MoveOn.org Gets Discount Rate For ‘Betray Us’ Advocacy Ad

aquapub · 09-12-07, 09:33 PM

I have yet to find a "mainstream" media source for this, but still thought it was worth posting:

Webloggin - Blog Archive » MoveOn.org Gets Discount Rate For â€˜Betray Usâ€™ Advocacy Ad

"Jake Tapper at ABC News reported that MoveOn.org paid $65,000 for its full page anti-war advocacy sliming of General David Petraeus. This figure raised the suspicions of attentive blogger Confederate Yankee whose intuition appears to be correct. (h/t Michelle Malkin) While looking up the current New York Times rate book he discovered that MoveOn.org received a $102,000 discount on the standard political advocacy rate that is advertised at $167,157."

So Democrats unanimously endorse Petreus to fix this war they voted for only to turn around and stab him in the back once he starts to succeed. Sixty years of perpetual treason.

niftydrifty · 09-13-07, 10:02 AM

ABC, CNN, New York Post, Rush Limbaugh, etc are all mainstream media.

nobody pays "full price" for those ads.

rhinefire · 09-13-07, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by niftydrifty

ABC, CNN, New York Post, Rush Limbaugh, etc are all mainstream media.

nobody pays "full price" for those ads.

Yes in fact, they do. On MSNBC this morning it was discussed at length and the moveon people got 60% taken off the standard price.

niftydrifty · 09-13-07, 10:24 AM

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Yes in fact, they do. On MSNBC this morning it was discussed at length and the moveon people got 60% taken off the standard price.

Cmon. This story is hilarious. We have a disastrous occupation underway with no good solution. So the only way to argue "for" it is to whine and lie about those whom oppose it.

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The National Committee to Free the Cuban Five is very happy to announce that the full-page ad in the New York Times, on the Cuban Five, came out today, Wednesday, March 3, 2004!

The campaign to raise $50,000 for the ad was first officially launched in October 2003. Since then, there has been a tremendous outpouring of support from across the United States, and around the world.

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We at The Shalom Center are sending you what will become a piece of history: the first national Jewish call for a specific time-table for ending the Iraq war -- a call for Congress to put real funding teeth in its criticism of the war. We intend to publish it as a full-page ad in the New York Times.

We also ask you to consider carefully giving a minimum of $180. (IT'S TAX-DEDUCTIBLE.) Here's the arithmetic: The ad costs $55,000. 300 signers giving an average of $180 makes $54,000. Giving more than $180 will help balance those who really can't afford that much.

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So why did the MoveOn ad cost more? That should be the question.

niftydrifty · 09-13-07, 10:39 AM

More..........

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rhinefire · 09-13-07, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by niftydrifty

More..........

Not a single point made as none of the above address the fact that the moveon.org'd got a 60 per cent discount to advertise only a simple-minded slur at an American General. It was not anything factual rather, only an infantile little play on words insinuating an unpatriotic lie about one of our military heroes. Why not address the single point here and stop throwing cheap blankets over the truth of this single indicent?

Hatuey · 09-13-07, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by rhinefire

Not a single point made as none of the above address the fact that the moveon.org'd got a 60 per cent discount to advertise only a simple-minded slur at an American General. It was not anything factual rather, only an infantile little play on words insinuating an unpatriotic lie about one of our military heroes. Why not address the single point here and stop throwing cheap blankets over the truth of this single indicent?

Hmmm.....why the dishonesty? If MoveOn pays $62K for an ad that costs $172K. How much of a discount does the Conservative party get when they pay $45K for the same type of ad?

Your dishonesty and false indignation have once again been noted.

niftydrifty · 09-13-07, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Hatuey

Hmmm.....why the dishonesty? If MoveOn pays $62K for an ad that costs $172K. How much of a discount does the Conservative party get when they pay $45K for the same type of ad?

Your dishonesty and false indignation have once again been noted.

Keep in mind that with an adjustment for inflation, the Conservative Party of New York (in 1990 or thereabouts) and MoveOn.org (in 2007) paid about the same price.

rhinefire · 09-13-07, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Hatuey

Hmmm.....why the dishonesty? If MoveOn pays $62K for an ad that costs $172K. How much of a discount does the Conservative party get when they pay $45K for the same type of ad?

Your dishonesty and false indignation have once again been noted.

Don't concern yourself with anyone's traits per your opinion. Now site the instance of a conservative getting a discount for a slanderous poem/joke/riddle whatever you call it. It was not a fact. It served no purpose other than typical liberal slimey sarcasm. Who T. F. cares about your "noting"?!

niftydrifty · 09-13-07, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by rhinefire

Don't concern yourself with anyone's traits per your opinion. Now site the instance of a conservative getting a discount for a slanderous poem/joke/riddle whatever you call it. It was not a fact. It served no purpose other than typical liberal slimey sarcasm. Who T. F. cares about your "noting"?!

"Last week the New York State Conservative Party paid $45000 for a full-page ad in The New York Times. It was knocking Senator Moynihan for voting against going to war in the Gulf."

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