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URGENT: Complain to ABC Advertisers About Its Ban of Kucinich, Gravel and Hunter from Tonight's Debate

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Also, let CNN and the other networks know. I doubt NBC will report it, because they did the same thing to Mike Gravel, but maybe the other networks, maybe C-Span, or National Public Radio, will. Contact whoever is on airamericaradio today. Call your local talk radio host, whether right or left wing. This is a non-partisan issue.

Some contact info for Disney:

Lowell Singer 818-560-6601 (Investor Relations) or

Jonathan Friedland 818 560 8306 (Corporate Communications).

TWDC.Corp.Communications@disney.com.

Here's the link for the ABC contact page. And make sure to contact your local affiliate. Talk to the producer on duty. It won't hurt to contact local advertisers on the local affiliate too. A few concerned phone calls from them can be as influential as a thousand calls from a viewer, and it can take just one email or phone call from a viewer to spur a phone call from an advertiser.

Democracy is far too fragile and precious to allow corporations to tamper with it. This is another example of why corporate personhood should be illegal and corporations should be totally banned, as they were for scores of years of US history, from influencing elections.

 

Please take a few minutes to make a call or send an email. If you find better, or additional contact info, please post it as a comment.

Ron Paul Supporters-- ABC considered banning Ron Paul. IF you believe in democracy, get in on the action here and let ABC and disney and their advertisers know this is just not acceptable, even if they gave Ron Paul a pass. And get the word to Ron Paul he should speak out for his fellow candidates.

Update from an OpEdNEws correspondernt Deborah Emin at Kucinich Headquarters in New Hampsire:

I am... in the Kucinich campaign headquarters and the news of his being targetted the way ABC is doing along with the way the Des Moines Register has done is also happening in Texas too.

Kucinich is not being allowed to participate in the Texas primaries because he will not sign a loyalty oath that he will support the Democratic candidate for president. He and Willie Nelson are going to court about that too.

He is also going to sue the FCC about the ABC exclusion. It is a shame that the whole electoral process is being thrown into this type of legal wrangling. I mean it is just such an incredible comment about our whole electoral system.

In a few minutes I am going to be interviewing Melissa Etheridge about the refusal of ABC to include Dennis tonight.

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Bill Moyers had Paul and Kucinich each on his journal by Margaret Bassett on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 8:20:07 AM
Been there, done that Rob by Jeanette Doney on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 8:47:49 AM
You're only sorry, what??? by C.Bid on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 9:54:08 AM
No by Jeanette Doney on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 12:13:53 PM
Sound a bit like an ingrate to me... by C.Bid on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 2:16:04 PM
You are WRONG .. by ladybroadoak on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 3:06:18 PM
I agree! by Jeanette Doney on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 4:52:06 PM
Sending this info out to our lists. by Freedom4America Group on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 8:56:09 AM
AWESOME! by Jeanette Doney on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 9:39:39 AM
Exclusions by Linda Inveninato on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 2:40:51 PM
Good Job Rob, as a Ron Paul supporter I say we join forces! by CharlieFree on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 9:16:28 AM
Regardless of the candidate... by C.Bid on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 10:11:46 AM
ABC's debate hijinks by irwin wingo on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 9:49:11 AM
Eventually our President will be appointed not elected. by Anna Ragland on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 10:00:59 AM
Americans empower the media by Ingrid on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 5:01:39 PM
boycott by kgongre on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 10:08:59 AM
It is difficult to feel any different. by C.Bid on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 10:18:10 AM
Link for ABC news programming by Louise Nelson on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 10:24:29 AM
In principle, I agree... by Robert Sargent on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 11:25:59 AM
Boycott by Dusty Nathan on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 12:10:43 PM
One reason the radical right is so successful by C.Bid on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 2:10:40 PM
Missing Link by Andris on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 3:16:58 PM
That's what happens when you have zero percent of the vote! by Dana Pico on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 12:58:20 PM
SO YOU CONCLUDE by WML on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 2:31:20 PM
If your argument is reasonable . . . by Dana Pico on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 4:20:43 PM
Didn't Kucinich endorse Obama? by Jeanette Doney on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 5:16:06 PM
Because Kucinich IS credible by Ingrid on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 5:31:00 PM
Jeanette and Ingrid by C.Bid on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 9:10:58 PM
Please forward this to people ... by ladybroadoak on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 3:02:35 PM
That's a wonderful list. by Edward Ulysses Cate on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 5:50:35 PM
Thank you! by Kathlyn Stone on Sunday, Jan 6, 2008 at 9:31:40 AM
Now Ron Paul is in. Did they just changed the rules? by Mario Dufour on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 4:26:11 PM
And Kucinich? by Mario Dufour on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 11:08:32 PM
ABC Email Address: Member Services by JonmarkP on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 5:11:01 PM
Blame the Media, Democratic Party and All Other Candidates by welshTerrier2 on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 6:25:41 PM
I think you nailed it! by C.Bid on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 9:14:48 PM
Who should decide? by Dana Pico on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 9:33:21 PM
oh, please!! by ladybroadoak on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 10:48:43 PM
Kucinich good for 5% after Dodd, Biden and Gravel drop out by Gustav Wynn on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 10:53:32 PM
Regarding "0%" in Iowa by Gustav Wynn on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 11:01:21 PM
The People of Iowa Didn't say Kucinich Couldn't Debate by welshTerrier2 on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 10:56:27 PM
Media Selects Candidates by August Adams on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 9:34:48 PM
Moyers, Paul, Kucinich by RG on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 at 11:27:47 PM
Final Thought by Dusty Nathan on Sunday, Jan 6, 2008 at 10:41:58 AM
To Dana by Anna Ragland on Sunday, Jan 6, 2008 at 11:50:01 AM
Well said... by C.Bid on Sunday, Jan 6, 2008 at 2:02:03 PM
The Fox list of advertisers .. by ladybroadoak on Sunday, Jan 6, 2008 at 3:19:42 PM
Latest email list via Eileen Danemann ... by ladybroadoak on Sunday, Jan 6, 2008 at 4:54:10 PM
Thank you, ladybroadoak. by C.Bid on Sunday, Jan 6, 2008 at 6:02:43 PM
AGREED! Here is one way to speak out. by EveryoneSpeaks on Sunday, Jan 6, 2008 at 6:46:08 PM
Sounds good. by C.Bid on Monday, Jan 7, 2008 at 10:47:28 AM

 
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