Posted on 10/05/2010 9:35:10 AM PDT by NCjim
Four billboard trucks bearing the message “Stop the Liberal Bias, Tell the Truth!” began circling the Manhattan headquarters of ABC, CBS, NBC, and the New York Times on Friday. The trucks will do so for eight hours every weekday for the next four weeks as part of a campaign run by the Media Research Center, a watchdog group that analyzes the media for liberal bias.
Similar trucks also are operating in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, passing the offices of the broadcast networks, the Washington Post, CNN, the Newseum, the National Press Club and Politico, and ads about the campaign are running on numerous Web sites and on conservative talk radio programs.
L. Brent Bozell III, president of the Media Research Center (MRC), the parent organization of CNSNews.com, said the goal of this 2010 “Tell the Truth!” campaign “is simple: to force the liberals in the media to stop pushing an agenda and just tell the truth.”
The “liberal media news networks” need to report the facts about “massive growth in government and its control over our lives, and about spending, deficits and debt,” he told CNSNews.com. “They also need to tell the truth about the efforts to turn our country into a European-style Socialist state.”
In a video about the campaign on the MRC Web site, Bozell said, “We can’t stop our efforts, we’ve got to maintain that intensity of letting the American people know exactly the fact that the socialist agenda of the Obama administration is being pushed by those same people who then look at you in the camera and say, ‘I’m nothing but an objective journalist.’ No, they’re not. They’re participants.”
Concerning the billboard trucks in Manhattan, each side of one truck says, “Hey CBS, Stop the Liberal Bias, Tell the Truth!” and the back of the truck says, “Honk If You Don’t Believe The Liberal Media.” The other trucks bear the same message but directed at ABC, NBC, and the New York Times.
In Washington, D.C., there are also 12 delivery trucks with an identical message. But, as rented ad space, they will run their daily routes in the metro area. Six trucks are also scheduled to run in Denver, Colo.
The MRC launched the 2010 “Tell The Truth!” campaign in September and, in addition to the truck ads, the watchdog group is running similar ads on the conservative Web sites RushLimbaugh.com, MarkLevinShow.com, The Drudge Report and Hannity.com.
Also, the MRC is posting billboard ads of its “Tell the Truth!” message in nine cities, including Pittsburgh, Little Rock, Las Vegas, Dallas, Orlando, Seattle and Milwaukee. TV ads will be broadcast on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” program. Further, throughout this month an ad will run on the popular conservative talk radio program The Mark Levin Show.
The MRC estimates that with this campaign it will reach “tens of millions of Americans every single week over the next several months and present them with concrete evidence of the leftist bias in the press.”
In 2008, the goal of the “liberal media” was “to elect Barack Obama by any means possible, and they just created a narrative that was simply not true,” said Bozell. “What do you think would have been the reaction of the American people if, on Election Day, they’d gone to the polls knowing that in electing Barack Obama, they were electing the single most radical socialist in the history of this country? I submit to you, he never would have been elected. That’s the power of the media.”
This “Tell The Truth!” campaign, he said, is, in the long run about his children and grandchildren. “It’s about generations to come,” said Bozell. “We’ve always been a nation where we left the next generation in slightly better hands than they were a generation before – and that’s not happening now.”
“We stand to be the generation that will be asked by future generations, ‘Why didn’t you stop it?’” he said. “I want to be the generation that says, ‘We returned America to her greatness. There were those who wanted to destroy this country and there were some of us who said no.’ That’s what I want.”
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Good fun! In their face. Hard to miss as a news story.
I LIKE that!!!!!
Way to go Brent!!
We need to keep adapting Alinsky tactics. Remember the Battle of Floriduh! The Libs are totally discombobulated and nonplussed when their own tactics are turned against them.
Asking the left to “tell the truth”
is asking them to cut their own throats.
If the point of this is to expose the fact that the left CANNOT tell the truth because it would be suicide for them,
so much the better.
But don’t expect leftists to actually ever start telling the truth.
Excellent. You just have to love Brent Bozell. Take no prisoners.
Will this be reported on the “Nightly News”?
Good luck, there is no such thing as truth when it comes to media. There is just perception management.
The guilty will be calling these Patriots terrorists in 3, 2, 1...
GOOD FOR THEM!
Believe it or not, in the fever swamps of my mind I have envisioned doing exactly this.
Thank goodness for the ones who didn’t just envision it but actually are going out and DOING it!
Their ability to use logic and reason is dismal. All they seem to be able to do is repeat what is in the talking points that people like George Soros have emailed or faxed to them.
Media is in a sad, pathetic state in our nation right now.
This is marvelous!
That’s because, for most, the only reason to be a “liberal” is in order to feel good about yourself. No need to think about an issue beyond the point where you feel good about yourself for supporting it.
Here's another volunteer!
>> But, it could be that the people at those networks and newspapers have their own version of the truth.
It deserves to be pointed out that the biggest way they fail to tell the truth isn’t by repeating things that are false, but by simply failing to present the WHOLE story, from all sides, unvarnished.
They pick and choose what to report and where to remain silent based on the agenda they support.
Your comment made me think about all the trash left behind from the leftist rallies. The same people who push Global Warming and increased EPA regulations on and business, leave the biggest mess behind when they “move on”.
Plus carbon emissions! A double whammy. Screw the MSM and the greenie weenies.
Bozell is a Patriot! This has needed doing for a long time!
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