In a message dated 5/28/2005 7:23:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
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From: cj4books
To:
[email protected] Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 10:35 AM
Subject:
ALERT: Downing Street... ON C-SPAN THIS AM
Someone called Washington Journal this morning and asked Peter, the host, if he was familiar with the Downing Street memo. Peter, said he hadn't heard about it (HMMMMM). The caller went on to discuss the memo briefly, then Peter asked where he got the information. The caller mentioned the bried news articles then said he read most of it on the Internet.
Peter then asked him which website he had read it on. The caller didn't mention any... Peter then said that there have been several calls lately and that he thinks this is being orchestrated by "some website" and that the calls were somehow being staged.
The next person that said the words "Downing Street" was cut off.... Peter hung up on her and they moved on to the next caller. She made a quick comment pertinent to the original question, then said, "and let me tell you about the Downing Street Memo..." CLICK! Then he quickly said "we are going to move on". WTF?!?
[email protected] journal @ c-span dot org
SOMEONE is desperate to discredit this story... Maybe C-Span is trying to play up this "organized call-in" scenario to help feed false info to the many who watch C-Span but aren't connected to the internet.
AND WHO CARES IF IT'S ORCHESTRATED? IT'S ALL OVER THE INTERNET AND UNBELIEVABLY IMPORTANT... THEY JUST DON'T SEEM CARE.
One only has to view some of the names on the full list of people who make up the Board of Directors for C-Span to understand what they have become. Altough, I still tend to watch C-Span over all the other options.
*** TODAY *** send your e-mails and calls C-SPAN...
CC your message to other media news outlets.
[email protected]
Here's an email sent to Washington Journal forwarded to me from a friend:
Your host this morning said that C-Span has received several calls talking about the Downing Street memo and wonder if there is an "organized" effort in calling in to C-Span and asking about this. There doesn't need to be any organized effort - it is all over the internet. If you guys truly, TRULY are unaware of this memo then a
simple Google search will turn up over 300,000 hits to further your education. (So either the hosts are truly uninformed or at the very least not possessing any journalistic inquisitiveness, which calls into question their ability to host such a program, or they are deliberately skirting this issue which begs the question, why?) This memo shows there was a concerted effort to skew facts, figures and information to get the US and England into a war with Iraq. The American people deserve to know what exactly has occurred. For the life of me I can not imagine one reason why C-Span continues to stonewall any discussion of this item.
Memorial Day is coming up, there will be plenty of programs and shows honoring our military dead. How about really honoring their memory by uncovering any lies that might have lead to their untimely and unnecessary death? We will never know the truth if the media - including C-Span - doesn't cover it.
The Downing Street memo is huge news and you would be doing your viewers a service if you would have someone on your program to discuss this information. To get you started, so you will know this story has "legs" - here is the memo -
http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/memo.html
DO YOUR JOB.
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OR send something like this
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So, Peter,
You say you know nothing about the Downing Street memo? Well here
are a few resourses from US sources to cue you in.
<<insert several links here>>
Your behavior this morning on Wash Journal was disgusting!!
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Heard today you do not know about the Downing Street Memo. FYI
News articles:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0517/dailyUpdate.html
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8709.ht...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/20/politics/20weapons.ht...
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/1714145.php
TeeVee:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/16/iraq.memo
Political Actions:
http://www.conyersblog.us/archives/00000085.htm
http://www.democrats.com/book/print/4749
The Text:
www.downingstreetmemo.com/memo.html
Sincerely,
XXX