Call the Offices of Pelosi & Reid and Urge Them to Allow a Vote on the BFA

By Seton Motley | June 02, 2009 | 13:13

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Media Research Center (MRC) President and NewsBusters.org Publisher Brent Bozell yesterday recorded a video thanking the MRC Grassroots Action Team - made up of more than 600,000 individual activists - for their signing nearly 400,000 Free Speech Alliance (FSA) petitions which were delivered yesterday to the offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

The petition in part "urge(s) members of Obama's Federal Communications Commission (the FCC) and everyone in Washington to reject any and all efforts to censor, limit, or restrain conservative or Christian talk radio."

Mr. Bozell also discusses the MRC's Four Day Call-A-Thon to the offices of Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid - which is taking place right now and runs through close of business Thursday - where MRC Action Team members, many, MANY members of the FSA and a whole host of individual radio stations and hosts are having their grassroots/members/listeners place calls to their offices demanding a full, fair stand-alone vote on the Broadcaster Freedom Act (BFA), which would prohibit the FCC from reimposing the Censorship Doctrine, also mis-known as the "Fairness" Doctrine.

And we are asking you to join in the festivities. Please, in true Chicago voting fashion, call early and often. Speaker Pelosi's number is (202) 225-4965, and Leader Reid's is (202) 224-3542.

We humbly suggest you say something along the lines of:

"Please tell (Speaker Pelosi or Leader Reid) that the Broadcaster Freedom Act (HR 226 or S. 34) deserves an immediate stand-alone vote of the full (House or Senate)."

Be polite, be genteel. Be frequent. ;-)

Amongst the myriad FSA members with whom you'll be joining are:

Clear Channel Communications (owners of over 300 talk radio stations)
Don't Touch My Dial! (World Net Daily/Roger Hedgecock/Lars Larson/Rusty Humphries and others)
RightMarch.com (300,000+ members)
Focus on the Family
Concerned Women for America
Accuracy In Media

Thank you, All, for playing in our reindeer games. Now, please, start dialing.