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  Date / Time: 11/12/2009 1:44 PM UTC

  Fox New's Sean Hannity Forced To Admit Propaganda Piece
  

  
  
  Ok, well maybe he did not exactly admit that he was caught red-handed promoting propaganda in relation to health care reform legislation, but of course a liar isn't going to come all the way clean.
  
  

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  After the Daily Show's Jon Stewart and his team exposed the fake footage used on Hannity's program to make it seem like more people turned out for a rally against health care reform by mindless tea baggers and racists who do what people on television tell them to do against their own best interest, Sean Hannity claims it was a mistake, yeah right.
   
  
  Roger Ailes who runs the cable news network for Rupert Murdoch is the modern day Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda master, is known for his race baiting programming.
  
   
  
  Color of Change Petition:
  
  Please sign the petition to Murdoch, and ask your friends and family to do the same: http://www.colorofchange.org/murdoch/
  
  While Beck is the worst offender on the Fox News Channel, the network has a long, deep history of engaging in inflammatory racial rhetoric: attacking Black leaders, Black culture, and Black institutions. and a number of Murdoch's recent business decisions suggest that he is consciously building a media empire -- at Fox News and elsewhere -- that attracts viewers by appealing to racial fear and paranoia.
  
  Last month, Murdoch put Don Imus (fired from MSNBC for his infamous "nappy headed hos" comment) back on television on the Fox Business Network and a few weeks ago, Murdoch personally fired Marc Lamont Hill -- one of Fox News' few black commentators -- in response to a racially charged smear campaign led by a News Corp shareholder, who said Hill has "reputation of defending cop killers and racists."
  
  Murdoch's right-hand men Murdoch chooses his employees carefully, and his agenda is obvious when you look at the people he's chosen to run his media organizations.
  
  Roger Ailes, the president of Fox News, made his name by using racial paranoia to propel Republican politicians to victory, starting in the 60s. He engineered key elements of Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy, and a notorious race-baiting ad campaign that helped the first President Bush defeat Michael Dukakis. Ailes was also the executive producer of Rush Limbaugh's failed television show.
  
  Another News Corp property, the New York Post, led by Col Allan, also has a troubling record on race.
  
  Earlier this year, the Post caused an uproar after printing a cartoon that appeared to depict President Obama as a dead monkey, covered in blood after being shot by police. Instead of taking the widespread critical response to the cartoon seriously, Allan issued a short, insensitive statement that took no responsibility, and attacked critics of the cartoon.
  
  Last month, the Post fired a Latina editor, Sandra Guzman, apparently as retaliation for having spoken out against the cartoon when it was published. Guzman is now suing News Corp, the newspaper, and Allan. She says that the Post is a "hostile work environment where female employees and employees of color have been subjected to pervasive and systemic discrimination and/or unlawful harassment based on their gender, race, color and/or national origin." Guzman says that Col Allan and others at the paper routinely made inappropriate sexual and racial comments. She also says that the paper's D.C. bureau chief told her that the Post's goal was to "destroy Barack Obama."
  
  Holding Murdoch, Beck and Fox News accountable When Murdoch publicly endorsed some of Beck's most inflammatory comments, it seemed he was making it very clear that he approves of Fox's race-baiting. Now, apparently after realizing how damaging it would be for him to publicly support the rhetoric that cost Glenn Beck 80 advertisers, he's trying to backpedal. But Murdoch is not willing to distance himself from Beck either.
  
  He knows that he could face a backlash from Fox's viewers if he appears critical of the racially charged programming that attracts many of them to the network in the first place. So Murdoch wants to have it both ways -- he wants to build a network that makes money by pandering to racial fear and paranoia, but he doesn't want Fox to be seen as cable's home for race-baiting.
  
  We can't let him get away with it. Murdoch made a mistake by speaking too openly about what he and his media organizations stand for. He rarely makes mistakes like this, and we need to seize the opportunity to expose Fox's problem with race. It starts by demanding that Murdoch explain what he meant, and be clear about whether or not race-baiting is part of the program at Fox.
  
  He may or may not respond, but if enough of us speak out, we can create a conversation that makes it clear who is ultimately responsible for Fox's race-baiting. It's just one step in starting to bring some accountability to the leadership of Fox News and News Corp -- but it's an important one. Join us in calling out Rupert Murdoch, and ask your friends and family to do the same. It only takes a minute: http://www.colorofchange.org/murdoch/
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