Clark Supporters: Letter & Phone Campaign

[Leilani]

We need to respond to the unfair coverage our candidate has received everywhere.

Call, email all media outlets. We need to flood them.

Call & write General Electric & tell them we will boycott their products until they give fair coverage.

CNN..Does Time-Warner still own them? If so, tell them BOYCOTT!

We have to get them where their money is!!!

We can make a difference if enough of us make noise!!

If you truly care, do something, please.

[Ilsa]

1. Yeah, I was getting ready to boycott them anyway.

But tonight was the proverbial straw.

I am sick of NBC, CNBC, CNN, etc. They spew garbage with nasty condescending commentaries about the supporters of the candidates and the candidates themselves. Those media sluts aren't worth a chipped fingernail compared to any of the original nine.

[For PaisAn]

2. Agree but

more important than responding to the media we also need to call and write voters in upcoming primaries. There may not be enough time to have enough of an effect on these corporation's bottom line but we can reach out to voters and counter the bias and smears.

[Leilani]

3. Good Idea!

[For PaisAn]

5. letter and calls to voters

Anyone interested, go to clark04.com and sign up for E-block.

[Bucky]

4. Nah. I ain't buyin' it. Clark's gotten critical coverage, but not unfair.

I'd like to distinguish between criticism and discrimination. Clark can take criticism. I've not seen any actual bias against our guy.

I'm voting for the General and I love his no-nonsense style. I think he's a great man in the George Washington/James Madison mold and we're idiots not to nominate this once in a generation quality of leader.

[Meritaten1]

6. No, the media coverage of Clark has been a disgrace!

His views have been distorted, his character has been attacked and the coverage has gone beyond "criticism."

Please note that in the final New Hampshire debate, he didn't get questions asking his views about policy (the type of questions you would expect if the media wanted to inform voters about a candidate's positions). He was asked a series of "gotcha" attack questions and the responses were then dissected and criticized again by pundits. When have you ever heard a candidate being asked not once, but twice, about his party affiliation in a single, final primary debate?

The Wall Street Journal has been conducting a veritable character assassination campaign against him on their editorial pages. See today's editorial page: another attack on the day of the New Hampshire primary. Nice coincidence?

Major media outlets like CNN and Fox have distorted his views and failed to correct blatant mistakes. E.g. Recently Ed Gillespie, RNC Chairman, ventured to Little Rock and attacked Clark for alleged inconsistencies on his position about Iraq. Mr. Gillespie relied upon a selectively -- very selectively-- edited transcript of testimony before a 2002 Congressional hearing. Clark's words were taken out of context and ellipses were used to make it seem as though he said one thing, when in fact he said the opposite. A few mainstream media sources covered this incident, but not all of them. Other media perpetuated the distortion.

The coverage of many Democratic candidates by the media this year has been unfair and biased, but I don't think it could get much worse than the unfair attacks on Wesley Clark.