Clear Channel Fuck Off

[killtrocity]

http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/22/news...rds/index.html

The billboards in question, located in the swing states of Ohio and Wisconsin, warned that voter fraud is a felony punishable by jail time. Activists say the messages, funded anonymously, were concentrated in minority neighborhoods and were placed in order to intimidate potential voters into staying home.

Online petitions calling for the billboards' removal garnered more than 100,000 signatures.

"In a lot of communities where they were putting these ads up, there's already so much misinformation about voting," said Rashad Robinson, executive director of online advocacy group ColorOfChange.org.

"In a lot of these communities, there's not always a good relationship between law enforcement and the community, and particularly for first-time voters, you're raising the specter that there could be some kind of interaction with law enforcement as part of the voting process."

Jim Cullinan, a spokesman for Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO), said in an email that the firm "reviewed the situation, and in light of the fact that these billboards violate our policy of not accepting anonymous political ads, we asked the client how they would prefer to work with us to bring the boards into conformance with our policy."

"The client thought the best solution was to take the boards down, so we are in the process of removing them," he said.

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[Order 66]

joke's on whoever's paying to have those put up. there are like .0000474% confirmed counts of fraud per vote each election

and any voter fraud this year seems to be coming from the right so far. but i guess its wise to hype it up... they'll have a strawman once obama wins

[Nimrod's Son]

so what i don't understand here is the "outrage" on shit like this. requiring people to have a voter Id card, or being against voter fraud... everyone claims it's "racist" now. well fuck you if you're in favor of voter fraud

[hnibos]

Originally Posted by Nimrod's Son

so what i don't understand here is the "outrage" on shit like this. requiring people to have a voter Id card, or being against voter fraud... everyone claims it's "racist" now. well fuck you if you're in favor of voter fraud

Really poor attempt at trolling.

[redbull]

Originally Posted by hnibos

Really poor attempt at trolling.

evidently you don't remember the glory days of this board. all this needs is corganist

[killtrocity]

Originally Posted by Order 66

joke's on whoever's paying to have those put up. there are like .0000474% confirmed counts of fraud per vote each election

and any voter fraud this year seems to be coming from the right so far. but i guess its wise to hype it up... they'll have a strawman once obama wins

The point is to dissuade certain demographics from voting, not to stop actual voter fraud which as you say is uncommon. It's just basic advertising principles - elicit a response via juxtaposition of ideas

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Nimrod's Son

so what i don't understand here is the "outrage" on shit like this. requiring people to have a voter Id card, or being against voter fraud... everyone claims it's "racist" now.

it is. maybe more classist if you want to nitpick.

[IAMTHEDOORWAY]

Originally Posted by Nimrod's Son

so what i don't understand here is the "outrage" on shit like this. requiring people to have a voter Id card, or being against voter fraud... everyone claims it's "racist" now. well fuck you if you're in favor of voter fraud

It's less racist and more classist. Low education + confusing ads/phone calls with misleading dates to vote and false restrictions + these billboards = people afraid of showing up to the polls because thy might have a non-current ID and think they'll get arrested and charged with a felony.

[MyOneAndOnly]

Nimrod is in a high tax bracket. He doesn't get it.

The only people being arrested for voting related fraud are republicans

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...e00b_story.htm

[Future Boy]

so if they were more evenly distributed over the state it'd be cool?

[Future Boy]

broken link

[IAMTHEDOORWAY]

Originally Posted by Future Boy

so if they were more evenly distributed over the state it'd be cool?

It's still misleading and has no place. There's a reason why fox news is banned in canada.

What forces govern the course of history?

[Future Boy]

wait, fox is banned in canada?

[Order 66]

then what will i watch when the obama re-election exiles me there? maybe i can stream it

[Future Boy]

snopes says you lied, bastard

[Nimrod's Son]

Originally Posted by IAMTHEDOORWAY

It's still misleading and has no place. There's a reason why fox news is banned in canada.

guess who is uninformed

[Nimrod's Son]

Originally Posted by IAMTHEDOORWAY

It's less racist and more classist. Low education + confusing ads/phone calls with misleading dates to vote and false restrictions + these billboards = people afraid of showing up to the polls because thy might have a non-current ID and think they'll get arrested and charged with a felony.

low income people are more likely to be duped into being paid to vote fraudulently and are usually less educated. i don't see an issue with a billboard that is in fact telling the truth

[Nimrod's Son]

also not sure Killtrocity realizes that clear channel just owns the blank billboards and wasn't responsible for putting them up

clear channel sucks because they fired howard, my god and king

[Trotskilicious]

we need to make sure we know how everybody voted

they can vote for anybody as long as they support howartd

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by Nimrod's Son

low income people are more likely to be duped into being paid to vote fraudulently and are usually less educated. i don't see an issue with a billboard that is in fact telling the truth

Evidence?

This is a myth. Hat type of voter fraud is nonexixstent.

[killtrocity]

Originally Posted by Nimrod's Son

also not sure Killtrocity realizes that clear channel just owns the blank billboards and wasn't responsible for putting them up

Clear channel sucks for plenty of other reasons, I just made that the title to fit the song.

Social institutions exist whether you acknowledge them or not.

[killtrocity]

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[hnibos]

haha, nothing can be said about Maine other than lobsters.

[Corganist]

Would probably have been more effective if they had put them up near graveyards...

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Corganist

Would probably have been more effective if they had put them up near graveyards...

oh jesus christ