Wrong Mother, Muthuh F**KUH

Todd Manzi,  G-d bless you

A grieving mother of a soldier killed in Iraq wants to voice her opinion. She has a message about the war in Iraq and feels the American people need to hear what she has to say.

Her name is Merrilee Carlson and her story is compelling and newsworthy. Unlike another mother of a fallen soldier, Carlson is not a household name. Her message is exactly opposite of the over-exposed message of the well-known protesting mom.

Carlson began trying to get her message out last August and September. She didn’t like what was coming out of Crawford and felt the need to correct the record.

In the last couple of weeks the organization that Carlson chairs, Minnesota Families United, has been in the center of a controversy that, by any objective reasoning, should have made national news.

Minnesota Families United teamed with Progress for America Voter Fund and produced two television spots. Minnesota was used as a test market for the spots and PFA made a rather large statewide television buy. The ABC affiliate in the Twin Cities market, KSTP, refused to air the spots.

This is a shameless disgusting story. Verifying the obvious left wing agenda of the mainstream media.
Complicit silence on a fallen soldier's ma. Bless her soul.

The decision not to air the first MFU commercial was made by Rob Hubbard, General Manager. His objection was over two lines in the spot:

1) The media only reports the bad news, but American troops are making real progress
2) You would never know it from the news reports, but our enemy in Iraq is Al Qaeda.

The news hook gets better.

On Thursday, February 16th, the Chair of the Democrat Party in Minnesota called on all TV stations to pull the ad. The top Democrats in Minnesota want to suppress the message of Carlson’s group.

Merrilee Carlson was born and raised a Democrat. She doesn’t like politics and she wants to make it clear that her group is non-political. So, the Democrats in Minnesota are trying to suppress the message from mainstream families who have suffered the loss of their children from the war in Iraq. Why is this not news?

That other mom was a full-time, anti-war protester for more than a year before she came up with the PR stunt to go to Crawford during the president’s vacation. The media accepted the stunt and gave her message enormous coverage. This prompted Carlson to take action for her message. Now Carlson is in the middle of legitimate news and the media is silent.

Have we come to the point where it takes a stunt to make news?

NO...........we have to come to the point Mr. Manzi, if you are not a traitor you are not part of the desired message. Bah dah bing, bah dah boom.

Comments

[Mark]

Great post! Apparently, certain MSM types consider themselves beyond criticism. That's a pretty dangerous mindest to have and even worse, I bet they would scream if they detected a hint of that in a conservative or republican.

But don't question their patriotism!

[jimb]

I love to watch people expound on things they know nothing about. If you knew anything about the media in the Twin Cities (that's Minneapolis & St. Paul, Minnesota), you'd know that KSTP is owned and operated by the most hardcore righties in the business. They just really and sincerely objected to someone coming on their station and accusing them of refusing to air and positive news about Iraq.

But, don't let reality interfere with your unwarranted outrage, you fact-challenged ditz!

[Thomas Carney]

jimb, whatever you're smokin', Cheech and Chong want some of that, TOO!!!!!!!!!!!

[shingles]

Jimbo, take those facts out of that pipe you've been smoking!
This is a fact free zone.
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