"General Electric has pulled a lighting ad from Paul Harvey's syndicated radio show, heard here on WABC (770 AM), after receiving complaints from listeners over Harvey's comment that Islam 'encourages killing.'" This from the New York Post, with thanks to seafarious.
"Harvey, 84, made the comment Dec. 4 while describing cockfighting in Iraq. 'Add to the thirst for blood a religion which encourages killing, and it is entirely understandable if Americans came to this bloody party unprepared,' he said. Harvey apologized six days later through an on-air substitute - a day after GE pulled its ad (for a lamp).
"'We're considering whether to resume advertising [on the show],' a GE spokesman said yesterday. 'No decision has been made yet.'" Are they waiting for a go-ahead from the Council on American Islamic Relations?
Well, my GE stock has been a drag on the ol' portfolio for some time now, so this is as good a reason as any to sell.
Does GE know that CAIR's unofficial motto is "We bring good things to death" ?
Susan, THAT is hilarious! I'm using that, just to give you notice!
Well that's it. I'm dumping all my GE stock.
I can't believe GE is caving to these front groups...
I couldn't fathom why Paul harvey even apologized in the first place.
Islam is violent and the Quran says it!
Bink
Corporate cowardice.
johnc
Corporate cowardice.
johnc
GE has knuckled under to the Islamic mouthpiece, C.A.I.R., which leads me to believe that there is a practising radical muslim in the GE heirarchy...time to check the agendas and voting records of the big wigs at GE....and clean house.