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Charlie Gibson, ABC News, when asked why he didn't cover the Tea Party in Washington DC said this: "I was sailing in Maine, purposefully oblivious to what was going on there."

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One of the most important things that we can all do is to take an active roll in changing the face of the liberal media.

We need to start to support conservative newspapers, magazines, TV stations, actors, and musicians. We need to contact the TV shows that have hurt our values, either by promoting liberal agendas or by trashing our airwaves with profanity and sex. We have a list of some of the most egregious linked on the bottom of this sight. PLEASE take the time to contact them and LET THEM KNOW that you will NOT watch them (even if you never have.) Try to avoid movies starring actors who vocally support a very liberal agenda. They NEED US to make money. The more of you that send these media outlets a message, the better.

TV Show "V" aimed at Obamamania- Won't make the White House very happy....

About Cities of Service

During the end of October, there was a widespread media campaign on TV to promote this service. Although the promotion is over, you will still see remnants of this program in our media.

Cities of Service is a bi-partisan coalition of large and small city mayors from across the country who will work to engage millions more Americans in a new era of service. Founded in New York City on September 10, the coalition and its member cities will respond to the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act's historic call to action by finding new and innovative ways to harness the power of volunteers to help solve pressing local challenges. Additional information about the coalition can be found at www.citiesofservice.org

Here are Service Nation’s more specific goals (number 13 is mandatory universal service for both men and women):

Engage 1 million Americans in full-time service, leveraging an additional 100 million volunteers each year.

1. Enroll one million Americans annually in a revitalized and expanded AmeriCorps national service program. Create new corps focused on education, public health, disaster relief, and energy conservation.

2. Send 100,000 Americans overseas each year through the Peace Corps, Volunteers for Prosperity and Global Service Fellowships.

3. Engage students in service learning opportunities by expanding Learn and Serve America to reach 3 million students.

4. Engage teenagers in a “Summer of Service” to address problems in their own backyard.

5. Provide opportunities to returning war veterans who want to continue to serve their country through a civilian service opportunity at home or abroad.

6. Make permanent the Citizen Corps and engage 500,000 Americans.

7. Create a new initiative of “Encore Service Careers” for baby-boomers and seniors.

8. Offer new support and performance standards for 400 volunteer centers.

9. Create the permanent National Service Council to play a similar role as the National Security Council and National Economic Council.

Create a Democratic Renewal in our Nation.

10. Establish a U.S. Public Service Academy.

11. Convene new Citizen Congresses.

12. Create regular Youth Constitutional Conventions at the National Constitution Center.

13. Launch a debate about why and how America should become a nation of universal national service by 2020: debating baby bond, lottery draft, new GI Bill, etc.

Foster Social Entrepreneurship

14. Create a Social Investment Fund to create a research and development (R&D) arm and growth capital market for the social sector. The fund would provide the financial infrastructure and leverage needed to identify and support promising innovations in the social sector, test their impact, and take them to scale.

15. Offer social entrepreneur fellowships to graduates of national service programs who have identified a need and a creative solution to meeting that need in order to bring their program model to fruition.

16. Create an office of "Social Innovation and Results" in the White House.

This is a breathtaking set of proposals that would create a bureaucracy that indeed might be “just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as our military. It would be much larger than the military. Note the founding of a new National Service Academy like the existing military academies.

Family Guy "Abortion Episode" unlikely to air on Fox

CMT (usually a country music video/heartwarming movie station) airs this sexually explicit ad during the family movie, "Field of Dreams."

During the ABC "infomercial" On Health Care presented in the White House by Obama, the following advertisers bought time: ABC Advertisers

at&t
Lipton
Mazda
Bank of America
Kohls
McDonalds
Brawny
Sprint
Windex
Suave
Lenscrafters
Hyundai
Verizon
Dove (body wash)
Yoplait
Ford
Lowes
Snuggle
Klondike

We may want to rethink buying or supporting these products. It would also be helpful to write a quick note to any of the above and let them know that you will not support them.

Major Garrett from Fox News is black-balled from asking a question because his network didn't carry the press conference- He WAS TOLD this would happen- audio

Supreme Court protects families from hearing indecent words on the aiwaves!!

CNN reporters childishly giggle about "Teabagging" on Network TV. Should they be reprimanded?

Newspaper revitalization Act: Scary new legislation that will federalize newspapers putting our press in the hands of the government. If you look at countries who have a government controlled press, there is no freedom...people only hear the news that the government wants them to hear.

Remember, our First Amendment affords Freedom of the Press

Sexually explicit episode of Family Guy- read what Fox thinks is "entertainment" .

Documentary "Media Malpractice" makes its debut in Seattle

Stephen Spielberg: The magic is long gone. His horrible moral compass overshadows his great works

Hamas Children's TV show has Teddy Bear that carries a gun and carries out jihad

Spanish man who killed parents as a youth outed on reality TV show- only served 3 years

Obama and democrats attack Rush Limbaugh

Toxic Web- Children spending 6 hours a day in front of screens

In Detroit, Muslim Leaders want radio station to stop airing comments by priest they say defame Muhammad.

Tom Hanks singles out Mormons- calls them un-American

Media has a fit as Palin takes to the airwaves- read here

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann said on air: "What’s the difference between a governor of Alaska and a pitbull? You can train a pitbull to occasionally keep its mouth closed."

Ann Coulter goes on The View- watch the liberal women try to beat her up.

Andrea Mitchell talks to Charlie Rose about the media going easy on Barack and censoring Blogs:

ROSE: And do you feel a sense of giving him the benefit of the doubt, or at least a period of a kind of honeymoon, which is a bad word, but an opportunity to show his best and see what he can do and a willingness to sort of hold your fire for a while?

MITCHELL: I think that there is a willingness on both sides of the aisle, certainly. I mean, journalists still have our responsibility to hold them to account.

ROSE: I don’t mean by journalists. Obviously, I’m talking about Republicans.

MITCHELL: Yes, I think that the quote, ‘loyal opposition’, is partly looking at his extraordinary poll numbers. He is the most popular president coming in that we have seen in a generation. They’re going to hold their fire for political reasons, and they`re going to hold their fire because something needs to be done, and the only way that this country can pull out of this mess is to have bipartisan action.

And he is sending signals as well. He is talking about the kinds of tax cuts, business tax cuts that Republicans want to hear. So you heard some favorable things from Mitch McConnell.

I think they realize that America wants to see results, and they don’t want gridlock. So I think this is an extraordinary moment. I guess my passion is for something to happen to fix these problems, and for dialing down of all of the sharp criticism that we have on cable talk, on talk radio, from, you know, the –

ROSE: From left to right.

MITCHELL: – the blogosphere. I just wish that we could find something in the center that would be bipartisan and would be productive and constructive.

So obviously, it wasn't important for the country during the Iraq war "mess" to come together and give Bush a honeymoon period???

** John Stossel Exposes what's wrong with our schools- Video...It's 4o min. long, but well worth the time....

MSNBC - Palin Not qualified- Video

Savage Nation Programming expanded

Kathy Griffin uses foul language on live TV- CNN

Prince didn't vote at all on Prop 8

Top ten Media Blunders of 2008

Chris Matthews wins "quote of the year"

Video- SEXTING- 22 percent of girls have taken/sent nude pictures of themselves

The great American freak show- look what America is calling "entertainment"- what does this say about our culture?

Sex and Aggression more prevalent in kids who watch TV and play video games

How the media killed Sarah Palin's reputation- ABC was the worst.