be careful with this - is this going to get us new voters? Many of his audience are republicans who we need to reach, educate and have them be RP supporters. If we push this it can backfire and turn off all those who like GB now.
Think of it from a strategic campaign perspective. Getting angry doesnt usually get more people interested.
Doing something amazing like Nov. 5th - or hopefully this charity food drive - gets us the attention we NEED.
When are you people going to learn your promulgations and decrees on this board reach just a small concensus. For instance..take this letter on another board
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=113266
Now you understand WHY congress passed HR 1955 -- All of us are in the gun sites now... we HAVE to remain strong... shoulder to shoulder and bolder and bolder we grow as we go to the FORE!!!
AMAZING EMAIL TO GLENN BECK (CNN) FROM A RON PAUL SUPPORTER + ADVERTIZER BOYCOTT
Glenn Beck: 'Ron Paul supporters may be domestic terrorists'
Dear Mr. Beck,
The image you have so carelessly planted in the minds of your viewers, that regular, honest, hardworking American supporters of Dr. Ron Paul are a bunch of terrorists is not only inaccurate, but grossly negligent sir! And I take extreme umbrage with you assertions. I am a former Marine, decorated with a Good Conduct Medal, a Navy Unit Commendation, and an Overseas Deployment ribbon for my service to these United States from 1982 to 1986. Seeing as we are both forty three I think its safe to say that while I was serving my country, you were much more busy becoming a drug addict and practicing to become an alcoholic, correct?
You see, unlike you sir, I have taken the time to gather some facts to support my position. I love this country and its people more than life itself, and would at a moments notice put my life on the line once again in her defense. I took an oath to uphold our Constitution, and I take this oath very seriously.
You sir have done a grave disservice to me personally by implying that I am a terrorist because I support Dr. Ron Paul. Over my forty three years of life's trials and tribulations I have developed pretty thick skin, and am not easily bothered by someone's words. But when I heard you imply that Ron Paul supporters are "akin to terrorists" for choosing the fifth of November as the day for our fund raising donation, I have to admit that I was a highly upset!
I sincerely believe you have a right to your opinion, as do we all. But where you enjoy an assumed position of authority in Television and Radio with the potential to influence millions of viewers and listeners alike comes an even greater obligation to ensure that the opinions you espouse are well founded, and responsible ones. Is that a fair statement sir?
I work very hard to introduce my friends and family to the issues that Dr. Ron Paul supports, and believe with great sincerity that our Country is in very serious trouble and we need to elect someone to the highest office who exemplifies the kind of qualities of a Dr. Ron Paul.
I was with my wife and 18 year-old daughter when we watched you're 'Ron Paul supporters may be domestic terrorists' piece. My family knows how strongly I feel about Dr. Paul's views and I got a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach upon hearing your comments. Especially in front of my family, who trusts my decision making process in order that I provide a stable, moral example for them to follow. It was an awkward moment to say the least, I was at a loss for words. I simply gritted my teeth and supported your right to your views regardless. Mr Beck, your implication that Ron Paul supporters, like myself, are terrorists, is so far beyond the pale of reasoning that I fail to understand how you could formulate this opinion. Now I'm not naive, I know this was not some spontaneous thoughts you were sharing with your audience. I realize this was something you ran by your staff and bosses alike. You had to book the guests that would be sympathetic to your views in order to project the desired effect for your viewers. Plain and simple sir, this was a tongue in cheek political hit piece directed at Dr. Ron Paul's Presidential Campaign by casting his supporters as domestic terrorists. I find this type of guerrilla journalism very distasteful and a betrayal of America and our ideals of the sanctity of a free press that is suppose to inform its body politic, not to deceive its people as you have chosen to do. As I stated earlier, I am not naive sir, and I realize you could care less how I feel or what my opinions of you are, and that's just fine by me. But what you are doing is just plain wrong, and you will have to atone for your actions at some point in time. But until then you have lost a faithful viewer.
I know it is of little consequence to you but as a matter of principle I can no longer support a network that supplies you a platform from which you so carelessly use as a tool to spew your hate and rhetoric. I will also be boycotting all of your sponsors products until they pull their support by way of advertising dollars that go to pay you're salary. Here is the list of people and companies I will be contacting.
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I know people have temporary lapses in judgment, and will leave some of my personal information to assure you that I am a real person and not a "spambot" just in case you would like to reply to this e-mail, but, ummm, I'm not holding my breath though.
Respectfully Submitted,
Stephen DXXXX (omitted for here)
New Bedford, Massachusetts 02745
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/glenn.beck/
or this one.. From that sites editor.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=113274
DEAR MR. BECK --
SO, HOW ARE THINGS ON PLANET MONGO ?
Do you enjoy the good graces of the Emperor of Evil, Ming ??
Have you not heard that Flash Gordon, Doctor Zarkhov and Dale Arden are on their way to rescue you ? Or are you cavorting with "the Mudmen" again ? Whatever you are doing, you are surely not staying grounded here in the early 21st Century, no sir, you're off in some black & white film fantasy-land !!
Why do I say that ?
Simple -- you think to lump my beloved father into the category of "domestic terrorists" -- because he likes and respects Dr. Ron Paul ?? You've got some nerve, brother.
My Dad has lived in Texas since 1961, when he was among the first of many professional men hired to work at NASA, as a public information officer. In order to obtain that position he had to pass a most thorough background check. It was, of course, the very height ( or should I say, depth ) of the Cold War. His position was not particularly sensitive in itself, but because he was to have close contact with the original astronaut recruits it was mandatory that he be properly vetted. And so the FBI -- you may know them as "the famous but incompetents" -- took down his personal information and he signed off on having them investigate his service records, going back to World War Two and including his long-standing service as an officer in the Air Force Reserve ( Intelligence ). He was hardly a "big player" in that capacity but it was part of the drill and being a good soldier and patriotic to the core, he didn't mind much.
