LA Chapter - Rather FReep - Monday - Media Advisory

LA Resistance Chapter ^ | 11-4-03 | Bob J

[Bob J]

NEWS RELEASE

LOS ANGELES CHAPTER OF FREEREPUBLIC
www.freerepublic.com www.freerepublic.net

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Ron Smith
NOVEMBER 5, 2003
310-416-9155
RonSmith@quixnet.net

MEDIA ADVISORY

FREE REPUBLIC TO PROTEST DAN RATHER AWARD
PRESS CONFERENCE AND PROTEST SCHEDULED

LOS ANGELES, CA – Ron Smith, Leader of the Free Republic Chapter of Los Angeles, announced today that their organization will hold a rally to protest the Museum of Television and Radio's decision to honor CBS news anchor Dan Rather for his "steadfast commitment to fair and accurate news reporting" at their annual awards dinner Monday night at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

From his depiction of Reagan voters as "children having a tantrum", his refusal to tell America the truth about Bill and Hillary Clinton to his powder puff interviews of American enemies like Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il and Fidel Castro, Dan Rather has proven he is neither fair nor accurate. He has used his position as CBS anchor to manipulate the truth and provide cover for leftwing causes and the politically correct. The only thing Dan Rather should be honored for is being the least trustworthy network anchor and leading CBS EVENING NEWS to the ratings cellar.

DATE:MONDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2003
TIME: 6:00-8:00 PM
LOCATION: BEVERLY HILLS HOTEL
9641 SUNSET BOULEVARD
BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90210

The press conference and protest will begin promptly at 6:00pm.

For additional information or to schedule an interview please contact Mr. Smith at (310) 416-9155.

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[ladyinred]

Excellent. Wish I could be there!
In my next life, I will live in Beverly Hills!

[A Navy Vet]

I seriously don't get this one. Why put energy into what is clearly a dying media network and figurehead? With CBS pulling the hit piece on the Reagans and Blather being the least watched anchor in the business, why bother with another liberal elitist back-slapping event.

Here's something you may want to look into: Freedom Foundation of Valley Forge. They educate our children about our historical foundations and Constitutional principles. We're slowly winning the media wars, now we need to take back the education of our children. I have a call in to the local Orange County chapter. Check it out.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Dan blather graduated at Sam Houston State here In Huntsville, Texas.
Of course at that time it was known as
S am
H ouston
I nstitute of
T echnology.

[Trteamer]

FReep Rather for me!!

He is a leftist pig and should be FReeped everywhere he shows his face.

When Al Gore lost and Rather had to announce that Bush had won, Rather looked as if he was going to cry. Oh Boo Hoo!

There are millions of people who can't stand Dan Rather. It will bring a smile to their face to know that someone took the time to FReep him.

All the Best!

[Bob J]

Why put energy into what is clearly a dying media network and figurehead?

I disagree. 50%-60% of Americans continue to get all their news from the nightly evening network broadcasts. It may be dying but it still has a lot of kick and won't go down without a fight.

From a practical standpoint, it's only one night and there is no overhead except for a couple pieces if cardboard and a permanent marker. We'll go out for burgers and brews afterwards so it makes the whole night a success!

[Doctor Raoul]

From a practical standpoint, it's only one night and there is no overhead except for a couple pieces if cardboard and a permanent marker.

The "RatherBiased" banner that abner made for RatherBiased.com with the "Donkey Eye" logo parody of the CBS logo is still out in LA I believe.

[A Navy Vet]

Then have fun.

[RonDog]

The "RatherBiased" banner that abner made for RatherBiased.com with the "Donkey Eye" logo parody of the CBS logo is still out in LA I believe.

Yep.

AnnaZ has it, but she cannnot make the FReep.
(She has THREE little ones now.)

diotima will be bringing it, and much more. :o)

[Bob J]

Thanks Raoul. I believe Ron is rounding that up from AnnaZ.

[Bob J]

It would be more fun if you and B were there. First beer's on me...

[DoctorZIn]

The OC Chapter of the Free Republic Will Be There With You RonDog!

[DrewsDad]

It's RATHER Obvious

CBiaS

[BillF]

Tell Rather that he is as honest as Bill Clinton.

(Rather said that Clinton, who was disbarred and held in contempt for lying under oath to fix a civil rights case, is an honest man.)

