Conservative Group Slams MoveOn.org, Files FTC Complaint against New York Times

WASHINGTON, July 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In response to a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint filed earlier this week by MoveOn.org against FOX News for allegedly using a deceptive slogan in their advertising, Citizen Outreach President Chuck Muth and Citizen Outreach Senior Policy Adviser Lyn Nofziger urged the FTC in a letter released today to immediately reject the complaint against FOX News...or accept their own complaint against the New York Times.

"We encourage the FTC to give this frivolous and absurd complaint exactly the attention it deserves: None," Muth and Nofziger write regarding the complaint against FOX News. "We hope the FTC will immediately dismiss this partisan stunt as the political theater it is and not waste so much as one minute or one dime pursuing it."

The Citizen Outreach letter continues, "However, should the FTC take this ridiculous complaint seriously, please be advised that we ask for 'equal time.' We'll start with the New York Times, which regularly misleads consumers with its slogan of 'All the news that's fit to print.' This slogan doesn't even pass the snicker test."

Muth and Nofziger note the paper's well-known and well- documented liberal bias, and remind folks of the "news" the paper printed written by reporter Jayson Blair...who left the paper in disgrace after admitting he made things up out of thin air.

In conclusion, the Citizen Outreach letter asks the FTC to "give our frivolous, meritless, absurd, inane, ridiculous complaint against the New York Times absolutely no consideration whatsoever" and urges the commission "to give the MoveOn.org complaint the exact same treatment."

The full text of the Citizen Outreach letter to the FTC can be found on the Citizen Outreach Web site at http://www.citizenoutreach.com

1 posted on 7/22/2004, 1:43:01 PM by areafiftyone

It is amazing that nearly half the population of the US are Blithering idiots. Rather depressing actually.

2 posted on 7/22/2004, 1:48:08 PM by ChadsDad (If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.)

Cool! That's exactly what I was saying about the NY Times the other day! And it's so true, these liberal rags with their holier-than-though attitudes better look in the mirror.

3 posted on 7/22/2004, 1:56:18 PM by KellyAdmirer

Maybe these guys should at least check the news out before they file. This MoveOn.Org/Common Cause complaint was tossed within hours of the filing. The FTC dismissed it.

4 posted on 7/22/2004, 1:58:47 PM by TommyDale ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." --Hillary Clinton)

5 posted on 7/22/2004, 2:00:36 PM by TommyDale ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." --Hillary Clinton)

Good!

6 posted on 7/22/2004, 2:09:44 PM by ride the whirlwind ("I will never relent in bringing justice to our enemies..." - President Bush)

Oh I love this!!!!

7 posted on 7/22/2004, 2:50:55 PM by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)

Thanks for posting this "pithy" news release...loved it!

8 posted on 7/22/2004, 4:19:36 PM by pookie18

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