So What Are We Going to Do About the Debates and Their "Spin"

[PopSixSquish]

Let's face it. Even if W shows up drunk and takes a header into the first row, our "esteemed" media is going to say that he beat Senator Kerry. They're going to repeat it until the cows come home.

So rather than refight the primaries here in GD2004 or do the "Kerry's Campaign Sucks" two-step, why don't we spend some time figuring out how we can help with the post-debate spin.

Stuff like letters to the editor, voting in online polls. radio/TV show call-ins, stuff like that.

Any suggestions?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Get talking points from what is said

Quote Kerry and back it up with facts.

[luaneryder]

2. The debates will seal *'s doom. I have no doubt.

[PopSixSquish]

3. I'd Like to Think That Too

but I remember 2000.

[Union Thug]

4. Kerry needs to be aggressive with Chimpy...

...and frustrate him. A couple of remarks about his good buddy Kenny boy Lay should have lil' george stomping off away from the podium.

[oasis]

5. That is true. No Bush advantage of "low expectations". Chimpy will

float in from his triumphant appearance at the Repub convention.

[Lefty48197]

6. Letters to the editor are very important

Perhaps we should all pledge to write one letter per day? With the abundance of local newspapers around these days, there should always be another one available to write to. We can even write to USA TOday, or to newspapers from large cities all across the country.

Even more important would be influencing the tv news media. I'm not sure what the secret to that is. Bombarding the show hosts with letters demanding that they cover certain topics MIGHT help get those topics some air time. That's how the righties dominate TV news coverage.

[Paradise]

7. One good line directed at * by Kerry, said with humor, of course,

should seal the deal for Kerry! Kerry's got the goods on everything else *. imho.

[Dr Fate]

8. Repeat the Meme that that Bush is expected to win the debates...

After all the media insists he "won" every debate he's ever had, right?

And Bush has "grown" so much after 9/11, he is surely to be even better this time, right?

SO- it is Kerry who now has the soft biggotry of low expectations against him.

It is KERRY who wins the debate by merely having the guts to face Bush's home-spun brilliance. Right?