Tue Jun 26, 2012, 01:01 PM

Purveyor (13,201 posts)

Anti-Israel Aid Billboards Are Taken Down (Los Angeles area)

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A subsidiary of the CBS Corp. removed 23 billboards in the Los Angeles area calling for a stop to U.S. foreign assistance to Israel.

The Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel, which sponsored the billboards, said in a statement that it received a letter from CBS Outdoor, a subsidiary of the CBS Corp., saying the contract was canceled because the coalition "used the ‘CBS Outdoor’ name without permission" in its publicity. CBS Outdoor refunded the undisclosed amount of the contract to the group, the coalition said on its Facebook page.

The coalition is asking supporters to demand that CBS Outdoor put back the billboards.

“If you support us trying to get our message of ending military aid to Israel back up on billboards in the nation's second largest city, won't you help flood CBS with phone calls demanding that our billboards be put back up and our contract be honored to the full term?” the coalition said in its statement.

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Anti-Israel Aid Billboards Are Taken Down (Los Angeles area) (Original post)	Purveyor	Jun 2012	OP
Wow	Astrad	Jun 2012	#1
Good. nt	Mosby	Jun 2012	#2
Does anyone know what CBS means	aranthus	Jun 2012	#3
more info	Mosby	Jun 2012	#4
Thanks.	aranthus	Jun 2012	#34
CBS means whatever Sumner Redstone, its owner, says it means.	leveymg	Jun 2012	#30
The facts say otherwise.	aranthus	Jun 2012	#35
I stated facts. You gave your opinion and tried to change the subject. Redstone is a Neocon.	leveymg	Jun 2012	#69
Stand with us and Howard Berman	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#5
Who would support these radical loons ?	King_David	Jun 2012	#18
so I take it you do not believe in free speech?	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#19
These guys are radical loons,	King_David	Jun 2012	#21
regardless of what politicians support or do not support them they still have a right to free speech	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#22
I suspect I do understand US laws	King_David	Jun 2012	#23
then tell us which law allows the limiting of free speech and under what circumstances? n/t	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#27
That's not relevant	King_David	Jun 2012	#32
you mean you perhaps actually do not know?	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#33
Nope that's not what I mean at all	King_David	Jun 2012	#38
yes I posted SwU complete claims along with a bit about Howard Berman you replied to that post	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#40
How was the contract violated?	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#56
A private billboard company does not have to give anyone free speech.	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#66
another "only the government......"	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#67
If I own a billboard company -- a private billboard company -- I get to decide	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#74
here is the problem as a business owner your prejudices do not allow you to decide	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#75
The answer for the group whose billboards were removed is to hire a different	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#90
That's not entirely true.	aranthus	Jul 2012	#113
an antigay billboard could be a hate crime depending to what was said and state laws	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#114
Not under any hate crime staute that would pass the Constitution.	aranthus	Jul 2012	#121
So does CBS.	aranthus	Jun 2012	#70
I find my tax money going to kill Palestinians slightly more offensive than billboards	Scootaloo	Jun 2012	#54
Yup.	Shadowflash	Jun 2012	#78
Mine are the same as the Democratic Party	King_David	Jun 2012	#88
Actually, yours aren't.	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#93
'and anti-peace "Eretz Yisroel" agenda that you essentially support...'	King_David	Jun 2012	#99
That's what your support for the settlers is all about	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#100
Support for settlers huh?	King_David	Jun 2012	#102
I fabricated nothing	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#104
So you do not support the settlers?	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#112
Do you beat your children? nt	King_David	Jul 2012	#115
Nope I certainly do not beat my children, now back to my question..........n/t	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#116
Are you asking: If I am a Settler Supporter ?	King_David	Jul 2012	#122
I dunno. I think most Democrats are offended by deaths more than billboards	Scootaloo	Jun 2012	#103
They had a right to use the billboards to express their opinion	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#55
Only so long as they abided by the terms of the rental contract.	aranthus	Jun 2012	#71
Free speech?	Shaktimaan	Jun 2012	#46
so only the government can interfere with free speech? sorry the Washington state court disagrees	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#49
sigh	Shaktimaan	Jun 2012	#59
IMO CBs's reaction or over reaction is suppressing free speech as CBS could have	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#64
CBS has the right to respond to the breach in any legal way it wants.	aranthus	Jun 2012	#72
yes it is by appearing to bow down to a known pressure group like SwU	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#77
I don't care about appearances. It's the truth that counts.	aranthus	Jun 2012	#79
has CBS confirmed that or made its own public statement ? or is SwU CBS's spokesman?	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#81
Here is a report of the CBS e-mail posted by one of the Coalition participants.	aranthus	Jun 2012	#82
still quite a spurious reason IMO	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#84
no.	Shaktimaan	Jul 2012	#106
ah except CBS did allow their medium to be used it was after pressure from a Congressman and SwU	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#109
