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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Democratic Underground.com: Rabbis make use of Murdoch's other media to target Fox News over 'Nazi' label

By Paul Farhi

Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, January 26, 2011; 11:40 PM

A coalition of rabbis wants Fox News chief Roger Ailes and conservative host Glenn Beck to cut out all their talk about Nazis and the Holocaust.

The rabbis have called on Fox News's owner, Rupert Murdoch, to sanction his two famous employees via a full-page ad in Thursday's editions of the Wall Street Journal.

The ad is signed by the heads of the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements as well as Orthodox rabbis.

We share a belief that the Holocaust, of course, can and should be discussed appropriately in the media. But that is not what we have seen at Fox News," says the ad, signed by hundreds of rabbis and placed by the Jewish Funds for Justice, a nonprofit advocacy group. 

Earlier this month, the group organized a letter-writing campaign asking Murdoch to remove Beck from the air.

Read more at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

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