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DemsUnite Donating Member (118 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 10:45 AM
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Muslims Call Comments by WMAL Host 'Hate-Filled'
A local radio talk show host touched off complaints from an Islamic civil rights organization yesterday after repeatedly describing Islam on the air as "a terrorist organization" that is "at war with America."

The organization, the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), asked the station to take disciplinary action against Michael Graham, who hosts WMAL-AM's late-morning call-in program.

A station executive, Randall Bloomquist, said yesterday that Graham's comments were "amped up" but justified within the context of the program. He said the station, which is owned by the Walt Disney Co., had no plans to reprimand Graham...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/25/AR2005072501649.html
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getmeouttahere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 10:55 AM
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1. Let's go! Who advertises with them?
Locally, hit 'em where it hurts! Accounts receivable...
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GreatCaesarsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 11:33 AM
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2. wmal used to be a great am station
Edited on Tue Jul-26-05 11:36 AM by GreatCaesarsGhost
with many old-time personalities (hardin and weaver) and entertaining

shtick.

now it's a fascist mouthpiece.
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GOPFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 11:36 AM
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3. What a jerk!
Micheal Graham: "If the Boy Scouts of America had 1,000 Scout troops, and 10 of them practiced suicide bombings, then the BSA would be considered a terrorist organization. If the BSA refused to kick out those 10 troops, that would make the case even stronger. If people defending terror repeatedly turned to the Boy Scout handbook and found language that justified and defended murder --and the scoutmasters responded by saying 'Could be' -- the Boy Scouts would have been driven out of America long ago."

What. an. Asshole. Graham can't even tell he's arguing apples and oranges. The Boy Scouts area private organization that has complete control over what can be called a Boy Scout Troop. Islam is a religion. Anyone can build a building, call it a mosque, and call their worshipers Moslems.

Let's look at Christianity for a anology. Nearly all the white supremicist groups in America call themselves Christian. Does that make ALL Christians racist hate-mongers?

Michael Graham is a certified Moran!
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 12:53 PM
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6. so since Christian churches
won't kick out embezzlers, frauds and hucksters, Christianity is a ciminal religion?
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VegasWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 11:39 AM
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4. Goes to show that one does not need brains to host a talk show, all
that is required is that one is good at moron-speak to attract
listeners. Look at Limbaugh and Coulter.
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DemsUnite Donating Member (118 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-05 12:26 PM
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5. Can you imagine any other religion
having comments made like this?
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