David Horowitz
Founder & CEO of
(DHFC) Freedom Center
(P.O. Box 130707, Houston, TX 77219-0707)
TruthRevolt
December 30,
2013
Dear
Sir,
...The past year has been powerfully successful on
many levels – thanks to your continued support... I speak for our entire staff
when I say that your dedication to the Center and our work to expose the
radical left's agenda gives us an extra edge of confidence we need in the face
of such well-financed opposition.
The
launch of TruthRevolt has been enormously successful! It has already made an
impact. Together with our continued work to expose Barack Obama and the left's
never-ending attempts to further "fundamentally transform" America, 2014 presents tremendous
opportunity for the Center...
There is no doubt 2014 opens the door to opportunity
for the Freedom Center. The polls indicate more
and more Americans are becoming aware of Barack Obama's ultra-liberal
machinations. Over the past year, we've discovered that the Obama
administration has used government agencies to skirt Congress and forward its
agenda.
It has also used agencies, including the IRS and the
Department of Justice, to harass, intimidate, and punish individuals and
conservative organizations that dare object to its constitutional abuses.
The Freedom Center was one such conservative
organization subjected to an IRS audit. Of course, there was nothing out of
line, but having to respond cost time and money.
We remain dedicated to our mission, however, and
have recently launched one of the most exciting projects in our history. It's
called TruthRevolt, and for the first time we can respond to mainstream media's
biased and erroneous personal attacks on conservatives.
Remember
when the left, led by the George Soros-funded Media
Matters, vilified Glenn Beck? Because Beck dared to reveal the radical agenda
of Barack Obama and those in his administration, the left used strategies
we've become familiar with over the years. False accusations, name calling –
tactics that went unanswered by conservatives.
Beck was driven off FOX News. TruthRevolt will
respond. Pundits like Al Sharpton, Rachel Maddow, and Bill Maher will get the same medicine they've
spooned out viciously for years.
Of course, the Center's other projects such as DiscovertheNetworks.org, FrontPage, Jihad Watch, and our work on
college campuses will continue. It has to.
Americans are fighting as best we can to overcome an
agenda that preaches division and doubt. Virtually every college campus today
features entrenched leftists pounding anti-America messages into our young
people's heads.
We will use an integrated campaign of letters,
e-mail, and our powerful websites to continue to expand our reach and seize the
opportunity the coming year offers.
Today I can tell you that the Freedom Center, thanks
to the undying and courageous support of Americans like you, has rolled over
the leftists' rock and revealed to millions of people just how radical,
vicious, dedicated, and well-financed the "hate-America left" truly
is.
From
our staggering debt to our massive unemployment, the disastrous takeover of our
health care system, the shredding of our borders, and the slashing of our
national defense – make no mistake: This isn't poor leadership. This is Obama and the left
methodically smashing our nation's foundation to "fundamentally transform America."
...the Freedom Center needs you to stand with me,
stand with us, as a bulwark, a spotlight on the left's plans and the characters
behind this insidious agenda.
I know the economic times are tough and every dollar
you invest in an organization must be stretched to its maximum value. Believe me, we know how much your contribution means. and I promise we use it to its fullest potential.
Your gift of $20, $15, or even $10 will ensure we
start with every weapon in our arsenal ready to go. Thank you so much.
Sincerely
David
Horowitz
Founder
& CEO
P.S.
Remember: 2014, with the prospect of its elections on the horizon, offers real
opportunity to inform Americans about radical liberals' plans and how they can
be stopped. That is only possible with the courageous support of individual
Americans who share, as you do, a love of our nation and a willingness to meet
our enemies square on with the truth. Thanks again (DHFC,
P.O. Box 130707, Houston, TX 77219-0707)!
14724
Ventura Blvd. • Suite
820 • Sherman Oaks,
CA 91403 • FrontPageMag.com
********************
David Horowitz
Founder & CEO of
(DHFC) Freedom Center
(P.O. Box 130707, Houston, TX 77219-0707)
October 18, 2013
Bullies: How
the Left Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans
Dear
Sir,
He's a charlatan. A con artist.
He's provoked violence. He's virulently racist.
So how does Al Sharpton
manage to get on and stay on the national stage? How does he merit a television
news show?
Of course, you and I know part of the answer is that
Sharpton fits one of the radical left's needs – an
African American who will willingly denounce America as racist, oppressive,
imperialistic, or whatever the most popular demeaning term is that day.
The other answer, the bigger answer, is that conservatives leave him unchallenged. Not his words – most
conservatives can easily counter Sharpton's bile.
What conservatives won't do is go after him, personally, and those who support him ...
... or Chris Matthews or
John King or Piers Morgan or George Stephanopoulos or Jon Stewart or Stephen
Colbert or any outspoken, biased, headline-chasing leftist media source.
