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January 6, 2008 at 11:55:26

An Open Letter to ABC News

by Kathryn Smith Page 2 of 2 page(s)

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How dare ABC pick the next President for us, even if there was nothing on the line?

How dare you play partisan politics and call that “news” ? How smart is that, even?

ABC, it is time for me to break news to you.

We, the People are not only going to boycott you, but are a) spreading word far and wide b) are very much inclined to file a class action lawsuit against you.

No Media has any right to assist the rigging of an election; to cut out Constitutionally protected free speech of Any Candidate of Any Partisanship or Any Position and for Any Reason; to whisk away the power of choice from the people by exclusion of individuals from debate; to assist the brainwashing of a nation for personal self-gain; and to tout war without end based on profits and deaths for lies. OUR OWN KIDS are dying for these lies, and you choose to keep promoting those lies with fear, fear and more fear. Just so we can send our kids to die for more lies while we pay for that “privilege” with our tax dollars.

I am carbon copying this open letter to seven different on-line news sites, each of which are the biggest on the Web. I also am forwarding this letter to every one of the Candidates named in this letter, and to their Campaign websites. I am asking readers of this letter to send out letters to the editor everywhere, calling for boycotts, phone calls, faxes, and class action lawsuits. And I wish you luck in standing up to an entire nation of furious people.

You reap what you sow. Your choice. Your mess to clean up.

I bookend this letter with a very clear statement: Wake up and smell the business losses.

And I want to see ABC paying Kucinich, Gravel, Hunter, Paul and Romney ample financial restitution and providing them with over-abundantly extra, unbiased coverage from now until election day. Short of such restitution and extensive unbiased coverage, I want to see ABC paying the American people, en masse, restitution for the losses of lives of their kids, for the losses of civil liberties, and the losses of their power of choice. Because you have deliberately excluded the one Candidate, Kucinich, who happens to be on the morally and legally correct side of the street, for all those very serious matters above. And you have chosen to minimize the participation of others (Romney and Paul), provided zero reporter coverage for them, while also excluding two more Candidates (Gravel, Hunter) from the "news" "debate". Therefore we hold you responsible, legally, for what you illegally and unconstitutionally have chosen to censor, and for the effects of that censorship in harming the quality of American lives. Thank you, ABC “News”.

PS Dear readers, you have my permission to send this open letter to any websites and friends you wish. Please distribute widely. Use my talking points: There is no need to quote me. This is about the public best interest, and that's the sole interest here. It's about time the mainstream media "gets it" that they've got to shape up. Thank you!

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Cheri Roberts is a longtime activist and writer who has worked in mixed media for 15 yrs. With 911 Truth as a primary focus, she participates in and organizes for events both locally and nationally always striving to get people out of their chairs and in the streets. She believes the biggest strength of the 911 Truth movement is the one strength they have yet to embrace, unity.
Cheri RobertsCheri Roberts is a longtime activist and writer who has worked in mixed media for 15 yrs. With 911 Truth as a primary focus, she participates in and organizes for events both locally and nationally always striving to get people out of their chairs and in the streets. She believes the biggest strength of the 911 Truth movement is the one strength they have yet to embrace, unity.

Another concerned citizen here!

ABC as well as the other MSM outlets should be ashamed of themselves, not just for this, but also for the years of disservce they have given us.

by Cheri Roberts (16 articles, 15 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 435 comments) on Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 12:46:57 PM

57 year old progressive conservative constitutionalist. I am blue collar making less than 35K per year. I have an 18 year old daughter who is a scholastic wiz and an independent thinker in her own right. I am privileged to be her dad. Unfortunately, she is not concerned with politics and thinks the world is on its way to hell. This is one of two places I think Kucinich has failed in his candidacy. He does not relate well to the 18-24 voting crowd or did not seem to do so here in Reno. Back t...

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Tim Sanders57 year old progressive conservative constitutionalist. I am blue collar making less than 35K per year. I have an 18 year old daughter who is a scholastic wiz and an independent thinker in her own right. I am privileged to be her dad. Unfortunately, she is not concerned with politics and thinks the world is on its way to hell. This is one of two places I think Kucinich has failed in his candidacy. He does not relate well to the 18-24 voting crowd or did not seem to do so here in Reno. Back t...

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Very Good article Ms. Smith

Dear Ms. Smith: That was an excellent article. I tried to forward it to my email list and unfortunately there is a glitch with hotmail importation of email addresses and was unable to do so. So many of these glitches exist it is truly frustrating.

Another way the "system" has screwed the choices of the American voter is our "Caucus" system. As Iowa and N.H. lead the parade, the first three places from each party are awarded delegates to go on to the National Primary. Unfortunately, that forces those candidates without financial means to possibly drop out and in effect AGAIN deciding for us who we will be able to vote for. Example: suppose Joe Biden or Chris Dodd had a huge following in other parts of the country. By allowing only two caucuses to determine the front runners we are deprived of seeing who has captured the spirit of voters in the rest of the nation's caucuses. And again it is the Media Moguls who concentrate on the front runner's to the point of exclusion of other candidates. All caucus voters should cast their votes independently regardless of what group they represent. The caucuses should all be held on the same day, computerized with paper trails (or hand votes as there are months to count the votes) and announced to the nation. Of course that is just one area of our present voter process that needs immediate change.

Thanks for leading an interesting and so valid critique of the present Media Empire manipulation of the American people.

by Tim Sanders (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments) on Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 5:14:17 PM

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Amen!

Even if we believe that the Kucinich or Gravel candidacies are quixotic and extremely unlikely to result in a nominee, the POINT OF THE CAMPAIGN is to hear points of view. ABC removing these voices is arrogant and should lose its licences to broadcast nationwide!

JB--The American Liberalism Project

by James Brett (82 articles, 95 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 86 comments) on Monday, January 7, 2008 at 5:29:16 PM