You’ve been drafted.
Published by Mike Stark February 26th, 2006 in UncategorizedAlright - it isn’t that kind of draft. I’m drafting you for my Army - an Army of Wingnut Spinners.
This is the idea…
Most of you don’t know how easy it is to get on talk radio… you can do it - quite easily. And since it is so easy to do, I want to leverage our capability and, occasionally, flex our collective muscle by taking over a wingnut show… let’s put those fuckers on notice.
I have an idea for an action tomorrow. Won’t post it here because I don’t want to give it (or any future actions) away. All it would take is one troll running back to their evil lair and telling Hannity or O’Reilly or Limbaugh that we are about to ambush them… I don’t want to lose the initiative. Instead, I’m asking you to post in the comments your willingness to join the “Wingnut Spinners”. It will be an email action list of people wiling to call and push an coordinated agenda on talk radio shows. I only need about 15-20 people per action, so don’t feel like you are signing your life away - like I said, this is not a real draft… you won’t have to commit to every action.
But if I had a list of 100 people and 20 could commit to an hour of hitting redial and waiting on hold, we could send shockwaves through the talk radio industry. Sign up.
It’s gonna work like this: I get an idea for an action, send an email out to the list. Those that have the time, availability and desire email back to me… I email each individual back with a location to say they are calling from (helps to track our efforts). I record the show. I post the calls (and any interesting wingnut temper tantrums) right here…
I have an absolutely awesome action planned for tomorrow - so don’t delay. If you can join the effort, leave a comment below and then email me at stark.m@gmail.com.
I’ll get back to you with directions before 9 AM EST tomorrow.
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Mike -
Here’s a better idea. Leave your Mom’s basement, get a shower, get a job, and join the real world. Of all the pathetic things liberals do, this takes the cake. Let me get this right - you spent countless hours a day on hold, just so you might get a word in on Limbaugh/Ingraham/Hannity/Bennett etc? All of your examples I’ve listened to (like “Rush Chickens Out”) had exactly the opposite impact. Limbaugh SCHOOLED you. Ingraham correctly called you “lame”. You took Bennett to a logical point that supported HIS conclusion.
Better yet, keep up your pitiful effort to match wits with any of these conservatives. You wasting time on this is one less liberal out raising money or registering voters.
What a loser.
Ignore the pantywaist rightwing tricksters who are trolling the liberal websites en masse to try to derail self-imposed apocalypse. You’d think these guys would have just a smidgen of shame over how they have wrecked the country, destroyed our reputaiton in every corner of the world (Bush is even more hated among his bought “allies” than his imaginary “Evildoers.”)
The whole rightwing radio disinformation operation sprung from the dirty tricks arm of the GOP which was born in Young Republican conclaves starting in 80, when Abramoff and Rove brought big bucks and dirty tricks into essentially student politics. I was then Daddy’s little republican in training and I will never forget the seminars where we were told how they would deceive the public with terms like “reforming” while baldly admitting they wanted to kill every social program. Especially amazing was how the worst smear to come out of the war roomsat the YR conventions was calling the opponent “gay”, while pasty pudgy pantywaist Fauntleroys flopped from one gay orgy to another at the Ritz Carlton.
Everything they say they are is actually the opposite. Not a one of them served in the military - they’d pull any string to get out of service in fact. Their morals are the lowest I’ve seen to this day, filty proudloud racist supporters of apartheid, closeted queer homophobes, monomaniacal to avoid paying a penny of taxes while raping the country’s resources.
When I woke up to the scam, mainly by reading another YR’s confession of the utter fraud of their whole platform (”Up from Conservatism” by Michael Lind), I had some fun myself in the mid-90’s calling into Rush Limbaugh, hangin on him the moniker “Jabba the Hut of American politics” which he strangely touted for a few days until someone apparently clued him in. Once when he chickened out on debating how Newt’s contract was going down in flames, his callers actually upbraided him for several days (my calls always got discussed for days on due to their “color”) leading to him declaring a coming hour of the show “For Liberals Only to explain how the GOP is hurting America.” How proud I was that the first caller that hour was Robt. F. Kennedy Jr who explained to a strangely-starstruck Jabba exactly how the GOP was killing the river he stewards.
So you can do some good, and your idea to multiply it could confound their machine a bit. Good on ya.
Trolls love that condescending crap “leave your Mom’s basement, get a job.” The anger and distain is palpable. I thought wingnuts were supposed to be happy. What gives?
Elephant, matching wits with wingnuts is SO unfair! The playing field is so unbalanced! (Can I get a “duh” from you, Elephant?)
Another great idea, Mike. I’m in if the goings-on in the work arena allow me to participate.
Oh, and I hit your site through The Liberal Avenger. Hey, LA!
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This is so important what you’re doing. They can’t get away with talking out of the sides of their mouth, bullying , and deliberately playing dumb with people calling them on it. And it will definitely have a bigger effect — after a few months, Limbaugh, Hannity and the rest will have to worry that every caller, even those safely screened to be easy for them, is some educated liberal ready to punch through their paper-thin bluster.
I wish I had the time during the day to help. But keep it up! It is so critical to fighting the brainwashing that is occurring out there.
It is vitally important to challenge these wingnut hosts every chance we can get. Even if we can only get one or two words or ideas in, it may be enough to make some listeners, those who are not too far gone into the cult of Bush, to rethink their positions.
Great job, Mike!! And I called Andrew Wilcow (sp??) one day when he was talking in a old Yiddish accent imitating Chuck Schumer and Diane Feinstein and called him an anti-semite. He thought he was so clever, telling me he was Jewish, so I told him he is a self-hating Jewish man. To make fun of Jews in that way is disgusting, no matter what your heritage.
It’s about time. Sign me up.
Count me in.
Go, Go, Go!
Will be watching the doppler waves pore over the 49th from up here in Canuckistan and will try it with a few of the junior Chickenstalkers that have been recently birthed up here.
And remember - the whole world is watching…..errrrr….llstening!
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I’m in, 100%.
I’ve been traveling the highways around the Midwest for the past year and a half calling into talkshows. They love truckers, the working man thing, so I always get on the air. As my nickname implies I’m left of center and plant progressive thought wherever I go. For those of you that don’t know, on the RNC website there is an entire section for talk radio complete with talking points, phone numbers, and instructions on calling into talk radio. We ‘lefty’ types are way behind the curve but this blog is encouraging. I’ll soon have a website up to delve deeper into my exploits and instructions on how to harass the CONservative Radio Station in your neighborhood legally. Let’s blast em!
Sign me up.