Then the investigation hit a snag, as FBI investigations often do, it seems. You see, Mr. Beck, my father was a foundling, adopted as a wee infant from an orphange in Nebraska. In all of his life he had never known anything about his biological parents. That was the time, as I said, of greatest intensity in the Cold War. So he had to wait a while for the FBI to search for additional records in western Nebraska, the ones that would tell them what he himself had never known -- the actual identity of his birth mother. Being the thorough federal gum-shoes that they were then, those records were eventually discovered and added to his personnel file. He learned that his natural mother was a Polish immigrant, and probably someone who had fled Russian controlled Poland at about the time the Great War erupted. In any event, she had a Polish surname and she had died not long after he was born, either from the Influenza or from a difficult child birth. Or perhaps it was both, for the year he was born was 1919.
Nothing else they discovered about this poor and unfortunate woman gave them any cause for suspicion. They could not locate any connection from his long-deceased natural mother to any living relatives in Poland, or anywhere else. His father was not named in his birth records and they never discovered why that was so, but apparently it did not matter too much, because he was cleared for hire and he worked diligently for NASA until he retired. After that he completed his twenty-five years in the Air Force Reserve, which was added to his Army Air Corps service in World War Two. In that respect, my beloved father was like a lot of young men who came of age during The Great Depression, and who grew up with adoptive parents.
He did some studies, he went into the service when war broke out, and afterwards he used the G.I. Bill to get himself through college, and always working at something on the side along the way. He taught English, he remodelled houses, he bought and sold properties and he was a newspaper editor before he signed on with NASA. In other words, just a regular Joe.
By 1961, my Dad was a typical Eisenhower Republican, but I must say that he never much liked Richard M. Nixon. He never ever admitted to voting for John F. Kennedy but in all truth, I think that he did, because he admired "Jack" for at least getting into a pretty good fight when he was a naval officer. My father had to do other jobs during that War, like instructing recruits in anti-aircraft operations, and so forth. He well understood that his role in the military was to take the job given to him and to do it to the very best of his ability.
I think, in his heart, that he would have rather been behind the business end of a carbine, sticking it to some Japanese mud-cruncher or maybe loading ammunition on Army Air Corps bombers flying out of England. That's not what the brass hats had in mind for him, though, because he was a good teacher of men.
All of this prologue matters, dear Sir Beck, because it was my father who first brought Dr. Ron Paul to my attention and that was over ten years ago. At the time he was living in a town in Texas that was part of Dr. Paul's congressional district. My Dad has long been passionate about hunting, fishing, and about keeping the environment safe for wildlife and wild creatures.
He often corresponded with Dr. Paul as his Congressman, on many issues related to the environment of the natural world and to the enjoyable habits of hunters and fishermen, and recreational boaters. In all of these contacts, both Dr. Paul and his staff were extremely courteous and often went to great lengths to have my father's questions about pollution and other issues in the Gulf of Mexico answered promptly ( if possible ). So far as I can recall, my retired Air Force officer and father never gave the Paul campaigns for Congress any contributions, and there were many opportunities for him to do so.
He was just a good citizen and a constituent who was both an environmentalist and a Republican voter. He still likes the good Doctor and he's pleased that I like him too.
Now, sir, perhaps you could elucidate or illuminate for me, just what part of my beloved father's life qualifies him to wear the label of "domestic terrorist," because he both likes and respects Dr. Ron Paul of Texas ? Is it because he was a foundling and an orphan ?? Is it because a kind-hearted couple in small-town Nebraska plucked him out of an orphanage and gave him -- a nameless child -- both a name and a home ??
Is it because he studied at Northwestern University ?? Is it because he worked nights for ten years as a newsman and an editor ?? Is it because he put on the uniform of an Air Force officer about twenty-six times a year for twenty-five years ??
Is it because he rubbed elbows with Walter Cronkite and other illustrious media darlings, but only as their NASA contact and liason ? Is it because he hated George McGovern and loved Ronald Reagan ?? Is it because he was an educated man who was also good with a hammer, saw, and fishing tackle ??
Is it because he loved my late mother every day of his life, until she died, even though their marriage did not quite last that long ?? Is it because he thought Nixon was an arrogant jerk and Lyndon Johnson a swindling upstart ??
Is it because he went to work for the dreaded Salvation Army after he retired from NASA, because he was bored with putting a new roof on the house or fixing the fences around the rose garden ?? Now there's an organization worth looking into, those Salvation Army types !!! Yeah. There's your sign. After all, how is it that they're often the first ones on the scene when a hurricane hits the coast or a tornado rips some small town to pieces ?? Sounds like "domestic terrorism" to me.
You, sir, are an Idiot with a capital letter I. Would that I could take a red-hot branding iron and give you a nice mark on the white part of your derrierre, so that you could remember that you're an idiot every time you sit in "the big chair," on your radio or television programs.
My father, the workaholic, was anything but perfect but he loves this country as only the humblest of our people can love it, for he literally came from nothing, from being a child without a name to being a respected part of the original NASA team and a retired officer. He still likes to fish, and he still likes to hear Ron Paul speak on television. Well, sir, if you still think that a fellow like him would cotton to a "domestic terrorist," then I must advise you that you're never going to be invited to my birhtday party and that you'd better steer clear of my elderly Dad.
He's left-handed and he can still throw a pretty mean "haymaker".
In summary, Mr. Beck, somewhere in this great land there's a bridge without a Troll. Go and seek it out ... for that is where you belong.
And please, sir, I hope you do take it personally.
Richard C. Green, or Patriotlad
