In an effort to get some MAJOR media coverage for our Beverly Hilton FReep, here is an e-mail that I just sent to Mike Ramirez, cartoonist extraordinaire with the L.A. Times:
Hi, Mike - I love your "Gray Davis as a prostitute" cartoon from August 20, and would like your help to PROMOTE IT - through your high-powered connections in the media.In fact, I love your work so much that I am bringing it to life - LIVE, in person - outside the Beverly Hilton on TUESDAY, September 17 - from noon to 2 pm - as part of a demonstration against Gray Davis, just before the gubernatorial debate between Bill Simon and the Green Party candidate Peter Camejo.
(This debate will kick off an "alternative media" EXPO sponsored by New California Media, featuring NBC-4 anchor Beverly White as the MC on opening night.)In a CLASSIC case of "life imitating art," I will be wearing Halloween costume to simulate your masterful creation. (Just like the "Pageant of the Masters" in Laguna!)
Dressed as "Frank N. Furter," the transvestite from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, with a rubber mask of the cartoon character "Beavis" (of Beavis and Butthead fame). I will look REMARKABLY like the money-grubbing Gray Davis your cartoon, complete with a bright red turkey-feather boa, and massive wads of jumbo stage money stuffed into my purse and garter belts, carrying a sign that says, "Will work for... BRIBES!"
For a review of how this protest came about, check out the thread that I posted on the conservative news forum, FreeRepublic.com:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/742953/posts(Your cartoon forms the core of our overall "DumpDAVIS" strategy, discussed throughout the thread, but the part about the Beverly Hilton protest starts at post #92.)
I would be HONORED if you could attend our event in person, but at minimum perhaps you could pull a few strings, and get us some media coverage - with your considerable talent as a successful conservative operating - with impunity? - in the belly of the liberal media beast, as it were. :o)
I am copying Beverly White's staff on this e-mail, as she is certainly welcome to visit us - on camera, or off - prior executing her duties as Mistress of Ceremonies. We should provide considerable "local color" for her monologue, representing as we do, FReepers from the Internet home of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, temporarily joining forces with the enviro-wackos of the always-interesting Green Party - to attack our common enemy, Gray Davis.
The Governor disdains to appear in public with a Green Party representative, but he may send his union thugs to attempt to break up our "DumpDAVIS" rally.This will be "MUST SEE TV" - and it all started from a powerful image created by... Mike Ramirez, of the Los Angeles Times.
Thank you,
RonDog
(I gave him my REAL name, address and telephone number.)