10-16-2009
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Subject: Obama Controls Your Television Set
I would like a break from reporting on stuff like this, but the bad
news on the ever expanding subject of national service just keeps
pouring in.
Back on September 10th, the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF)
issued a press release which indicated that:
"From October 19-25, More Than 60 Network TV Shows To
Spotlight The Power and Personal Benefits of Service
EIF is mobilizing the entire entertainment community around the
ground-breaking, multi-year I PARTICIPATE, which will promote a
new way of thinking about service and seek to persuade millions
more Americans to volunteer regularly. To jumpstart the
campaign, Entertainment Industry President and CEO Lisa
Paulsen, Tyler Perry and Ashton Kutcher announced its 2009
centerpiece: a week-long television event running from October
19th to the 25th, when America's most-loved TV shows on ABC,
CBS, FOX and NBC and other broadcast networks will spotlight
service through scripted programming, segments and PSAs with
inspirational messages and storylines about volunteerism.
Randy Jackson (FOX), Christine Baranski (CBS), Tim Daly (ABC)
and Michelle Trachtenberg (NBC) also participated in the
announcement.
"We think hearing that from the cast members and characters
on shows like Mercy, American Idol, Private Practice,
Ugly Betty and The Good Wife will help millions of viewers
consider volunteerism," said Tony Award Winner Bernadette
Peters. "I think it's important to help people and causes
that need our help. The I Participate campaign will
ultimately involve all segments of the entertainment
community including film studios, the recording industry,
Broadway and others."
Network shows that will feature volunteerism in some way
during the week of Oct 19th include:
ABC
All My Children, America's Funniest Home Videos, Brothers and
Sisters, Castle, Cougar Town, Dancing With The Stars, Desperate
Housewives, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Flash Forward,
General Hospital, Good Morning America, Grey's Anatomy, Hank,
Jimmy Kimmel Live, Modern Family, One Life To Live,
Private Practice, The Forgotten, The Middle, The View,
Ugly Betty
CBS
Cold Case, Criminal Minds, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Gary
Unmarried, Ghost Whisperer, Numb3rs
FOX
America's Most Wanted, Bones, Brothers, COPS, So You Think
You Can Dance, Til Death
NBC
30 Rock, Access Hollywood, Community, Days of Our Lives,
Heroes, Parks and Recreation, The Biggest Loser, The Office,
Today Show
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Remember, this primetime TV programming blitzkrieg covering more than
60 different shows, is only the first wave in a multi-year effort!
A more detailed list of which network shows are participating, and in
exactly what manner, can be found
here.
On the Big Hollywood website, John Nolte has just submitted an article
entitled,
LEAKED NETWORK MEMO REVEALS: Obama Controls Your Television
Set, which discusses a related industry memo that describes
the purpose of this media campaign. Here are some sections from that
memo:
– Showrunner Document –
"Play your Part America"
(Working Title Only)
Answering the Call
President Obama has called for a new era of responsibility
— recognition of the part of every American that we have
duties to ourselves, our nation and the world to serve others.
It is the price and promise of citizenship.
We can turn up the volume for service and volunteerism,
engage more people, make it part of who we are and what we do
to bring the country together.
Campaign Elements
- Ideally, storylines will touch on one or more of the
key issues that have outlined as the country's
priorities for services:
- Education and children
- Health and well being
- Environmental conservation and reduced energy
consumption
- Economic development and financial security
- Support for the military
- By connecting characters and storylines to broad themes
around service, and/or providing messaging through the
casts, a picture will be painted of what service and
volunteering can look like today, and inspire viewers.
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So, just as the Obama administration has organized artists, using the
National Endowment for the Arts, to push his social agendas, he is
now using the broadcast media to accomplish the same goals.
And if you think that getting the government run
United We Serve website out of the service
program hosting business was a victory — it was a very shallow one,
because other shill organizations like the EIF simply take over the
operation with sites like
iParticipate.org.
When the government gets called on the carpet for inappropriate or
illegal behavior, it simply outsources it dirty work to other
quasi-private organizations, which it then funds indirectly with the
billions of TARP and Corporation for National & Community Service
dollars that are being dispensed by the administration like candy.
If you have been reading all of my previous articles, then you know
that this effort is merely one more prelude to Obama's true agenda
of instituting a program of mandatory national service for every
American citizen. It is critical that we organize a very vocal
opposition to this effort. For if we allow the idea of mandatory
service to continue unchecked, then it will not be long before the
autonomy of the "sovereign individual" will be nothing more
than a memory in this country.
[Thanks to Betsy Speicher for bringing the Nolte article
to my attention.]
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