Campaign Against Savage Expanding, Warns AIM
Press Release | December 13, 2007
WASHINGTON, December 13, 2007 -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its affiliated group, the "Hate Hurts America" campaign, are backing away from claims about some companies dropping their advertising from "The Savage Nation" radio show featuring Michael Savage. While CAIR may have been inflating its success, Accuracy in Media (AIM) editor Cliff Kincaid is warning the public not to think that CAIR is abandoning its campaign to muzzle its talk radio critics. In fact, Kincaid says, the campaign is expanding.
"The public needs to understand the central fact that CAIR is continuing to drive companies away from the show," Kincaid said. In fact, he noted, the "Hate Hurts America" organization is now threatening to publish "a list of the names of top businesses" that support Savage's show and to deploy protesters in front of those businesses.
"We should anticipate that CAIR will continue its campaign until its liberal allies capture the White House and the Federal Communications Commission and attempt to use the power of the federal government to silence its critics in talk radio," the AIM editor added.
In a news release, AIM had urged people to contact the companies "which have been identified as dropping advertisements from The Savage Nation radio program." Those identifications had been made by CAIR and "Hate Hurts America," but some of the businesses have been quoted as saying they did not bow to any pressure from CAIR to withdraw advertising from the show. Kincaid said that the companies should set the record straight publicly with official statements about the controversy.
AIM recently published a book, The Death of Talk Radio?, on the campaign to silence conservative talk radio hosts. Ordering information and a TV ad about the book can be found at http://www.aim.org/static/5949_0_7_0_C/.
Accuracy in Media is a citizens' media watchdog organization whose mission is to promote fairness, balance, and accuracy in news reporting. Founded in 1969, AIM is the oldest non-profit press watchdog group in America. For more information, please visit www.aim.org.
To arrange an interview with AIM editor Cliff Kincaid, contact Sarah Schaerr Norton at (202) 364-4401 ext. 107 or .
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