New York – The apparent suspension of Jeanine Pirro is squeezing Fox News Channel in two directions.
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A prominent Muslim-American civil rights organization is calling for advertisers to boycott Fox News, while another group is petitioning to have the weekend host reinstated.
Pirro wasn’t on the air Saturday, a week after Fox publicly condemned her for comments questioning U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s loyalty because she wears a Muslim head covering. Fox hasn’t explained the former New York-area district attorney’s absence, declining to comment on “internal scheduling matters.”
The network’s schedule for the upcoming weekend lists another program in Pirro’s time slot.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization, this week said that advertisers should boycott Fox News until Pirro and prime-time host Tucker Carlson were fired. Carlson has been fighting back since being criticized last week for comments made on a radio show a decade ago and unearthed last week.
Meanwhile, the lobbying group Act for America urged its members write to Fox News President Suzanne Scott to complain about Pirro’s absence. In its online message, Act for America said that instead of rewarding its anchor for opening a much-needed debate, “Fox News caved to pressure from the radical left.”
“Jeanine Pirro did nothing wrong,” the group’s leader, Brigitte Gabriel, said via tweet. “People should be outraged.”
Act for America has been listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for anti-Muslim rhetoric. Gabriel has tweeted in recent days that she considered SPLC a hate group.
Representatives of Act for America did not immediately respond to a request for an update on the campaign, and Fox News had no comment on it Tuesday.
Act for America was echoing tweets by President Donald Trump last weekend. He had also proclaimed his support for Pirro and advocated for her reinstatement.
Pirro has issued one statement through Fox, saying she did not call Omar un-American and that “my intention was to ask a question and start a debate, but of course because one is Muslim does not mean you don’t support the Constitution.”
Gabriel had appeared with Pirro last Friday on the online Fox Nation service, where the advocacy group leader referred to Omar and a colleague, Rep. Rashida Talib, as anti-Semitic, in a transcript provided by the liberal media watchdog Media Matters for America. Of the two representatives, Pirro said, “it’s almost as though they think they’re representing another country.”
Gabriel also criticized Fox in the wake of its hiring Monday of former Democratic National Committee chief Donna Brazile as a political commentator.
Between the suspension of Pirro and hiring of Brazile, “if that doesn’t show you the direction Fox News is headed I don’t know what will,” she tweeted.
Keep Pirro off the air; this has nothing to do with her anti-Muslim statement, or Trump. The fact is that Pirro is a hypocrite. She comes across as a law and order person. However, the law doesn’t seem to apply to her. She was clocked by a New York State Trooper of speeding, at 118 mph. She should have been arrested on the spot. However, the cop may have been intimidated by a prominent ex-judge. She negotiated, and pleaded guilty to speeding at 85 mph. However, her license should have been suspended for at least 90 days. The way that case was handled, proves that there is one standard of justice for the well connected, and another standard for the poor slobs,without any connections.
IF PIRRO GOES FOX WILL LOSS A LOT. The moslem congress woman is getting away with murder. She did not call omar unAmerican but i do. She is anti American
and is there to raise money for Cair the brotherhood group in America. Fox don’t let them shut you down. If you did it for omar it is only the begining
That Muslims group is a hate group. It’s pro radical Islam just like evil obumer.
They are all fake news- Just look at the front page of the N.Y.T. and read how many articles are anti trump,and all of the rest of the ‘newspapers’ are the sameThe politicians also want to see trump out of the white house because trump is a threat to all of them as he isn’t a professional politician.
Pirro also prosecuted a former NYC cop, who was forced to shoot dead a Black man, who was beating his Father, with a metal baseball bat, in a parking lot, over a parking space. However, because of pressure from Al Sharpton, and others, Pirro pressed forward, and persuaded a jury to convict that cop of second degree murder. The cop’s conviction was overturned after he served eight years in prison. However, she appealed to a higher court, and his conviction was reinstated, and he served another 11 years. If the deceased had walked away from that confrontation over a parking spot, he would have been alive. However, he escalated the situation; by taking a baseball bat out of his car, which can be used as a deadly weapon. The cop had no choice but to shoot to save his Father, as the deceased was repeatedly striking his Father.. Pirro stunk the way that she handled that case, and bowed to political pressure.