Making a Difference

[aquapub]

Want a hassle-free way to make a difference promoting conservative views? Consider this: A huge portion of the electorate, particularly seniors, still gets it's news from the papers. When conservatives coordinate efforts and bombard the papers with letters on a certain topic, it effects public opinion, coverage, and even Washington (the amnesty bill comes to mind).

This link to my site will show you how to write a quick letter, mass email it to the local and national media, and get it in the papers.

http://tusk.myfastforum.org/How_to_Get_a_Letter_Published_about2.html

When 10 conservatives mass email letters in their own words on the same issue, it gets noticed. Imagine 20, or 50, or 100 conservatives from this site coordinating letter-writing campaigns. We have power that we aren't tapping into. As the race-baiting piece of crap, Jesse Jackson, says, "we've got a lot of stones just laying around here waiting to be picked up and thrown at Goliath."

[Eagle1]

all talk here

good luck with the papers

[DoctorDoom]

I've written letters to editors since I was 16, 48 years ago. My published count is well over a thousand on a variety of topics. But, since I went from being an atheistic liberal to a born-again Christian conservative, the area rags became decidedly less open, and I abandoned it about five years ago.

[DesertFox]

Same here. I've had items published in a number of national publications, and pert near countless items in local papers literally all over America. I was the one responsible for Bob Dole bringing up in Congress, in 1973, the fact that made-for-tv movies were casting every killer in every movie as a Vietnam vet whose awful experience there turned him into a cold-blooded murderer.

But today's press doesn't play fair. It surrounds your one conservative view with half-a-dozen ridiculers, liars and well-meaning dumbasses who miss the point of everything. Subsequent comments on subsequent days are clearly culled to make it appear that readers are 7-1 against you, when you know better. This very thing happened to me in the Kansas City Star, for example, and the big majority of Star readers are GOPers, not 'Crats.

I no longer bother writing letters to the editor.

[DoctorDoom]

Back in the late 80s, lhe local rag limited readers to one letter a month, a policy that I am convinced was written to shut me the hell up, since I hit them with a dozen a week. They loved it when I was a lib, but ...

[The_Elucidator]

all talk here

good luck with the papers

Eagle - what in the heck is this about? I hope you are not saying that freecon's just sit back on their butts and do nothing as there is nothing to base that assertion on. Unless you know something I don't...

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Luc, I think he might have meant himself individually, not FC collectively. At least I HOPE that's what he meant http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/images/icons/icon8.gif.

[aquapub]

I've written letters to editors since I was 16, 48 years ago. My published count is well over a thousand on a variety of topics. But, since I went from being an atheistic liberal to a born-again Christian conservative, the area rags became decidedly less open, and I abandoned it about five years ago.

There is a clear slant against conservatives in most national publications, but I get published all the time. Consider the death of the amnesty bill. That was a product of letter-writing campaigns both to elected officials and to media outlets.

It works, and it kills me to see such power tossed aside by conservatives.

If you ever change your mind, let me know:

http://www.geocities.com/tusk2019/tusk.html

[aquapub]

Same here. I've had items published in a number of national publications, and pert near countless items in local papers literally all over America. I was the one responsible for Bob Dole bringing up in Congress, in 1973, the fact that made-for-tv movies were casting every killer in every movie as a Vietnam vet whose awful experience there turned him into a cold-blooded murderer.

But today's press doesn't play fair. It surrounds your one conservative view with half-a-dozen ridiculers, liars and well-meaning dumbasses who miss the point of everything. Subsequent comments on subsequent days are clearly culled to make it appear that readers are 7-1 against you, when you know better. This very thing happened to me in the Kansas City Star, for example, and the big majority of Star readers are GOPers, not 'Crats.

I no longer bother writing letters to the editor.

The national papers and papers in liberal places definitely do this. But what matters isn't strength in numbers, it's getting the side of the story being misrepresented or left out entirely out there for the electorate to see.

