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DavidNYC in his last post and like many of you, I'm more than disappointed with media complicity in helping to cover for the gross negligence of Home Land Security, Bush, and FEMA. The MSM started out strong but they're being infected a bit with Rovism. New and damaging information comes out everyday about the WH, DHS, and FEMA. As each new morsel comes to light I see a lot of folks saying 'somebody tell the media!' 'Get this out!'
That's an excellent suggestion and I heartily concur. But we can do more with almost no effort at all and hit the media where it hurts and where they'll notice. Because folks, we ARE the media and more importantly we HAVE the power.
Update: I suggest those of you with juice on other blogs pass this around. And I need e-mail addies for specific programs. When the time is right we'll launch a pilot program and see what happens; a coordinated strike. If it doesn't work, nothing lost. If it does work, my God the consequences could change the country.
DKos logs almost a million hits a day now. We're the largest blog on planet earth. Over the past few months you may have noticed that stories which appear here and elsewhere first, show up on the cable networks shortly thereafter. No doubt, the media is paying attention to US and the reality based community in general. We are the growth, and thus we are the market share of desire to court.
WE DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE THIS SHIT ANY LONGER.
I just sent this e-mail to Hardball because I was disgusted when Chris Matthew's allowed Bernard Kerik to lie on his program without presenting a rebuttal or the simple facts on record:
This is offered as a fair heads up so that you can correct yourselves. Most of the DKos readers like Hardball, we're a huge component of your viewership. But if you keep having liars like Kerik or anyone else on trying to shift the blame for Homeland Security to the goddamn local mayor, without rebuttal or the actual facts available and promptly presented, I and several others will feature your top sponsors by name and e-mail addresses on the biggest blog on earth and recommend to my fellow million plus readers and members that they boycott your program and sponsors for one week, and send your sponsors personal e-mails explaining why they're doing it.
This isn't politic guys, this is fucking survival. We can't afford to let these clowns off the hook to screw up again. Am I getting through?
I don't want to imply here that Hardball is the only one carrying WH water; they're not by a long shot. In fact I wouldn't bother with them if I didn't think there was hope for that show and that network; it's just an example. What I'd like to propose is some organization to make threats like this stick. I'm willing to oversee and coordinate this project, but this reactions isn't something we want to use as a whiny threat; call it DarkSyde's Nuclear Option or the Dkos Option or whatever you wish.
However, we damn well better mean business if we decide to go this route. If and when we employ the Option for the first time it needs to have a noticeable effect. From that point on we can use it as a last resort (Personally I'm about there). But to be able to back up that e-mail what I need from you folks is the names of sponsors for various programs, e-mails to the sponsors, and contacts within those orgs. We ARE the media and we HAVE the power. We need to be ready to use it and stop waiting for someone else to do it for us. As Kid Oakland said so eloquently, we need to start flipping over the slimy rock of conservatism and help middle America see the scorpions squatting underneath it in all their ugly, natural glory.
Update 9/8: I'll have some more on this idea on Sat. Those of you who have no e-mail addies listed on your home page need to send me one so I have you on the notification list. And thanks for the great response!