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June 16th 2009
“Strike a Blow for the Freedom of Speech TODAY!”
From: The Media Research Center
Subject: FCC Hearing Tomorrow. Call the Committee Today!
Date: Monday, June 15, 2009 6:54 PM
From the Desk of:
David Martin, Executive Vice President
MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER
6/15/2009
Robert & Melinda,
Tomorrow morning, the Media Research Center will be delivering hundreds of thousands of petitions on your behalf to the Senate Commerce Committee prior to their FCC confirmation hearing!
The petitions call on the government to reject any and all efforts to censor, limit, or restrain conservative or Christian talk radio.
As we mentioned earlier, President Obama’s pick for FCC Chairmain, Julius Genachowski, is a strong proponent of diversity in the media code for promoting liberalism and liberal views.
Confirmation of Obama’s pick could throw open the door to regulation and control of conservative talk radio!
That is why we are writing you today.
Ahead of our massive petition delivery on the morning of the hearing, we are asking ALL members of the MRC Action team to call each member of the Senate Commerce Committee and urge them to make sure that no FCC nominee will regulate or control radio content.
That means:
NO to the Fairness Doctrine.
NO to forced diversity in media ownership.
NO to serving the government’s flawed idea of local or public interest.
Leave radio content alone!! Radio content should be driven by the free market.
Let the consumer decide!
We must have any and all nominees on the record supporting ‘Free Speech’ in advance of their confirmation, and we are counting on you to help make that happen.
++ Call Members of the Senate Commerce Committee Today!
Help the MRC by calling EVERY member of the committee today and tomorrow!
Below are the members and their contact information:
* Democrats:
John D. Rockefeller, WV > 202-224-6472
Daniel K. Inouye, HI > 202-224-3934
John Kerry, MA > 202-224-2742
Byron Dorgan, ND > 202-224-2551
Barbara Boxer, CA > 202-224-3553
Bill Nelson, FL > 202-224-5274
Maria Cantwell, WA > 202-224-3441
Frank Lautenberg, NJ > 202-224-3224
Mark Pryor, AR > 202-224-2353
Clair McCaskill, MO > 202-224-6154
Amy Klobuchar, MN > 202-224-3244
Tom Udall, NM > 202-224-6621
Mark Warner, VA > 202-224-2023
Mark Begich, AK > 202-224-3004
* Republicans:
Kay Bailey Hutchison, TX > 202-224-5922
Olympia Snowe, ME > 202-224-5344
John Ensign, NV > 202-224-6244
Jim DeMint, SC > 202-224-6121
John Thune, SD > 202-224-2321
Roger Wicker, MS > 202-224-6253
Johnny Isakson, GA > 202-224-3643
David Vitter, LA > 202-224-4623
Sam Brownback, KS > 202-224-6521
Mel Martinez, FL > 202-224-3041
Mike Johanns, NE > 202-224-4224
When calling, be sure to urge EVERY member of the committee to stand first and foremost for the preservation of our Free Speech Rights by opposing ANY regulation or control of radio content.
++ Alert Your Friends
After placing your calls, please forward this message to 20-30 friends, urging them to take action with you, first by signing their name to our Free Speech petition and then by making phone calls to members of the Senate Commerce Committee.
These past two weeks have been among the most proactive and exciting in MRC Action team history as we heroically stepped up with petitions, faxes, and phone calls demanding an end to the looming threat against our Free Speech Rights.
Now it’s all come down to these confirmation hearings!
Your petitions will be there, now we need tens of thousands of MRC Action team members to strike a blow for Free Speech Rights by calling every member of the Senate Commerce committee and inviting your friends to do the same!
Take Action: “Strike a Blow for the Freedom of Speech TODAY!!!” - Petition - MRC Action Team
Thanks again for your outstanding support of the MRC!
David
P.S: We must impress on every member of that committee the importance of our Free Speech Rights. We need them to ask the tough questions to ensure that our First Amendment Rights are never regulated into silence.
Please Call today!
* (To contact the Media Research Center with comments, questions or to change your status, see the link at the end of this e-mail.)
Comments? Questions?
E-Mail: MRCAction@mediaresearch.org
The Media Research Center is a research and education organization operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are tax-deductible for income tax purposes.
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