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OpSomBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 06:03 PM
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Bush Website Sheeple-Friendly Online Tools...
Have you guys seen this?

http://www.georgewbush.com/Economy/WriteNewspapers.aspx?AgendaID=2

It's a utility on the GWB website that allows you to insert pre-written talking points into letters to editors of big newspapers.

I found it to be amusing and scary at the same time. Even the Bush administration acknowledges how braindead their supporters are.
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Amerpie Donating Member (380 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 06:06 PM
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1. Come on
Lefties do this all the time too.

I know we are smarter than sheeple, but organizing a letter writing campaign is tough. I've done it and I know.
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Melinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 06:07 PM
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2. Show me just one Left/Liberal CAMPAIGN site that does this
Edited on Wed May-26-04 06:08 PM by Melinda
Let's see it. BTW, it's called "Astroturfing".
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Amerpie Donating Member (380 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 06:17 PM
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7. ACLU
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Melinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 06:22 PM
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9. Is the ACLU running for Office?
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Amerpie Donating Member (380 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 06:20 PM
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8. Move On
A letter they'll send with your signature

http://www.moveon.org/pac/news/gobig.html
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Melinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 06:24 PM
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10. Is MoveOn running for Office? The OP showed us the BUSH* CAMPAIGN
I asked you for same. Again, please share an official left/liberal candidates CAMPAIGN site that is promoting astroturf letters like the official Bush* campaign site is..
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Amerpie Donating Member (380 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 06:29 PM
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11. Sorry
Your point was as lost on me as mine was on you.
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Melinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 06:53 PM
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12. Let's try again. Candidate Bush* is astroturfing, right?
Which democratic candidates are astroturfing?
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Melinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 06:10 PM
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4. More on the GOP's Astroturfing campaign:
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 06:14 PM
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6. 500 Emails All Saying The Same Thing...Hmmm
Recently, I visited a friend who runs a website that was bombarded with "nasty emails" about the content (it was political)...he showed me thousands of emails...ALL had the same header, the virtual same content and he could tell they were all generated and referred by the same site.

He did a mass email back complementing the "individual" on their originality and how it made him "see the light". Would you believe he only got two replies back...and one was from a lurker on that site who was curious who reponded...sheesh.

There was a newspaper editor on radio recently that told listeners not even bother to email him with LTTE anymore...he gets too many and many aren't sutable for publication...just syntax and grammar alone. Instead, he only accepts emails from "known readers" (names he's recognized from past LTTEs or are "movers and shakers")...otherwise it's strictly "snail mail"...letters on paper.

He figures if you take all that time, you really do care about the issue, while it's so easy to pop on a computer and do just like what we are...hitting keys and enter. He further went on with a great point...that most of these "spam sites" as he calls them, are more interested in how many emails they send out (the site's "effectiveness") than if it arrives, is read or actually generates a response.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 06:10 PM
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3. should be called...talking points for sheep
i hope no one our side does this.
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drb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 06:13 PM
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5. It would be fun to get four or five hundred people...
...to send EXACTLY the same letter to one specific newspaper.

(Oh, no! Did I type that out loud?) :o
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rppper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 07:22 PM
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13. i have sent this message to 40 newspapers all over florida and georgia
i was having sooooooooo much fun with the GOP handy dandy letter to the editor maker...here it is.......

as a life long democrat i thought it might be fun to screw with the GOP a little...i am always reading these "fact filled" love letters from all of these republicans nationwide in the op/ed sections of many newspapers....funny thing though, they all basicly said the same exact thing with some text changed here and there. lo and behold, what did i find at georgebush.com....a mail producer with all the talking points aranged so you can point and click...as if we didn't already know 99% of republicans are brain dead to begin with, this letter to the editor maker proves it. c'mon my distinguished friends across the isle...think for yourselves for once, before you are assimilated and turned into soylent green....here is my republican letter to the editor....baahaaahaaaa


New job figures and other recent economic data show that America’s economy is strong and getting stronger – and that the President’s jobs and growth plan seems to be working, mainly because we have added nearly a million new wall mart and burger king jobs to the production jobs list. The Labor Department announced that employers added 288,000 new jobs in April, mostly at los angeles burger king, handi-way and el pollo loco's locations. In total, over 1.1 million jobs have been added since August(and nearly 4 million lost since jan01), most of them minimum wage, part time positions with no health care benefits or room to move upward.

President Bush’s pro-growth agenda(for that 1% of americans making a million or more a year...the pioneer donors...), strong education system(if you're a white anglo saxon prodestant), and policies to help indian workers gain the skills to secure good jobs are the right ways to respond to the challenges of our growing and changing economy.

America has a choice: It can continue to throw fat wads of cash into the greedy hands of the elitists, as the President’s policies are doing; or it can raise American families and small businesses out of the grave the pretzeldent and his greedy fascist minions are burrying us in, hurting economic recovery for the million dollar ceo's and future job creations via the haliburton/iraq bloodmoney war for oil.

sincerly
john q. republican
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