From: *Travis*
Date: Wed, Jun 3, 2009
Subject: BREAKING: CBS bans eligibility billboards
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WASHINGTON – The company touting itself as the "world's largest out-of-home
media" enterprise has banned WND's national billboard campaign that asks one
simple question: "Where's the birth
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CBS Outdoor, a division of CBS Corp. that sells more outdoor advertising
than any other billboard company in North America, refuses to accept
purchases of space on any of its 550,000 displays nationwide, media buyers
for WND report.
The billboard campaign was begun last month by Joseph Farah, editor and
chief executive officer of WND,
<http://email.wnd.com/ct/3112254:4162514081:m:1:125494720:47D1D7AD125BF0F1AAE41F290F1D5301>due
to his frustration with media colleagues not giving attention to what he
sees as critical questions about Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility
to serve as president.
"Here we have one of the largest media companies in the U.S. now not only
refusing to allow news coverage of a vitally important national question
being asked by millions of Americans, but one that won't even permit the
purchase of space to raise the question," said Farah. "What is the value of
a First Amendment in a country when this kind of self-censorship is at work
– self-censorship specifically geared to stifle inquiry and debate about the
most powerful person in the country."
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Farah maintains Obama has not proved he is constitutionally eligible to
serve as president as a "natural born citizen, and suggests only the release
of his long-form birth certificate showing the hospital of his birth,
attending physician and other details can conclusively meet that test.
Obama's presidential campaign released to select news organizations only
what is known as a "certificate of live birth," a document obtainable in
Hawaii in 1961 by Americans actually born outside the country.
CBS also owns one of the three major broadcast TV networks and radio
networks, an online advertising division, television stations, Showtime and
Simon & Schuster, one of the largest book publishers in the world. The
billboard division manages $2 billion in annual revenues, according to
company statements. It also boasts controlling more billboard space than any
other company in North America, with 1,600 employees in more than 50 offices
nationwide. It controls billboard space in every major American city.
"We are the premier out-of-home provider to outdoor advertising agencies in
the United States," the company's website says. "In addition to our overall
advertising agency client base, we also sell and service more out-of-home
media to local clients than any other outdoor company. During the company's
seven decades, its sole focus has been providing the very best out-of-home
media opportunities to marketers across the country."
Farah says CBS obviously has a focus beyond making money by selling signs.
"CBS is a company that is not squeamish about feeding America's children a
steady diet of offensive movies, obscene rap music and even TV commercials
that push the cultural and moral envelope," said Farah. "But CBS is afraid
to put up a sign containing four innocent words of constitutionally
protected, non-inflammatory political speech. You explain that to me. This
is a giant media conglomerate unworthy of operating under the protection of
the First Amendment."
Nevertheless, Farah remains undaunted in his quest to post the eligibility
issue on billboards across the country and insists CBS billboards are not
needed to fulfill the mission.
Launched just two weeks ago, the campaign has raised about $65,000 and begun
erecting billboards that ask the question, "Where's the birth certificate?" The
campaign followed one launched months earlier to collect the names on an
electronic petition demanding accountability and transparency on the issue.
So far, that petition has gathered nearly 400,000
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The campaign got a boost last week when WND White House correspondent Les
Kinsolving asked Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, why the president
wouldn't release his birth
certificate.<http://email.wnd.com/ct/3112256:4162514081:m:1:125494720:47D1D7AD125BF0F1AAE41F290F1D5301>Gibbs'
response was covered live on C-SPAN and by Fox News Channel and
others – excluding CBS.
It was the first time any member of the press corps has publicly asked a
member of the administration a question directly related to Obama's
constitutional eligibility for office as a "natural born citizen."
Congressional hearings were held to determine whether Sen. John McCain was
constitutionally eligible to be president as a "natural born citizen," but
no controlling legal authority ever sought to verify Obama's claim to a
Hawaiian birth.
Both the petition and the billboard campaign are part of what Farah calls an
independent "truth and transparency campaign."
