Action Alert: Bringing out Clinton Faux Scandal to Cover mess...

[lala_rawraw]

I am watching the pundits making rounds pointing to Clinton as the most corrupt, bribed, blah blah official. It is getting legs. Time to do some work people.

Action Items

1). Dig into funding of this, including those spreading it... who do they represent, work for, etc.

2). Email your elected officials and warn them that the smoke and mirror Clinton attack is coming hard to shut up filibuster, Delay, and all sorts of scandals.

3). Call Republicans and ask them to refrain from this unethical behavior.

4). Print, copy, and get out as much news (truth, not rumor) as you can about Delay, Zeller, Hannity, etc.

No joke, all day I see this making the rounds from C-span, etc.

[leveymg]

1. Give us something with some meat on it to chew on.

Grrr!:mad:

[DURHAM D]

2. If you want to understand how this disinformation process

works for the repugs just read this month's Vanity Fair article by Kennedy. It explains that about 80 White House, RNC, lobbyists, staffers and faux journalists meet once a week (can't remember if it is Wednesday or Thursday morning) to solidify that week's talking points and what contrived verbage to use so they will all be on the same page.

Frank Luntz must have told them to blame Clinton starting today.

[lala_rawraw]

3. Right and they started it last night...

It is exactly talking points from the payola crowd making the rounds. I don't want to talk about the crap they are spreading, because I don't want to add to the BS. So, I would rather focus on strategy here.

Then Hannity, then NewsMax stepped in and now MSNBC.

[DURHAM D]

4. I think the major media (TV) players should all receive an

e-mail asking if they attended (or sent a representative) to this weeks "Disinformation Meeting". The article indicated that Novak does not go in person but sends a rep? I have been wondering recently if someone from C-Span has started to attend.

IMO it is not just payola (indicating quick monetary gain) but corporate greed (control)of the government that they are all about.

I actually worry about all these white men who have a need to be uber-bullies. I am certain that repug=bully=sexually deficient=need to inflict pain=repug. Can't we just get them some meds so they will leave us normal citizens alone.

[lala_rawraw]

7. I tell you that the only answer is to

Cancel all publications (outside of real news, mother jones, the nation, etc.), turn off all news shows and send mass letters to sponsors saying we are done with your products. Brainwashing is not an American value.

[underpants]

6. Meeting at Grover Norquist's office Wednesday mornings

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8423-2004Jan11?language=printer
Norquist, 47, is known for his weekly strategy sessions of conservatives, a Washington institution. But quietly, for the past five years, he also has been building a network of "mini-Grover" franchises. He has crisscrossed the country, hand-picking leaders, organizing meetings of right-wing advocates in 37 states. The network will meet its first test in the presidential race. On this evening at Harry's, several blocks from campaign headquarters in Arlington, Norquist presented his master contact list to Mehlman, mapped out and bound in a book.



They gather every Wednesday morning in a boardroom of Americans for Tax Reform. Norquist is president of the anti-tax group. The shades are down, the lights are weak, yet an incandescent assuredness infuses the room. A hundred and twenty people mill around, eating bagels, distributing talking points, exchanging business cards and tips. They are lobbyists, analysts, senior White House and Hill staffers, advocates for property rights, gun ownership and traditional values. There are never enough chairs. The air is as warm as a hatchery.

[Catherine Vincent]

5. That figures. I guess their "Tom Delay is an effective leader" crapola

isn't working.

[lala_rawraw]

9. Ah, something to print, copy, and leave... everywhere

We need to stop paying them for their services via turning all of them off and all of their sponsors off. I don't care if I have to eat wood to avoid going to a grocery chain that supports this, I will eat it. I am so done with every news outlet. I read the Vanity Fair piece and I am a bit angry right now.

[NYCGirl]

8. If that's all they have, they're running on empty. NT

[lala_rawraw]

10. Yeah, but they are really good with running on empty n/t

[NYCGirl]

11. Sooner or later (mostly sooner), the car stops. NT