doesn't matter.	Shaktimaan	Jul 2012	#110
Really now	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#111
that's not the argument.	Shaktimaan	Jul 2012	#117
It isn't moderate to send $30 billiion to the Israeli war machine(editing to correct figure)	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#53
Oh yes!	Bradlad	Jun 2012	#73
Well, we've been arming both sides in a regional dispute for decades now.	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#89
also, that's NOT how you do the "sarcasm" smiley.	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#92
Disarming Israel,what a brilliant move that would be.	Swede	Jun 2012	#6
who said anything about disarming Israel?	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#7
Crippling Israel is short sighted.	Swede	Jun 2012	#8
Israel a country with its own armament industry one that exports arms would be crippled	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#9
Think of it as a price of peace.	Swede	Jun 2012	#11
News Analysis: Israeli arms industry a major economic engine	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#12
Think of it as a price of peace.	Swede	Jun 2012	#14
are Israel's enemies armed with nuclear weapons?	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#16
Thank god they're not	Swede	Jun 2012	#24
would it be? and which neighboring country would have bombed Israel? n/t	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#25
Which one wouldn't?	Swede	Jun 2012	#26
you did not answer my question and let me clarify I asked which (specifically) neighboring	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#28
You did not answer my question and let me clarify I asked which (specifically) neighboring	Swede	Jun 2012	#29
and your point in repeating my comment and pretending to ask a question is	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#31
Answer the question.	Swede	Jun 2012	#41
Lol demanding aren't we so can it be taken that you believe and are stating that all Arab countries	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#42
Most of your posts end with a question mark. Go back and check.	Swede	Jun 2012	#43
yes because I'm asking you questions, questions usually end with a question mark	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#44
Lebanon doesn't control events within it's borders.	Swede	Jun 2012	#45
so you believe that someone would secretly have a nuclear bomb in Lebanon?	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#47
Some would know,others not.	Swede	Jun 2012	#48
geez this is sounding more like a John le Carre' novel every second n/t	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#50
Jordan, obviously. Lebanon. Egypt has its own problems	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#65
The days when you could assume that the other countries in the region are always crazier than Israel	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#63
The weaponry they have now is ENOUGH	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#62
In addition you do realize it was George W Bush who promised Israel $30 billion?	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#15
There's no way it needs THAT much(editing to correct false figure).	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#61
There's no way that it is $30 billion a year.	aranthus	Jun 2012	#83
Even then, there's no way they need THAT much	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#86
Sending $30 billion dollars over ten years to support more killing(editing to correct the figure)	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#60
its 3 bil per year for 10 years, not 30 bil per year	Mosby	Jun 2012	#76
I stand corrected on the number	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#87
Is there anything you don't agree with when it comes to Mondoweiss advocacy? n/t	shira	Jun 2012	#10
what are you talking about?	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#13
Why do you rarely read Mondoweiss? n/t	shira	Jun 2012	#17
Just not on my radar so to speak, I like +972 far more it provides a variety of writers n/t	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#20
972mag actually has much less variety of writers	oberliner	Jun 2012	#36
whatever I still like +972 more	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#37
Glad you are enjoying yourself	oberliner	Jun 2012	#39
oh I'd have never guessed at you r feelings about Phil Weiss's blog	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#51
Probably because, despite your claims	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#94
When Israel pays their share of US taxes, they can get their share of the US monetary pie	Scootaloo	Jun 2012	#57
Even without any more military aid	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#58
$3 billion a year.	Swede	Jun 2012	#85
Still an insane amount	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#91
$3 billion is a whole ten dollars per American.	Swede	Jun 2012	#95
It's not as if it's this OR war.	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#96
That's your opinion. Mine is a war as soon as Israel is seen as weakened.	Swede	Jun 2012	#97
$3 billion is actually $1000 per American.	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#101
$3 billion divided by 300 million equals ten.	Swede	Jun 2012	#105
higher tech weapons...	Shaktimaan	Jul 2012	#107
Serious negotiations in which the Palestinian side was treated as equal	Ken Burch	Jul 2012	#108
you do not know that.	Shaktimaan	Jul 2012	#118
so negotiating with the Palestinians results in more Israeli deaths according to you	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#119
correlation does not equal causation. np	Shaktimaan	Jul 2012	#120
So much for free speech in L.A.	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#52
It has nothing to do with free speech The promoters breached the contract.	aranthus	Jun 2012	#80
These groups would have an easier time if they weren't specifically targeting aid to Israel.	David__77	Jun 2012	#68
oh you mean just like who is that again let me think...............Ron Paul? n/t	azurnoir	Jun 2012	#98

