Posted on 08/05/2004 12:01:48 PM PDT by mcg1969
In Rush's closing segment he said that he just received a story or document saying that lawyers for both the Kerry and Edwards teams were sending out letters to TV stations warning them about showing the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth advertisement!
Where's Susan Sarandon's wife, Tim Robbins, and his complaining about the "chill wind blowing across this land"?
www.stopdrlaura.comWE STOPPED DR. LAURA
"Two months and 14 million–plus hits since its March 1 launch, StopDrLaura.com has become one of the most impressive weapons in the American lesbian and gay activism arsenal. Like a cyber machine gun, it has hit its targets with precision: the people and institutions involved in the creation and distribution of homophobic radio talk-show host Laura Schlessinger’s planned syndicated talk show for Paramount Television. The moment people’s names and numbers went up on the Web site, their phones began to ring incessantly, their fax machines began to churn, their E-mail accounts filled to capacity, and all were forced to realize that something was very, very wrong out there — something they each had a role in precipitating...." "Takin' it to the streets," by Mike Signorile, the Advocate, 2000
On March 1, 2000, five friends got together and launched StopDrLaura.com with the goal of forcing Paramount Television to cancel Dr. Laura Schlessinger's then-upcoming TV show. Schlessinger had repeatedly called gays and lesbians "biological errors" and deviant — (one of our favorite Dr. Laura quotes: "How many letters have I read on the air from gay men who acknowledge that a huge portion of the male homosexual populace is predatory on young boys?'') — and we were outraged that Paramount would give a national platform to someone intent on spreading that kind of intolerance against a class of Americans. Of equal concern, two weeks before StopDrLaura.com was launched, the Los Angeles Times reported that a national gay rights group had reached a "tentative accord" with Paramount in which they agreed that Schlessinger's TV show could run. Like many in the community, we were outraged, and decided to do something about it. Thus StopDrLaura.com was born.
With all of your help, StopDrLaura.com made history one year later on March 30, 2001 with the cancellation of Dr. Laura Schlessinger's television show. The year-long campaign against Dr. Laura — coordinated via this Web site and all done on an $18,000 budget, most of it raised from the online sale of t-shirts — so exposed Dr. Laura's anti-gay rhetoric to the world, that she could not even sneeze without the major national media, and thousands of individual activists like yourselves, watching, recording her every word, and pouncing when action was needed. As a result of the 50+ million hits this pro bono site received in just 10 months, and the 300,000 visitors per month that we continued to get throughout the campaign, protests were organized in 34 cities across the country and Canada, over 170 advertisers dropped Dr. Laura's TV show (including some 70 or so advertisers that Canadian activists got to drop her in that country alone!), and over 30 advertisers dropped her radio show, reportedly costing her over $30 million in advertising.
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*THANKS: There are so many people to thank for standing by us and helping from day one. We'll try to list some, but I'm sure we'll miss many. The StopDrLaura.com co-founders: John Aravosis, Joel Lawson, William Waybourn, Alan Klein and Robin Tyler. Our local organizers in over 34 cities, including Andy Thayer, John Selig, and Corey Johnson who did a lot of national work in addition to working in their local cities of Chicago, Dallas, and San Francisco. Organizations like the Horizon Foundation, Communication Works, TomPaine.com, Don't Panic, and the Human Rights Campaign (which gave us a generous donation). Celebrities like David Lee of "Frasier" fame, Susan Sarandon, Pat Schroeder, Christopher Landon, and Bruce Vilanch. Great reporting by Mike Signorile, GAYBC, the LA Times, Hollywood Reporter, New York Times, Variety, Access Hollywood, Broadcasting & Cable, Gay.com and Reuters (among many others). And the assistance of friends like David Goldman, Stuart Paul, and so many others who helped this campaign become a success.
bttt
I learned about it years ago when I was given a copy of "Brown Water, Black Berets" by Thomas Cutler. It was pretty interesting reading. I looked at it a few weeks ago, after not looking at it for a while, and John F'in Kerry is in it with a few mentions...
94.
For the record, one person who was on his boat opposes him and is a member of swiftvets, so the Kerry campaign is stretching the truth.
They are right that these guys did not, but these boats, even in the admission of Ron Fournier today, served very close together. People saw and got to know people on other boats.
I did not mean to allude that Travis McGee was a troll...but that the original post was by a troll!!! Sorry Travis!!!! ;)
As another pointed out, the purpose here is not to win, but to delay. After Sept. 3rd, the ads can not air regardless of the outcome of any legal action.
agreed.
Re: my post #268: "What would you expect from a trial lawyer who wants to be President?
To clarify, I meant that Edwards would be VICE President. My mistake.
Actually, you were right the first time. He does want to be President. He's willing to settle for Vice-President.
Of course he is. He knows that accidents happen. He also knows how they happen. He probably has piles of documents on just exactly how certain accidents might happen.....
Fox News, hopefully will respond with more in-depth analysis.
I am assuming, of course, that no one in the serious media; takes this warning with more than a grain of salt. . .
PCF 43 according to Swiftboats.net.
Then again, they have Kerry on the wrong boat (and only one when he was on two), so who knows.
This actually began months ago and continues to this day, yet Kerry's still failed to take a lead.
Sure, we've got out work cut out fer us, but Kerry's TOAST...MUD
Kerry's already wielding a lawsuit and we haven't even cast our votes yet.
On the other hand...The book Kerry fears the most is NUMBER ONE on Amazon...
They served together. Swift boats...think of tanks. Tanks operate together. They perform missions together. They serve together, you do not have to be on the same tank to know the other tank crew or to witness the behavior of that crew. The ad does not say they served on the same boat with Kerry. It says they served with kerry.
Found a new tagline.
Well, so much for free speech and campaign license.
That is only permitted when attacking Republicans.
Next we will have Presidential Debates conducted with an attonrey standing next to each candidate, rpoviding legal advice before they question or respond.
But that's what you get when you have government by Courts instead of elected officials.
You catch on quick. We've had to live with "Liveshot" for the past 30 years.
Lol! Excellent point. I just read the letter on another thread. What a joke!!!
Well, if the guy on Medved is saying Kerry sped away while under fire, that contradicts another of the swifties this morning on with Eric Hogue on KTKZ in Sacramento. He said that one of the swift boats hit a mine, and other boats picked up those blown from that boat, but that Kerry did turn around to pick up the fellow who fell off of his boat, but THERE WAS NO FIRE COMING FROM THE SHORE. The boats were NOT under fire, according to the guy I heard interviewed this morning.
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