"We're not trying to silence anybody"

Once again, the Liberal Elite show their disdain for the right to free speech. As should surprise no one, Liberal activist groups are doing whatever they legally can to punish Fox News for the views of some of their editorialists. This time, they’re monitoring commercials and then contacting advertisers to try to get them to pull their funding. Of course, even though they’re trying to attack the funding source of the stations due to editorialist views of some of their personalities they are adamant that they’re “not trying to silence anybody”. Because, after all, trying to get ads pulled based on editorial content definitely isn’t “trying to silence anybody.

Home Depot Spokesman Jerry Shields seems to have the right attitude: "We're not in the business of censoring media."

Liberals Going After Fox Advertisers
AP

NEW YORK (AP) - Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network.

MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the network. Once a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling campaign will begin, said Jim Gilliam, vice president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos.

The groups have successfully pressured Democratic presidential candidates not to appear at any debate sponsored by Fox, and are also trying to get Home Depot Inc. to stop advertising there.

At least 5,000 people nationwide have signed up to compile logs on who is running commercials on Fox, Gilliam said. The groups want to first concentrate on businesses running local ads, as opposed to national commercials.

"It's a lot more effective for Sam's Diner to get calls from 10 people in his town than going to the consumer complaint department of some pharmaceutical company," Gilliam said.