I am a liberal Democrat but I can not sit by and watch unethical `Right-Wingers` fleece their `right-wing` supporters. Check out this website. These people are actually asking their supporters to turn over the deed of their house to them! This is not right. I'm going to send this link to the various news organizations. I am also going to see if there is a consumer protection agency that can look into this. Any other suggestions?

Here is a sample of their fundraising letter that appears on their website. :evil:

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I'm not sure the press will pick up on this - the Media Research Center is run by Brent Bozell, who also heads the Parents Television Council - you know that charming group that filed 99.8% of all the indecency charges with the FCC last year. Bozell is a large part of the noise machine that brought down CBS over the TANG documents. The mainstream press is so cowed by the right wing , I doubt that they would dare touch it . If having a gay prostitute in the White House is a story that can't see the light of day, I doubt that fleecing your followers will get any attention. After all, isn't that what is happening every day with this administration?

As far as other options, it might be worth it to contact the Virginia state Attorney General. That's where the consumer protection office would be. I think there's a better chance of shutting him down that way, than through the press.

And this from the MORAL PARTY. How in the heck did they convince 1/2 of America to vote for them and their agenda.
My Mom who's 73 says when the Republicans are in power the scum crawl out of the woodwork.
I just can't feel sorry for the people that follow these guys. What he's doing is wrong but it is not illegal. Those TV evangelists do this type of fund raising too. :evil:

One idea might be to send this site to "Raw Story"....they are kind of a liberal Drudge Report organization. They have picked up on alot of "scandals"....

The Media Research Center has been hard at work for some time. They launched a billboard campaign all across the country - I wrote about it here in the forums around the first of this year. If you didn't see one of their billboards you really missed something.

The billboards stated, "Tell the Truth, Don't Believe the Liberal Media." The one I saw was HUGE and located at the entrance to the Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport. It was shocking, really, and was gone by the end of December. Neither the local or national media reported on this - to my knowledge.

The billboards look cartoonish - but they are NOT funny. :evil:

Here they are in all their glory:

The Billboard Campaign

The MYTH of the Liberal Media has died with the intentional failure of the Corporate Media to cover the Gannon scandal.

So yeah, screw the "Mainstream Media." They are worthless anyway.

[quote=thunderhawk]The MYTH of the Liberal Media has died with the intentional failure of the Corporate Media to cover the Gannon scandal.[/quote]

Not to mention the election theft.

We won't mention the lack of their investigative integrity that allowed us to get into this boondoggle of a war in Iraq......

...or their lack of investigation into the troubling holes in their "accepted" theory about 9/11.