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proudtobeadem Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:27 PM
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OK, when is MSM going to really cover this?
Will it be during the recount?
During recount if numbers start to flip?
During recount if they don't flip?
During Arnebeck's lawsuit when he presents the proof?
If Conyers and others challenge the certification?
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:28 PM
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1. Ask them! Call, email, write, visit...
Hold their corporately-owned whore feet to the fire. We've made things like this happen in the past. We can do it now.

NGU.


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Griffy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:42 PM
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20. Attack MSM were it hurts... WALLETS
we need to do what we did to Sinclair... take support from them and boycott their sponsors.
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november3rd Donating Member (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:29 PM
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2. we don't need/want msm
They have missed the boat and alternative media are going to steal their thunder on this one.

Well, at least this way, without msm, the coverage won't doublethink the public into misinterpreting everything that happens
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proudtobeadem Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:30 PM
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4. We do need them to spread the message
most people still don't know, if they did it would be another Ukraine, and that's what we need.
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IAMREALITY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:36 PM
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10. "we don't need/want msm" Now There I Will Surely Disagree
If you look at thread after thread that shows people spending countless hours searching for any, just any tidbit of MSM coverage, and the desperation of when it will break, I think it is CLEAR to see that the majority of us Need them, Want them, are Crying out for them, and are ready to put our heads in our hands for a good cry out of frustration that we have not yet achieved that objective.
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electropop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:30 PM
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3. It's started in a trickle
All we need to do is convince them that Scott Peterson, while on steroids, raped Janet Jackson, and, oh, yeah, STOLE THE ELECTION. They'll be all over it.

Has anybody found any connections between the fraud and any of these things:

(1) Sex
(2) Drugs
(3) Celebrities

If so, please post; it could get a foot in the door.
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proudtobeadem Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:32 PM
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5. That's a good idea!
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:32 PM
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6. Oh, the foot's already in the door. We just need someone to pry it open.
And we're just the ones to do it.

NGU.


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Griffy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:38 PM
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13. We need a media stunt...
Something that is big, safe and unavoidable... like a thousand peple chained together around the ohio statehouse, or the capitol! .. more ideas?
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:42 PM
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21. Convincing a large block of Senators and Congresspeople to challenge...
...Ohio's electors. Let them ignore THAT.

We need to be on the phone to our Reps 24/7 till January 6th.

NGU.


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proudtobeadem Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:46 PM
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22. That's good,but they'd get arrested
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Chimpanzee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 02:15 PM
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28. That would be funny if it weren't true
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proudtobeadem Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:34 PM
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7. Would a protest against the media lockdown help?
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libertypirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:37 PM
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11. I would like to see a memo telling reports not to cover
Edited on Thu Dec-09-04 12:37 PM by libertypirate
Or a tape some reporters record everything
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proudtobeadem Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:41 PM
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19. Maybe an anonymous media whistleblower
That has proof?
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splat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:35 PM
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8. WHEN THERE'S A TRANSCRIPT!
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proudtobeadem Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:37 PM
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12. Transcript of what?
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Pacifist Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:39 PM
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16. I want to know as soon as it's available so I can shoot it off to
the guy I've been bugging at my local paper.
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Griffy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:35 PM
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9. When Kerry says..
"the will of the voter in Ohio was to vote for me", or something like "after all the votes were counted, it appears that I won Ohio" that'll do it. Or if we gather in the streets in large enough numbers !!! PROTEST NOW if you believe in this you should be planning to go to a rally!
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november3rd Donating Member (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:40 PM
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17. protest
i'm with griffy on this one.

we can't wait for the media to tell us what's going on. we need to make it happen.
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ginnyinWI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 04:17 PM
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32. Why not let Kerry decide
when it's the best time to get some real media coverage? All he'll have to do is pick up the phone...if he wanted it, he'd have it already. Let the prosecuter decide, I say.
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:38 PM
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14. when hell freezes over, GET NOTICED W/O THEM
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Pacifist Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:39 PM
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15. I'm banging away at my local paper and starting to
get nibbles from the editorial staff. Remember many regional outlets rely on AP, NYT and WP as their sources. Apparently no one at my local paper bothered to learn anything about the Conyers' forum other than that limp AP story.
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november3rd Donating Member (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:47 PM
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23. maybe we need a coalition campaign
Buses to Blackwell's. How about 100 busloads of protesters -- 2 from every state, descending on Blackwell's office until the recount produces enough evidence to put him away.
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ZRB Donating Member (229 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:41 PM
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18. The mainstream media will cover this when
on Inauguration Day, they suddenly realize that the guy swearing the oath of office bears a striking resemblance to a "former" Democratic Presidential Candidate.
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European Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 03:24 PM
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29. Inauguration Day
I'm thinking that's when the m$m will finally cover this. Bush will be protected by the crooked court system until then. After the 20th he will be saved by a Corrupt Congress. The media will then start digging into the fraud knowing they can't be blamed for impeachment if by some miracle the repukes decided to do so.
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BattyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 12:51 PM
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24. They're not
Edited on Thu Dec-09-04 12:56 PM by BattyDem
And if the certification is challenged, they'll portray Conyers and other Dems as sore losers - they'll be the bad guys.

