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As a youth I am tired of hearing we are "naturally" going to vote liberal and fully believe the left fear the youth movement. If you go to chooseorlose.com which is run by Mtv there is a poll on who won the debate and so far it's a 55 to 44 percent victory for Bush. Also another thing I question is chooseorlose recently did a pre-election day electronic vote and yet this is the fourth day they have not released the results and in an electronic age I would figure the results would be calculated much like there poll (meaning...

A representative of a pro-life women's group was edited out of an upcoming MTV documentary that is scheduled to air tonight on the youth-oriented music television station. Former Feminists for Life intern Natalie Nardelli was slated to appear in tonight's "Choose or Lose: Sex, Votes and Higher Power," one in a series of programs designed to educate young adults on political issues in the upcoming elections and to encourage them to vote. In an email to Nardelli, MTV defended its decision. "[T]he pro-life bites we ended up using were from an expert who was more representative of the mainstream objection...

Rocker Ted Nugent is onto something. According to Washington Whispers, Nugent is tired of MTV and musicians such as P. Diddy pushing young people to vote without pushing them to learn what is really going on. "That's not good enough," says Nugent. "It's like saying, 'Well, there's a child drowning in the river. Just do something. Here, I'll throw him a cinder block.'" Heh, heh, you got to like Nugent for his visual language, but as I said he's on to something. According to a new report, many voters don't have much idea what is going on. An informed electorate...

Twelve years ago, it was a news-grabbing newcomer on the political scene. Today, MTV's Rock the Vote seems positively Stone Age. That campaign to recruit youth voters is still around, but this year it has lots of company. HeadCount, Music for America, PunkVoter, Smackdown Your Vote! – they're just some of the groups taking part in pop music tours aimed at charging up voters and, in some cases, changing their minds

Last night I was channel surfing and I stopped on MTV. I could not believe what I saw. I'll try to recap it as best I can recall:They have a Choose or Lose commercial running showing a bunch of people in a party. A girl asks a guy something like does he plan to vote in the election. He says no, derisively. She says he should because of the draft! The announcer says that people should vote becuase issues like the draft will be decided by this election. I was stunned by what I saw! MTV is trying to scare...

In case you had bought into some of the chatter out there that the Kerry Girls weren't the one'w booed at the MTV awards comes this from WorldNetDaily: Vanessa Kerry, daughter of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, says she was "scared" by a round of boos Sunday night at the MTV Music Video Awards, but is glad she pushed her father's cause. "I was scared out of my mind," she told CNN after appearing on stage. "I mean, I grabbed my sister, and I thought, what is happening? And – but it doesn't matter, because we're fighting for something that...

In two weeks, Republicans from around the country will convene in New York to rally in support of President George W. Bush, and to listen to an exuberant 20-year-old named Princella Smith. Smith earned her plane ticket to the Big Apple by authoring the winning entry in MTV's Choose or Lose Stand Up and Holla! essay contest, and she'll deliver her words to the 2004 Republican National Convention next Tuesday. The rural Arkansas native's essay, selected by her peers on ChooseorLose.com from more than 1,000 entries, discusses her support of Bush and his call for young people "to do nothing...

Freep this MTV Poll Which vice-presidential canidate would you rather attend a barbeque with?

Ana Marie Cox, the satirical scribe behind Washington political blog wonkette.com (www.wonkette.com), is hooking up with MTV News to be a correspondent at the upcoming Democratic National Convention. Cox will report on air and online for MTV's "Choose or Lose 2004" branded campaign coverage. "I have always wanted the chance to raise the level of political discourse in the country beyond simple binary debate of cable shout shows, and what better place to do that than MTV?" Cox said in a statement. She'll join MTV News' star correspondent Gideon Yago and celebrity correspondent Sway at the convention in Boston, filing...

   Dear FReeper,Thought you'd be interested to know that the Republican National Convention and MTV are inviting adults between the ages of 18 and 24 from across the country to enter "Stand Up and Holla!," an essay contest in which the winner may appear during one of the prime-time evening sessions at the 2004 Republican National Convention.   To apply for "Stand Up and Holla!" eligible young adults must submit an essay no longer than 300 words to the Republican National Convention website at www.2004nycgop.org answering this question:  Why is the President's call to community service important and how...

