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'GROUND ZERO' MOSQUE TV AD EVOKES EMOTIONS- Category:Christian_Conservative_News 'GROUND ZERO' MOSQUE TV AD EVOKES EMOTIONS
Have you heard about the new Ground Zero Mosque that is about to be built near the site of the original World Trade Center twin towers? If you haven’t, then you have not yet seen the controversial new TV ad made by Scott Wheeler of The National Republican Trust.
The TV ad evokes quite emotional responses, either of patriotic cheers or incensed jeers.
Conducting Talk Show interviews on this topic is Scott Wheeler, Executive Director of National Republican Trust and creator of the TV ad.
ABOUT SCOTT WHEELER:
Scott Wheeler is the executive director of the National Republican Trust, the #3 conservative Republican Political Action Committee in America. A former television producer and investigative journalist, Scott also is a writer focusing on domestic and international security issues. Mr. Wheeler has produced seventeen television documentaries and consulted on more than a dozen others. For the past eight years Mr. Wheeler has been on the forefront of the most crucial issues facing national security—from the war zones in Yugoslavia, to the drug fields of South America and following the trails of international arms smugglers to Canada, Europe and the Middle East. Mr. Wheeler is a veteran of the U.S. Army infantry.
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES MAY BE HELPFUL WITH SHOW PREP:
FishBowlDC Blog/ July 15, 2010
GOP Trust PAC Director Calls Mediaite 'Judgemental' By Betsy Rothstein
Scott Wheeler, executive director of the National Republican Trust PAC, is irate over Mediaite's coverage of CBS and NBC saying no to running his organization's ad. The ad wants to kill a plan to build a mosque just blocks from the site of the World Trade Center.
"To use one of the words they prefer, it was very judgmental," said Wheeler in a phone call with FishbowlDC late Wednesday, adding that Mediate did not call him for comment. "No, they did not call me and I talk to everybody," Wheeler said.
Mediate writes of the ad, "If this ad were not so utterly offensive I imagine CBS and NBC would find themselves the latest target of liberal media elite accusations from the right." Wheeler seethes, "Who is it offensive to? They don't say what they find offensive about it. I'm not sure we've banned images of African Americans being lynched from 70 years ago. I'm a little confused by this double standard. In fact, the only thing the liberal media has in common with radical Islam is their mutual hatred of the United States."
Wheeler told FishbowlDC that he will try cable next and then weigh his options. For now, the ad is getting mileage on the Internet. Among the cable outlets he intends to try: FNC and CNN. "MSNBC is probably a waste of time," he said. "I don't know who watches MSNBC anymore except for friends who are comedy writers. I don't know anyone who watches it for information."
Wheeler has journalist on his resume. He was chief correspondent for American Investigator Television between 1996 and 2002 and wrote for TWT's Insight Magazine between 2002 and 2004.
Politico's Ben Smith first reported the story of the networks rejecting the ad. Read here to find out what NBC Universal's Advertising Standards Manager Jennifer Riley had to say about it...
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