PROTEST: Courage Campaign Calling for Protest at ABC Burbank 4:00PM-7:00PM FRI

[davidlynch]

Letter from CourageCampaign:

Dear Sentient Being:

Did you watch ABC's prime-time character assassination of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton last night?

The day after this disastrous "debate," Americans are shaking their heads in disbelief at what they witnessed, sarcastically speculating whether ABC News decided to launch an early roll-out of the Republican "swift boat" campaign. Editor & Publisher called it "perhaps the most embarrassing performance by the media in a major presidential debate in years."

Our friends at MoveOn produced a short YouTube video on Wednesday's travesty (watch it here) and described the most unbelievable moment:

"Moderators George Stephanopolous and Charlie Gibson spent the first 50 minutes obsessed with distractions that only political insiders care about--gaffes, polling numbers, the stale Rev. Wright story, and the old-news Bosnia story. And, channeling Karl Rove, directed a video question to Barack Obama asking if he loves the American flag or not. Seriously."

It's worse than that -- the video question specifically asked Obama about his thoughtful reluctance to wear an American flag-pin lapel. Apparently, wearing a flag pin is a legitimate symbolic proxy for whether or not a person is patriotic enough to be President. Questions about global warming, the economy, and the war? Mere trivialities in ABC's bizarro world.

Enough is enough. David Dayen, a netroots activist and friend of the Courage Campaign, called us a few hours ago with an idea. We're moving on his inspiration right now:

Please join us at ABC's headquarters in Burbank on FRIDAY to protest and pass out flag pins to ABC employees leaving their Disney corporate office. Your mission: Ask ABC/Disney employees whether they can pass their own flag-pin litmus test: "Are you patriotic enough to wear a flag-pin?"

We need to know how many people are coming, so watch MoveOn's video and PLEASE RSVP NOW:

http://www.couragecampaign.org/FlagPinProtest

At 4 p.m. please join the Courage Campaign and your fellow activists at ABC's Disney Studios in Burbank in front of the West Alameda Gate, between S. Buena Vista and S. Keystone Streets (click here for a map). We're going to protest ABC's debate disaster and ask their employees to pass the flag-pin litmus test until about 7 p.m.

This isn't the first time the Courage Campaign has protested against ABC. Two years ago, ABC aired the "Path to 9/11" propaganda hit piece on Bill Clinton and we were there to correct the record.

Now, it's time for us to let ABC know that wearing a flag pin isn't patriotism. Patriotism means standing up for the values embedded in our Constitution -- and speaking out when those values are endangered by the corporate media's fascination with scandal over substance.

We've got the flag pins. Now, we just need you. Please join us to speak out against ABC/Disney's appalling abuse of our public airwaves on Friday in Burbank, anytime from 4-7 p.m.:


http://www.couragecampaign.org/FlagPinProtest


Thank you for everything you are doing to make 2008 a new era for progressive politics in California. And America.

Rick Jacobs
Chair

Should be interesting, I'm going to try to make it down there.

[GreenTea]

1. Great!

[ClassWarrior]

2. Go California!!

You guys rock!! :bounce:

NGU.