Conservative Leaders Send Letter to Media: 'You Are Rigging This Election'

VectorMan wrote:The letter:

Movement to Media: “You are Rigging this Election”
Over 20 Conservative Leaders including Rush Limbaugh, Ed Meese, Mark Levin and Tony Perkins Call on Public to Tune out the Liberal Media!
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
This election year, so much of the broadcast networks, their cable counterparts, and the major establishment print media are out of control with a deliberate and unmistakable leftist agenda. To put it bluntly: you are rigging this election and taking sides in order to pre-determine the outcome. In the quarter century since the Media Research Center was established to document liberal media bias, there has never been a more brazen and complete attempt by the liberal so-called “news” media to decide the outcome of an election.
A free and balanced media are crucial to the health of this country. It is your duty as journalists – as outlined in the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics – to “distinguish between advocacy and news reporting,” while simultaneously “seeking truth and providing a fair and comprehensive account of events and issues.”
There is a reason why the media are viewed with such disdain by the American public, as evidenced by every recent poll on the issue.
You have breached the public trust by willfully turning a blind eye to the government’s public policy failures, both domestic and foreign, while openly and shamefully smearing Gov. Mitt Romney. You are:
 Painting conservative ideas as extreme, while refusing to report the disastrous consequences of liberal programs enacted since 2008.
 Submerging the truly horrendous economic conditions America is facing and focusing only on minor political issues.
 Characterizing conservatives as cruel budget “slashers” instead of responsible officials trying to avoid a debt catastrophe.
 Focusing on alleged shortcomings in Romney’s business record instead of Obama’s record as the chief executive, whose policies contributed to a failed economy.
 Deliberately covering up embarrassing government failures and scandals, including the Solyndra debacle, Fast & Furious, and national security leaks which have put American lives in jeopardy.
 Pouncing on real and perceived missteps by conservatives, portraying them as bumbling incompetents, while suppressing embarrassing and incendiary remarks made by Vice President Joe Biden to prevent him from becoming a liability.
 Portraying conservative opposition to tax hikes as an impediment to deficit
reduction while failing to highlight how liberal tax increase policies will cause
massive damage to the economy and cause the deficit to explode.
 “Fact-checking” conservatives in order to discredit their arguments while
regularly refusing to "fact-check" liberals who are distorting the truth.
We the undersigned – representing millions of Americans from our respective
organizations – are now publicly urging our members to seek out alternative sources of
political news in order to make an intelligent, well-informed decision on November 6.
It is time the American people turn you who are offending off, once and for all. You have
betrayed their trust.
Sincerely,
L. Brent Bozell, III
President
Media Research Center
Co-Signed:
Gary Bauer
President
Campaign for American Values
Hon. J. Kenneth Blackwell
Former, U.S. ambassador
U.N. Human Rights Commission
Morton Blackwell,
Chairman
The Weyrich Lunch
David Bozell
Executive Director
For America
Brian Brown
President
National Organization for Marriage
Al Cardenas
Chairman
American Conservative Union
Marjorie Dannenfelser
President
Susan B. Anthony List
Becky Norton Dunlop
Former Reagan Official
Colin Hanna
President
Let Freedom Ring
Laura Ingraham
National Radio Host
Matt Kibbe
President and CEO
FreedomWorks
Amy Kremer
Chairman
Tea Party Express
Curt Levey
Committee for Justice
Mark Levin
Author and National Radio Host
Rush Limbaugh
National Radio Host
Jenny Beth Martin
Co-Founder
Tea Party Patriots
Ed Meese III
Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy,
Chairman of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies
Heritage Foundation
Mike Needham
Chief Executive Officer
Heritage Action
Karl Otteson
U. S. Federation of Small Businesses Inc
William Pascoe
Executive Vice President
Citizens for the Republic
Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council
Alfred S. Regnery
Paul Revere Project
Mathew D. Staver Founder and Chairman Liberty Counsel
Richard Viguerie
Chairman
Conservative HQ.com

boards of FL wrote:Republicans continue to be painted into a smaller and smaller corner of irrelevance. Science is wrong. The media is all liberal. Liberals are communists. Education is bad. Cutting taxes for the wealthy will help balance the budget.

I suspect that reality is actually rigging this election, hence why republicans have completely divorced themselves from it!

boards of FL wrote:Republicans continue to be painted into a smaller and smaller corner of irrelevance. Science is wrong. The media is all liberal. Liberals are communists. Education is bad. Cutting taxes for the wealthy will help balance the budget.

I suspect that reality is actually rigging this election, hence why republicans have completely divorced themselves from it!

boards of FL wrote:Rep

The next four years could get pretty weird and ugly. [/font]

boards of FL wrote:Republicans continue to be painted into a smaller and smaller corner of irrelevance. Science is wrong. The media is all liberal. Liberals are communists. Education is bad. Cutting taxes for the wealthy will help balance the budget.

I suspect that reality is actually rigging this election, hence why republicans have completely divorced themselves from it!

salinsky wrote:

boards of FL wrote:Republicans continue to be painted into a smaller and smaller corner of irrelevance. Science is wrong. The media is all liberal. Liberals are communists. Education is bad. Cutting taxes for the wealthy will help balance the budget.

I suspect that reality is actually rigging this election, hence why republicans have completely divorced themselves from it!

Tru dat.

Many Republicans live in a rightwing bubble of their own construct, where objective information is unwelcome. They get up in the morning and read rightwing websites, listen to talk radio in the afternoons, and come home in the evenings and watch FAUX News. These people have very clear preconceived ideas, which are never challenged.

You can watch whatever you want to watch. When the FED BUBBLE bursts your holdings in Money Market accounts will lose 10-40% of their worth. Money Market accounts aren't covered by the FDIC. Go figure. Watch your lifetime wealth creation be cut in half.

Meanwhile watch Howard Stern interview informed voters...just for kicks.

I can't quit laughing.................

And, on November 7, when the election results show the polling was fairly accurate, for them it will not be evidence that their conspiracy theory was wrong. It will be evidence that their conspiracy theory was right, and the evil media successfully manipulated the election.

The next four years could get pretty weird and ugly.

KarlRove wrote:When the civil war breaks out after the election, these mainstream media folks rigging the election will be the first to be tried for war crimes.

boards of FL wrote:Republicans continue to be painted into a smaller and smaller corner of irrelevance. Science is wrong. The media is all liberal. Liberals are communists. Education is bad. Cutting taxes for the wealthy will help balance the budget.

I suspect that reality is actually rigging this election, hence why republicans have completely divorced themselves from it![/quote]

You got that right..... We should take a poll to see what or who gets blamed for the election results should Obama be re-elected. Surely, he cannot be re-elected fairly and without duplicity, right?

boards of FL wrote:Republicans continue to be painted into a smaller and smaller corner of irrelevance. Science is wrong. The media is all liberal. Liberals are communists. Education is bad. Cutting taxes for the wealthy will help balance the budget.

I suspect that reality is actually rigging this election, hence why republicans have completely divorced themselves from it![/quote]

You got that right..... We should take a poll to see what or who gets blamed for the election results should Obama be re-elected. Surely, he cannot be re-elected fairly and without duplicity, right?