New anti-U.N. ad debuts
TV spots running on CNN, Fox News
Posted: January 20, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Move America Forward, the organization leading the effort to evict the United
Nations from the United States and halt U.S. funding of the U.N. today launches
a national television ad campaign to "Get the U.N. Out of the U.S."
Beginning today, a new 30-second TV spot called "Stingy" begins airing on CNN
Headline News and the Fox News Channel.
The ad highlights two controversial actions by the United Nations during the
ongoing tsunami relief effort:
The comments made by the U.N.'s "humanitarian czar," Jan Egeland, that western
nations were being "stingy" in providing relief. (Egeland made the comments
just two days after the tsunamis struck and is now trying to say he didn't mean
it to reflect the humanitarian effort now ongoing in Asia.)
The reports that U.N. General Secretary Kofi Annan was too busy frolicking at a
ski resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to take hands-on leadership in the tsunami
relief effort. Annan refused to leave his ski vacation for three days after the
disaster struck.
"Is there any better evidence of how irrelevant the United Nations has become
than the fact that the U.N. general secretary doesn't feel he needs to
interrupt his ski vacation during the worst natural disaster in recent times?"
asked Melanie Morgan, co-chairman of Move America Forward.
Move America Forward has been collecting contributions from its more than
150,000 members to purchase airtime to run these ads. The television and radio
commercials underscore a petition drive to "Get the U.N. Out of the U.S.,"
which is nearing 100,000 signatures collected.
"With the support of the American public, we can remain on the airwaves with a
series of ads that will reveal the recent history of scandal, corruption and
cover-up that has been taking place at the U.N.," said Morgan.
Move America Forward's leadership felt it was important in this first ad to
take on the "stingy" smear uttered by Jan Egeland.
"Americans are a very generous people," said Howard Kaloogian, Move America
Forward's other co-chairman. "Already private giving by individuals and
corporations for tsunami victims has surpassed the huge amount pledged by our
government. This is the beauty of how our free society works, and it is
something that the socialists who run the U.N. will never understand."
Those who support the campaign are being asked to view the new ad online, sign
the petition and make a contribution to support purchase of more airtime on
television for this commercial and future spots.
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