Conservatives haven't exposed them. Conservatives
haven't targeted their financial backers, their advertisers, or their handlers
from rabid liberal war rooms such as Media Matters or Center for American
Progress.
We haven't taken the fight to them on the same terms
they take the fight to us. We've been carrying knives to gunfights. Until now.
Today I am proud to announce the Freedom Center's launch of TruthRevolt,
the first organized response to the liberal media's unabated hate barrage
against conservatives and conservatism. We must start fighting fire with fire
... for example:
·
Remember how Media Matters orchestrated the left's attack on Glenn Beck
because he had the courage to expose Barack Obama's radicalism?
They didn't challenge what Beck was saying. They
vilified him. They made it personal. They created a Glenn Beck that never was
and they sold that evil, fictional image to FOX News advertisers, driving them
away from his show.
·
Or how about the vicious, scorched-earth campaign against Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure? Komen
was targeted after daring to cut ties with Planned Parenthood.
Susan G. Komen has raised
millions in the fight against breast cancer. That didn't matter to the rabid
left-wing media. They moved quickly to protect one of their sacred cows by
virtually destroying the Komen organization's
credibility.
·
CNN is a bottom feeder in news ratings, but Lou Dobbs' business show had
a strong audience. Dobbs had the guts to tell the truth about the costs of
amnesty for illegal aliens.
Media Matters sprang into action and quickly the
media demonized Dobbs as a racist. CNN and the left ran Dobbs off the air.
Bottom line is that the left is serious about
destroying this nation. They are so focused on their agenda – to
"fundamentally transform America," as Barack Obama
promised – that they will shred and demonize anyone or anything that dares
cross their ideology.
We simply cannot lie back and take this any longer.
Our nation cannot afford for conservatives to sit back passively – or worse, to
let themselves be co-opted into these efforts.
It's not enough to just monitor the leftist media.
We must devise ways to pressure their donors and their advertisers. We must
drive a wedge between advertisers and their favored liberal hosts. We must
divide and conquer donors who support radical liberal causes and organizations.
It's no secret that this works. Advertising
executives say plainly that their clients request advertising plan changes as a
result of calls from a few dozen outraged citizens.
What if tens of thousands of conservatives were
mobilized to apply pressure to the businesses that bankroll the media? The
result would be dramatic!
Of course, to direct a project like TruthRevolt you
need an individual who is smart, can think on his feet, knows
how the left operates, and is fearless – absolutely fearless.
We have just the man: bestselling author,
journalist, and former Breitbart News
editor-at-large Ben Shapiro.
Anyone who witnessed him debating Piers Morgan on
gun control knows that Ben Shapiro is precisely the man needed to head this
project. If you haven't seen the interview – it's easy to find on YouTube – let me give some background.
Following the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year, Ben appeared on
the Piers Morgan show to discuss – if that's the word for it – gun control.
Morgan's a classic liberal bully. He called for gun
bans, and if you didn't agree with him, he attacked you as evil and uncaring
about our children.
But one of Ben's bestselling books is Bullies: How the Left Culture of Fear and
Intimidation Silences Americans. It's a case study on the radical
left's tactics of demonizing and vilifying those who don't agree with them.
For nearly fifteen minutes, Ben had Piers Morgan
sputtering, shouting, and retreating into his typical bullying tactics. At one
point, Morgan childishly called the Constitution "your [Ben's] little
book."
Putting people like Morgan, Rachel Maddow, David Gregory, Candy Crowley, and others of their
ilk on their heels is only the beginning.
With
Ben at the helm of TruthRevolt, I believe you will see a change in all of the
debates the battles, if you will – for our culture. No longer will elements of
the radical left and their media conspirators be free to operate without
challenge.
Yes, "conspirators" is a strong word. But
do you remember the 2008 election and the discovery of Rev. Jeremiah Wright,
Barack Obama's longtime "spiritual" guide and preacher?
After the election we learned that more than 300
left-wing journalists at the major newspapers, magazines and networks, along
with liberal political consultants, conspired to make sure Jeremiah Wright's
hatred of America never came to light. They
stopped reporting on Wright and Barack Obama's 20-year relationship in Wright's
Chicago church.
Three hundred members of the press got together to
ensure that one of the biggest issues of the election would be buried. To
ensure, in essence, that Barack Obama was elected president. That was a
conspiracy, and it goes on far more often than not.
That is what conservatives are up against and what,
until today, we have left unchallenged. TruthRevolt promises to level the field
in the battle for our nation's future.
Some conservative friends may shrink a bit from
direct action. But today we need more than a petition or a letter to Congress.
What will work – what is working for the radical left – is pressure applied
tactically to the right spots. Pressure that doesn't
just create the national dialogue, but controls it!
We're creating a dedicated website that will act as
a Media Matters for the right. It will be direct and hard-hitting – designed to
expose in every detail the left's financiers and advertisers, along with the
media members who blatantly misrepresent conservatives all the while carrying
the message for the left's agenda.
