MRC President L. Brent Bozell's Follow-Up Letter to MSNBC President Phil Griffin, Demanding Griffin Fire Al Sharpton.
March 19, 2012
Mr.
Phil Griffin
President
MSNBC
Dear
Mr. Griffin,
Last
week, in my open letter to you I called for Ed Schultz’s termination. I
also called for you to resign as President of MSNBC because you hired Ed
Schultz. Today, I have yet another reason you should step down - one
which some might argue is even more compelling than Schultz. His name is Al
Sharpton.
I have already provided you with ample,
documented evidence of Schultz’s repeated, over the top attacks against women,
the elderly, tea party activists, and anyone else who happened to
be in his
crosshairs.
I have also made known the fact that your
network is the mouthpiece for the George Soros funded Media Matters, a radical
group whose mission is to slander everyone who disagrees with its fringe
leftwing ideology. I also pointed out these assaults by MSNBC have
nothing to do with what Rush Limbaugh said about Sandra Fluke, and everything
to do with censoring prominent voices on the right. Instead of reporting on the
woeful state of our economy and the catastrophic debt crisis, MSNBC goes after Limbaugh
with entirely unmerited and phony moral righteousness.
The Media Research Center
repeatedly discussed, promoted, and circulated these letters in a variety of
very public venues last week.
As the President of MSNBC, you are personally responsible for hiring and
promoting Ed Schultz.
You have had every opportunity to respond and take responsibility for this
situation. Yet, neither you, nor Ed Schultz, nor the Chairman and CEO of
Comcast have responded.
Therefore, I now offer you (and everyone reading this) another reason to take
responsibility - Al Sharpton.
Al Sharpton - a man who made a name for himself by orchestrating the Tawana
Brawley hoax that destroyed innocent lives and also incited race riots that led
to the death of an innocent man.
In
addition, some of his greatest hits include:
Al Sharpton spewing the n-word over and over and over (Listen here [1])
Al Sharpton discussing "Chinamen," Koreans, and watermelons (Listen here [2])
Al Sharpton denigrating homosexuals-his "Greek homo" routine (Listen here [3])
Al Sharpton's "apology" for inflaming a Harlem racial situation by going on about a "white interloper". That incident, by the way, resulted in a death (Listen here [4])
You fired Pat
Buchanan because you didn’t think his book “should be a part of the national
diaogue, much less the dialogue on MSNBC. ” But you retain Sharpton.
By giving a platform to Al Sharpton on the
one hand, and by promoting his campaign to suppress free speech on the other,
you're engaging in mind-boggling hypocrisy—hypocrisy unbecoming of a “news”
network executive.
While your network continues to attack Limbaugh, you continue to employ Al
Sharpton and Ed Schultz. Take responsibility and clean house. If you
don’t, we will continue to further expose MSNBC for what it is – a platform for
racist, misogynistic, homophobic hate mongers. And we will continue to
ratchet up public pressure for your resignation.
I
have already contacted Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and CEO of Comcast (your boss
and MSNBC’s parent company). On March 14, we sent
him a letter [6] calling on him to demand Schultz’s termination. As I
noted in my letter, we intend to take this message directly to the shareholders
of Comcast and its board of directors.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
L. Brent Bozell III
Founder and President
Media Research Center
CC: Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and CEO of Comcast