FReep him good!

[buffyt]

DARN I wish I could move back to LA so I could FREEP THE CREEP Dan Bladder!

[RonDog]

I understand.

That's O.K., though, as you can still be with us IN SPIRIT!

Plus, we will post PICTURES afterwards. :o)

See also, THIS thread:

FReep Dan Rather at Beverly Hills Hotel (11/10/03):
Please post YOUR sign ideas here!
Rather to Be Honored at Nov. 10 Gala for "Commitment to Fair and Accurate" Reporting ^ | November 3, 2003 | RonDog, and the Hollywood Resistance Force
Posted on 11/03/2003 4:17 AM PST by RonDog

.

FReep ideas needed!

Please post YOUR ideas here!


from
FREEP Dan Rather by GulliverSwift

Here is MY idea for a sign:

NOW SHOWING!

"SOFTBALLS FOR SADDAM!"

STARRING:
DAN RATHER!

What do YOU think?

Please post YOUR sign ideas here!

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread

[RonDog]

See also the NEW thread, now also posted at www.FreeRepublic.net:

Free Republic to Protest Rather “Fair and Balanced” Award
Free Republic Network ^ | 10-5-03 | Bob J
Posted on 11/04/2003 7:32 PM PST by Bob J

Columnists' Corner

"Free Republic to Protest Rather “Fair and Balanced” Award"

By Bob Johnson

This Monday the Museum of Television and Radio will be honoring Dan Rather at the Beverly Hills Hotel for his life long commitment to fair and balanced news reporting.

That’s right.

To anyone familiar with the CBS Evening News, this might come as a surprise. For decades, anyone to the right of John Kennedy is firmly aware of Rather’s outright bias and left wing manipulation of the news. The suggestion is at best, comical.

Of course, the Museum of Television and Film can honor anyone they want for whatever reason, it’s a free country. But don’t insult our sensibility by proclaiming Dan Rather fair and balanced...

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread

[RonDog]

I have confirmed with the Beverly Hills police department that we can assemble HERE:

Great photo opportunity, eh?

We will be gathering on the public sidewalk on the WEST side of Crescent, north of Sunset:

Monday, Nov. 10th
6 pm!

Museum of Television & Radio Gala
Hosted by Jay Leno

at the
Beverly Hills Hotel
9641 Sunset Boulevard
Beverly Hills, Calif.  (310) 786-1000

For a map click here (Thanks for the map, Doctor ZIn!)

[international american]

You wouldn't like BH.. I lived there for over a year, and I never saw ONE child playing in the yard.. Nothing but a ghetto for rich people.dangerous.

[RonDog]

See also THIS wonderful commentary from Dennis Prager, at www.townhall.com:

Dennis Prager (archive)
(printer-friendly version)

March 4, 2003

Dan and Saddam

CBS News constantly referred to Dan Rather's interview with one of the world's cruelest tyrants as a "coup."

A coup? For whom? Was it a coup for the American viewing public? Of course not. Other than the lengths to which Dan Rather went to be obsequious to a tyrant, Americans learned nothing from his interview with Saddam Hussein. Was it a coup for the news profession? Again, no. No news was learned, nor was any likely to be.

No, it was a coup solely for CBS News and Saddam Hussein. That the world of television news (not only CBS) regards it as a major achievement shows the depths to which television news has sunk. Obviously, the industry sees ratings as its reason for being.

The moment it was announced that Dan Rather had secured an audience with Saddam, I suspected (and said so on my radio show) that the only beneficiaries would be Saddam and CBS. The only way it could have been newsworthy is if Rather had asked hard questions.

For example, Rather might have asked the world's most powerful sadist:

• You claim to have received 100 percent of the vote in your last "election." Do you think the world believes that in a nation of 24 million people, there aren't 24 people who want another president in Iraq?
  
  
• Eight years ago, your two sons-in-law, Hussein Kamil, the former minister of defense, and his brother, defected to Jordan. We are quite certain that they were told that their entire extended families would be murdered if they did not return to Iraq. And when they did return, they were killed and their bodies dragged through the streets of Baghdad. How do your daughters feel about what you did to their husbands?
  
  
• Was it you or another Iraqi official who came up with the idea of having the children of suspected dissidents tortured in front of the parents?

• Have you seen any photos of the thousands of Iraqi Kurdish families you ordered gassed?

