SubscribeReuters Lies, Says NC GOP Pulled Wright Ad
First we had this earlier report from a joyous Reuters:
North Carolina Republicans pull anti-Obama ad
Thu Apr 24, 2008
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - North Carolina’s Republican Party on Thursday withdrew an advertisement critical of Democrat Barack Obama’s links to a controversial preacher, Republican John McCain’s campaign said.
McCain senior adviser Charlie Black said he had been informed by the Republican National Committee’s representative in North Carolina, that the state party had agreed to withdraw the ad…
Obama has come under fire for attending a Chicago church for two decades where the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was pastor. Wright has drawn criticism for statements including saying the U.S. government spread the AIDS virus to black Americans. He has since retired.
The 30-second ad in question attacked Democratic North Carolina gubernatorial candidates Beverly Perdue and Richard Moore for their endorsements of Obama, referring to the Illinois senator’s “judgment” in supporting Wright and calling him “too extreme for North Carolina.” …
But we have since learned that S&L correspondent, Mark Hatchett, actually thought to call the Republican headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Mr. Hatchett was informed by the NC GOP that the Reuters article is INCORRECT and that the advertisement has not been pulled.
Indeed, the Republican Party in North Carolina still features it on their website front and center. In fact, they are even asking for donations to keep the ad running:
So it would appear that the Reuters article is in error.
(Which leads one to wonder if the original report might not have been the result of a Democrat ‘dirty trick.’)
Please stay tuned for further developments.
Update!
Ms. Linda Daves, the chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, was just interviewed on the Mark Levin Show.
Ms. Daves says the ad has not been pulled by them. Nor will it be pulled.
Reuters Lied.
Shocking, isn’t it?
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April 24th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Holy f**king cow!! I can’t believe these weak kneed bastards are giving in. I hope they all lose. I don’t want wimps governing over me.
Thank God I hadn’t gotten around to donating to these wimps yet. I’m p*ssed!! I think I’m staying home May 6th and in November. Screw ‘em!
On second thought, I think I’ll campaign for every third party candidate I can find.
I hope I cool off before I blow a gasket! Damn! Just damn!
April 24th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Noyz, the article has been updated — with what would appear to be more encouraging news.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Looks like Mav’s Charlie Black has sum splainin’ to do.
Al-Reuters correction coming in 5, ..4, ..3, ..2, …..
Well, don’t hold your breath, wishful thinking on my part.
Thank goodness, at least someone within the GOP has some huevos.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
My blood pressure is a roller coaster. I had just finished mowing the lawn, showering and in the middle of cooking dinner and I was a little heated.
Thank the good Lord that the NC GOP has more gonads than I was led to believe by hem-reuters. Those a**holes almost gave me a heart-a-stroke. I would sue if I was of the liberal persuasion.
I’m still going to wait and see as far as donating goes. When it airs, I’ll toss them a few c-notes.
I take back all my “third party” threat, but McCain is on my excrement list for life.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I just saw McCain in New Orleans pandering to the thugs too stupid to get out of the way of a CAT 4 hurricane claiming that if he had been Presindent he wouldn’t have just flown over the hurricane zapped city, but ordered AF-1 to land at the nearest Air Force base and he would have toured the city or something to that effect.
This mental giant can’t keep his trap shut. All he’s got to do is shut up and he’s the next president. But No!! He’s got to go out of his way to attack President Bush. Where the hell was he after Katrina? That’s the first time I’ve ever seen him in NO.
He won’t attack Obama or Hillary or any democrat, but he’ll go out of his way to back hand our president and any republican in his cataracts dinged vision. That SOB is so full of himself it’s not even funny. He believes what the press writes about him when he’s bashing the GOP.
I hate the SOB. Hate ‘em I tell ya. I’m with Ann Coulter, I might vote for Hillary and it won’t be because of Operation Chaos. At least she’s got balls!
April 24th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
“I hate the SOB. Hate ‘em I tell ya. I’m with Ann Coulter, I might vote for Hillary and it won’t be because of Operation Chaos. At least she’s got balls!”
You may have a point, The oysters McCain ate while in captivity must have come from his trousers.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Thanx for making me laugh DEZ. I needed that. LOL!
April 24th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
The latest from the Charlotte News &Observer:
Good news.
Except for the cowards at WRAL.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Yes and WRAL suprises me just a little. They’ve been running scandalous ads by all the candidates non-stop for a month. This ad is tame compared to some I’ve seen and Jim Hefner is a real jerk anyway.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
….“I think it is inflammatory,” said Jim Hefner, vice president and general manager at WRAL…..the station is under no legal obligation to run an issue ad sponsored by a political party”…..
