Score another win for James Rucker

Harlem Gospel Choir Bails On Glenn Beck

The Harlem Gospel Choir announced Monday that it won't be performing in a simulcast of Glenn Beck's holiday film "The Christmas Sweater - A Return To Redemption," which opens in nationwide release on Thursday.

The last-minute bail was due to financial reasons, the choir said. However, James Rucker, executive director of Color Of Change, the online advocacy group that has spearheaded the advertiser boycott of Glenn Beck's television show, told the New York Daily News that the Harlem Gospel Choir pulled out of the performance after he contacted them about Beck's widely publicized antics.

"We wanted to make sure they understood who Beck was," Rucker told the Daily News. "We believe their mission is about spreading the Gospel and and promoting harmony, and we thought Beck was the antithesis of that."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/01/harlem-gospel-choir-bails_n_375195.html

I saw a preview for Beck's movie when a friend and I went to see another film; we were booing so loudly during the preview, I thought we might be thrown out.