• Do you regret having invaded Iran and causing the deaths of about one million Iraqis and Iranians?

• How many more hundred-million-dollar palaces do you plan to build for yourself while Iraqi children die of malnutrition?

• Where are the billions of dollars Iraq has been allowed to earn for humanitarian needs?

Now, of course, few, if any, reporters would have asked Saddam Hussein these questions. (Television reporters tend to restrict tough questioning to democratically elected leaders they don't like.) But if one is not going to ask a dictator anything approaching the truth about his actions, why bother interviewing him? Isn't the whole thing morally compromised and journalistically meaningless?

CLICK HERE for the rest of that article

[RonDog]

From an e-mail that I just sent out:

There is plenty of FREE parking on the side streets around the hotel, in particular on the WEST side of Crescent, north of Sunset, where we will be - with the permission of the Beverly Hills police department.

For a map click here:
http://members.cox.net/rightstuff/rather.gif
(Thanks for the map, Doctor ZIn!)

For MORE information, please see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1013490/posts

Already confirmed:

RonDog
Bob J
diotima
daviddennis
Doctor ZIn
Cinnamon Girl
Rantblogger
paola
absalom01
aCookieMomster
Rockitz, and...

YOU?

[buffyt]

GO BobJ GO!
GO RonDog GO!
Sure wish I could join you. Good luck, & Great Freeping~

[buffyt]

I had not thought about that, you don't ever see children playing in the yards in BH. Great point. Lots of gorgeous yards, too.

[international american]

Pretty yards do not a happy family make. Also, my home was broken into 2 times in 6 months. I lived right below Charlton Hestons estate off Readcrest Drive. Burglaries are NOT reported in the local paper....bad for business.

[Lisa Lupner]

What are the goals of this FReep, and how do you plan to measure it's success?

[philetus]

In my next life, I will live in Beverly Hills!

Why? You planning on being a pervert in your next life?

[philetus]

50%-60% of Americans continue to get all their news from the nightly evening network broadcasts.

50%-60% of Americans are idiots and nothing you do is going to change that.

[Bob J]

I didn't call this FReep as I am not a leader of the LA chapter (just a member), but I'll take a stab at it.

The goal is to mitigate the media message that Dan Rather is fair and honest. Success will be determined by how many articles/broadcasts in the local papers/TV mention this protest along with their reports and how many sound bites Ron Smith can get in through interviews with reporters.

Since it's overhead and time commitment is small, a media profit on it can be achieved quite easily.

[Bob J]

50%-60% of Americans are idiots and nothing you do is going to change that.

They're voters.

[philetus]

They're voters.


And they'll vote like idiots, Bob.
You know they will.

[No!]

From his depiction of Reagan voters as "children having a tantrum"

What this for? Famous misquotes in FR history?

VERY Professional.

[Bob J]

Some believe they can make a difference and will influence the voters so they can make the right decisions.

Go ahead and sit in your pessimism stew, nobody expects anything from your type except spitballs from the cheap seats.

[philetus]

And just what is my type,Bob?

[Bob J]

Seagull.

[Bob J]

With all due respect.

[No!]

I believe it was PETER JENNINGS that said that.

That's all...

[philetus]

I see. When you don't like someone's opinion, you resort to ridicule, slander, and labeling.

Are you a democrat?

[Bob J]

Methinks thou protest to loudly. And yes I'm a democrat, just ask anyone around here.

[philetus]

only when loud is called for.
If I start asking people if your a dem, will they try to sell me a bridge?

[RonDog]

From his depiction of Reagan voters as "children having a tantrum" - Bob J

What this for? Famous misquotes in FR history? - No!

Ooops.

Right church, wrong pew, Bob.

From www.mediaresearch.org:

The Best Notable Quotables of 1994:

The Seventh Annual Awards for the
Year’s Worst Reporting

"Some thoughts on those angry voters. Ask parents of any two-year-old and they can tell you about those temper tantrums: the stomping feet, the rolling eyes, the screaming. It's clear that the anger controls the child and not the other way around. It's the job of the parent to teach the child to control the anger and channel it in a positive way.

Imagine a nation full of uncontrolled two-year-old rage. The voters had a temper tantrum last week....Parenting and governing don't have to be dirty words: the nation can't be run by an angry two-year-old."

-- ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings in his daily ABC Radio commentary, November 14.

[RonDog]

The goal is to mitigate the media message that Dan Rather is fair and honest.

Bingo!

See also, from www.opinionjournal.com:

PEGGY NOONAN

Give Him a Peabody
Dan Rather at a Democratic fund-raiser is not a scandal but a public service.

Friday, April 6, 2001 12:01 a.m. EDT

Dan Rather is 69 years old, the anchor of "CBS Evening News" for the past 20 years, probably one of the most famous men in America and a political liberal. He is in trouble this week after a front-page story in the Washington Post reported that he recently appeared at a Democratic Party fund-raiser in Texas. This is considered scandalous because . . .

Wait. Why is it scandalous? Because America didn't know he's liberal? But we know that; we've almost always known it. Because America never guessed that he was a Democrat? We knew that too. When he reports the news, he practically wears a straw hat and sings "Happy Days Are Here Again."

Why is it scandalous that he went to a Democratic Party fund-raiser? For only one reason. Because it formally and officially gives away the game. The game is pretending that he and most of the rest of the American broadcast-journalism establishment do not have strikingly uniform political views.

But it's about time that game was given away. Dan Rather at a Democratic fund-raiser is not a scandal but a public service. I say give that man a Peabody....

-- snip --

Charging the news media with liberal bias is like charging the rain with being wet. It is of their essence, it is what they are. And pretending this is not so is a dull and stupid game. It's also over. It is a fiction that has been overtaken by events.

The "CBS Evening News" was once a behemoth, the premier news show in a three-network world. Now Mr. Rather's show competes with more and newer networks, with cable news, with hundreds of channels. The hegemony of the old elite networks has ended, as we all know.

In the new, more competitive era, with scores of stations competing for viewers, with everyone looking not for a broad base but a solid niche, it's foolish to force highly opinionated reporters to act as if they don't have opinions. After all, it's not as if they are fooling the audience. It would be more practical, and probably better and less infuriating for everyone, if all the TV news shows and networks would admit the truth, declare one's bias.

The British newspapers do that. The Guardian is the authentic voice of bland Blairism, the Telegraph the grunter of conservative critiques. It doesn't make them less honest; it makes them more candid, less able to or willing to fool. This is refreshing. In a niche universe why not declare that your news show is informed by liberal values or conservative ones?

Why continue the charade?

It's not as if anyone believes it..." - Peggy Noonan

[Bob J]

My bad.

[RonDog]

See also our "after action" thread:

DOWN AND OUT (AND FREEPED) IN BEVERLY HILLS
[LA Chapter FReeps Dan Rather!]
Cinnamon Girl
Posted on 11/10/2003 8:26 PM PST by Cinnamon Girl

What have you got when a bunch of right wing extremists are standing on a corner in North Beverly Hills, in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel, wearing crazy costumes and holding signs while a nearly endless stream of RICH, OLD, WHITE GUYS IN SUV's and luxury sedans pull up the driveway? Why it must be a GOP FUNDRAISER, RIGHT?!?!!?? After all, if it was a gathering of progressive, environmentally concerned, liberal people of conscience celebrating the achievements of DAN RATHER, they'd all be driving hybrid vehicles or riding their ten speed bikes up the driveway, RIGHT?

Welcome to the land of celebrity activists, and DNC activists-- otherwise known as journalists. Tonight was the big night for Dan Rather, who is being honored for his "steadfast commitment to fair and accurate news reporting" by the Museum of Television and Radio. How apropos that Dan's big night is taking place on SUNSET BOULEVARD.

Freepers RonDog, DoughtyOne, diotima, DavidDennis, absalom1, DoctorZin and Outraged were there with some fabulous signs: "CBiaS", "Losing Share? Try the Truth," and RonDog was dressed as Sadam being pitched "softballs." I was dressed as Blind Justice holding a scale with one side reading "left" and the other reading "far left." Hopefully, DavidDennis will be putting up the pictures soon, and he also took video.

We were standing right at the foot of the driveway, on the intersection of Beverly, Crescent and Sunset so we got a lot of traffic, and the attendees not only drove by us, but sometimes the cars on the driveway got backed up and they were forced to be at a standstill next to our signs. One lady started waving her hand at us as if to say, "oh stop it, just go away..."

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread