Today is "Flood the Zone Friday" -- Get Active Against Leftist Trolls Now!

Flood the Zone Fridays ^

[Marcus Alonzo Hanna]

As we speak, left-wing protesters are busy hammering the new Bush Action Center site and using it to write anti-Bush letters to the editor. Are we Freepers going to let this stand and let the Left dominate online activism? No way!

Fight back by writing your own letter to the editor right now

Start by cutting and pasting the trolls' talking points bolded below into the letter and alerting your local papers in big bold lettering that any letter they receive that sounds like this is nothing more than a coordinated astroturf spam campaign. And remind people that these people have a history of harrassing editors and reporters who don't tow their line.

Webmasters & Bloggers! Go here to copy and paste the code for a ZIP code lookup for your site that takes you directly to write a letter.

Let's go!

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"Flood the Zone" Friday is Here

Posted by Ezra Klein

Well, we're rapidly approaching "Flood the Zone" Friday, and, as promised, here's all the information needed to make your letters powerful, persuasive, and printable.

How to write a good letter to the editor

First, let's go over some information on how to write a good letter to the editor. The biggest thing is don't be insulting, don't collapse into partisan hysteria. Be calm and factual -- your viewpoint is right, you don't have to scream. Remember, the people who are going to be reading these are not the Freepers or the webmasters at Bush's website -- they are reporters and ombudsmen.

Second, keep it short, 250 words or so. No one is going to print your manifesto, and we want these letters printed.

Third, include your information. Newspapers won't print unless they can confirm that you're real -- put in your whole name, address, telephone number, city and state.

Follow all that and we should be good.

Talking Points

Now, on to the meat. Tomorrow is Fiscal Irresponsibility Friday, so we're going to be highlighting the incredible fiscal mismanagement of the Bush Administration -- it's his record, we're merely publicizing it. You shouldn't try and get all the points below into your letter, just choose three or so, and just make sure it flows well.

• George Bush has presided over the first job-losing presidency since Herbert Hoover. During his tenure, we have lost more than 3 million jobs. However, George Bush clearly doesn't see this as much of a problem because, when given the opportunity to create about 75 new jobs, he outsourced them to India.

• The projected deficit for this year is upwards of $455 billion (source: OMB). Remember the surpluses we had under Clinton? The Cato Institute, hardly a liberal outfit, calls George Bush "the mother of all big spenders". In fact, George W. Bush's father said that "there is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money". Why hasn't his son listened?

• The unemployment rate has passed 6%, with 8.8 million Americans out of work. To compare, under Bush, the economy has lost an average of 69,000 jobs a month. Under Clinton, the economy gained an average of 239,000 jobs per month. Which record do you prefer?

• The Fed has begun wondering about deflation, something not spoken of since the Great Depression.

• Bush has done nothing to help the situation. His tax cuts have so bankrupted the Government that long term interest rates went up 1% since June, a shift to be expected when record deficits are being run, but one that is unwanted in a recovery.

• Further, his Tax Cuts, which have been packaged as stimulative, do nothing to help the economy in the short term. They are set to kick in primarily in the future, and they target the wealthy and those with stocks, the classes of people least likely to quickly spend the money.

• The States are running record deficits. In normal times, the Federal Government would aid them, but this time, only an emergency $20 billion (to be distributed among all 50) was included in the budget, and only because the Democrats insisted on it.

How do you send?

After your masterpieces are complete, mosey on over to George Bush's Action Center. At the top, you'll be asked to put in your zip code. Do so. Click "Get Info", and a list of newspapers in your area will appear. Choose one (there's enough people we don't need everyone to hit all of them) newspaper (keep in mind that we don't just want our letters in the biggest newspapers so think about picking a smaller paper) , then scroll down, put your letter and all your information in (remember to put ALL the information we mentioned above in the body of the letter or many newspapers will not print it), scroll down and hit "Send Now". You're done!

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BTTT

[oyez]

Apportez-le dessus, vous des pukes de commie!

[ozzysmom]

Well it looks like our local "liberal" newspaper was hit today with a letter from one of these trolls. Unfortunately most readers will take all this garbage as gospel truth...between this crap and Molly Irvins, it's no wonder they only elect democrats in our area of Texas and of course, the one republican elected to office is the traitor Ratliff. AND the other day our paper carried a story on the front page about his threatening to resign because of the way his peers were behaving...give me a break...makes me long for my former home state (Louisiana)...at least we knew which rock our politicians rolled out from under...I did send a letter to the editor to alert them about this but of course my letter was not printed...and I won't hold my breath hoping that it will be printed tomorrow or the next day or the day after...

[rockfish59]

Oui Oui.....I think! =^)