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Remember our effort, yea many years ago, "Unvalentine Dan Rather"? Thousands of "roses are red, violets are blue" postcards, pointing out his bias, arrived at his place of work, coordinated by the FreeRepublic "Media Bias Group" of the time.

News Release: February 18, 2014 GRASSROOTS GROUPS TO "RALLY FOR LIBERTY" Several grassroots groups are set to gather on a large scale to "Rally for Liberty" against what is seen as growing Tyranny in America. On Sunday, February 23, Day of Resistance Tulsa will host the Rally at the Green Country Event Center, 12000 E. 31st St., Tulsa, 1:00-4:00pm. For generations politicians, Republicans and Democrats, and unelected bureaucrats have been passing unconstitutional laws, but the last few decades these laws have become increasingly intrusive on our personal freedoms. We are now spied on in our homes, on the internet, on...

Overpasses to Impeach Obama (soon to be known as "Overpasses for America") is staging "National Patriot Wave II" rallies in all 50 states Aug. 17, protesting the continued scandals, unconstitutional/illegal executive actions, corruption, etc., etc. Visit the website,click on your state's link to find a rally near you. The first National Patriot Wave was held Aug. 6, and rallies were held in over 300 American cities/towns.

February 23 is a National Day of Resistance with rallies being organized in 75+ (and counting) cities. As you all know, for decades, politicians on both sides of the aisle have been chipping away at the Constitution and, especially, the Second Amendment. It is time to "push back" (yet again!) and remind Washington that the American people do not want further gun controls! Please visit the website, find a rally near you (or sign up to help organize or even organize a rally in your town or city, if none is listed.)"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers...

Original Release: 5 NYC Firefighters Bicycle Across The US To Thank America For Its Support 5 NYC firefighters from Engine 33 Ladder 9 are biking 3000 miles across America, and at every stop they are repeating names of friends and coworkers lost in the September 11 terrorist attacks of the World Trade Center Towers. Having left Ground Zero on 11/11, 2 months to the day of the attacks, the mission of the firefighters is to thank all the people across America for their outpouring of love and support. Come join this amazing journey to support the firefighters at a city ...

> 6) Dan "Leatherneck" Rather? Dan Rather, a Marine Corps private many years ago, is now in Bahrain hoping to join up with a group of Marines going into Afghanistan, the New York Times reported. The MRC's Tim Jones caught this in a November 28 New York Times story by Alessandra Stanley: "Mr. Rather is traveling to the region to return to Afghanistan in something of a reprise of a famous 1980 trip into Soviet-occupied territory disguised as a Muhajadeen that earned him the nickname Gunga Dan. A CBS spokeswoman, Sandy Genelius, said, 'The final plans for where he ...

You know what I wish? That good old unblushingly liberal Ted Turner still were in charge at CNN and that he and Fox News' flat-out conservative Roger Ailes would go at it head to head in all-news cable. Then, Americans would have a chance to see how we like news European-style ? with ideological biases clear and frankly acknowledged. The Fox News Channel experience suggests we would go for it. Fox's departure from American-style allegiance to neutrality has carried it from nothing to No. 1 in cable news in five years. The thanks go to an assemblage of talent whose ...

I received this via email: ACTION ALERT: Early this month, new CNN chairman Walter Isaacson met with top Republican lawmakers in Washington, D.C. to discuss how to improve relations between the cable news network and conservative Republicans. According to a report in Roll Call magazine (8/6/01), Isaacson met with Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), Rep. J.C. Watts (R- Okla.), Rep. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.). Isaacson also intends to meet with House Whip Tom DeLay (R.-Texas), who has ridiculed CNN as the "Clinton News Network" and the "Communist News Network," and ...

Citizens Coalition for Responsible Media, a Free Republic Network chapter, came in to existence on January 24, 2001. Since that time, there have been numerous excellent suggestions regarding "what to do?" about media bias. They range from BIG (buy a television station, start our own newspaper) to small, individual acts (write a letter). Taking CCRM member suggestions of things individuals can do to combat media bias, they form what amounts to an "Activist Handbook", a tool that might be helpful to the wider public who share our concerns about media bias. Educate yourself and stay current on media bias news: ...

The images are horrifying. Children are wheeled out of school on stretchers, while medical workers chase them down pathways with oxygen masks, bandages, intravenous drips. A security officer is slumped in the hallway, his face bloodied by bullet spray. A gangly fifteen-year-old is marched past TV cameras into custody. This numbing scene was replayed on March 5 from Santana High School in Santee, California. After a young student there allegedly killed two classmates and injured thirteen others, Dan Rather led the CBS broadcast with a sweeping introduction: "School shootings in this country have become an epidemic." Within hours of ...

