence makes this clear.) Rush Limbaugh's crude assault on all those citizens is itself fascistic, and itself anti-American-and Blue-Emu is just as culpable as he is, as long as it helps keep him on the air. I intend to spread the word about this matter. You will hear more about it, I promise you. Mark Crispin Miller New York University MWO readers: Join the effort, and tell your friends and neighbors that they can now do something about Rush Limbaugh besides turning him off and reading Al Franken. The boycott is building, and has already won some big victories. Let's keep the ball rolling. And Media types: Isn't it about time you took note of what's happening -- that there's blood in the water, and Rush is in a heap of trouble? Join the Rush Boycott takebackthemedia.com