Jewish liberals celebrate Glenn Beck's Fox exit

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Jewish liberals celebrate Glenn Beck's Fox exit
By Nicole Neroulias, Religion News Service


A Jewish organization is celebrating Passover two weeks early, proclaiming freedom from Glenn Beck's television show.

Jewish Funds for Justice, a social advocacy nonprofit, has taken credit for the polarizing personality's pending exit from Fox News.

The group waged a year-long campaign of petitions and newspaper ads complaining to Fox owner Rupert Murdoch about Beck's use of Nazi language and imagery, attacks on Holocaust survivor and philanthropist George Soros, and comparison of Reform rabbis to radical Muslims.

In addition to Jewish Funds for Justice, a number of other groups, particularly liberal-leaning ones, protested Beck's show, which has seen a months-long decline in viewership and sponsors. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2011-04-09-glenn_beck_Fox_Jewish_08_ST_N.htm

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1. I have an Orthodox friend, immigrated from the US to Israel who LOVES Glenn Beck.

Thinks he should be top of the ticket with Palin in 2012.

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2. Kudos to JFSJ for all their work

and to everyone else who helped in the progress of Clown Blecch's 'elimination' (in the bowel-movement sense).

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3. Why just "Jewish" liberals?

Don't all liberals, progressives and leftists cheer his broadcasting demise?

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4. That's just the subject of that particular story.

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