"I don't remember all the details of Juanita Broaddrick, but I will say that - and you can castigate me if you like - when the charge has something to do with somebody's private sex life, I would prefer not to run any of it." - Dan Rather on O'Reilly Factor, Fox News Procter and Gamble Synopsis and Update: On March 29, 2001, Mr. Tom Millikin of Procter and Gamble was notified via telephone that P&G products were being targeted for a boycott because of their sponsorship of The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. This phone message was ...

LOS ANGELES -- They are janitors and dishwashers, chambermaids and bellhops, but in their other life, they are part of an army out to remake American politics. Last Saturday morning, more than 100 of them were gathered in a union headquarters not far from city hall, rhythmically clapping their hands and chanting ever faster the initials O-L-A-W. Their leader, a fiery union president named Maria Elena Durazo, wound up the pep rally with a pair of rhetorical questions, first in Spanish, then in English: "Are you ready? Are you ready to walk?" And off they went for another day ...

April 24 - After nearly three years of lies and 200 of libel, American scholarship has decided that Thomas Jefferson probably did not sire children by his slave Sally Hemings after all. The news has yet to be published by the same papers and magazines that in 1998 assured us that Jefferson had "almost certainly" fathered a child on Hemings, as the Washington Post repeated reported, nor has it trickled up to the heavyweights in the Bush White House, where the president last week signed a proclamation celebrating Jefferson's birth in the presence of his phony "descendants." Nevertheless, as Jefferson ...

Worst Spin Came From CBS's Four Horsemen of Liberal Bias -- Rather, Gumbel, Schieffer and Roberts Television's self-styled experts on everything are busily producing flashy retrospectives of the first 100 days of George W. Bush's presidency -- Nightline has a four-night mini-series this week -- but how good a job have the networks done? MRC analysts went back to the videotape, identifying the best and worst coverage from ABC, CBS and NBC from the past three months: Biased CBS Gets an F: As Dan Rather might say, you'd find more liberal spin on CBS than blackberries at a bake-off in ...

Operation RatherNOT... Time to Set the Target kicked off April 1, 2001. Press releases were sent out, and freepers busied themselves making phone calls, writing letters, postcards, emails and faxes to the targeted sponsor, Procter and Gamble, and their local CBS affiliate stations. Our press release was picked up and reported April 3 by Anthony Gunde, CNSNews.com, "Dan Rather's Alleged 'Liberal Bias' Triggers Sponsor Boycott". However, that day was far from "done" for Mr. Rather. Ironically, Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post reported "Dan Rather Speaks at Democratic Fundraiser", and CNN reported, "CBS anchor helped Democrats raise funds". As events ...

The great ongoing American political struggle has been, and probably always will be, between supporters of expansive federal power and those who believe that when government action is necessary, it should, with rare exceptions, be limited and localized. These days, an analogous struggle is developing in the television industry, with major-network-affiliated stations playing the part of local government, and the major networks the role of the feds. Last week, the stations, which think the networks have been shoving them around, pushed back. On March 8, the Network Affiliated Stations Alliance (the other NASA), which represents more than 600 TV ...

The Northeast Oklahoma Chapter of Free Republic has now become the Oklahoma Chapter, and, accordingly, we extend an invitation to all Oklahoma freepers to join, wherever they may be! CLICK to join, and welcome aboard!

On Wednesday, February 7, on or about 6 pm EST ,there were be a call to action posted on the FR main forum. The purpose of this call is to begin a sustained campaign directed against the leftist transgressions of a major media figure. This first skirmish will be big, it will be fast and it will be fun. Feel free to speculate who, what, when, where, how, and why Those of you with knowledge of numerology, animal husbandry and/or meteorology clearly failed in your second attempts to solve this mystery. Hence an additional hint is provided in the title ...

Conservative Press Hopes for Liberal Access: Bush Administration Shakes Media Order WASHINGTON - In a White House press briefing room, a TV monitor that was tuned to Cable News Network throughout the Clinton years recently displayed Fox News Channel instead. The switch may represent nothing more than the preference of an anonymous staffer. Or it may signal a change in Washington, one that could eventually give conservative news outlets an advantage over more-liberal competition. A couple of weeks into the administration of Republican George W. Bush, it is too early to tell whether traditional East Coast media often regarded as ...

The just-named chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee may have blasted the networks for pro-Gore election-night calls, but there's hardly a media company he hasn't cozied up to. The major TV networks handed Rep. Billy Tauzin R-LA.) a political cudgel with their vote-projection debacle last November. Sounding the legislators' Alice in Wonderland-ish cry -- ''Hearings will be scheduled!'' -- Tauzin decried the networks' reliance on survey results from Voter News Service and complained about a partisan pattern in election-night coverage. ''Our analysis indicates that in almost every case, [the networks] favored early calls for Al Gore over George ...