Should the DU send both Al and Janeane a computer?

[symbolman]

This is pasted from another thread (Captain Midnight calling Al Franken out) but I thought it may deserve a thread of it's own --

Apparently, according to some people it seems that Al Franken doesn't use a computer!

Maybe we (DU'Rs) can take up a collection and send both Al and Janeane a computer? (Then we can act as a 40,000 person investigative team and create an INSTANT Fact ATTACK Squad for them)

Seriously, from DU with love -- I've talked to Janeane (thanks to for the Intro Capt'n - is her email still the same?) and asked her if she'd actually Seen my animations and she answered quite honestly that she hadn't, that she's a neo-Luddite, etc..

I appreciate her honesty - anyone else would have lied to make me feel better, but she told me the truth and I value that more than anything in the world.. not to mention she has been a HUGE supporter of our site, especially while we had Michael Savage and TRN after us with that stupid lawsuit--

We love all the Air America folks - hell, we even featured Randi Rhodes on our first web page and pushed HARD for her syndication from the start..

BUt I know that Randi is computer savvy so that's no problem..

What IF we DID get a collection together and sent both Al and Janenane computers capable of running the latest software, video, etc as a GIFT FROM THE DU?

Worth it's weight in advertising and word of mouth on the air, eh?

thanks for all you do Captain Midnight and others here who are so on the ball -- what a resource we all are, eh?

symbolman

[Dookus]

1. I gotta imagine Al (and Janeane)

could well afford their own computers - IF THEY WANTED ONE. That's the key. If Franken doesn't want to use one, it's not because he simply doesn't have access to one.

Maybe we should send them "Computers for Dummies" instead :)

[TheBlob]

5. I think the point is the message that it would send

It's a pipe dream, but the idea of thousands of people on the Net sending a computer to someone who is so much better off financially than those who actually sent the computer is a HUGE message.

It says:

This is important to us!
Get your ass on the ball!

[symbolman]

6. Right you are Blob!

it's called shaming them into it - since they are nice people, it won't be too hard to do :)

They need to realize the gestalt we represent, DU is more powerful than even the denizens may realise..

[LittleApple81]

2. do they have connections at the radio station? Randi Rhodes

describes hers as a real hell hole.

[Stephanie]

3. I am in NYC - I volunteer to give them lessons and a tour around the web

I will sit with them until they are comfortable surfing, and I will give them a tour of the most important sites on the web and some good bookmarks. Any time!!

[supernova]

4. Staff could be plugged into DU during the show

I don't know that Al and Janeane have to be plugged in if they don't want to be, but someone in the studio could be plugged in and we could have coordinated participation between the show and DU.

If they would be interested in something like that. And of course we could offer to do research for them