Posted By: Mira Trapper
Carrie Underwood gets backdoor support from HSUS - 03/25/09 12:35 AM
> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:02:47 -0700
> Subject: Sportsmen urge Carrie Underwood to sever ties with HSUS (2 items)
>
> U.S. Sportsmen Alliance
> Block Anti’s from Cashing In on American Idol Tune
> Plea Sent to Carrie Underwood’s Management and Head of Sony Music
> 3/18/09
> http://www.ussportsmen.org/Page.aspx?pid=1945
>
> The USSA continues to work to stop the nation’s leading anti-hunting
> organization from dipping into the pockets of country music fans who
> happen to be hunters, anglers, and trappers.
>
> As reported previously
> , Carrie Underwood’s
> song, “Home Sweet Home,” is played as the farewell song on each
> episode the hit show, American Idol. A portion of sales of the song
> are being forward to the virulently anti-hunting Humane Society of the
> United States (HSUS).
>
> The USSA is working to stop the promotion as a way to blunt the HSUS’s
> ceaseless attacks on sportsmen’s rights.
>
> On March 18, the USSA sent letters to Carrie Underwood’s management
> company, 19 Management
> , and the head of the
> Sony Music Corporation
> that runs her record label, Sony Nashville. The letters outline the
> real agenda of the HSUS. They also express the outrage felt by the
> USSA and many thousands of sportsmen nationwide over donations to the
> HSUS from the proceeds of Underwood’s latest song while urging the
> financial relationship end.
>
> The USSA will report immediately upon the response from 19 Management
> and Sony Music Corp.
>
> The USSA thanks the thousands of sportsmen made phone calls and sent
> faxes and e-mails to Fox Broadcasting urging them to not give the song
> a national platform to drive its sales. Though Fox and American Idol
> have declined to stop using the song during the show’s telecast,
> sportsmen should keep bringing the heat.
>
> Companies such as Iams, General Mills, Accor Hotels, Sears, and Ace
> Hardware ended relationships with HSUS after thousands of sportsmen
> levied strong protest.
> --------------------------------------------
> National Rifle Association
> HSUS Tries To Slip One Past Country Fans
> Friday, March 20, 2009
> http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=4627
>
> The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the most radical
> animal "rights" and anti-hunting organization in the country, has been
> quietly trying to get Carrie Underwood voted Entertainer of the Year
> via the Academy of Country Music. The problem is, a large percentage
> of country music fans are also gun owners and hunters who do not like
> Carrie Underwood's active support for HSUS. And HSUS knows it.
>
> Underwood and American Idol have already listed HSUS as a beneficiary
> of the proceeds of one of her songs and now HSUS is enlisting their
> radical animal rights supporters to vote for her in the Entertainer of
> the Year contest. But they are trying to keep it quiet. In an e-mail
> sent out to supporters by Kathy Bauch, the HSUS Senior Director for
> Corporate Relations & Promotions, she asked people to vote for
> Underwood, but added, "Feel free to distribute this to friends and
> family, but please don't post to lists, twitter, etc.--anything that
> would identify that HSUS is urging people to vote for her, or it could
> just breathe life into the opposition."
>
> Oops, too late!
>
> Perhaps someone should tell the folks at HSUS that e-mails are not
> exactly the most secure way of communicating their "secret" agendas.
>
> Country music fans who do not appreciate Underwood's support for HSUS
> should go to http://www.cbs.com/specials/acma/vote/ and vote for an
> entertainer who shares their values and supports America's hunting
> heritage.
> Subject: Sportsmen urge Carrie Underwood to sever ties with HSUS (2 items)
>
> U.S. Sportsmen Alliance
> Block Anti’s from Cashing In on American Idol Tune
> Plea Sent to Carrie Underwood’s Management and Head of Sony Music
> 3/18/09
> http://www.ussportsmen.org/Page.aspx?pid=1945
>
> The USSA continues to work to stop the nation’s leading anti-hunting
> organization from dipping into the pockets of country music fans who
> happen to be hunters, anglers, and trappers.
>
> As reported previously
> , Carrie Underwood’s
> song, “Home Sweet Home,” is played as the farewell song on each
> episode the hit show, American Idol. A portion of sales of the song
> are being forward to the virulently anti-hunting Humane Society of the
> United States (HSUS).
>
> The USSA is working to stop the promotion as a way to blunt the HSUS’s
> ceaseless attacks on sportsmen’s rights.
>
> On March 18, the USSA sent letters to Carrie Underwood’s management
> company, 19 Management
> , and the head of the
> Sony Music Corporation
> that runs her record label, Sony Nashville. The letters outline the
> real agenda of the HSUS. They also express the outrage felt by the
> USSA and many thousands of sportsmen nationwide over donations to the
> HSUS from the proceeds of Underwood’s latest song while urging the
> financial relationship end.
>
> The USSA will report immediately upon the response from 19 Management
> and Sony Music Corp.
>
> The USSA thanks the thousands of sportsmen made phone calls and sent
> faxes and e-mails to Fox Broadcasting urging them to not give the song
> a national platform to drive its sales. Though Fox and American Idol
> have declined to stop using the song during the show’s telecast,
> sportsmen should keep bringing the heat.
>
> Companies such as Iams, General Mills, Accor Hotels, Sears, and Ace
> Hardware ended relationships with HSUS after thousands of sportsmen
> levied strong protest.
> --------------------------------------------
> National Rifle Association
> HSUS Tries To Slip One Past Country Fans
> Friday, March 20, 2009
> http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=4627
>
> The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the most radical
> animal "rights" and anti-hunting organization in the country, has been
> quietly trying to get Carrie Underwood voted Entertainer of the Year
> via the Academy of Country Music. The problem is, a large percentage
> of country music fans are also gun owners and hunters who do not like
> Carrie Underwood's active support for HSUS. And HSUS knows it.
>
> Underwood and American Idol have already listed HSUS as a beneficiary
> of the proceeds of one of her songs and now HSUS is enlisting their
> radical animal rights supporters to vote for her in the Entertainer of
> the Year contest. But they are trying to keep it quiet. In an e-mail
> sent out to supporters by Kathy Bauch, the HSUS Senior Director for
> Corporate Relations & Promotions, she asked people to vote for
> Underwood, but added, "Feel free to distribute this to friends and
> family, but please don't post to lists, twitter, etc.--anything that
> would identify that HSUS is urging people to vote for her, or it could
> just breathe life into the opposition."
>
> Oops, too late!
>
> Perhaps someone should tell the folks at HSUS that e-mails are not
> exactly the most secure way of communicating their "secret" agendas.
>
> Country music fans who do not appreciate Underwood's support for HSUS
> should go to http://www.cbs.com/specials/acma/vote/ and vote for an
> entertainer who shares their values and supports America's hunting
> heritage.
OK I know there are bigger trapping boots than this. 