{"id":986,"date":"2006-12-07T10:04:49","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T18:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=986"},"modified":"2006-12-07T10:08:49","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T18:08:49","slug":"cnns-glenn-beck-flirts-with-facism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/12\/07\/cnns-glenn-beck-flirts-with-facism\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN&#8217;s Glenn Beck Flirts with Facism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2006_12_07_rendell.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&#038;p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2006_12_07_uprising.MP3&#038;m=1\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/index.php?page=3014\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/images.radcity.net\/6074\/796895.jpg\" alt=\"Glenn Beck\" \/><\/a><em>GUEST: Steve Rendall, Senior Analyst at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), and co-host of Counterspin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recently WMAL Radio host Jerry Klein suggested on his show that all Muslims in the United States should be identified with a crescent-shape tattoo or a distinctive arm band. Claiming later in the show that he was staging a hoax, Klein was shocked when the phone lines jammed instantly. While many callers were angry, many others supported this Nazi approach. But it&#8217;s not uncommon these days to find media commentators making overtly anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, and racist statements. Take CNN&#8217;s Glenn Beck. The New York Times recently profiled Beck, calling him &#8220;brash&#8221; and &#8220;opinionated,&#8221; with an &#8220;unfiltered approach.&#8221; This conservative talk-radio host-turned-cable news announcer, the paper reported, &#8220;take[s] credit for saying what others are feeling but are afraid to say.&#8221; But what the New York Times failed to mention was Glenn Beck&#8217;s open calls for Muslims and Arabs to be put into concentration camps. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\">www.fair.org<\/a>. Read the action alert on Glenn Beck: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/index.php?page=3014\">http:\/\/www.fair.org\/index.php?page=3014<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Steve Rendall, Senior Analyst at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), and co-host of Counterspin Recently WMAL Radio host Jerry Klein suggested on his show that all Muslims in the United States should be identified with a crescent-shape tattoo or a distinctive arm band. Claiming later in the show that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}