The following comes from today's Rapid Response for Illinois alert and was also introduced in a diary yesterday.
This is a follow-up to yesterday's alert. Progressive organizations hope to have response ads up on the air but we should do other actions too...
If you live in Champaign, Peoria or Rockford (or know folks who do live there and can ask them to help), please keep track of the Durbin attack ads being funded by the regressive group "Move America Forward."
Please note details of the ad including the show during which it aired, the time of day and (if you can) which commercial was it during that break (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc).
E-Mail your notes to Rapid Response for Illinois at
il -AT- rapidresponsenetwork -DOT- org
Here are the stations to track:
WCIA (CBS-3) - Champaign,IL
Website: http://www.wcia.com
Phone: (217) 356-8333
Fax: (217) 373-3663
Address: 509 S Neil St Champaign, IL 61820
Jim Gee -- News Director
Rus Hamilton -- Vice President; General Manager
WMBD (CBS-31) - Peoria,IL
Website: http://www.wmbd.com
Phone: (309) 688-3131
Fax: (309) 686-8650
Address: 3131 N University St Peoria, IL 61604
Kevin Harlan -- General Manager
Brent Lonteen -- Assignment Manager
Chris Manson -- News Director
WREX (NBC-13) - Rockford,IL
Website: http://www.wrex.com
Phone: (815) 335-2213
Fax: (815) 335-2055
Address: PO Box 530 Rockford, IL 61105
Kim Carney -- Program Manager
John Chadwick -- Vice President; General Manager
Maggie Hradecky -- News Director
If you contact these TV stations consider that Sen Durbin never actually referenced our brave troops. Rather, he was discussing the unAmerican and immoral torture which this conservative administration (White House and Pentagon civilian leaders) have condoned. And, he was reading DIRECTLY from an FBI agent's report on the immoral and unAmerican torture -- which included being hogtied in chains; left in a room with no cot, chair or even toilet; lack of food or water; and the often-overlooked fact that these prisoners were forced to defecate and urinate on themselves because of being chained up and not having a toilet (or even so much as a hole in the floor).
According to the Tribune story, these unbalanced ads from out-of-state partisan hacks ignore these facts in favor of slurring our Senator.