Birds of a feather……….It would seem Mr. Hefner’s tender little sensibilities were offended. Nonetheless, the ads have merit in pointing out that once elected, almost every democrat votes in lock-step with the party heavyweights. This was borne out in the ‘06 election cycle when moderate and conservative democrat candidates were bankrolled by the DNC. Once elected, these seats were regarded as property of the “party”, and the seat-holders were beholden to their benefactors. Hopefully a lesson not wasted on the electorate. Certainly it wasn’t lost on the NC-GOP. Hooray for them!
April 24th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Good for the N.C. Republican Party.
Unfortunately, there’s only one party running for president this time and that’s the liberal party. We can’t let them (including McCain) tell us that we have to fight with handcuffs on. Obama’s admiration for “GD America” Wright is a legitimate reason for concern. McCain has an entitlement attitude and thinks we should be listening to him - not the reverse - not the American way.
In the end (for him, after the convention) he will have nothing to show for his defense of the left. He may realize that he screwed his friends to make his enemies happy. In my book, thats lib logic.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
This ad pertains to the charater of Obama and the lapdog democrat candidates for NC governor. I’ve seen both of them following Obama around the state like puppys and that tells me they both agree with his policies and they’re both willing to do or say anything to get elected just like Obama. He hangs around with radicals and this has been widely known for months and they still choose to campaign with him. That tells you something about their character. Perdue, Moore and Obama are all the same 60’s pot smoking, coke snorting rebles who think that power is now owed to them. This ad nails them right to the wall and that’s why they’re screaming. It tells the truth.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Has Reuters ever penned a truthful article?
April 24th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Am I the only one who not only has sent Ms. Daves a “bravo” but has donated to the N.C. Republicans today?
April 24th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
I’m waiting until the ad airs Monday. Then I’ll know they mean business.
April 25th, 2008 at 8:08 am
What’s up with John McCain, condemning the North Carolina Republican leaders for making an ad that tells the truth via video clips of a racist church a church that preached disdain for America? A church Obama attended for twenty years.
McCain if you think you’re gaining points through your condemnation you’re not. It just shows your weaknesses and the pandering you continue to do with the left side of the Democratic Party. You’re not above the fray; you’re in the mitt’s of it, WAKE UP and quit acting like the Manchurian Candidate.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:14 am
DB asks good questions, but the answer to ‘what is up with MCCAIN’, is the Senator is a populist pandering LIBERAL from the Beltway.
Perhaps more pathetic than his call to drop an ad in NC, was his debasing the Bush Administration over Katrina (demeaning everyone related to the Fed Gov. - who helped with one of the largest rescue efforts in recent memory on US Soil).
Forget that John McCain is a major part of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, has been for 3 Decades, that the LOCAL DEMOCRATS like Blanco and Nagen were simply negligent, etc…
McCain only cares about McCain, and will say anything to further himself, much like the old Clinton Malfeasance.
Just as John McCain offered special rights to the ‘REPORTERS’ when addressing the AP…
And some believe he will fight in the GWOT, but fail to realize, he is most likely going to placate and pander, as is his history.
We shall see, but it would not surprise this poster, if John McCain (known as McNasty), will offer some position to Hillary Clinton for his Administration, in the General Election in an attempt to gain Democrat Votes.
Maybe he will propose Hillary Clinton leads a special Commission to ‘nationalize’ Health Care!
He certainly has such great respect for Hillary Rodham…
April 25th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Ecellent points HNAV. Rush is talking about this and refers to Bill Moyers’ hate of the “new media” and by new media he means Sweetness & Light since SG has been pointing out Obama’s pastor, the racist Rev. Wright, anti-American, anti-white sermons and leanings for over a year now.
McCain is going to blow this and in a way I’m glad. He doesn’t deserve the presidency. He’s a liberal RINO who panders to the left at every turn and as I’ve said before, I agree with Ann Coulter. Hillary is more conservative than McNasty.
I personally plan to investigate some of the lesser known people running for the presidency. If I can find a conservative in the group that isn’t a whack job I may vote for them, but McNasty will not get my vote. He’s a bigger idiot than I ever was willing to allow myself to believe. The man is dangerous and may even be a worse president than Carter. McCain’s tendancy to please the left will mean he will sign any “Global Warming” bill, healthcare debockle or troop withdrawal bill the democrats send him. Don’t fool yourself. McCain will do whatever the press and liberals ask of him to stay in their good graces and that includes squandering our victories in the GWOT.
Someone said it before here, let’s concentrate on electing a conservative Congress to fight which ever one of these liberals wins in November.
April 25th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
WSOC-TV in Charlotte, NC has also said they will NOT run the ad. The GM of the ABC affiliate, Joe Pomilla, said, “I think it’s (the NC GOP ad) offensive and I’m not real comfortable with the implications around race.”
April 25th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
In response to the decisions announced by WRAL and WSOC Brent Woodcox, spokesman for the NC Republican Party said, “You’re going down a very dark path that could end up saying, ‘These are the kinds of things you can say in a political debate, and these are the kinds of things you can’t.’ Those aren’t the principles this country was founded on.”
