10/29/09 – The Media Line up to Defeat Rush Limbaugh’s Bid to Become a Part-Owner of the St. Louis Rams. The MRC Action Team Responds.
Rush’s enemies on the Left couldn’t bear to see Rush
enjoy the fruits of his labor, so they unleashed their attack dogs to spread
fabricated quotes aimed at painting Rush as a racist. After proving they
were lies, the MRC called on CNN and MSNBC to apologize to Rush. Just as
culpable in attacking Rush’s reputation was the NFL—specifically NFL
Commissioner Roger Goodell, who said Rush’s “divisive comments” had no place
in the NFL. Strangely, Mr. Goodell didn’t have any concerns over pop stars
Jennifer Lopez and Fergie – who are now part owners of the Miami Dolphins –
despite the fact that many of their songs promote sexual abuse toward women,
pornography and drug use.
The incredible hypocrisy led the MRC Action team to bombard Mr. Goodell’s
office with 135,130 phone calls, demanding he make a full, public apology to
Rush.
9/2/09 – ABC News Continues Its Support for ObamaCare by Refusing to Air Ad with Opposing View. MRC Action Team Responds.
After months of making a mockery of journalistic standards by unabashedly stumping for Obama’s health care takeover plan, ABC News refused to air an ad by a group opposed to ObamaCare. This was the latest in a series of actions by ABC News to push Obama’s socialized medicine scheme and silence or marginalize those opposed to it. The MRC Action team responded by sending 83,070 petitions to David Westin, President of ABC News, demanding they start telling the truth about government-run health care. Click here to read the letter from Brent Bozell, founder and president of the Media Research Center, that accompanied the petitions, and to sign the petition.
7/10/09 – Republican Congressmen Pence and Walden Attempt to Get a Floor Vote for their Broadcaster Freedom Amendment
The Walden-Pence Amendment is served up as an adjunct to an appropriations bill in an effort to get lawmakers in the House to go on record supporting free speech and taking away the FCC’s ability to unilaterally reinstate the so-called “Fairness” Doctrine, or to silence conservative and Christian speech through back-door tactics like “diversity” measures. The MRC Action Team responded all weekend by calling and faxing their Congressmen and asking for a fair up-or-down vote on this amendment to protect free speech. Despite the overwhelming show of grassroots support, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat –controlled House Rules Committee denied a vote on the amendment.
6/24/09 – ABC Devotes Two Hours of Prime Time Programming to Obama’s Health Care Plans
In what amounted to an infomercial for “ObamaCare”, ABC broadcast a town hall-style event on health care “reform” from the White House. ABC refused to allow any conservative or Republican point of view to be presented as a counter to Obama’s vision of socialized health care. Even more remarkable, ABC refused conservative groups from advertising during infomercial. Brent Bozell issued a press release protesting the extreme example of liberal media bias, and thousands of MRC Action team members called ABC executives to demand balanced reporting on health care.
6/15/09 -- David Letterman Attacks Sarah Palin’s 14-Year-Old daughter, Willow
Following Brent Bozell’s appearance of FOXNews, where he commented on Letterman’s lack of apology, MRC Action team members deluged CBS News with thousands of phone calls and email demanding a full, public apology from Letterman to Palin, her daughter and the young women he offended. Letterman did make two attempts to apologize, but Brent Bozell described the apologies as “Clintonian.”
6/10/09 -- FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Confirmation HearingUpon learning of the confirmation hearings of Genachowski for FCC Commissioner, the MRC Action team responds quickly—delivering 438,886 petitions to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Rockefeller and ranking Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison. Team members by the thousands also called members of the Committee demanding tough censorship questions be asked and Genochowski’s position on censorship be clarified.
5/20/09 – MRC Launches Week-long “Blitz of Congress” For Broadcaster Freedom Act
Demanding the Broadcaster Freedom Act be brought to the floor for an up-or-
down vote, MRC Action team members set a goal to make 500,000 Congressional
contacts through petitions, phones, faxes and personal visits.
2/17/09 – Media Launches Full-Scale Attack to Discredit and Destroy Rush Limbaugh
Following comments about Ted Kennedy, the media attempts to destroy Rush with the long-term goal to marginalize conservative commentators – paving the way for a broader censorship of conservative speech and ideas. MRC Action team responds via email and phone calls to network heads.
1/28/09 – ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Must Recuse Himself From Any Reporting Involving The Obama AdministrationMr. Stephanopoulos is discovered to be conducting private, daily phone briefings with Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, while still presenting himself as an “objective” journalist. MRC viewed this has an outrageous conflict of interest and immediately demanded that he recuse himself from reporting on the Obama administration.
Drew Griffin makes a journalistically bankrupt attack on Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin in which he knowingly uses a quote out of context from a respected conservative news magazine in an attempt to discredit her. The Media Research Center urged all members of their Action Team to email Griffin demanding a public apology to Palin and National Review’s Byron York.
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