{"id":5523,"date":"2011-10-13T09:20:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5523"},"modified":"2011-10-13T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T16:20:08","slug":"strike-out-beck-why-did-major-league-baseball-put-glenn-beck-in-their-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5523","title":{"rendered":"Strike Out Beck: Why Did Major League Baseball Put Glenn Beck In Their Lineup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new web site has come up to bat that is challenging Major League Baseball&#8217;s support for Glenn Beck&#8217;s new GBTV venture.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With America&#8217;s game down to the final exciting innings of post-season, a new campaign from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansunitedforchange.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Americans United for Change<\/a> is pressuring Major League Baseball to immediately end its unseemly relationship with hate-mongering media personality Glenn Beck. AUFC has launched a new website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strikeoutbeck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.StrikeOutBeck.com<\/a> in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/bizofbaseball.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=5266:glenn-beck-marries-to-mlb-advanced-media-for-new-qgbtvq-online-show&amp;catid=60:internet&amp;Itemid=125\" target=\"_blank\">recent reports<\/a> that MLB Advanced Media, the interactive arm of Major League Baseball, is providing Beck with their coveted streaming video platform to stream his daily &#8220;GBTV&#8221; show online.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ColorofChange.org\" target=\"_blank\">Color of Change<\/a> began their campaign to persuade advertisers to stop supporting Glenn Beck&#8217;s Fox News program after he called President Obama a racist? That resulted in more than 400 advertisers refusing to place their ads on Beck&#8217;s show, which eventually led to its cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>The Strike Out Beck campaign is the online equivalent of that effort. MLB should not be permitted to provide the platform for Beck&#8217;s hate speech and conspiracy theories without some critical feedback. Their reputation as broadcasters of America&#8217;s Pastime cannot be sustained when they embrace someone who is so antithetical to America&#8217;s ideals and so hostile to millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iJ-yDf0tJ4w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To support this campaign, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strikeoutbeck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Strike Out Beck<\/a> and sign up. And be sure to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glennbeckunhinged.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Beck Unhinged<\/a> for a reminder of all the reasons to continue fighting against Beck&#8217;s divisiveness and lies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new web site has come up to bat that is challenging Major League Baseball&#8217;s support for Glenn Beck&#8217;s new GBTV venture. With America&#8217;s game down to the final exciting innings of post-season, a new campaign from Americans United for Change is pressuring Major League Baseball to immediately end its unseemly relationship with hate-mongering media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[355,44],"class_list":["post-5523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-color-of-change","tag-glenn-beck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1r5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5464,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5464","url_meta":{"origin":5523,"position":0},"title":"Glenn Beck&#8217;s Kiddie Show &#8211; Or Pea Brain&#8217;s Playhouse","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/1\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"In the weeks since Glenn Beck lost his Fox News megaphone he has steadily receded from public view. His melting into the fringe oblivion occurred despite his prior declaration that if Fox were to throw him overboard him he would... \"...only be stronger for it. I will use American ingenuity\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5212,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5212","url_meta":{"origin":5523,"position":1},"title":"Glenn Beck&#8217;s New Internet Venture Is Running Out Of Time","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/17\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Things must be getting pretty bad over at Glenn Beck's place since he lost his Fox News pulpit. On his radio program today, Beck had to resort to begging his listeners to stave off his demise. It adds a whole new meaning to the title of his recent book: Broke.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5648,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5648","url_meta":{"origin":5523,"position":2},"title":"Glenn Beck&#8217;s Mix &#8216;n Match Conspiracy Cabal","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/24\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This afternoon Glenn Beck posted a video promo for his GBTV presentation of who is behind the Occupy Wall Street movement. The promo featured Beck disclosing that he has been asked by presidential candidates, members of Congress, the business community, and faith leaders, for confidential briefings on his unique insights\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5241,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5241","url_meta":{"origin":5523,"position":3},"title":"Glenn Beck Losing A Million Dollars On Israeli Rally","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/22\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Glenn Beck's plan to hold a rally in Israel with the theme of \"Restoring Courage\" was never a particularly good idea. His history of anti-Semitism and Islamaphobia made him an unpopular figure to both sides in the tense regional conflict. Now Beck is whining that his motives have been called\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7353,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7353","url_meta":{"origin":5523,"position":4},"title":"Glenn Beck Fluffer Conducts Softball Interview For CNN","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/19\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"CNN, the network that is presently struggling in third place in the cable news field it once dominated, has published an interview of Glenn Beck that sets a new standard for obsequious pandering. The article is not much more than a promotional vehicle for Beck's new media enterprise and fails\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8798,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8798","url_meta":{"origin":5523,"position":5},"title":"Glenn Beck Desperately Struggling For Relevance With Yet Another Re-Invention","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/9\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"When rumors first emerged that Glenn Beck was likely to lose his perch on the Fox News Channel, he responded with the confidence of a Messianic warrior saying \"I will find another way to get my message out on a platform that will be a thousand times more powerful!\" Well,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5525,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions\/5525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}