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Telephone Protest Monday & Tuesday July23 and 24.
by xxdr zombiexx
Sun Jul 22, 2007 at 12:54:27 PM PDT
No fancy logos.
No expensive hype.
No steering committee.
Just using the internet to organize a quick but effective protest action to get the attention of Congress and our elected officials.
Please join me after the jump.
Poll
Will you take part in a telephone protest action like this?
Hell YES! Bring it on!
NO. No reason, just no.
Rapid Response
From dKosopedia
Knock down GOP talking points as they happen.
For Rapid Response Projects beyond talking points, see also: Happening Now This Week and the Happening Now Home
2006-07-02: “Iraq is going great! Liberal media reports otherwise”
Over the weekend, 66 Iraqis died in a suicide car bombing in Iraq, which has a population of 26M.
Back in 1993, we lost 168 in the Oklahoma City bombing, when our country had more than 260M people.
To see it through the eyes of an Iraqi, imagine a suicide car bombing five-times worse than Oklahoma City here in the United States.
Or don’t...forget Iraq, it’s 7000 miles away from your backyard BBQ this July 4th weekend. Everything is fine, young Republican, except for the liberal Press. It’s all a ‘misperception’.
2006-06-30: WTF...Flag Burning Again?!
It’s hard not to notice that the conservative establishment seems to be having a bit of freak-out over progressive activists and bloggers getting together for the YearlyKos convention next month.
think Kristol and O’Reilly doth protest too much. By blasting the online progressive community to this extent, they’re actually making an implicit argument that this is a political force they find worrisome. Given their worldview, I think that’s a good thing.
And, finally, if Kristol wants to play the guilt-by-association game, and argue that political figures should distance themselves from those the establishment finds too extreme, I think the left should gladly engage in the debate.
I realize this is a point I feel compelled to make from time to time, but it simply amazes me that there are two distinct standards for political associations. High-profile Democrats are supposed to keep their distance from anyone who dares to say anything intemperate, but Republicans have no qualms about maintaining close professional ties to some of the most vitriolic, hate-filled voices in our public discourse.
Indeed, Rush Limbaugh, shortly after he publicly mocked a man for having Parkinson’s (LIAR!), was invited to the White House for a private audience with the president.
It’s just plan fear. Plus it’s reached the point where they have gotten so behind the times and so out of touch with the American people that they are becoming marginal crackpots. We’re watching the conservative side of the MSM go to nutjob land and self destruct.
Comment by Glen — 7/22/2007 @ 1:14 pm
It’s too late for them to try ignoring the liberal blogosphere; with major candidates coming to blog events, liberal blogs have broken through and are becoming more and more known. Shifting over to attacking them is all they can do, because, as Dukakis found out, you can’t ignore your enemies.
Comment by jimBOB — 7/22/2007 @ 1:45 pm
Yes, I’ve said it before, and I’ll keep saying it, Billy Kristol is such a good, friendly fascist. It is his ideology to deny open debate, and to try to control the message. It is his ideology that dictates he use incendiary language to paint even the most reasonable opposition to his master narrative as what it is not. It is his ideology to destroy democracy in order to save it. And, it is he who was born with privilege, and cannot now understand the spirit of democracy. As one result, he is continually wrong in his interpretations of the reality based community. He simply does not have the skills-set to accept he has been wrong for so long. -Kevo
Comment by kevo — 7/22/2007 @ 3:23 pm
I thought the only person who could win any argument about anything by invoking the dirty L word was Rush Limbaugh?
Now you tell me some pooh-bah named Kristol has this magic power too?
This is impressively cerebral stuff…
I have a feeling this Kristol fellow is going to make some noise in the world… Comment by ROTFLMLiberalAO — 7/22/2007 @ 3:58 pm
All Juan can do is quote polls. I never hear him actually use any news sources other than the polls - “the american people feel we’re losing...” etc., etc. All that tells me is that the American people have been poorly educated. At least Brit finally got to say something about Juan’s continued insistence on ignoring any actual news reports.
Not because Juan is such a towering intelligent commentator or has "Rush" like insight on the political landscape.
Juan hasn't had an original thought in years, he simply is a product of his political handlers.
There is a reason he is pushing this concept of "Kos" being center, my guess the Clinton's have their filthy hands in on this for some reason yet to be unfolded
Juan was in rare form today even for his normal liberal self. If there was a spin against the GOP, Bush or Iraq, he trotted it out as though it were an undisputed fact and everyone else was on LSD if they didn’t instantly agree.
I guess the Dimocrat Party can just dissolve the DLC since they are no longer relevant. Boy, won’t this be a shock to Hillary! after the primary is over and she has to go back to playing a ‘centrist’ on TV.
It is constantly amazing to me that the Left just doesn’t want to do even the slightest thing to win in Iraq. They seem willing to do anything short of shooting our soldiers themselves to ensure we are defeated.