By Kevin McCauley
The Americans United for Change organization has launched a campaign to pressure Major League Baseball to drop support of Glen Beck's GBTV online network that he set up following his departure from Fox News.
MLB's Advanced Media Interactive unit provides streaming video capabilities for Beck's programming.
AUC today unveiled the Strike Out Beck site that features some of the more controversial remarks made by Beck, such as the one about God sending the earthquake and tsunami to Japan as a warning to mankind to shape up. There is petition calling for MLB to sever ties with Beck.
AUE is backing the site with a Facebook campaign targeting at MLB cities such as San Francisco, Lon Angeles, Chicago, Boston and St. Louis.
The second phase of the campaign will include a letter-writing campaign to the owners of the 30 ball teams and ads on sports radio.
In kicking off the effort, Tom McMahon, executive director of AUC, said "troubling and disheartening" that MLB is "providing Beck a platform to peddle more fear and spew more hate."
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