FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
On November 14, 2007 Fox Television's "Back To
You" broadcast an outrageously offensive historical lie veiled as comedic banter, which only makes it all the more insidious ("..it's in your Polish
blood, like kielbasa and collaborating with the Nazis").

Officials of the Polish
American Congress are demanding a sit-down with Fox owner Rupert Murdoch and to
have the show stop referring to the character as Polish.
Polish group complains to Fox about 'Back to You'. This is wrong and is
not funny at all. We as a Polish Community in USA and around the world,
can't tolerate situation like this.
You will find contacts below that should be made to voice your objection to
this travesty. Please contact your local FOX affiliate. Send this to everyone and anyone you know to participate in the BOYCOTT OF FOX TELEVISION
until they make a NATIONAL, WIDELY CONSPICUOUS APOLOGY IN WRITING for their irresponsible, and hateful action against the Poles!
Mr. Joseph Earley
Executive Vice President President, Fox Broadcasting Company
10201 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Phone: 310-369-2969
Fax: 310-369-8471
E-Mail: joe.earley@fox.com
Ed Wilson
President, FOX Television Network
10201 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Jon Nesvig
President, Sales
10201 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Andrew G. (Andy) Setos
President, Engineering
10201 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Mr. K. Rupert Murdoch
Chairman & Chief Executive
News Corporation
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, N.Y., 10036
Phone: 212-852-7000
Fax: 212-852-7147
Here is the sample text of one letter that has already been written:
Dear Steven Levitan, "Back to You":
According to internet reports, the November 14, 2007, episode of the Steven
Levitan, Fox TV sitcom "Back to You" contained a "joke" accusing Poles of collaborating with the Nazis. If these reports are true, it is Fox TV's
responsibility to eliminate that "joke" from any further broadcasts of that episode, and it is Fox TV's responsibility to publish a retraction.
A "joke" about Polish Nazi collaborators is comparable to a "joke" about Jews orchestrating the September 11, 2001, World Trade Center attacks. It is
comparable to a "joke" that denies the reality of the Holocaust. It is no less.
There are rumors and urban legends that do accuse Jews of orchestrating the 9-11 attacks. These rumors and urban legends are factually false. They have
currency because they are part of an invidious campaign of anti-Semitic bigotry and hatred. Just so, there are understandings of Poles as Nazis.
These understandings, too, are factually false, and are part of vile and dangerous campaigns of bigotry and hatred.
The facts: Poles fought the Nazis first, fought the Nazis longest, and fought them, per capita, the hardest. An abundance of statistics evidences
Poles' heroism and sacrifice. Poland had the largest underground resistance army during World War Two; Polish soldiers fought, not just in Poland, but
far afield, making significant contributions, for example in the RAF during
the Battle of Britain, and in Italy at Monte Cassino. Poles were essential to one of the key factors in the defeat of the Nazis and the Allies'
victory, the breaking of the Enigma code. More Poles than members of any other nation rescued Jews; count the trees dedicated to Righteous Gentiles
at Yad Vashem.
Poles suffered worse, under the Nazis, than any other national group except for Jews and Gypsies, reports historian Michael C. Steinlauf. Poles were
gassed with Zyklon B; Poles were tortured in concentration camps and a special school set up to teach Nazis how to torture; Poles were shot down en
masse by Einsatzgruppen; Poles were deported in cattle cars, sterilized,
burned alive. Polish churches, museums, and historic monuments were methodically destroyed by German soldiers, even as Germany was losing ground
for lack of those soldiers at the front. Poles were denied education; Poles, like the late Pope John Paul II, studied secretly in "flying universities."
Poles were executed for crimes like owning a radio, or offering a glass of water to a Jew. Poles were murdered merely to terrorize other Poles.
Given this history, one may ask why "jokes" about Polish collaborators exist. This is why: these jokes are lies concocted to support an alternative
history that is no less heinous than Holocaust Denial.
America and Britain did nothing after Jan Karski, a Polish agent, brought, firsthand, eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to the West. America and
Britain betrayed Poland at Yalta. Negative images of Poles assuage that guilt. The West has not been able to confront, morally, the guilt of the
Holocaust. Germany, the world's most scientific nation, the world's most modern and secular nation, using Darwinism and Scientific Racism as guides,
descended to diabolical depths of insane cruelty and destruction. We, modern, secular, scientific people cannot accept that persons so like
ourselves, operating under systems we value, committed such crimes. So, we assign the guilt of that crime to persons unlike ourselves - ethnically
distant, and disemboweled, Poles. Finally, there is a push, typified by superstar scholars like James Carroll and Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, to equate
Nazism with Christianity, specifically, Catholicism. Poland is a Catholic
country, and it is the best target for this effort.
"Back to You"s "joke" about Polish Nazi collaborators is as funny as a "joke" about Jews planning 9-11, or a "joke" that denies the reality of the
Holocaust. It is a truly evil fabrication with a disgusting intellectual history and a morally corrupt agenda.
Polish Americans and persons of conscience who do not wish the truth of World War Two or the Nazi era to be erased by lies demand that Fox TV
eliminate this "joke" from any further broadcast of the episode in question, and demand that Fox TV publish a retraction. Further, we demand that Steven
Levitan receive education in the true history of World War Two.
Thank you,
Signature.
Letter/Information (11/07) Rich Bach
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