Hey Brocco! In the words of this renowned hockey Mom, "Puck you!"
Posted on 09/25/2008 6:15:48 PM PDT by Brytani
September 25, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama
Obama seeks to take down NRA ad
The Obama campaign has written radio stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio, pressing them to refuse to air an ad from the National Rifle Association.
"This advertisement knowingly misleads your viewing audience about Senator Obama's position on the Second Amendment," says the letter from Obama general counsel Bob Bauer. "For the sake of both FCC licensing requirements and the public interest, your station should refuse to continue to air this advertisement."
The ad, "Hunter," conflates Obama's anti-gun stances of the 1990s with his current, more pro-gun, stand, and was chided for inaccuracy in The Washington Post, an item to which Bauer's letter refers.
NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam, who provided the letter, said it shows clear evidence that the ads are "hurting him," and stood by their substance. He also provided a copy of the NRA's own letter to the stations and memo disputing the Post story, after the jump. He also said the ad is running only in Pennsylvania at the moment.
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MEMORANDUM
CLIENT-MATTER NUMBER
999100-0130
TO: Station Managers
FROM: Cleta Mitchell, Esq.
Counsel to National Rifle Association
DATE: September 25, 2008
RE: Documentation for Advertising by National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund ("NRA-PVF")
This firm serves as counsel to the National Rifle Association (“NRA”) and the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund ("NRA-PVF"), which is the federal political action committee of the NRA and the sponsor of certain advertising purchased and soon-to-be purchased on your station. It has come to my clients’ attention that the Obama for President campaign is engaging in an effort to prevent or stop the airing of certain ads by NRA-PVF, falsely alleging that the ads are ‘inaccurate’.
The Obama presidential campaign apparently relies on an article appearing in the Washington Post on September 23, 2008 to support its contention that the NRA-PVF ads should not be aired.
The Washington Post is hardly an objective news source on any subject related to the issues to which the NRA is dedicated, having spent decades attacking not only the NRA but also fighting against the legislation and policies NRA supports to protect the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, as well as supporting every conceivable government proposal or policy any officeholder or candidate suggests to weaken and disrupt the guarantees of the Second Amendment. It is therefore no surprise that the Washington Post would now attack the NRA for advertisements which truthfully disclose the anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment record of Barack Obama, the candidate supported by the Washington Post.
Attached please find the point-by-point refutation of the Washington Post’s article about the NRA-PVF ads regarding Obama’s record on the Second Amendment, as well as an article disclosing the bias of the decidedly not neutral “FactChecker” on which the Washington Post article is ostensibly based.
The NRA devotes 100% of its time and resources to protecting the Second Amendment and fighting for government policies and legislation furtherance of the rights of the American people to keep and bear arms.
The legislative and policy record of candidates and officeholders such as Barack Obama are well known and documented by the NRA on an ongoing basis. NRA-PVF’s advertising during the 2008 election cycle is based on that extensive research and documentation, which is being furnished to you with this Memorandum.
Accordingly, we respectfully request that your station disregard the shamefully false assertions from the Obama campaign and its attorneys regarding the NRA-PVF ads and that the ads run in accordance with the purchase(s) made by NRA-PVF in the media buy.
Please feel free to contact me at (202) 295-xxxx if you have any questions. Thank you.
Oh oh! A little of his dictator persona slipped out with this. Flexing his ‘muscle’ to influence freedom of speech!
Incidentally, has he offered to pay to remove those ads?
How dare you question the integrity of Acorn!!
Why they single handedly got both Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson to register Dhim, along with Peter Parker, and Clark Kent!
Fraud indeed!!!! Why some of their workers refuse payment in cash! (They like crack better!!)
And another $200 of my dollars goes to the NRA tonight.
Obamas war on freedom of speech.
Hannity was going crazy over those ads today and rightfully so.
If MSNBC had any integrity, they would have refused to run the ads themselves. But it’s red meat for their 10 code pink viewers.
I seriously doubt that there will be riots if Obama loses.
What a crybaby. This just goes to prove that Obama hates the idea of free speech, and can't wait to establish a Marxist totalitarian dictatorship- His views or no views. Come to think of it, Islam is like that too.
I wouldn’t be too sure about that. I get you tube links to it in an e-mail about twice a week. The MSM no longer has the strangle hold they used to have.
>> “This advertisement knowingly misleads your viewing audience about Senator Obama’s position on the Second Amendment,”
Really?
Then MAKE, AND AIR, YOUR OWN AD, 0-Boy.
Spell out your real position on the 2nd amendment, and sign your name to it.
It’s as simple as that.
Except that the truth about your 2nd amendment position won’t play well with the electorate. And if you lie and pretend to support 2nd amendment rights, THAT won’t play well with your base.
Sucks to be you, 0bama.
the obama-baby can’t take the truth.
shut down anyone who tells the truth about the underside of the obama belly.
They are F'n fascists.
Johnah Goldberg has it pegged in his new book:" Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of Americas left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning."
Well worth the read.It reveals just who Obama and his idjits are.
This from the people who fill my car radio with an ad that insists that "McCain and Palin oppose stem cell research."
Send him packing.
Hey Brocco! In the words of this renowned hockey Mom, "Puck you!"
I don’t, there has been more then a few “community leaders” who have promised violence if he isn’t elected. Quannel X being one of them.
I can honestly see this guy stomping his feet, throwing his hands around, screeching at his campaign staff whenever his poll numbers or something comes out he does not like.
I’m not even sure he’s going to hold it together (or his wife) when he has to give his concession speech.
Join the NRA, send in those checks, they’re the ones fighting for you. Then there are those that just because they don’t agree 100% they go off in a snit instead of looking at the NRAs record and what they’ve stood for from the beginning.
Do you see your Congressmen standing up like this?? No you don’t.
... pressing them to refuse to air an ad from the National Rifle Association.
***That’s how he operates. That’s how he has kept the birth certificate thing from surfacing. He actually met with the top execs at Fox News, and probably other media outlets. Ya think he wasn’t this forceful?
Could you please include the URLs to the story on the Washington post? I got onto the post web site and searched for all the keywords separately and all together “National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (”NRA-PVF”)” I cannot find the article you are writing about. Though equally disturbing I found an article about Obama wanting to raise the tax on guns and ammo 500% no not a typo five hundred percent, WTF I love to shoot I’m a law abiding citizen, I pay my taxes and if it costs me $10 to shoot one round, its just one more thing I cant afford.
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