Rock the Vote Irks Republicans

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - MTV and the nonprofit group Rock the Vote, partners in a massive public awareness campaign to encourage young Americans to participate in today's presidential election, have come under fire from Republicans accusing them of pushing a pro-Democratic agenda and challenging MTV and Rock the Vote's assertions that their get-out-the-vote campaigns are nonpartisan.

The charges stem mainly from a Rock the Vote campaign focused on the issue of a military draft. To get its point across, Rock the Vote sent out 660,000 e-mails in late September with a mock draft card signed by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

"You are hereby ordered for induction into the Armed Forces of the United States, and to report to a polling place near you," read the draft cards.

In addition, Rock the Vote created two public service announcements focused on the issue of the draft and a third celebrity-packed public service announcement (PSA) that referred to the draft as one of many issues young voters might be concerned about. At least one of the draft-themed PSAs ran on MTV for 10 consecutive days in September. Rock the Vote also has devoted a significant amount of content to the issue on its Web site.

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=6684202

that ROCK musicians want to change the STATUS QUO!!

:evilgrin:

VOTE or DIE.

I'm pretty sure I know what it meant. The TV camera moved away quickly.

Puffy's choice of slogan was pretty good. It really is that crucial.

a quagmire going on right there, and Puffy just laid it down, he said "you stand there, and you fight, be non-violent, but stand your ground, because people have died for you to have the right to vote."

Puffy is a saint.

Don't worry about all this boring political stuff. Hey, is that a new X-Box game? Wow, wasn't that extreme sports show off the hook? Vote? What's that - some kinda marketing thing...

repugs get upset when too many start paying attention.

ever?

"Country the vote"
or
"Middle-of-the-road-crap the vote"

:)

too funny... :)

:dem:

they try doing it anyway

wunnerful wunnerful wunnerful

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It was very effective. I am on many political lists, and that email was the single most eye catching of the political season.

Rock the Vote talks about the draft because it is an issue young people are interested in. They also talk about student loans and grants. I don't think that is partisan. I think the RNC just objects to young people getting educated and voting their own self interest.

League of Pissed-Off Voters, the youth-oriented (18-35) outfit who published "How To Get Stupid White Men Out Of Office"

:evilgrin:

the GOP assclowns don't see the forest for the trees. Any measure that gets younger voters engaged in the political process is a good thing.

They need to go back to their churches and masterbate.

are questioning our fascist state! What incredible temerity to educate young people about what is happening! :puke: on rethugs
Bless all of the young voters!

Professor 2

to disallow disenfranchised voters the right to sue to have there vote counted.

get over it.

and they always seems to hate anything that aims to drive up the number of voters, whether it's Rock the Vote or the Motor Voter bill back in the 90s. Standard gop m.o. :grr:

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What was that about "whiny liberals"? What about "the party of personal responsibility"?

Maybe they should get a "slimy trial lawyer" and take it to the courts :)

surely we can ask them to participate in our democracy.

They underestimate the intelligence of the young. Quit telling us that there will be no draft if you can't explain HOW there will be no draft.

Wrapping themselves in the flag and using 'do it for the children' as a last resort when they try to get bad legislation passed, what they really stand for is something other than our form of government.

I hope Paleocons manage to take back the GOP from the radical corportists and dominionist fringe. Together we can restore a construtive dialog on important matters for solving the problems the nation faces.

The students of Newt do not love America, they work toward the goal of citizens being kept ignorant and out of the process of government. They do not want young people waking up to the possibilities their participation in government will bring.

Rock on, Rock The Vote!

The Repub Block-the-Vote drive is such an affront to democracy that
they have a lot of gall criticizing Rock-the-Vote!

Blockhead
Blockhead's Broke Beats (CD-R)
15:37
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Mush Records
http://www.dango727.com/blockhead.html

for all goes out of its way to disrupt democracy. Their version of freedom isn't about civil rights or participation of the masses, it's about their version of freedom which is only valid if it advances their ideology. I have never used profanity in these forums, but fuck 'em all for suppressing voters rights and taking this country halfway back to the stone age.

It's kind of hard to Toby Keith the Vote.

It means it's a sound piece of democracy and freedom, the things they hate the most.

So Rock the Vote only had Democrats to work with.

If the GOP doesn't like this then they should have taken part in this.

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ghey

That's a telling statement. Thanks..It will make a GREAT Protest sign for the world to see waving in the huge crowds amassed at 1600 Penn Avenue when we gather to protest the neo-fascist Gop stupid vote challenges.

Kerry WILL be our 2004 President and American Democracy Will Prevail.

fuck em if they don't love America...WE DO!!!

You are the hope. Traditionally, a lot of you failed to vote, for your own reasons. This time, by all accounts you are turning out in record numbers. Anecdotally, I saw this myself today....lots of young people in a lot of lines. And by all accounts, if it were up to you, Kerry would win by a landslide.

You are the hope. Voting, yourself, is the bare minimum. Don't go alone! Take at least one friend with you.

Bravo, Rock the Vote! Bravo, to all the young people who are not only voting, but working for our democracy; volunteering for the Kerry campaign, the Democratic Party, and/or various groups. I want to see a lot of you run for office yourselves!

You are the hope.

F-R-E-E-D-O-M

They are just jealous that didn't have enough fucking brains to get young people to vote for them. I second the fuck em!

Traitors. :)

no draft? This admin has restaffed selective service boards, they have a back door draft now. Most of them of draft dodgers themselves and from early on were OK with some else doing the dying. I don't believe a word these rat MF's say. Hope the young people who will do the dying if there's a draft come out in record numbers.

Of course, there is no mention of the restaffing of the boards or the proposition for skills based drafts. Where's the liberal media?

The fundies want a theocracy as much as Osama. Big business leaders and many ultra rich either want Fascism or Plutocracy.

im not even sure if they hate it. i dont think their small brains can comprehend such a thing as democracy. they've always won throughout life. daddy bought them a jet, daddy got them a hooker for their 18th, and daddy got them out of fighting in a war. democracy is a foreign word to them.

all republicans are really just little children. getting pissy about someone getting people to vote is very repuke. Oh no people possibly speaking their mind and Kerry wins by a landslide. of course their mad if too many people vote for Kerry it will be harder (hopefully impossible) for bushco to steal the election.

Way to go MTV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

eat shit

fuck off

bite me

Nobody stopped them from "Montavani the Vote":headbang:

the house draft initiative was sponsored by (though not voted for by) a Democrat.

ROFL.

*rolling eyes*

Rock the Vote does a very un-Republican thing: It tells people -- especially kids -- that they have a say and have a right to decide issues -- especially those that directly affect them. MTV's campaign has been the most effective strategy I've seen to energize the youth vote. And it has been fair -- Bush and the GOP have had their side presented. MTV can't help it if their platform basically has nothing to offer its audience.

I believe much like the NAACP, the organizers of Rock the Vote are coming under government scrutiny as well.

m.c. at the polls in Mississippi said that "everybody here is just trying to get George Bush out of office" on the air.

Once they came back on he had to reiterate that Rock the Vote is non-partisan and that what the guy in Mississippi said was his own opinion, not the opinion of MTV or Rock the Vote.

Neo-cons can't stand it when their agendas are revealed. They'd much prefer the public remain unaware.

How else will you replenish the troops for your further exploits in Iran, Syria, NK and some other "rogue regimes", huh Rummy? Come clean now.

and of course it's ok for Faux News and it's fine and dandy to air Rush on Air Forces radio ...

Poor little GOP victims ... they want it all. Perceived or not.

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