62 newspapers suckered into running RW astroturf letters

[quaoar]

http://www.inopinion.com/features/?itemid=748

Our friends at Focus on the Family send this note of self-congrats on their recent astroturfing bonanza:

"From: Schneeberger, Gary"
Subject: Thought you'd be interested ...
To: [e-mail]

... in the fact that we've been able to track letters from our latest
effort in 62 papers -- two of which ran more than one -- for a total
combined circulation of 4.2 million. Largest circulation: 298,456.
Smallest, 1,931.

What's great about that is that 64 people have had the chance to share
their views on an important issue with their neighbors. We're proud that
we were able to help them do so.

Gary

[w8liftinglady]

1. it's ok ..we can beat them at their own game...my local paper printed mine

It's up to you to write the same papers over and over.They will eventually print your letters...my paper's circulation is 65% republican.




http://thedailylight.com/articles/2006/06/06/dailylight/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/01-06_06-letters.txt

To the Editor,

The President’s latest call for a Constitutional amendment protecting “the sanctity of marriage” is a thinly-veiled attempt to mobilize his rapidly declining base. Are Republicans so easily led? Let’s think of the things that might be a little more important. We are in a war based on lies that is spiraling into another Vietnam. My son did three tours in Iraq, and I have seen first-hand the tragedy of this war. There are rumors of war with Iran — with our troops already stretched too thin. The federal deficit has reached limits never conceived by economists ... $7 trillion of DEBT ... and climbing. The upper one percent of us received a large tax break, while our country spirals deeper into debt. Forty-five million Americans have no health or dental insurance. As a nurse, I have seen the byproducts of people who wait until something is really wrong before they see a doctor.

Global warming threatens our planet, and our Republican-led congress is trying desperately to pass the “Clean Skies Act,” which will increase the level of emissions that manufacturing companies and refineries can produce. We are sacrificing our Constitutional right to privacy courtesy of the NSA, and Mr. and Mrs. America thinks it doesn’t affect them. We have a huge trade deficit, and most of our major corporations have offshore accounts, so they don’t have to pay American taxes. But, enough of that. Let’s focus on two guys who want to marry each other. That’s SO much more important.

[Doctor_J]

2. Suckered?

They print every piece of Puke propaganda that arrives.

[Blue_Tires]

3. been going on for awhile

i still remember the letter from the soldier stressing how well things are going in iraq, and how the media never reports any of the good news--that ran in a bunch of papers as well