ImpeachPAC Ad #2 Goes on TV!
ImpeachPAC Ad #2 ("Lie and Die") will appear on TV!!!
The ads will appear first on New England Cable News (NECN) (1). We're trying to raise $5,000 to reach as many voters as possible - please contribute if you can.
We also submitted the ad to Comcast for their censors to review and hope to hear from them today. Please encourage them to approve ImpeachPAC's new ad by calling 215-665-1700 (and be polite of course).
On Monday, Comcast finally called to say they would not run ImpeachPAC Ad #1 (on Joe Lieberman's failure to take action on Neo-Nazis in the military) because the ad was "insufficiently documented." They also said they would not provide in writing the specific elements of the ad they considered "insufficiently documented." The ad is based on two highly credible sources: the NY Times and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
There's a simple word for Comcast's action: Censorship.
Comcast's action would be intolerable even if Comcast were the nation's smallest cable TV operator. But Comcast is the largest cable TV operator in America. Therefore we must - and will - continue our campaign against Comcast censorship.
(1) NECN is the largest regional news network in the country, which serves more than 3.5 million homes in more than 1,021 communities throughout New England.Our ad will appear in the "Outer New England Zone" which covers over 573,000 households in Connecticut plus another million households in western MA, VT, northern NH, and ME. The counties in this zone are in blue on this map.
NECN deserves our sincere gratitude for standing up for our First Amendment right to say what we believe, regardless of whether NECN agrees with us or not. I'm sure they will get a blizzard of hate mail (including death threats) from the Busheviks, so please send your thanks to feedback@necn.com and post them below for everyone to see
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Dealing with Comcast
My second call to Comcast just now. Tried to go over the assistant's head and speak to her boss who she said was President of the company. He's on vacation "for the next month and a half". Shooting quail no doubt. I gave her the Youtube website and told her to tell everyone in the office to watch the ad so they can come to a better understanding of the company they work for. She said she would look at it. In any event, she was told to say that Comcast lawyers will be reviewing the matter over the "next several months", just as we've been hearing. She was polite and I talked to her for a long time about the un-americanism of censorship. I asked her if Comcast had run Swiftboat ads. She said she'd wondered too but the people who would know "were all out of the office". They're regarding us as mosquitos that you just wave your hands at. She said the best thing to do is write:
Brian Roberts, President
100 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
If we let this pass, then all through the election period, right wing venues, one after the other will refuse ad after ad.
I am willing to bet ...
I am willing to bet that Mr. Roberts is probably a Republican.
Its amazing where they show up these days, isn't it?
Love the Lie and Die Ad
Bob...
I was a major critic of your neo-nazi ad, a position I still hold. But I love this new one and sincerely hope it gets played all over the airwaves here. I'll try to add my support call to the networks later if I have time after my appointments.
Thanks!!