Response to Purveyor (Original post)

Tue Jun 26, 2012, 02:05 PM

Astrad (430 posts)

1. Wow

Regardless of whether one agrees with the sentiment, they certainly have a right to advocate for it. Taking them down just feeds idiotic conspiracy theories. Bad move CBS.

Anti-Israel Aid Billboards Are Taken Down (Los Angeles area)

1. Wow

2. Good. nt

3. Does anyone know what CBS means

4. more info

34. Thanks.

30. CBS means whatever Sumner Redstone, its owner, says it means.

35. The facts say otherwise.

69. I stated facts. You gave your opinion and tried to change the subject. Redstone is a Neocon.

5. Stand with us and Howard Berman

18. Who would support these radical loons ?

19. so I take it you do not believe in free speech?

21. These guys are radical loons,

22. regardless of what politicians support or do not support them they still have a right to free speech

23. I suspect I do understand US laws

27. then tell us which law allows the limiting of free speech and under what circumstances? n/t

32. That's not relevant

33. you mean you perhaps actually do not know?

38. Nope that's not what I mean at all

40. yes I posted SwU complete claims along with a bit about Howard Berman you replied to that post

56. How was the contract violated?

66. A private billboard company does not have to give anyone free speech.

67. another "only the government......"

74. If I own a billboard company -- a private billboard company -- I get to decide

75. here is the problem as a business owner your prejudices do not allow you to decide

90. The answer for the group whose billboards were removed is to hire a different

113. That's not entirely true.

114. an antigay billboard could be a hate crime depending to what was said and state laws

121. Not under any hate crime staute that would pass the Constitution.

70. So does CBS.

54. I find my tax money going to kill Palestinians slightly more offensive than billboards

78. Yup.

88. Mine are the same as the Democratic Party

93. Actually, yours aren't.

99. 'and anti-peace "Eretz Yisroel" agenda that you essentially support...'

100. That's what your support for the settlers is all about

102. Support for settlers huh?

104. I fabricated nothing

112. So you do not support the settlers?

115. Do you beat your children? nt

116. Nope I certainly do not beat my children, now back to my question..........n/t

122. Are you asking: If I am a Settler Supporter ?

103. I dunno. I think most Democrats are offended by deaths more than billboards

55. They had a right to use the billboards to express their opinion

71. Only so long as they abided by the terms of the rental contract.

46. Free speech?

49. so only the government can interfere with free speech? sorry the Washington state court disagrees

59. sigh

64. IMO CBs's reaction or over reaction is suppressing free speech as CBS could have

72. CBS has the right to respond to the breach in any legal way it wants.

77. yes it is by appearing to bow down to a known pressure group like SwU

79. I don't care about appearances. It's the truth that counts.

81. has CBS confirmed that or made its own public statement ? or is SwU CBS's spokesman?

82. Here is a report of the CBS e-mail posted by one of the Coalition participants.

84. still quite a spurious reason IMO

106. no.

109. ah except CBS did allow their medium to be used it was after pressure from a Congressman and SwU

110. doesn't matter.

111. Really now

117. that's not the argument.

53. It isn't moderate to send $30 billiion to the Israeli war machine(editing to correct figure)

73. Oh yes!

89. Well, we've been arming both sides in a regional dispute for decades now.

92. also, that's NOT how you do the "sarcasm" smiley.

6. Disarming Israel,what a brilliant move that would be.

7. who said anything about disarming Israel?

8. Crippling Israel is short sighted.

9. Israel a country with its own armament industry one that exports arms would be crippled

11. Think of it as a price of peace.

12. News Analysis: Israeli arms industry a major economic engine

14. Think of it as a price of peace.

16. are Israel's enemies armed with nuclear weapons?

24. Thank god they're not

25. would it be? and which neighboring country would have bombed Israel? n/t

26. Which one wouldn't?

28. you did not answer my question and let me clarify I asked which (specifically) neighboring

29. You did not answer my question and let me clarify I asked which (specifically) neighboring

31. and your point in repeating my comment and pretending to ask a question is

41. Answer the question.

42. Lol demanding aren't we so can it be taken that you believe and are stating that all Arab countries