Bush`s AWOL ScandalLet's Break Through the Media Barrier
* Write a letter-to-the-editor of our local newspaper, urging coverage of the updated revelations about Bush's not completing his required military service during the Vietnam War. (They are devoting so much time and energy running the GOP-financed Smear Boat accusations against Kerry, they could at least balance things out by focusing on Bush's AWOL problem.)
* Write letters to the editors of the major mainstream newspapers and TV networks -- New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, 60 Minutes, et al. -- urging them to pick up the ball on this AWOL issue, citing Paul Lukasiak's new research and conclusions.
* Contact progressive organizations such as MoveOn.org and demand that they make this a priority issue. MoveOn, for example, if they chose to do so, could contact their two million email members and urge them to start pressuring the media outlets to cover this story, or could take out large ads bringing the issue to the forefront of the election campaign. (Just recently, MoveOn did an online voter-registration pitch, and raised more than a million dollars in one day.)
* Contact your elected representatives and demand a full-scale investigation into the AWOL coverup. Official military records were fiddled with and/or destroyed, and someone must be held accountable.
* Contact bloggers and progressive website editors and urge them to jump on the story and urge their readers to contact CNN and MSNBC and the major newspapers and networks; if the bloggers and progressive website would do so, it would help build the public pressure on maintream networks and newspapers to pick up the story.
* Contact the KerryEdwards campaign and urge them to step out even more on the AWOL issue. They've successfully made the case that Kerry served our country honorably -- even volunteering to do so -- and now they need to pound home the contrast between Kerry and George W. Bush on this issue.