Posted on 01/02/2003 9:52:52 AM PST by facedown
A FReeper Call To ACTION (Vanity, sort of)
Last Friday Ellen Ratner was on Fox's Your World with Neil Cavuto substitute-hosted by Brenda Butner. She basically said that she hoped Bush botches the war so he won't get reelected. There were a couple of threads on it, Ellen Ratner on Cavuto: "I hope he [Bush] screws up the war so he isn't re-elected".[Vanity] , ELLEN RATNER SAYS SHE HOPES WAR IN IRAQ GOES BADLY FOR U.S. (FOX INTERVIEW, and most recently Report on Ellen Ratner's "Dead Americans" Comment.
A number of us emailed various Fox personnel and there was a call by some for a major FReep.
It was my opinion that the timing was not good as we were going into a weekend in the middle of a holiday and a lot of people would miss it. So I decided to put it up today.
First, consider the exchange:
My transcript of Ellen Ratner's comment on Your World, December 28, 2002
Posted on 12/28/2002 3:42 PM CST by Paul Atreides
I taped Ellen RATner's predictions to Brenda Buttner as she filled in on Your World with Neil Cavuto. Here is my transcript of her comments:
BB: You basically saying that he's going to be reelected, I mean essentially unless the economy tanks...
ER: That is unless he messes up the war....my hope.
BB: Your hope?!
ER: Well, I don't want him to be reelected.
BB: Right, but I mean, 'mess up the war,' what do you mean by that?
ER: Do something that will make Americans say 'Maybe we shouldn't have done this.' You know, that kind of thing.
That she could so flippantly dismiss the efforts and LIVES of our servicepeople for base partisanship was stunning. She is well known as a junkyard operative of the James Carville school but this went WAY too far. She does not deserve airtime on Fox.
In order to have a mass effect on Fox, and others, I have complied a list of contact information as follows:
I would put up her email address but she'd just feel flattered.
Her boss at World Net Daily: JOSEPH FARAH
It can't hurt to enlist the Talk Radio shows too, so:
IT IT TIME TO ACT!!! Email these people to get this person off the air. Here is the message I sent:
(To Neil Cavuto)
Ellen Ratner has made some extraordinarily provocative comments on various Fox appearances. However when she said today that she hoped Bush would botch the war in Iraq so he wouldn't get reelected she crossed any line of decency or civility and possibly into traitorous territory. She is perfectly aware of the horrendous cost of lives in our military and the Iraqi people that such a misadventure would entail.
I understand the concept of "fair and balanced" but you disgrace yourself by allowing this person to appear on your programs.
XXXXX
XXXXXX, IL
I would like to ask any of you who have major lists to ping them as we need as much pressure on these people as possible.
Therefore, I apologize in advance for any of you who receive repeat pings.
Leni
Good for her! Unfortunately, Ellen will have her spin worked out by then.
I can just picture Carville saying, "This is a free country, she can say whatever she want (sic) to. Just because she don't think this war will go right don't mean she don't respect the military which this President is abusing. That's the whole point, she wants a good President in there so the war can be done right."
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