[aquapub]

Eagle - what in the heck is this about? I hope you are not saying that freecon's just sit back on their butts and do nothing as there is nothing to base that assertion on. Unless you know something I don't...

Then will you start making letter-writing part of your routine? They won't ignore this many of us.

[Eagle1]

haha,

i was just trying to make a play off of the 3 choices. they suggested that if we didn't do that online thing we were just a bunch of blowhards.

i have drafted a few letters to the editor myself, but have never submitted them. i like to respond personally to other people who write in, but dont care to have one in the paper myself.

while on a rant i tend to get a little excited and say things that should be left unsaid. just because you happen to be right does not mean the audience is ready to quit stupidity cold turkey. and i am not a patient man.

[PrezLeefun]

I feel like I am being spammed.

[S-T]

I've been writing letters to the editor for about 11 years now. I've had a couple guest columns published as well. Most of them were to the local newspaper, but I have been published in the New York Times twice and USA Today three times.

[DoctorDoom]

while on a rant i tend to get a little excited and say things that should be left unsaid. just because you happen to be right does not mean the audience is ready to quit stupidity cold turkey. and i am not a patient man.The good thing about word processors is that they allow one to vent his spleen, save it, and then go back to it later when the fury has subsided and edit the piece.

[The_Elucidator]

Then will you start making letter-writing part of your routine? They won't ignore this many of us.

I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, for now! However I will ask that you do more reading on this board, to include all forums, to realize the demographics here. Most if not all of the "regular" posters are very passionate and "Active." You may risk offending some on this board by "spamming" us with this activism; I'm close to being there myself.

[aquapub]

I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, for now! However I will ask that you do more reading on this board, to include all forums, to realize the demographics here. Most if not all of the "regular" posters are very passionate and "Active." You may risk offending some on this board by "spamming" us with this activism; I'm close to being there myself.

Totally not my intention. But can you imagine the hundreds of conservatives on this site each writing a quick letter to elected officials/the media about the same subject?

It's staggering what we could be doing with a little organization.

You know people here, what approach do you think would fire them up and get them organized?

[Timberwolf]

I've been writing LttE for over 15 years and have had almost everyone printed in our local newspaper and more than a few in the dailies of ND, SD and MN. My next effort is going to concern our local landfill situation (my solution is very "green" and ought to take the local populace QUITE by surprise). This ought to be gooood. :biggrin:

[The_Elucidator]

Totally not my intention. But can you imagine the hundreds of conservatives on this site each writing a quick letter to elected officials/the media about the same subject?

It's staggering what we could be doing with a little organization.

You know people here, what approach do you think would fire them up and get them organized?

Read the immigration forum to see how fired up we get! I can't think of too many, if any, that didn't call their Senator or congresscritter during the immigration fiasco.

I'm just saying that in order to gain some friends here you need to engage in discussion not solicit. When the time comes to fight on an issue we will be ready, trust me!

[aquapub]

...you need to engage in discussion not solicit. When the time comes to fight on an issue we will be ready, trust me!

Point taken.

The only problem with that though is there's always something worth fighting for, like banning the "Fairness" Doctrine before the next presidential election or stopping the frivolous lawsuits against telecommunications companies that are sticking their necks out to help us prevent terrorism.

The fight doesn't only need to happen once an outrage reaches the extremes that the amnesty bill did. It's every day. How do you encourage conservatives to regularly organize and routinely press for our values without asking them to?

[Rhino]

I've done it many times. Did it just last week, in fact.

[Longhorn_Platinum]

:moo: I've written several letters to editors. I've been published in the Port Arthur News, the Beaumont Enterprise, the Odessa American, the Borger News-Herald, & the Shreveport Times. I've written to other papers, but I'm unaware if they published me.

:moo: It helps to be terse. Make your point in as few words as possible. And when rebutting another writer, refrain from using their name, if possible. There's no point in giving them the ego trip of seeing their name in print again.