Posted on 09/25/2008 6:15:48 PM PDT by Brytani
September 25, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama
Obama seeks to take down NRA ad
The Obama campaign has written radio stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio, pressing them to refuse to air an ad from the National Rifle Association.
"This advertisement knowingly misleads your viewing audience about Senator Obama's position on the Second Amendment," says the letter from Obama general counsel Bob Bauer. "For the sake of both FCC licensing requirements and the public interest, your station should refuse to continue to air this advertisement."
The ad, "Hunter," conflates Obama's anti-gun stances of the 1990s with his current, more pro-gun, stand, and was chided for inaccuracy in The Washington Post, an item to which Bauer's letter refers.
NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam, who provided the letter, said it shows clear evidence that the ads are "hurting him," and stood by their substance. He also provided a copy of the NRA's own letter to the stations and memo disputing the Post story, after the jump. He also said the ad is running only in Pennsylvania at the moment.
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MEMORANDUM
CLIENT-MATTER NUMBER
999100-0130
TO: Station Managers
FROM: Cleta Mitchell, Esq.
Counsel to National Rifle Association
DATE: September 25, 2008
RE: Documentation for Advertising by National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund ("NRA-PVF")
This firm serves as counsel to the National Rifle Association (“NRA”) and the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund ("NRA-PVF"), which is the federal political action committee of the NRA and the sponsor of certain advertising purchased and soon-to-be purchased on your station. It has come to my clients’ attention that the Obama for President campaign is engaging in an effort to prevent or stop the airing of certain ads by NRA-PVF, falsely alleging that the ads are ‘inaccurate’.
The Obama presidential campaign apparently relies on an article appearing in the Washington Post on September 23, 2008 to support its contention that the NRA-PVF ads should not be aired.
The Washington Post is hardly an objective news source on any subject related to the issues to which the NRA is dedicated, having spent decades attacking not only the NRA but also fighting against the legislation and policies NRA supports to protect the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, as well as supporting every conceivable government proposal or policy any officeholder or candidate suggests to weaken and disrupt the guarantees of the Second Amendment. It is therefore no surprise that the Washington Post would now attack the NRA for advertisements which truthfully disclose the anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment record of Barack Obama, the candidate supported by the Washington Post.
Attached please find the point-by-point refutation of the Washington Post’s article about the NRA-PVF ads regarding Obama’s record on the Second Amendment, as well as an article disclosing the bias of the decidedly not neutral “FactChecker” on which the Washington Post article is ostensibly based.
The NRA devotes 100% of its time and resources to protecting the Second Amendment and fighting for government policies and legislation furtherance of the rights of the American people to keep and bear arms.
The legislative and policy record of candidates and officeholders such as Barack Obama are well known and documented by the NRA on an ongoing basis. NRA-PVF’s advertising during the 2008 election cycle is based on that extensive research and documentation, which is being furnished to you with this Memorandum.
Accordingly, we respectfully request that your station disregard the shamefully false assertions from the Obama campaign and its attorneys regarding the NRA-PVF ads and that the ads run in accordance with the purchase(s) made by NRA-PVF in the media buy.
Please feel free to contact me at (202) 295-xxxx if you have any questions. Thank you.
I sent another check to Colorado Senate candidate Bob Shaffer running against the Marxist Mark (MARX) Udall. Need to send a check to the NRA PVF too! Their ads focused in the battleground state of Colorado are spot on in my opinion!
It’s sad that entire generations of black have been destroyed because of attitudes like this, black on black crime, lack of marriage and stable families. Blacks that blame it on whites all they want, but the facts are they have just as many opportunities as anyone else.
Those who make the choice to like the thug/gangster lifestyle basically sign their own death warrants, carried out by another black. Slowly but surely many black are waking up and revolting against the “lifestyle” and that is wonderful; I just wonder how many generations it will take before the entire black community gets the message that thug/gangster life is nothing but slavery all over again.
Figured you were, mine was a general shout out!
Regards,
I’ve heard those ads here in Colorado on the radio.
I assume that Obama will be sending a similar letter to Spanish-language television stations who air his Rush=McCain=Bush ad.
Or his McCain/Palin are against stem cell research. Or the absolutely disgusting, disgraceful, kos-type, juvenile, insulting McCain cancer commercial.
I’ve not yet seen video of Obama’s Pennsylvania(?) speech, but I understand it exists. If it sounds the way it reads, I think it would make pretty abundantly clear where Obama stands on the issue. No need for out-of-context quotes. Show Obama’s line about “Even if I wanted to, I wouldn’t have the votes in Congress” in its proper context. Then ask, “Is Obama really going to protect Second Amendment rights? As long he doesn’t have enough votes in Congress to do otherwise.”
Liberals love to blur the lines between race and culture. It is morally wrong to discriminate among people solely on the basis of pigmentation. It is morally right, however, to regard some cultures as superior to others and thus in some cases to discriminate against people on the basis of culture.
Unfortunately, any behavior which is more widely practiced by blacks than whites is protected against criticism, since any criticism of such behavior would be 'racist'.
if his poll numbers plummet, could be quite a show
Check utube, it was all over, plus I believe the NRA has web videos of Obama up and running.
It is clear that our G-d given right to free speech
is only assured by our G-d given right to bear arms
in defense of Liberty
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