anyone see the cheney 'haliburton' commercial on CNN?

[diamond14]

"we're feeding warm meals to OUR soldiers" (happy soldier photo)

"we're making sure the phone calls get through" (soldier with quivering lip, on the phone, suddenly jumps up and says "it's a boy!")


and a whole bunch more 'happy soldiers' photos, paid for with OUR taxes and coming to us from cheney's company, 'haliburton', the ultimate, shameless war profiteers....

[travisleit01]

1. UGH!

:puke:

[PDittie]

2. This is the Super Bowl ad

(I presume...)

Don't find yoursef standing near the snack table when it comes on this Sunday...

[htuttle]

3. That reminds me of another TV commercial...

"Central Services...
We do the work -- you do the pleasure."

Of course, that one was from a movie (ie., 'Brazil')

Halliburton becomes more like them every day.

[proud patriot]

4. CBS Contact info ...

DO NOT STAY SILENT

You Matter and your opinions matter

From a moveon.org Email
other please ad your states contact info

CBS Comment Line
[phone]

Finally, you can contribute to the conversation in the nation's editorial pages by writing a letter to the editor. Here are a few tips on writing an effective letter:


- Brevity is the soul of wit.
- The key to publication is to pounce on something specific you've seen in the newspaper -- such as a story on Super Bowl advertising.

- Be sure to include your name and address, and especially your phone number when submitting your letter. Editors need to call you to verify authorship before they can print your letter. They don't print your phone number.

- Your newspaper's letters page should give you an email address or fax number to use, or you can try Congress.org's website:
http://congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/

Here are a few talking points you can use in your letter:


It's about free speech. The First Amendment doesn't mean a whole lot if we're denied access to the airwaves. CBS has a constitutional obligation to air opposing points of view.

If the White House can run an ad, other groups should be allowed to also. CBS will be airing an ad sponsored by the White House on this year's Super Bowl. Previous ads in this series have implied that buying drugs funds terrorism -- a much more controversial claim than the one "Child's Pay" makes.

CBS just got a huge favor from the White House. Senator John McCain said that the bill was custom tailored to CBS and Fox, which have been lobbying heavily to be able to grow larger. MoveOn and other groups have lobbied against this bill. Now the White House is allowed to run an ad, and groups like MoveOn Voter Fund are not.

What's "controversial"? CBS claims that it has a policy against running "controversial" issue ads. But the only line in the whole ad is a fact: President Bush has created a $1 trillion deficit. In fact, according to numbers released by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office yesterday, that number's low.
As you know, this campaign is bigger than one ad. It's about free speech. We're putting the country's media on notice that we're not going to take censorship lying down.

Sincerely,
--Adam, Carrie, Eli, James, Joan, Laura, Noah, Peter, Wes, and Zack
The MoveOn.org Team
January 27th, 2003

P.S. Some of you have written in to tell us that local CBS affiliates are willing to run the ad. It's true, and it points out CBS' hypocrisy: If the "policy" under which it rejected this ad made sense for the national organization, one would think it would apply to the affiliates as well. Placing the ad nationally via affiliates would likely cost several times the $1.6 million to run it on the network. But even if in the end CBS still refuses to broadcast the ad nationwide, we'll make sure it gets on TV in a powerful way. Please stay tuned.

P.P.S Here are the CBS affiliates in your state:

KCBS-TV, Los Angeles: [phone]
KFMB-TV, San Diego: [phone]
KPSP-TV, Thousand Palms: [phone]
KBAK-TV, Bakersfield: [phone]
KCOY-TV, Santa Maria: [phone]
KGPE-TV, Fresno: [phone]
KION-TV, Salinas: [phone]
KPIX-TV, San Francisco: [phone]
KVIQ-TV, Eureka: [phone]
KOVR-TV, West Sacramento: [phone]
KHSL-TV, Chico: [phone]

[Loonman]

5. Halliburton gets the cash, troops get heat rash

Raw deal.

[Lone_Wolf]

6. commercial? more like propaganda...

n/t