"The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."
-- James Madison (speech in the House of Representatives, 10 January 1794)
I write about many things that are close to my heart; this subject rates in the top five. I do not understand how folks can so easily dismiss another human being who is so innocent, so fragile, so vulnerable. Here is a snippet of a story that cuts to the chase of one media organization's bias towards one side of an issue. They consistently claim objectivity, but the reality is only hidden from the already sold. Please see the following link for the video in question:
www.catholicvote.org
Dear CatholicVote.org Member,
We have been quieter than usual the past two weeks for good reason. Following NBC's refusal to air our ad during the Super Bowl, we received some great feedback from our members on what we should do next. The consensus was that our latest ad should be broadcast following President Obama's first State of the Union Address -- scheduled for next Tuesday.
So we contacted CNN, thinking their audience contains precisely the type of people we want to reach. Further, given CNN's track record of running advocacy ads, we were confident we would succeed. Not so.
For the past two weeks, we have been pushing and prodding them for an answer. And late this week we finally got a response: No way.
A representative from CNN wrote: "Thank you for your patience. We have decided to pass on this creative. CNN doesn't accept advocacy ads that portray personal decisions in a manner that suggests a position in favor of the advocacy message, without having permission of the persons involved."
This is absurd. Our ad does not suggest that Barack Obama is pro-life. Instead, our ad presents nothing but facts. President Obama, like every human being, began as an unborn child. Because he was born, he was able to become the President of the United States.
CNN and others simply don't like the obvious conclusion of our ad - there was no ‘choice' for abortion back in 1961. Thankfully, we had laws then safeguarding unborn children -- laws that protected the life of a future president who tragically is unwilling to fight for those same protections today.
But wait. Is this fair?
The standard CNN used to reject our ad did not prevent the network from airing a 2005 ad sponsored by the pro-abortion group NARAL that suggested that then Judge John Roberts supported violence against abortion clinics.
FactCheck.org described the NARAL ad this way: "An abortion-rights group is running an attack ad accusing Supreme Court nominee John Roberts of filing legal papers ‘supporting . . . a convicted clinic bomber' and of having an ideology that ‘leads him to excuse violence against other Americans' It shows images of a bombed clinic in Birmingham, Alabama. The ad is false.'"
Several prominent pro-abortion supporters condemned the ad, including President Clinton's Solicitor General Walter Dellinger. The commercial, which attributed views to John Roberts that were not his, was ultimately pulled from the air not by CNN, but by NARAL.
At the time CNN issued a statement saying: "CNN accepts advocacy advertising from responsible groups from across the political spectrum who wish to express their views and their opinions about issues of public importance."
CNN is willing to run ads insinuating that a federal judge supports violent criminal activity, but it won't allow an ad celebrating the potential of all human life, including Barack Obama? Not to mention, we are fairly sure NARAL didn't get permission from John Roberts to run their ad.
If you want to express your concerns, please do so firmly, but charitably. You can write CNN President Jonathan Klein at jonathan.klein@cnn.com
So what now?
We aren't going to sit back and complain. We are still looking at several additional options to air the ad. We are also working on our next ad, and have set our sights high once again.
If you liked what we have done so far, we are confident you will be excited about what is coming next.
Brian Burch
CatholicVote.org
P.S. I discussed the decision by CNN to reject our recent ad with an executive of a prominent commercial ad agency. He said bluntly: "Their excuse is a textbook answer for a network that does not want to run your ad."
Of course, all is not lost. CNN's refusal will only create more attention for our ad, which has been widely discussed even among abortion groups like NARAL and nationally-syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman. The ad remains a viral hit on the Internet with over 1.6 million views on YouTube.
We have successfully provoked a national conversation about the gift of every human life -- which is why we created the ad to begin with.
Rest assured, we are working hard on the next phase of this campaign. Thank you for your continued prayers and support.
This message was intended for: mikepoast@gmail.com
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Well, of course they're going to lie. When you have no facts to back up your claims your only choice is to fabricate evidence. It only takes about 30 min. of research and an open-mind to discern that this is a magician's trick.
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Charles Gibson showed more contempt for Gov. Palin than Dan Rather did in his interview with Saddam Hussein or Mike Wallace did in his interview with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He asked Palin about the non-existent Bush Doctrine-There are at least 4 doctrines that are called "Bush Doctrine,". Gibson's Doctrine: Peace w/enemies, war w/ Republicans!
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Even now, Obama has yet to receive any comparable grilling on his 20-year attendance in the congregation of the notoriously racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
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The United States has found 500 chemical weapons in Iraq since 2003, and more weapons of mass destruction are likely to be uncovered, two Republican lawmakers say.
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'At times visibly nervous . . . Ms. Palin most visibly stumbled when she was asked by Mr. Gibson if she agreed with the Bush doctrine. Ms. Palin did not seem to know what he was talking about. Mr. Gibson, sounding like an impatient teacher, informed her that it meant the right of 'anticipatory se...
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So, here they come again the America-Bashing Hollywood Left with another attempt to teach the great unwashed that we have been duped for the last 200+ years. They can say whatever they want, the American GI has died for that, but I can still say that they're stupid. Oh, one last thing, this would be brave if they were doing it in Communist China, not brave in pluralistic America. ;)
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The spin-meisters will spin, that is what they do. This is not an isolated incident that can be looked at in a vacuum. I do not think that Obama put these there, a lower level staff member, even a the janitorial crew of the convention center probably did. But it is indicative of the culture that is created within an organization. Both McCain and Obama have "people" to take care of these things. McCain's people would have kept them for the next event. Obama's should have been smart enough to know that it gets this petty at this level. The other side looks for every angle. At the very least, though, wasn't this dubbed as a "Green Convention?" These flags can be recycled for the next 60 days; what a great statement that would have made to the country!!
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I wanted to share this with my loyal readers because you simply cannot go through life turmoiled in the guilt that is constaintly foisted upon you by the fear industry. Is this to say that the truth is not out there? No. It is, but you cannot simply trust that the nightly news, or the daily paper has your best interest at the front of their minds. Bottom line is they are after the same thing that those they deamonize are... sales. They are not the altruistic do-gooders they claim to be.
You may not have liked Ronald Reagan, I did, but he popularized a very intelligent practice. Trust But Verify.
(Click the link in the title) :)
What is becoming ever more painfully apparent is that too many people this year-- whether conservative, liberals or whatever-- are all too willing to judge Barack Obama on the basis of his election-year rhetoric, rather than on the record of what he has advocated and done during the past two decades.
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The often times shocking statements of The Democrat Leadership causes me to wonder to whom they assign their allegiance. Is is to The US Constitution (as their OATH of office would have you believe) or to the reacquisition of their power AT ANY COST? The link in the title has this quote to add,
"Deliberately or not, the Democratic Party and the left wing media, with their endless criticisms of the Iraq conflict, and their endless public comparisons of that war to Vietnam, sent a direct message to the rag-tag army of ultra-violent terrorists in Iraq who were detonating car bombs in crowded marketplaces, beheading and mutilating civilians and killing American and Coalition soldiers: "Keep the violence up just a bit longer. We'll take care of wearing down America's will to win from within, just like during Vietnam."
It does not make good sense to me and forces me to ask the question, "Are we really that blinded by political ambition that we would rather see our beautiful republic destroyed rather than let the other guy get his way?"
Here is just another tidbit to answer the myriad of accusations regarding the recent spike in prices. Most people choose to grasp for the most popular villain, which just happens to be those operating in the free market, The news media is happy to agree and run ex posse after ex posse claiming moral authority. The truth is much different.
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