Viacom lie debunked here on Snopes.com
Posted on 09/21/2004 11:00:23 PM PDT by mcconnell
Thousands of candidates and elected officials. Who works for you? Who is seeking your vote? Project Vote Smart, a citizen's organization, has developed a Voter's Self-Defense system to provide you with the necessary tools to self-govern effectively: abundant, accurate, unbiased and relevant information.
(Excerpt) Read more at mtv.com ...
Now, I don't have the exact wordings but that's the gist of it. How many have seen this commercial on MTV? In one instance with Drew Barrymore going around asking (mostly liberals, McAullife, Hillary, etc) well known people about voting and voting rights, etc, and I noticed in one voter registration drive scene in getting young people to register and when one registers he or she gets a DVD (couldn't see the title or know what the subject was...need confirmation here if the DVD being given out contain liberal (biased) themes). But with the supposedly innocuous "choose or lose" theme the whole thing still seemingly smacks of liberals attempt to influence registered voters to vote for Kerry. However, we could use some confirmation about this type of activity on whether this observation is true or not and whether any of these activities constitute a FEC violation. Is MTV's "Choose or Lose" an unbiased organization that do not use undue influence while getting young people to register to vote but vote their w?
See "I want my BMR" August 26, 2004 http://bullmooserepublicans.com/blog/archive/
Viacom lie debunked here on Snopes.com
Of course their unbiased, just like the NAALCP. < sarcasm on >
drop by the MTV website.. It's halfway down their page on the 'draft' that they bother showing one of the main proponents, a democrat. The first half highlights Republicans.
It's a farce.
What I am trying to confirm is what was the DVD they were giving away at those "choose or lose" voter registration drives. This is what I thought I saw on that MTV scene with Drew Barrymore in it. It's the DVD I want to know.
Something tells me that the things they say, and hand out have a very liberal bias. On the other hand, I think it would be hard to prove that they are trolling for RATS. I'm sure there literature and such never mentions a candidate by name. Also they are running an add that basically says "you need to vote because the draft is coming if you don't". Since this is a bill in both hte house and senate put forth by RATS, they can say they are non-partisan.
Rock The Vote is allegedly a 501c3 "non-partisan/non-advocating" organization but that is BS. So apparently is Russell Simmons' Hip Hop Summit.
Defund the left. Report 501c3 tax cheats to the IRS and FEC.
Of course Snopes says that it is probably not true. They don't want to have to make the claim that voting Democrat in 2004 is likely to reinstate the draft because only Democrats have signed onto the plan.
If they present details on an issue they HAVE to present both sides. They do not. Ergo they advocate a position on pending legislation and the issues.
If they make the mistake of advocating this or any position through their "Rock the Vote" campaign then we need to bust them on it. I may be mistaken, but I don't think the "Choose or Lose" is a 501c3s. If it is not then they can advocate all they want legally. Like I said, I may be wrong. So check away.
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