[Sabertooth]

Let me ask you something... Which is more of a scandal, that the Democrats are using talking points to advance their agenda, or that the Republicans haven't made effective use of talking points in the last eight-plus years?

[PhiKapMom]

The problem with the RAT Talking Points is that they are mostly lies! I have seen some of them. Truth and their talking points are not friends.

I don't think the GOP has done a good job at all of getting our talking points to the public for everyone to use. I get email of fact sheets to use in defending the President on a wide variety of issues but they need wide distribution.

That's why we post RNC Research articles and started Countdown to Victory '04 for the grassroots. It allows some of that information to get publicized.

Believe that RNC has taken giant leaps forward in the last few years. In 2000, I was part of a group asking the RNC Reps to oust Nicholson during the primaries. I refused to give them any money in 2000 and donated direct to the campaign because I thought they were so bad.

Give you an example -- we put up a thread on here about suggestions for campaign ads for Bush-Cheney because the ones they had were rotten and if you saw the ones that didn't make it -- they were even worse. I sent almost 100 pages of suggestions to Bush-Cheney in Austin and to RNC. Received the nicest letter back from Austin which I shared on here and received zero, zip, nada from RNC.

Now RNC is catching up! And I will guarantee you that the new site for Bush-Cheney -- the permanent one that will be launched shortly will have all kinds of information for us to use to spread the message. 2004 is going to be a whole lot different and you can take that to the bank.

[Neets]

Hi Toots...you raise an excellent point ST!!

I have alway gone on record as saying that the Pubs do not do enough to further their agenda..

Politics is a dirty occupation...not for the weak kneed...not for the meek or timid...the Pubs need to shout their TALKING POINTS-COUNTER TALKING POINTS from the highest mountain...and stop pussy footing around, acting all scardey cat about wearing the "BIG MEANIE" sign.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Eight years? Sabertooth, the GOP has been trying to get its message out through the mainstream press for decades. Think Uncle Walter and Vietnam.

 

I learned during Florida elections 2000 and 2002 - trying to get our message out to the people through the Florida press - that the mainstream press is in league with the DNC. It was surreal. Gannett, owner of many Fla. "hometown" papers and local TV news outlets, and AP Florida regularly printed unverified accusations (lies), and DNC opinion as 'news' while ignoring postive, verifiable records of achievement, press releases, endorsements from the right - and pulling stunts like this: Prowler Nails the DNC: AP Runs Fake McBride Poll.

Florida Freepers, after banging our collective heads against the wall re. the Florida DNC press, sent news to friends and sympathetic (non-socialist) groups in Florida over the internet - through FR, e-mails. It worked.

A poster pre-election 2002 summed up the GOP problem with the press: Tom Delay was on the radio down here in Houston last Friday. He said that the Republicans are blue in their collective faces trying to get stories like this out to the public. The Washington press corp refuses to publish one wit about such things like this story exposing Terry McAuliffe.

      “You will never get that TV show. [crowd laughter] You'll never, ever going to get the Republican TV show. The Writers Guild of America, my union, is at a minimum, 99 percent leftist liberal and, like me, socialist. [crowd laughter] And we don't know how to write it. We don't.” Lawrence O'Donnell, creator and Executive Producer of NBC's short-lived Mr. Sterling. MRC, May '03

 

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"The press has become the greatest power within the western countries,
more powerful than the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary.
One would then ask: By what law has it been elected
and to whom is it responsible?"  -  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 

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"The time is long overdue to stop taking the media, as well as the U.N., so seriously."

   ~ Thomas Sowell, The media and the war, April 10, 2003  

 

 

Meanwhile, thank goodness for FR!