New York Young Republican Club calls for boycott of CNN

For Immediate Release: August 10, 2005
Contact: Tracy Feldman (979) 229 0737
E-mail: PR@nyyrc.com

STATEMENT BY THE NEW YORK YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB, INC.
NYYRC Calls for Nationwide Boycott of CNN until it refuses to air
NARAL's defamatory ad concerning Supreme Court Nominee John Roberts

The New York Young Republican Club, Inc. ("NYYRC") is angered that
NARAL has produced, and CNN has committed to airing, advertisements
that falsely accuse Supreme Court Justice nominee John Roberts of
supporting "violent fringe groups and a convicted [abortion] clinic
bomber." The NYYRC demands that CNN cancel its commitment to air
the offending advertisement and asks that all persons of good will –
whether pro-choice or pro-life – boycott CNN until the network
promises to deny the libelous advertisement on-air time.

The offending ad, produced by the Pro-Choice group NARAL, is
designed to defeat the nomination of Judge Roberts by falsely
accusing him of "Fil[ing] court briefs supporting violent fringe
groups and a convicted clinic bomber." The ad entitled "Speaking
Out," began running on August 8th, and according to multiple
sources, NARAL plans to buy half a million dollars worth of airtime
in coming weeks on national cable networks, as well as on networks
in Maine and Rhode Island.

According to FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan/nonprofit project of the
Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania,
the ad was both "false" and "misleads when it says Roberts supported
a clinic bomber." Indeed, as the FactCheck.org release notes
read, "The ad fails to mention that the `court briefs' it mentions
are actually from nearly seven years before the abortion clinic
bombing talked about in the ad."

"Once more the left-wing fringe that has become the staple of
Hillary Clinton's Democratic Party has abandoned the truth in the
name of opposing our president," said NYYRC President Dennis
Cariello. "We must stand up to such falsity by boycotting those
outlets which wrongly elevate libel to the level of reasoned
argument. We must show CNN that the American public will no longer
support a network that has become the mouthpiece for lies and
deceit."

President Cariello also called on CNN's advertisers to "contact CNN
CEO Jonathon Klein and tell him that you don't appreciate your
products being associated with NARAL's dishonesty."

The NYYRC strongly hopes that CNN reconsiders the short-term gains
to be had from this $125,000 ad purchase by NARAL and considers the
values upon which it was allegedly founded – truth and accuracy in
reporting and presenting news and opinion to the public – to be more
important and not worth sacrificing for financial gain.

The New York Young Republican Club, Inc. is a not-for-profit
political organization that exists to bring Republicans aged 18 – 40
together to discuss the Republican Party platform and aid the
Republican Party in the education of the public about the Republican
agenda and the promotion of Republican candidates for office. To
find out more about the New York Young Republican Club, Inc. please
visit the website at http://www.nyyrc.com