Along with Ben Shapiro, we will hire writers and
editors to track the news and break big news stories of their own. We'll also
need technical experts to maximize our public relations campaigns and help
build our list of advocates from across the nation.
As you know from your experience with me and the Freedom Center, every dollar will be
stretched to its maximum. And every dollar comes from private resources and
individuals.
Already an anonymous friend of the Freedom Center has stepped up with a
matching gift contribution of $145,000 specifically for TruthRevolt.
... you've provided the Freedom Center with generous support in
the past. Can I count on you for a contribution of $20 or $30 today? Combined
with the matching gift, your $20 gift becomes a $40 contribution to
TruthRevolt.
I firmly believe this project will make as big a
mark on our cultural landscape as DiscovertheNetworks.org has made. Today that site is used by
thousands of people daily to map the radical left and discover its inner
workings.
Please take a close look at our battle plan. This is
an opportunity, at last, to turn the tables on a mainstream media that has
become nothing but a propaganda tool for the liberals' decades-old desire to
empower government for their benefit – power for power's sake.
I am always grateful for your support and for the
courage it takes to join with me in the trenches against the radical left.
Thank you and I hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely
David
Horowitz
Founder
& CEO
P.S. Contrary to the lies the left creates to
vilify conservatives, all we need to do is expose leftists for who they really
are. We can't continue to lie back and take these attacks on the chin any
longer. Please help me fund TruthRevolt right now. Thanks again.
14724
Ventura Blvd. • Suite
820 • Sherman Oaks,
CA 91403 • FrontPageMag.com
********************
Battle Plan
There
are four critical elements to the success of TruthRevolt.
• Public
Awareness Campaign: Our public awareness campaign will be designed to expose issues and
villains of whom few Americans are aware. TruthRevolt will pursue
groundbreaking journalistic efforts to root out and discredit the perverse
political gamesmanship emanating from our supposedly apolitical media. We will
then drive public awareness with Internet strategies, newspaper publicity,
billboards, radio, and television. Our goal: to make millions aware of the
leftist agenda, and to expose its emissaries.
•
List-Building: Our publicity campaign will not be designed as a mere fundraiser. We
will be seeking out active participants in the political debate: letter
writers, activists, conservatives with a passion who want to make a difference.
Every public awareness campaign will be specifically calibrated toward reaching
the most eyes and ears, and toward garnering the most names.
• Dedicated
Website: TruthRevolt.com will act as a "Media Matters" for the right, incorporating all
of the ideas put forth in this proposal into one hard-hitting attack website.
• Targeted
Action: As
our list of activists grows, we will work with them to hit hard and fast. We
will target advertisers that are largely unaware of the leftism
their dollars pay for on television, radio, and the Internet. We will target
the real fat cats on the leftist
side, who bankroll the left's agenda with the dollars consumers spend at their
businesses. We will force them to disassociate from the media members who lie
and cheat on behalf of the left. And we will end the careers and the impact of
those media members.
DAVID
HOROWITZ FREEDOM
CENTER
14724
Ventura Blvd. • Suite
820 • Sherman Oaks,
CA 91403 • FrontPageMag.com
********************
DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER
Ben Shapiro
Editor-in-Chief,
TruthRevolt
Dear
Fellow American,
When David Horowitz discussed creating a program
that would give the conservative movement the ability to strike back against
the radical liberal agenda, I knew I wanted to be a part of it. I am honored to
have been chosen Editor-in-Chief for TruthRevolt.
TruthRevolt will do the dirty work no one else will,
fighting the leftist media on their own terms.
For too long, we've played by the Marquess of Queensbury rules, allowing the left to stifle
the truth and silence truth tellers in the name of their politically correct
narrative. Now we're taking the battle to their home turf – and we will do so
aggressively and unwaveringly, every single day.
As an editor-at-large for Breitbart.com, I worked for Andrew Breitbart – a man unafraid of the left's tactics of
bullying, vilification and demonization. Andrew knew
that bullies do not like the taste of their own medicine, and he was ready and
willing to punch back twice as hard.
Andrew was one of my mentors; David Horowitz is
another. They share unending fearlessness in the face of the radical left.
David has proven time and time again that he can and will stand up for the
conservative principles that we know made this nation great and can provide
solutions to our problems today.
But we must be heard – and to be heard, we must be
willing to fight back. So please take a moment to read the enclosed letter from
David. It gives a detailed description of why we're starting TruthRevolt and
how we will take the fight to the left. Then I encourage you to participate in
making this project a success by contributing to TruthRevolt today. Thank you
so much for supporting David and the Freedom Center, and I look forward to
gaining your support for TruthRevolt (DHFC, P.O. Box 130707, Houston, TX 77219-0707).
Sincere,
Ben Shapiro
14724
Ventura Blvd. • Suite
820 • Sherman Oaks,
CA 91403 • FrontPageMag.com