Where did you find this? It is golden!!
Moon Griffon had it posted on his website and talked about it on his radio show. Here's an article about it.
http://www.businessreport.com/newsDetail.cfm?aid=6670
Web site of deceit
By John Maginnis , Columnist
08.31.05 -
Not only does the governor have a black mold problem in the Mansion, causing her to live in a rented house for the summer, but her offices in the State Capitol appear to have a plumbing problem, following the embarrassing leak of a confidential memo on how to deal with partisan opposition.
The memo was sent to the governor's communications director Bob Mann by his friend and former journalist John Copes, who refers to their conversations about "the most serious problem Democrats in Louisiana now face." According to the memo, that would be a "right-wing destruction machine" consisting of a Republican Party "that becomes more organized, more belligerent and more nakedly partisan by the day" coupled with "daily message-peddling by GOP surrogates" in the mainstream media, talk radio and Internet web sites.
The writer recommends that Democrats develop "an offensive capability of our own" and "a much more agile and effective defense" through a web site that would rally the troops and return fire on opponents.
Up to this point, the memo makes perfect sense, recommending a communications strategy no more pernicious than that deployed by both national parties.
But then the memo heads for the deep end by exploring how to conceal the web site's source, including "to masquerade as some sort of anonymous non-partisan do-gooder group." Though the writer doubts such a ploy would "pass the smell test," he sees the need "to come up with some kind of story about who's doing the site and why" without identifying the state's top Democrats behind it.
While state officials wrote none of the above words, the memo refers to frequent if not-so-recent discussions with the governor's communications director about how to deal with the administration's critics.
Some of those critics on talk radio and the Internet blasted the administration's consideration of the web site project, however nascent, as deceitful and chilling. How much the administration even entertained the idea is unknown, though you can be sure that any discussion of it on the Fourth Floor now is strictly verboten.
That's too bad for the administration; distancing itself from the memo does not deal with the problem of a lack of an effective offense or defense in dealing with its critics. The question raised in the missive, "So what are we going to do about it?" goes unanswered.
Of course, the best way for the governor to foil her critics is to not fuel them with her bad decisions, such as trying to quadruple the tax on cigarettes in order to raise teacher pay in the face of $360 million in newly recognized revenue. There was a different way she could have achieved the same end that would have provided less ammunition for the Republicans.
As for the Republicans, why shouldn't they be "nakedly partisan," as opposed to Democrats masquerading as non-partisan do-gooders? Maybe it's time for the Democrats to get naked and act like the party in power.
The memo is right on when it speaks of the need for an informative, entertaining web site that comments on the news of the day, promotes the good deeds of Democratic officials and takes on the opposition by "correcting the calumnies hurled against us" or "sometimes we just poke fun."
There is no better bunch to handle such a project than the Louisiana Democratic Party, whose current Internet offering needs both some serious work and to not take itself so seriously. Perhaps our centrist governor doesn't want to be too upfront about being, you know, a Democrat. But she either defines herself as such or the Republicans will do it for her in time for the next legislative session and her next election.
If the Democrats ever present such a hip, informative, entertaining web site, the Republicans just might respond in kind. Imagine, a competition of ideas and wits for the hearts and minds of an electorate that, judging by recent voter turnout, badly needs to be engaged. That's no chill running down my spine, it's a tingle