[Apologetics] Fw: Action Alert! ABC gags NRLC!...

[Dianne Dawson]

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Subject: Action Alert! ABC gags NRLC!...

National Right to Life Update February 22, 2008 
 
ABC's  rejection smacks of being a politically motivated gag order.
Show your  support for National Right to Life & tell ABC what you  think!
  
 
 

Video of  the ad on  YouTube  
TEXT OF "Waiting for Obama's Apology"

Male: The  following is paid for by National Right to Life PAC at nrlpac.org. Not  authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee, NRLPAC is  responsible for the content of this advertising.

Female 1: In  August, National Right to Life released documents proving that in 2003,  Barack Obama was responsible for killing a bill to provide care and  protection for babies who are born alive after abortions, and that he  later misrepresented the bill's content. 

Male: When Obama was  asked about National Right to Life's charges in a televised interview, he  replied: (quote) "...I hate to say that people are lying, but here's a  situation where folks are lying."

Female 1: We challenged Obama to  admit that the documents are genuine, and admit to his previous  misrepresentations. FactCheck[dot]org then investigated, and  concluded:

Female 2: "Obama's claim is wrong . . . The documents .  . . support the group's claims that Obama is misrepresenting the contents  of [Senate Bill] 1082."

Female 1: Was Obama afraid that the public  would learn about his extreme position -- that he opposed merely defining  every baby born alive after an abortion as deserving of  protection?

Will Obama now apologize for calling us liars when we  were the ones telling the truth?

Barack Obama: a candidate whose  word you can't believe in. Dear  Pro-Lifers, 
Today, National Right to Life received  notice from ABC Radio Network that it would not air National Right  to Life's ad entitled "Waiting for Obama's Apology," during Sean  Hannity's radio program.  
Show  your support for NRLC!  Click here to donate. 
In  an email to National Right to Life, ABC Radio Network executives  claimed the ad, "while supporting aspects of a Pro-Life position,  weighs more heavily toward electioneering." The ad was to be paid  for by National Right to Life Political Action Committee (NRL PAC),  which is allowed to do "electioneering" under federal  law.

"ABC's rejection smacks of being a politically  motivated gag order," said Derrick Jones, NRLC Communications  Director. "It seems that the pro-Obama leanings of the mainstream  media have overflowed into their sales departments as well. To  reject a political action committee's ad because they think it is  too political, borders on the absurd."

The ad focuses on  NRL's role in revealing that Obama had for four years misrepresented  his record on the Illinois Born-Alive Infants Protection Act  (BAIPA).

"Four years ago, NRL PAC ran electioneering ads  supporting George W. Bush. ABC's lame excuse this year fails to  hide their true motivation of helping Barack Obama conceal his  extreme pro-abortion position from the American public," Jones  added.

On August 11, NRLC released recently uncovered  documents proving that Obama in 2003 had presided over a committee  meeting at which he killed a version of the BAIPA that was virtually  identical to the federal BAIPA that Congress had enacted, without a  dissenting vote, in 2002. This contradicted four years of statements  by Obama on the matter. When Obama was asked about NRLC's charges in  a televised interview on August 16, he said that NRLC was "lying."  Independent investigations by FactCheck.org and Politifact.org have  since concluded that NRLC's claim was accurate and that Obama's  denial was not. The ad refused by ABC quotes the FactCheck.org  conclusion that "Obama is misrepresenting the contents of" the bill  that he killed.

"The ABC gag rule is part of a broader  pattern of behavior in which the mainstream news media filter out or  distort the extremes of Obama's pro-abortion record, including  his actions to block legislation to protect infants born alive  following abortions in Illinois, his commitment to enact the  so-called "Freedom of Choice Act," which would make partial-birth  abortion legal again and nullify all parental notification laws, and  his support for requiring taxpayer funding of abortion," said NRLC  Legislative Director Douglas Johnson, author of an article on the  Obama abortion agenda published  this week by National Review Online.

The ad  is currently posted as a web ad on National Right to Life PAC's  YouTube channel.  
     
  
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