The Republican Party has launched an unusual new fundraising drive in order to finance efforts to get President Bush’s message past what they describe as “the liberal media filter.” On Wednesday Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman sent a fund-raising email that read “The president has great goals for our country: a growing economy, strong homeland and national defense, tort and Social Security reform and affordable health care. But we need your help to get the president’s message past the liberal media filter and directly to the American people.”