Who? Young Adults Ages 18-24 What? An essay of no more than 300 words that answers this question: Why is the President's call to community service important and how have you demonstrated it? How? Write your essay and fill out the form below. Ten finalists may be invited to film a video clip that will be posted to the web and voted on by the public. Why? Because what you think matters... and the winner may deliver a speech to the nation during the 2004 Republican National Convention. When? The deadline for contest submissions is June 15, 2004. Voting...

I received the following, after visiting the website for MTV's "Choose or Lose" show, which, as some may recall, aired an interview with John Kerry. I wrote to them saying that I didn't like how MTV conducted the interview, especially how he wasn't really asked any tough questions. The main question I would have asked was, "Why did he continue to speak for the VVAW, even after the 1971 meeting where assasination of US Senators was discussed"? I then provided a link to the Wall St. Journal's article on the subject (Opinion Journal). Then I concluded the message with a...

Red, white and blue colors cover the screen on MTV's website as the words appear, "The last election was decided by 500,000 votes nationwide. In some states it was decided by 50,000 or 5,000 or 500. In the last election, 18 million young people voted. What if that were 20 million? Who's swing voting now?" The same network that has given us "The Osbournes," "Punk'd," and "Total Request Live" also contributes to the seriousness of politics by delivering "Choose or Lose," the current MTV campaign to mobilize 20 million young voters in November. "Choose or Lose," launched in 1992, brought...

[Tape plays.] Senator Kerry, in the clearest terms, what would be the principal difference between the foreign policy of your administration and that of the Bush administration? Kerry: Brian, the principle difference will be almost everything. This administration has been arrogant. I think they have been reckless. They have been overly ideological. They have pushed our allies away. I will bring our allies back to us. I will respect the international community — not that we're tying ourselves to it in a way that doesn't allow us to make decisions and protect our own security. But it's important to try...

Picture JF'nK and MTV VJ in casual interview, with soft 'club' music in background. Brief summary: Kerry: free education for all...most important thing is for all to get college for free... MTV narrator: There can be no doubt that Kerry was a genuine war hero...contrast between him and George Bush...Kerry rushed enemy with rocket launcher and had to kill him... Kerry's daughter: ...he always told me the enemy soldier dropped the rocket and ran away...I just found out he had to...kill someone... Kerry: ...I would handle conflicts differently...not by flexing military muscle, but by diplomacy... (louder rock music) CHOOSE OR...

Likely Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry claimed Tuesday night that he's a big fan of rap and hip-hop music. The straight-laced Beacon Hill blue-blood who married into the $700 million Heinz ketchup fortune told MTV, "I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think that there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger - a lot of social energy in it." Kerry said America's leaders disregard rap music at their peril, telling MTV, "I think you better listen to it pretty carefully because it's important." Asked about some of the more outrageous lyrics in today's rap...

How far are we going to let this go? John Kerry getting free airtime on MTV, spewing his rhetoric to the 18-21 year old voters?

Choose or Lose: 20 Million Questions for John Kerry Special MTV - Music Television Airing Time: Tue 3/30, 10:30PM (30 minutes) Categories: News, Special, News/Public Affairs, Special/Other Future airings of Choose or Lose: John Kerry Special: • Wed 3/31 11:00 AM MTV - Music Television Wed 3/31 8:30 PM  MTV - Music Television (Satellite) Fri 4/2 12:30 AM  MTV - Music Television (Satellite) And airing other times. Kerry gets 30 minutes to tell his lies to the youth of America. I wonder if they will also give President Bush his own "Choose or Lose" Special?

Kerry says people are born gay By DOUGLASS K. DANIELThe Associated Press3/26/04 3:49 PM WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says he believes people are born gay but are not guaranteed the right to marry within their own gender. "I think it's entirely who you are from birth, personally," Kerry said in an interview to be broadcast on MTV. "Some people might choose, but I think that it's, it's who you are. I think you have ... people need to be able to be who they are." Asked why he favors civil unions instead of marriage if people...