http://projectusa.org/ezine/2005/04-25- ... board.html

In light of the story yesterday about the Clear Channel billboards in LA, one has to ask why the disparity of opinion of these two companies? Viacom refuses to "proclaim" the problem of illegal immigration while Clear Channel openly declares LA as "LA, Mexico." See http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-2118.html

Viacom refuses McCain billboard in Phoenix
Claims ProjectUSA slogan is unacceptable political message
By CRAIG NELSEN
ProjectUSA director
April 25, 2005
Issue 229



BANNED IN PHOENIX


BANNED IN NEW YORK

When a group called Project USA put up anti-immigration billboards along the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, local politicians screamed. The billboards, owned by Infinity Outdoor Signage, came down. There was nothing threatening about the messages. They merely questioned the wisdom of mass immigration. But that is not a terribly popular notion in New York. For all the standard blather here about how much we glory in diversity, some opinions are apparently less equal than others.
"Protecting New Yorkers From Opinions,"
Clyde Haberman, New York Times, Apr 22, 2005

Guess who ordered this billboard down (hint: it also owns the gaping hole in the center of this photo if this picture were taken today from the same location).

Guess who owns Infinity Outdoor now.

YOU'D THINK THEY'D THANK US
FOR ADVERTISING THEIR PUBLIC SERVICE
Because Sen. McCain, Rep. Cannon, et al., react to them as if they were an attack, they're the ones who end up putting a value judgment on our billboards' message; they're the ones who prove, in other words, that they know that voters are strongly opposed to the policies they are trying to slip through Congress.

SEMANTICS CHECK
CANNON Readers will remember that we ran up against the same false denials when we were trying to help Rep. Chris Cannon's constituents in Utah learn of his support for amnesties that we're running into with Senator McCain.

We would argue Chris Cannon supports amnesties for illegal aliens because he introduces legislation in Congress that, like, provides amnesties for illegal aliens, and his staff would respond that that was "just semantics."

We called it just lying, and offered to resolve the matter by submitting the question to independent arbitration. Cannon declined our challenge, dismissing it through a spokesperson as "clever theatrics."

McCAIN (From the Arizona Republic):

Nelsen said his group would pay to submit the definitional question to a certified board of mediators if McCain would agree to abide by the result.

But before the offer was even made, McMenamin said, "We're not going to get into semantics."

AILA: Earned adjustment does not equal “amnestyâ€?: Critics of this legislation have misleadingly dubbed its earned adjustment program an “amnesty program.â€? This is not the case. Under the bill, workers would not only have to demonstrate past work contributions to the U.S. economy, but also make a substantial future work commitment to earn the right to remain in this country (from the American Immigration Lawyers Association, [url=http://www.aila.org/fileViewer.aspx?docID=11993]AGJOBS â€â€