'Amazing Disgrace'

To the tune of 'Brown Shirt's 'A Comin', There's A Party Tonight

"I respectfully request that you bring this matter of your company's sponsorship of hate speech leading to violence to the attention of your fellow directors as soon as possible. I believe no responsible company should advertise on Fox News due to its recent and on-going deplorable conduct.

While we may agree to disagree about the role our citizens and our government should play in promoting social justice and the common good, there should be no disagreement about what constitutes integrity and professionalism and responsibility in discourse - even when allowing for and encouraging contending diverse opinions intelligently argued. This is not a partisan issue. It's an American issue. No one, left, right or center, wants to see another Oklahoma City.

The next 'assassin' may succeed, and if so, there will be blood on many hands. The choice is yours. Please join my call to do the right thing in this regard and put Fox News at arm's length from your company by halting your advertising with them.

The Tides Foundation -- a non-partisan entity whose stated goal is the promotion of social justice -- has, up to this point, been remarkably silent with regards to the steady stream of hyperbolic criticism coming from Beck's program. The incident involving Williams (described as a 'progressive hunter' -- a term coined by Beck) has undoubtedly forced the organization to recalibrate its public relations mindset. Pike wrote an op-ed about the William's incident shortly after it happened in late July. But targeting the program advertisers is a much bolder gesture. As Pike notes, both Media Matters and Color of Change have launched similar campaigns in the past, in the process draining Beck of more than 100 sponsors."