Today's fraudulently titled email from Focus on the Family "CitizenLink" precipitated cancelling my subscription. by creator
(libertarian)
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
I was once again driven to publish an article today when I received an email from Focus on the Family CitizenLink, Focus's "political" affiliate publication. The subject line of that email reads "Where the Frontrunners Stand on Pro-Family Issues," and so I prepared to read something featuring Ron Paul.
Was this a reasonable expectation on my part? Well, Dr. Paul won the "Values Voter Summit Straw Poll" with a showing of 37%. His nearest competitor, Herman Cain (note: a former Federal Reserve executive,) fell far behind with only 23%, and CitizenLink darling Rick Perry and candidates Rick Santorum and Mitt Romny were left in the dust.
Well, I was shocked to discover that Dr. Paul was not so much as mentioned in the email or in the video to which it linked. Can you believe it?
I wasted no time, and immediately unsubscribed from CitizenLink. I also sent them this letter:
Subject: I Unsubscribed Today, and here's why!
To: Tom Minnery, Stuart Shepard, and Whomever it may concern:
I am ANGRY!
Yes, I'm taking your advice to "stand tall and be heard." I have unsubscribed from your biased mailings, and (although in your unsubscribe process you seem not to care) here is why:
I just got through reviewing your latest email, the one fraudulently titled "Where the Frontrunners Stand on Pro-Family Issues." I also watched the video that it links to.
Seeing the email title, and knowing that Dr. Ron Paul came in FIRST in YOUR OWN Values Voter Summit straw poll BY A LANDSLIDE (37% - leaving your other "Front Runners in the dust,) I expected to find some news about him in your email or your video. But, as you know, Ron Paul is not so much as even MENTIONED in either one!
Your utter and abominable bias is blatantly obvious in the choice and sequence of speakers in the video. In league with the "Mainstream Media," you continue to dishonor Ron Paul, a man who has personally delivered thousands of babies and who would, as president, immediately direct the Justice Department to stop the unconstitutional interference with states that have laws protecting the unborn. Yes, the IMMEDIATE overturning of Roe v Wade simply because there is no federal authority for it. Yes, NOT an endless and impossible process of getting the majority of "supreme" justices to see straight.
Stop pretending to be "pro-life" and "pro-liberty" when you evidently cannot see or respect the most pro-life and pro-liberty candidate in this presidential race! Your perfidy is now openly evident to anyone who can think.
I've been a subscriber up until now, but this blatant bias has convinced me that you have nothing useful to say and you are not worth so much as the time to delete your emails. Your executive director signs his emails "For faith and family" but it is obvious that his idea of "faith and family" must fall far afield of mine.
Sincerely,
-Dann McCreary
PS I intend to post copies of this letter far and wide, and should you deign to respond I will also post your response."
I am once again utterly appalled at the perfidy of so-called "Christian" media and organizations. They don't care about the constitution. They don't care about liberty. Just like the mainstream media, they have an agenda. Beware!
What do you think?
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Posted By: Terry Hurlbut
Date: October 13, 2011 07:12:29 PM
I agree, up to a point: it would have been better for CitizenLink to set forth Ron Paul's positions. If they had an argument against him--and I have to tell you, I can name two or three arguments that I would consider valid--they ought to have mentioned them, and not shied away from discussing him out in the open. As it is, I can't tell what their objection to his candidacy might have been. And that's a shame.
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