Posted on 11/06/2006 8:21:14 PM PST by PresidentFelon
Dear Sirs,
CNN has chosen to wage war on the Republican Party. Some of us, if eventually not all of us at Free Republic, have decided to wage war on you. You will soon find yourselves on the wrong side of an argument over truth and fairness and we believe your network will be seriously damaged by that argument.
After the election, if our effort is successful, GOP Congressmen, Senators, and other political figures will begin to refuse to come on your network or provide interviews for any purpose. As our momentum grows we hope to get enough right-thinking people on board to make it difficult for CNN to find a token Republican face to put on the air. (You can probably still count on Chuck Hagel.)Our goal is to create a buzz, a cacophany of voices determined to strip from CNN any remaining legitimacy as a serious "news" organiztion.
There will be an organized effort to reveal the totality of the blatantly partisan effort CNN has undertaken to help one political party defeat another. A very public outcry by GOP leaders, conservative politicians, and legions of conservative talk-show host will question your basic fairness and fidelity to the American values of honesty and integrity.
Example after example of your incredible bias will be put forth both in public statements and speeches in House Orders. The boycott will last for months if not years. You will be forced to admit the complete absence of ideological and intellectual diversity in your organization. You will be held up as an example of a liberal totalitarian culture where group-think is not only preferred but is required. When our organization gets done with CNN most of America will see your network for what it is....a poorly disguised propaganda organ for the DNC and extreme left.
CNN is run and staffed by people that think the truth is whatever they want it to be and are perfectly comfortable shaping the news to fit their own agendas. The evidence is abundant and the argument is an easy one. By your own actions you have made yourselves incredibly vulnerable. CNN has absolutely no defense for the truth in this matter and you will lose in the court of public opinion. At least millions of more people will be made aware of your outrageous behavior and hopefully they will do what every decent American I know is doing....turning off CNN and asking their family and friends to do the same.
Charles D. McFarling BOYCOTT CNN NOW Indianapolis, Indiana
My friend you are 100 percent correct. Here in Japan, we can no longer get Fox News and my satelite of SKY/PERFECT includes CNN (which I never ever watch) but because of wanting to see the coverage I decided to watch a few hours for the past few days. I am so outraged with them, that I will cancel everything, except watching MLB baseball.
CNN is forbidden in my home, and in my office.
Let me know if I can help beyond that.
Great idea, but CNN does not consider itself an "American" organization any more, but an INTERNATIONAL one that just happens to be based in Atlanta...
The loss of US ad revenues may hurt them a bit, but it's the worldwide English audience they are chasing...
Can't help you there, I don't watch CNN. I stopped watching CNN except for the occasional stopover, since our recall election here in CA when Wolf Blitzer commented that Arnold won, "despite his accent" as if having an accent alone should have been a reason not to vote for the guy.
I haven't paid any attention to CNN since I left Netscape in 1999.
I've been boycotting CNN for YEARS!!
Me too.
Sign me up. But do I get back credit for the last 10 years I've been boycotting them?
I haven't EVER watched CNN, by the time I got Direct TV they had MSNBC and then when I got Fox, I've never watched MSNBC again.
Who watches CNN anymore? I even got a couple of local bars to quit with the CNN stuff. Just complained like hell and asked where the Fox channel was! Most people where I live are conservative and we now have Fox for happyhour!
I haven't watched CNN in about 10 years now. I see no reason for me to ever watch them again. The same with CBS, MSNBC and ABC, they just don't interest me/
The White House did their part as they went to all the right leaning outlets last week. Dont remember seeing them on any of the LSM, though I dont watch them much.
Here's my modest contribution:
Whenever we travel we ask a hotel/motel whether or not they have FNC. If not, we book an inn that does!
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