Obama-affiliated black group tries to stifle free speech through boycotts.

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Obama-Linked Activists Targeting Glenn Beck in Boycott Campaign By: David A. Patten// Is a left-wing attempt to scare off advertisers from Fox News host Glenn Beck’s highly rated cable news show being orchestrated with some high level help from the Obama White House? Perhaps.,,,the co-founder of the African-American political organization Color of Change, which is calling for Beck's ouster, is civil rights attorney Van Jones. In March, President Obama appointed Jones to serve as his so-called "green-jobs czar," responsible for stimulating job growth in the environmental sector. "I don’t have proof that the White House asked Color of Change to help it fight back against Glenn Beck," Matthew Vadum, the Capitol Research Center senior editor (said but)...Van Jones has the president’s ear. It’s a few hundred feet from his office at the Council on Environmental Quality to the Oval Office."...Jones and Beck have had their run-ins before. Beck has described Jones as "a black nationalist who is also an avowed communist." Color Of Change claims that it has pressured a growing roster of companies into pulling their ads from Beck's program: Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, RadioShack, GEICO, Progressive Insurance, Men's Wearhouse, State Farm, Sargento, Lawyers.com, and Procter & Gamble...."This president I think has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again, who has a deep seated hatred for... the white culture?" Beck asked. "I don't know what it is, but you can't sit in a pew with [former Obama pastor] Jeremiah Wright for 20 years and not hear some of that stuff, have it wash over."..."But listen, you can't say he doesn't like white people. David Axelrod's white, Rahm Emanuel his chief of staff is white. I think 70 percent of the people we see every day are white. Robert Gibbs is white."****Axelrod and Emanuel are not only white but also Jewish. It could be that they are in the tradition of "court Jews", useful to the ruler but not friends (although I'm sure Obama would claim that "some of his best friends are..."), liked by him or not unlikely to be thrown under the bus when the situation dictates. Rahm himself is a ruthless mercenary who can subordinate his personal allegiances to the obligation to serve his sovereign. Henry Kissinger served Nixon despite Nixon's expressions of anti-Semitism. Presence (of certain people) doesn't prove absence ( of malice toward them.) **** "I'm not saying that he doesn't like white people," Beck said. "I'm saying he has a problem. This guy, I believe, is a racist. Look at the things that he has been surrounded by." Predictably, Beck’s off hand remarks created a storm of controversy in the leftwing blogosphere, the same group that had been apologists for the Rev. Wright’s statements of hate against whites and Jews.Color of Change, which claims to be the largest African-American political organization online with 600,000 members, has seized on Beck's comment to mount a campaign to discourage companies from advertising on the program. Color of Change Executive Director James Rucker ...made clear his organization's goal is for Beck's voice to be silenced...and we at Color Of Change would use every resource available to us to remove corporate sponsorship from their platform."...it says its anti-Beck campaign is working....GEICO is dropping its ads from the show...It's not the first time Color of Change, which was founded in 2005, has sought to quell political speech from the right. It lobbied the Congressional Black Caucus not to host a Democratic presidential debate co-sponsored by Fox, arguing that it "consistently marginalizes . . . black leaders and the black community." Marching in lockstep, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton shunned the debate.
"Grass-roots leaders find news of the group's ties to the Obama administration alarming, however....part of a clear pattern of Democratic efforts to stifle free expression from the right, ranging from the recent labeling of town hall protesters as "un-American," to openly mocking talk-show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, to flirting with back-door ways of reinstating federal controls over radio content, such as "localism" and the Fairness Doctrine....Tea Party Patriots holds Beck "in high regard as a journalist" adding, "We also understand a large amount of his show is entertainment. ...anyone who is independent or who puts out an independent perspective is being attacked by the liberal left."...there wasn't much hue and cry when President Bush was labeled a racist in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...political left is far more inclined than the rest of America's body politic...to attack and punish individuals for their views."If the left wants to clean up hate speech, they can start in their own ranks,"...syndicated radio host Mike Malloy go on the air after this, and say he hoped Glenn Beck would commit suicide on live TV. ... ****There is the fundamental issue of freedom of speech. If Color of Change thinks it is free to silence speech it doesn't like, Yoda thinks others should counter this by endorsing sponsors who ignore CoC's boycott and boycott sponsors who did not. Although Beck is an over-the-top entertainer who seems to say whatever pops into his head, he is also more generally correct than such as Color of Change which, itself, appears to be a racist organization. They shouldn't get a free shot at their opponents and some might think it a good idea to negate whatever CofC endorses and support whatever it opposes. Beck's program increases in viewership so the decision of GEICO and Progressive Insurance to pull ads is not economic but due to fear of identity group pressure. When this happens, the best expedient would be to apply countervailing pressure so that this racist organization, CofC, whatever its affiliation with Obama, doesn't prevail.The Constitution seeks to prevent tyranny by the majority but tyranny by a minority can be defeated merely by an act of will. Yoda never heard of Color of Change before and it's impressive that it's organized to the tune of a claimed 600,000 black members but we must say that we don't like it.****