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The MORON'S gone to far!!!
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http://prisonplanet.com/articles/november2004/221104ourleader.htm
Mysterious ‘George W. Bush: Our leader’ Clear Channel political public service billboard graces Orlando freeway
Raw Story | November 22 2004
A billboard recently put up in Orlando bearing a smiling photograph of President Bush with the words “Our Leader” is raising eyebrows among progressives who feel the poster is akin to that of propaganda used by tyrannical regimes.
RAW STORY confirmed the billboard’s existence Monday evening. At our behest, a member of an Orlando media organization drove past the billboard on two occasions and verified that it was indeed the one pictured.
The billboard pictured, which is on I-4, says that it is a “political public service message brought to you by Clear Channel Outdoor.”
The member, who declined to be named out of concern for their employer, discovered a second billboard bearing the same image along the same route, paid for by Charles W. Clayton Jr.
Clear Channel Outdoor Orlando said they could not respond to requests for comment this week because their press person was “away.” They referred calls to their San Antonio corporate parent, which did not return two messages for comment.
One Orlando resident penned a concerned letter to the (registration-restricted) Orlando Sentinel on Saturday about the billboard. As the site is restricted to members, the letter appears below.
“The first thing I thought was, when was the last time I have seen a president on a billboard?” wrote resident Dianna Lawson. “Didn’t Saddam Hussein have his picture up everywhere? What next, a statue?”
Reporters at the Orlando Sentinel told RAW STORY they’d also seen the photograph.
Others said they’d seen a similar sign in Jacksonville along I-95.
“We don’t do political advertising,” said Clear Channel sales representative Brad Parsons in Jacksonville. He said the photograph was bogus.
A second Jacksonville rep acknowledged the company did political advertising but only when paid for by a third party. When asked if he would look at the picture for verification, he declined to give out his email address.
The posted was first noticed by the liberal forum Democratic Underground.
Developing… Additional photographs forthcoming…
The letter in the Orlando Sentinel:
Billboard message
On my way to work Wednesday morning, I looked up and saw a giant billboard with a picture of George W. Bush and the words “OUR LEADER” under it. The first thing I thought was, when was the last time I have seen a president on a billboard? What is going on? Didn’t Saddam Hussein have his picture up everywhere? What next, a statue?
I am so concerned with our country and the division. I still stand by my vote, which was for John Kerry. George W. Bush has a lot of work to do to change the way I feel. Putting him up on a billboard does not make him a better president. His actions speak louder than words.
I wonder if anyone else finds the president’s picture on a billboard odd? I’m sorry, but it reminds me of countries with dictators, and it seems people are making him out to be the messiah, the savior of our world.
Fear, fear, fear. I’m tired of being afraid.
Dianna Lawson
Orlando
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GUESS WHO ELSE HAS BILLBOARDS! THAT'S RIGHT! KIM JONG-IL AND SADDAM HUSSEIN!
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Wed Nov 24, 2004 4:56 am
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HaHa! i REALLY like that one.  |
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Yeah,
That is a good one. It's actually from Cuba of all places.
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Wed Nov 24, 2004 5:48 am
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Wed Nov 24, 2004 6:13 am
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http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/25/working_assets/print.html
The billboard Bush can't see
In Crawford, Texas, near the president's home on the range, discouraging words about the war can't be heard.
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By Katharine Mieszkowski
March 25, 2003 | "Support Our Troops. Bring Them Home Now."
Is this antiwar message too hot for Crawford, Texas?
That's what four billboard companies have decided, by refusing to run an advertisement containing the message on billboards in the Texas town near President Bush's ranch.
Working Assets, a socially progressive telecommunications company that has contributed more than $200,000 to antiwar efforts, has placed advertisements with the message on billboards in New York, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. In the ads, the pro-peace slogan is flanked by a yellow ribbon and a solicitation for donations to pay for more ads. So far, the company has raised more than $60,000 in donations from its own customers and supportive viewers of the billboard. Another one will go up in Detroit this Friday.
But the slogan, which seeks to deflect the impression that being antiwar means being against the American troops serving in Iraq, won't be seen in Crawford. Four different companies -- Lamar Outdoor Advertising, Bressler Outdoor Advertising, Star Outdoor and Outdoor Network Media -- have rejected it.
Two of them, Lamar Outdoor Advertising and Star Outdoor, both in Waco, Texas, went so far as to receive the vinyl for the 14-by-48-foot ad, and then decided not to run it.
"The last time I checked this was a free country," says Lou Manso, a media buyer from MetroMark International in San Diego, Calif., who is placing the ads for Working Assets. "It's so ironic that the president is sending our troops to defend the same rights that my clients are being denied."
Manso does concede that the billboard owners have the right to reject it, but he doesn't understand why. "This is such a harmless ad I couldn't imagine anyone turning it down on any terms, but it's their inventory, so they're exercising their right to refuse it."
Other peace activists have already confronted media censorship of their antiwar messages. MetroMark bought ads for MoveOn.org, an online advocacy group with more than 2 million members, that argued "Iraq Al-Qaida: There's Simply No Link." The ad ran in more than 110 newspapers around the country on March 5, but the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Miss., and the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss., refused to print them.
MoveOn.org also ran into trouble with its own antiwar billboards. Viacom refused to place ads in Washington and Detroit that said "Inspections Work. War Won't," according to Joan Blades, a co-founder of the organization.
"I thought it was kind of shocking that they were saying no to it," she says. But after bad publicity generated by Newsweek coverage, Viacom agreed to run them, says Blades.
So, why can't Working Assets' "Support Our Troops" ads get seen in Crawford? The billboard companies aren't saying. But Michael Kieschnick, president of Working Assets, is convinced that the censorship has less to do with peace, war and politics than property.
"The state motto is 'Don't mess with Texas.' The billboard owners probably were afraid that someone would come by and burn them down or pepper them with a shotgun, and they didn't want to risk property damage," says Kieschnick, who's from Texas, grew up there, and says he has thousands of relatives back in the Lone Star State. "Billboard owners themselves probably don't have a lot of politics."
Manso, the media buyer, says that the billboards owners have been "vague" about why they've rejected the ads, but several mentioned that they were concerned about the reaction from "the community." But he's still hopeful about getting the Working Assets message heard in the president's home state.
Clear Channel, which owns the billboards on which the ads were placed in San Francisco and New York, says it will start running the ads in Houston next Tuesday.
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