The ads will appear first on New England Cable News (NECN) (1). We're trying to raise $5,000 to reach as many voters as possible - please contribute if you can.
We also submitted the ad to Comcast for their censors to review and hope to hear from them today. Please encourage them to approve ImpeachPAC's new ad by calling 215-665-1700 (and be polite of course).
On Monday, Comcast finally called to say they would not run ImpeachPAC Ad #1 (on Joe Lieberman's failure to take action on Neo-Nazis in the military) because the ad was "insufficiently documented." They also said they would not provide in writing the specific elements of the ad they considered "insufficiently documented." The ad is based on two highly credible sources: the NY Times and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
There's a simple word for Comcast's action: Censorship.
Comcast's action would be intolerable even if Comcast were the nation's smallest cable TV operator. But Comcast is the largest cable TV operator in America. Therefore we must - and will - continue our campaign against Comcast censorship.
(1) NECN is the largest regional news network in the country, which serves more than 3.5 million homes in more than 1,021 communities throughout New England.
Our ad will appear in the "Outer New England Zone" which covers over 573,000 households in Connecticut plus another million households in western MA, VT, northern NH, and ME. The counties in this zone are in blue on this map.
NECN deserves our sincere gratitude for standing up for our First Amendment right to say what we believe, regardless of whether NECN agrees with us or not. I'm sure they will get a blizzard of hate mail (including death threats) from the Busheviks, so please send your thanks to feedback@necn.com and post them here for everyone to see.
"United States v. George W. Bush et al.," by Elizabeth de la Vega, an indictment, a presentation to a grand jury charging Bush and gang with fraud -- very well argued and documented, even entertaining.
"The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism," by John Nichols, a masterpiece that should be required reading in every high school and college in the United States, a history and portrait of the practice of impeachment.
"The Impeachment of George W. Bush: A Practical Guide for Concerned Citizens," by Elizabeth Holtzman (former Congresswoman and member of the Nixon impeachment panel) and Cynthia L. Cooper, an excellent and readable book laying out five major grounds for impeachment of Bush, plus an extra section on Dick Cheney.
"The Case for Impeachment," by Dave Lindorff and Barbara Olshansky, an amazingly popular and extremely readable book that explains the context while also setting forth six articles of impeachment against Bush, plus an extra section on Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales.
"Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney," edited by Dennis Loo and Peter Phillips, with an introduction by Howard Zinn, a wonderfully well written collection of essays organized around a list of 12 grounds for impeachment of Bush and Cheney.
"Verdict and Findings of Fact," by the International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration of the United States, a report that looks at five major international crimes and overlaps significantly with most lists of impeachable offenses (the full text is available at the link and can also be purchased for $10);