{"id":802736,"date":"2021-09-22T15:29:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T19:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=802736"},"modified":"2021-09-22T15:29:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T19:29:05","slug":"liberal-group-includes-call-to-shoot-republicans-in-letter-to-fcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-group-includes-call-to-shoot-republicans-in-letter-to-fcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Group Includes Call to \u2018Shoot Republicans\u2019 in Letter to FCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliberal-group-includes-call-to-shoot-republicans-in-letter-to-fcc%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=802736&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-673749758_736x514.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A left-wing group funded by the Center for American Progress and George Soros&#8217;s Open Society Foundations submitted a letter to the government that advocated for murdering Republicans.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Free Press, a well-funded liberal group that aims to &#8220;reshape media&#8221; in the United States, sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission that included the question: &#8220;Are we going to have to shoot Republican[s] to reclaim our democracy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Free Press <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Free-Press-petition-FCC-media-racism.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a>, which called on the FCC to &#8220;investigate its own history of racism and examine how its policy choices and actions have harmed black people and other communities of color,&#8221; was signed by just under 5,000 of the group&#8217;s members, who were given the opportunity to provide comment along with their signature. The call to &#8220;shoot&#8221; Republicans came from a California member named David Lyons, who further complained that &#8220;racist horseshit like FOX and the other ultraconservative outlets and Christians&#8221; owned &#8220;most of our media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Free Press formally withdrew the petition after FCC commissioner Brendan Carr said its inclusion of violent rhetoric was disqualifying.<\/p>\n<div id=\":rr.ma\" title=\"September 17, 2021 at 2:03:36 PM UTC-4\" data-tooltip=\"September 17, 2021 at 2:03:36 PM UTC-4\" readability=\"30.026446280992\">\n<p><span id=\":rr.co\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The only action the FCC should take on a request like this\u2014one based on a comment asking whether Republicans should be shot\u2014is to dismiss it with prejudice,&#8221; Carr told the <em>Washington<\/em> <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;The FCC should not endorse this type of call for violence by opening an FCC proceeding on it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Free Press says it &#8220;deeply regrets that this incident occurred&#8221; and pledged to &#8220;take measures in the future to closely review public comments to ensure that this never happens again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The letter isn&#8217;t the first instance of politically charged rhetoric from Free Press, which counts the Center for American Progress, Tides Foundation, and George Soros&#8217;s Open Society Foundations as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/free-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major donors<\/a>. Its CEO Jessica Gonz\u00e1lez has a long track record of demonizing political opponents, writing in 2018 that civility is &#8220;bullshit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;If \u2018civility&#8217; demands we STFU &amp; politely welcome white supremacists from this Administration who are committing atrocities &amp; violence against our communities, then FUCK civility,&#8221; Gonzalez said. &#8220;You will not distract us with this bullshit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Gonzalez has also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JGo4Justice\/status\/903252696190169092?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compared<\/a> Fox News to Nazi Germany and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JGo4Justice\/status\/933070761518084097?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attacked the media<\/a> for legitimizing Native American genocide by promoting Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\":rr.ma\" title=\"September 17, 2021 at 2:03:36 PM UTC-4\" data-tooltip=\"September 17, 2021 at 2:03:36 PM UTC-4\" readability=\"12\">\n<p>Free Press did not respond to a request for comment on how Lyons&#8217;s comment was included in the letter or further action it has taken since. The group resubmitted its letter without the attached comments.<\/p>\n<p>The Center for American Progress did not respond to request for comment about whether it will continue to fund Free Press in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A left-wing group funded by the Center for American Progress and George Soros&#8217;s Open Society Foundations submitted a letter to the government that advocated for murdering Republicans. 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