I just turned my computer on 10 minutes ago and I've already read articles on DU which talk about book banning for both political and social reasons, suppression of any positive portrayal of homosexuality, suppression of political speech on the Internet, and the Bush Administration's support for displaying the Ten Commandments in courthouses. About a half an hour ago, I turned on CSPAN and I caught some forum on religion and social values, in which they were discussing ways to get religion (of course, they don't mean "religion" - they mean Christianity) into the government.

These people are coming out of the woodwork. They're spewing hate and misinformation. They're shredding our Constitution and turning the clock back on science, education, civil rights and social justice.

AND NO ONE IS STOPPING THEM!!!

When DUers and other progressives try to spread the word, we're ridiculed or simply dismissed as "nut cases" - even by friends and family members. The Dems in Congress are powerless to do anything except complain because, as John Conyers said yesterday, the checks and balances in our government are gone. We can't vote the bad guys out of office because the machines are rigged. We can't throw them in jail because the White House controls the Justice Department. Even if we launch a huge protest in Washington, no MSM will cover it (remember the reproductive rights rally?). * shows up in public looking like a dictator in that creepy jacket and no one in the MSM mentions it!

I'm sorry ... I don't mean to sound so negative ... but I'm very upset. It's getting worse everyday. Our basic rights as Americans are being taken away and no one seems to care. The US has turned its back on everything it's supposed to stand for and no one seems to care. Our Constitution has become a meaningless piece of paper and no one seems to care. We've lost our country, and soon our entire way of life, and no one seems to care.

Help me out, guys ... I'm in a really dark place today. :cry: Give me something ... any glimmer of hope is better than nothing.

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Kellis Donating Member (663 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 02:03 PM
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25. THEN MARCH!!
Go to your state capital on the 12th with sign in hand and PROTEST!!
http://www.51capitalmarch.com/
http://www.51capitalmarch.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl

Get your voice heard!Gather up your friends make some signs and GO TO YOUR CAPITAL this Sunday 12th of December and MAKE SOME NOISE!


EMAIL & Write your local and national media and congressmen.Thats what the evangelicals do-they get a group together and make a differnce for THIER cause.THEY get their voices heard because they are persistant and DEMAND they be heard.

WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERNCE!!! Just keep the pressure up and GO MARCH this Sunday!!

http://www.51capitalmarch.com/
http://www.51capitalmarch.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl
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il_lilac Donating Member (756 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 04:08 PM
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30. Show up or
suffer the consequences. This could be our last chance to be heard and seen. But this will only happen if we go to the streets like they did in the Ukraine. We have to be loud enough and large enough that the msm can't ignore us. Please go to your state capital Sunday!:hippie:
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McCamy Taylor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 02:11 PM
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26. when there is a sex angle
we need a Fawn Hall, surely Kenneth Blackwell has a cute secretary
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tandem5 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 02:15 PM
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27. Yes I can see the pinup calendar promo now...
"election officials take it all off to show they've got nothing to hide!"
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Razorback_Democrat Donating Member (756 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 04:10 PM
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31. When the right stages a Brooks Brothers riot at the recounts
then they will take notice

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Goldeneye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 04:52 PM
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33. When they're hauling bush out in handcuffs
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weeve Donating Member (427 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 05:03 PM
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34. When Hell freezes over !
About ready to let my newspaper subscription lapse ( joining the other 79% of Americans - including Bush - who don't read papers ). Our " supposedly " more liberal Seattle PI daily had NO mention of yesterday's Conyers hearing. Naturally it's much more important to know whether Scott Peterson will get the Death Penalty. Speaking of Divine punishment ... what are 100,000 Iraqi civilian deaths worth ?
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