<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">--- On <B>Mon, 2/1/10, LiAnna Davis, CREDO Action <I><act@credoaction.com></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: LiAnna Davis, CREDO Action <act@credoaction.com><BR>Subject: CBS: Don't air anti-abortion Super Bowl ad<BR>To: "Art Kelly" <arthurkelly@yahoo.com><BR>Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 11:59 AM<BR><BR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0pt; OVERFLOW: hidden"><BR><A href="http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=5232&id=7575-1965872-ponSr_x&t=1" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif color=#ff6319 size=4><STRONG>Tell CBS: Don't air Focus on the Family when you reject progressive advocacy ads.</STRONG></FONT></A> <BR></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; LINE-HEIGHT: 20px" face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif color=#37424a size=3>CBS wouldn't allow a group to criticize Bush, wouldn't let a religious group promote its own tolerance of LGBT families and considers a light-hearted dating ad out of bounds. But CBS is perfectly happy to allow Focus on the Family to promote its conservative social agenda. <BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0pt"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif color=#37424a size=2>Dear Art, </FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0pt"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif color=#37424a size=2>The broadcast networks that air the Super Bowl have historically rejected advocacy ads. Yet CBS, which is airing the Super Bowl this year, has accepted an anti-choice ad by the ultra-conservative group Focus on the Family.</FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0pt"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif color=#37424a size=2>Focus on the Family's "celebrate life" (read: anti-choice) ad features Heisman Trophy-winning college football star Tim Tebow. And CBS approved this anti-choice ad, even though the network has repeatedly rejected advocacy ads in past years, including a 2004 MoveOn.org ad that went after then-President Bush's fiscal irresponsibility and an ad the same year from the United Church of Christ showing them welcoming a gay couple who had been turned away from another church. </FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0pt; OVERFLOW: hidden"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif color=#37424a size=2><A href="http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=5232&id=7575-1965872-ponSr_x&t=5" target=_blank rel=nofollow><B>Click here to sign the petition to CBS insisting they follow their no-advocacy policy and reject the Focus on the Family ad before the Super Bowl on February 7.</B></A> </FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0pt"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif color=#37424a size=2>More recently, on Friday CBS rejected an ad from a gay dating site showing two men discovering a mutual attraction when their hands brush in the potato chip bowl. The actors then pantomime a comical make-out session. But CBS says the ad "is not within the Network's broadcast standards for Super Bowl Sunday." </FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0pt"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif color=#37424a size=2>So to recap: CBS wouldn't allow a group to criticize Bush, wouldn't let a religious group promote its own tolerance of LGBT families and considers a light-hearted dating ad out of bounds. But CBS is perfectly happy to allow Focus on the Family to promote its conservative social agenda. </FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0pt"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif color=#37424a size=2>We must call CBS out on its hypocrisy and demand that it also reject the Focus on the Family ad. The Super Bowl is America's annual most-watched television event; more than 98 million Americans tuned in last year. And as anyone who's ever been to a Super Bowl party knows, the ads can be even more closely watched than the game, which is why CBS must not unfairly allow anti-choice commercials while rejecting those for other causes.</DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0pt; OVERFLOW: hidden"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif color=#37424a size=2><B><A href="http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=5232&id=7575-1965872-ponSr_x&t=6" target=_blank rel=nofollow>Click here to add your name to the petition urging CBS to follow its own anti-advocacy policy, reverse the decision, and deny Focus on the Family's anti-choice ad.</A></B> </FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0pt"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif color=#37424a size=2><B>Thank you</B> for standing up to anti-choice hypocrisy.</FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0pt"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif color=#37424a size=2>LiAnna Davis, Campaign Manager <BR><A href="http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=11&id=7575-1965872-ponSr_x&t=7" target=_blank rel=nofollow>CREDO Action from Working Assets </A></FONT></DIV><BR><BR>
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