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.

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++ 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!

*Petition - MRC Action Team:
http://mrcaction.org/517/petition.asp?CID=517&RID=21220589

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?

Email: 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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