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Donations are being accepted to defray the costs of a national billboard
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certificate?"<http://email.wnd.com/ct/3112254:4162514081:m:1:125494720:47D1D7AD125BF0F1AAE41F290F1D5301>
The first sign to be posted under the week-old campaign, a digital one, is
up on Highway 165 in Ball, La. – the result of a donation by the owner. In
addition, based on the heavy volume of financial donations in the first days
of the campaign, WND was able to commit to leasing two more standard
billboards – one in Los Angeles and the other in Pennsylvania. Another
electronic billboard has been leased along heavily trafficked Interstate 5
in Orange County, Calif.
Many have asked why Obama's name is not included in the billboard. Farah
said the matter was carefully considered.
"There are several reasons we chose the message: 'Where's the birth
certificate?'" he explained. "There is only one birth certificate
controversy in this country today – despite the near-total absence of this
issue from coverage in the non-WND media. This is a grass-roots issue that
resonates around the country, as our own online petition with nearly 400,000
signers suggests. In addition, I like the simplicity of the message. I like
the fact that the message will cause some people to ask themselves or others
about the meaning of the message. It will stir curiosity. It will create a
buzz. I'm assuming when these billboards are springing up all over the
country, it might even make some in the news media curious. And there's one
more factor that persuaded me this was the way to go.
"Come 2012, campaign laws will pose restrictions on political advertising
mentioning the names of presidential candidates. This one clearly doesn't. I
would like to see the federal government make the case that this is somehow
a political ad," he said.
Further, Farah said, CBS's reaction to the campaign makes the point about
how squeamish major media outlets are about questioning powerful political
leaders – especially those with whom they agree.
"Imagine the problems we'd have finding billboard space if Obama's image or
name was part of the message," he said. "CBS is afraid of four innocent
words – even though it is a purveyor of highly offensive four-letter words
in its entertainment portfolio."
Farah said the campaign was born of frustration with timid elected officials
in Washington, corrupt judges around the country and a news media that show
a stunning lack of curiosity about the most basic facts of Obama's
background – especially how it relates to constitutional eligibility for the
highest office in the land.
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first such sign to be posted, a digital one, is up on Highway 165 in Ball,
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"As Obama transforms this country from self-governing constitutional
republic to one governed by a central ruling elite, the simple fact remains
that no controlling legal authority has established that he is indeed a
'natural born citizen' as the Constitution requires," Farah said. "Obama's
promises of transparency have become a bad joke as he continues to hide
simple, innocuous documents like his birth certificate and his student
records."
The idea behind the billboard campaign is to make sure Obama cannot avoid
this question any longer. He must be asked to produce it at every turn,
Farah says. Billboard space is currently being hunted in Houston, Dallas,
San Antonio, Sacramento, San Francisco, New York-New Jersey, Des Moines,
Seattle and other metro
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"Is it unusual for a news agency to launch such a campaign?" asks Farah.
"Yes it is. But we live in very unusual times. The founding fathers built
special protections into the First Amendment for the free press. The reason
they did that is because they understood a vibrant 'Fourth Estate' was
necessary as an independent watchdog on government. It is in that tradition
that WND assumes this role – since nobody else in the press will do it."
WND previously launched a petition campaign that has collected more than
370,000 names demanding Obama's eligibility be verified and demonstrated
publicly. That campaign
continues.<http://email.wnd.com/ct/3112257:4162514081:m:1:125494720:47D1D7AD125BF0F1AAE41F290F1D5301>That
petition has been shared with members of the Electoral College and the
chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
"I wish such a campaign were not absolutely necessary," said Farah. "I wish
there were checks and balances in our political and electoral systems to
ensure that constitutional eligibility of presidential candidates was
established before politicians could assume the highest office in the land.
I wish my colleagues in the news media believed the Constitution really
means what it says and pressed this issue as hard as we have pressed it at
WND. I wish radio talk-show hosts were bold enough to ask this question. But
wishing is not enough. It's time to raise the visibility of this issue vital
to the rule of law in America. I ask everyone to pitch
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