April 25th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Anyone wishing to express their disgust with the TV stations can follow these links.
WRAL General Manager Jim Hefner
http://www.wral.com/apps/feedb.....person=208
WSOC
http://www.wsoctv.com/station/1928956/detail.html
Or send a congratulatory email to Linda Daves and the NC GOP
http://www.ncgop.org/home/party_hq.asp
OR
http://www.ncgop.org/contact/staff.asp
April 25th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
to: joe.pomilla@wsoc-tv.com
April 25, 2008
Dear Sir,
The Charlotte Observer is reporting that you will not
air an advertisement from the N.C. Republican Party that uses a sound bite from Barack Obama’s retiring minister.
“I think it’s offensive, and I’m not real comfortable with the implications around race,” said Joe Pomilla, general
manager for WSOC-TV in Charlotte. “I just don’t think it’s appropriate to be on our air.”
Sir, the ‘offensiveness’ of the Wright sermons and language is his own. I didn’t create it, you didn’t create it -
Wright put it on CD’s and sold it to the public for consumption.
No where on the CD’s is their a declaration “for Democratic viewing only. ”
Or, Keep out of the hands of Republicans, Independents or …in Reverend Wright’s words, ” white racist America.”
Reverend Wright thought it was completely apropriate to air this content as their own Church website had streaming
video of these sermons.
It’s time for uncomfortable implications ‘around race’ to be aired according to Obama.
Or did you also not run Obama’s eloquent race speech?
If television veiwing was limited to ethicaly non offensive airing there would be very few shows left on the
airwaves for broadcasting.
The article stated that you said, “…the issue isn’t about limiting debate.”
Again, I would disagree.
Your personal uncomfortableness becomes the issue when Not presenting ‘the subject’ of debate.
What debate? On what subject, sir? I haven’t seen the topic to address a debate.
In the same article it states, that Jerry Meek, chairman of the N.C. Democratic Party, has sent out a letter to
North Carolina Democrats saying the ad shows “just how out of touch North Carolina Republicans truly are.”
“This much is clear: North Carolina Republicans will say anything and do anything to win,” Meek writes.
The North Carolina voter, sir, following the ethos of good conscience, will be deprived of information enabling
their Own choice to decide the merits of the advertisements value, and their actual ‘opportunity’ to be ‘in touch’.
Your decision, sir, deprives these viewers and voters, that choice while enabling the Democratic Party to present a one sided e-mail campaign involving the very issue not being aired. This certainly is, or will,’limit the debate’ and silence speech.
If the offensive ‘implications’ surrounding Reverend Wright, Obama through Wright, Obama’s endorsements of the
N.C.candidates, are an issue of negative ‘associations,’ then by all means and ways, let’s have ‘the conversation.’
I hope you will reconsider your decision and Keep ALL North Carolinans informed, and trust in their own evaluations
of the issues.
Thank You,
—- ——-
here’s my 2 cents;
who’s agona write WRAL? :)
April 25th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
WRAL website is playing the Ad.
http://www.wral.com/news/local.....o/2778551/
Their 5 pm newscast featured the local NAALCP president calling it race-baiting and worse. Wait until you see this 400 pound greasy pig.
Video coming when they post it.
April 25th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
I see nothing wrong with that add.
It’s the truth, isn’t it?
April 25th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
And the truth shall set you free. Even Wright should know that.
April 25th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
WRAL hasn’t posted a video of the story I saw yet, but there is this story.
From WRAL:
Did I miss something? I wish these so called reporters would have ask him how this ad is racist.
Quite a badge of honor here in NC. You’ll have to do a little research to get an unbiased history, non- revised truer version of this event.
Yep, by people who are the real race-baiters like Barber.
I recieved a recorded call from “Sore Loser Gantt” right during my dinner. He proclaimed the NC GOP ad as race-baiting ( It seems the talking points have gone out ) just before I slammed the phone down. I sort of wish I had listened to the whole thing. Oh well.
I hope Linda Daves will consider running for statewide or national public office someday. That lady has some spunk!
Bob Orr is a former NC supreme court judge. Yeah, he’s a McCainiac loser.
Here’s a pic a that 400 lb.(at least) jheri curled greasy pig Rev. Barber.
http://www.choicesofdemocracy......ber/?cat=1
Scroll down to the second pic to get a good look.
WRAL is still playing the ad on their web site before every story.
Here’s some of WRAL non-race-baiting coverage of the democrat primary governors race between Perdue and Moore.
This is a MUST SEE!
http://www.wral.com/news/local.....o/2796541/
Outrageous!
These idiots will run a story like that and run the “offending” NC GOP ad all over their web site, but refuse to play it on TV (which BTW they play over and over while reporting the story).
What hypocrites! They’re just like McCain. It’s the apperance of being above such things they’re selling, not the good morals it takes to hold such standards. Neither He nor they have any.