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Billiam
Apr 14, 2002

NO HAIR DOWN BELOW!
send the posts to newspapers, dummies

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Brucie Banner
Jun 18, 2008

by Fistgrrl
i'm willing to bet chicago alternative weeklies are gonna have way more fun with this story than the dailies

Foggy
May 17, 2004

I went through this week's Reader but nothing yet

tacodaemon
Nov 27, 2006



yeah what's that one with the cecil adams column, send it to them


e: ^^^ oh yeah that's it

Triumph of the ill
Mar 4, 2004

you gotta fight for your right to party
Some of you people can write - what about writing up some op-eds and sending them in, along with the evidence? Does that work?

Nehru the Damaja
May 20, 2005

George Washington posted:

Some of you people can write - what about writing up some op-eds and sending them in, along with the evidence? Does that work?

Not usually, because media outlets don't want to tie themselves to someone else's original reporting.

After contacting the sources, the best bet is to find ways to bring the material up again and again. What I'd do: free blogspot or wordpress account, individual entry for each post. Don't waste time on commentary. Just one screengrab and link per post. Tag each one by which group she's insulting or what crazy poo poo she's talking about.

Make the final post (the first one visitors will see) include links to each tag, explain the context, etc.

e.g. how crazy is this lady? see what she has to say about :
hispanics
gays and lesbians
the poor
president obama

etc

On its own, it provides something to get the net to link to and talk about. Put it up on Kos, crooksandliars, etc. But then re-send the link to the media outlets to work as jerry-rigged database to show them "hey, we've just made it a lot easier to do your job you lazy fucks"

ChlamydiaJones
Sep 27, 2002

My Estonian riding instructor told me; "Mine munni ahvi türa imeja", and I live by that every day!
Ramrod XTreme
I'm fairly certain that this isn't over. She's just to loving stupid to drop out so, money or no money, she'll be giving interviews right up till the very end.

Notorious G.O.P.
Nov 23, 2004
holy crap guys, love this story

not that it really makes a difference besides the whole "this is who the conservatives will back?"

honestly she has no chance of winning even if no one knew she was a self hating racist moron

POTUShead
Sep 23, 2006

NO BLOOD FOR MOHEL posted:

Not usually, because media outlets don't want to tie themselves to someone else's original reporting.

After contacting the sources, the best bet is to find ways to bring the material up again and again. What I'd do: free blogspot or wordpress account, individual entry for each post. Don't waste time on commentary. Just one screengrab and link per post. Tag each one by which group she's insulting or what crazy poo poo she's talking about.

Make the final post (the first one visitors will see) include links to each tag, explain the context, etc.

e.g. how crazy is this lady? see what she has to say about :
hispanics
gays and lesbians
the poor
president obama

etc

On its own, it provides something to get the net to link to and talk about. Put it up on Kos, crooksandliars, etc. But then re-send the link to the media outlets to work as jerry-rigged database to show them "hey, we've just made it a lot easier to do your job you lazy fucks"

this is a good idea and if no one has done it by like Tuesday I'll probably put it together just for posterity's sake

I know she won't win but drat if she doesn't deserve to have her childish vile crap immortalized someplace where freep won't vanish it

\/\/\/\/ she's being ignored by steele so she's going to rush, but yeah no they're not serious about changing their image

POTUShead fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Mar 7, 2009

octobernight
Nov 25, 2004
High Priest of the Christian-Atheist Church
Instead of sending the info to media outlets, what if the information was sent to the GOP in Illinois, to her primary rivals, or even to Michael Steele. Surely, if the GOP was serious about changing their image, they would not be endorsing such a candidate. This forces them to either condone or repudiate her now before even more embarrassing poo poo comes up.

Happylisk
May 19, 2004

Leisure Suit Barry '08

octobernight posted:

Instead of sending the info to media outlets, what if the information was sent to the GOP in Illinois, to her primary rivals, or even to Michael Steele. Surely, if the GOP was serious about changing their image, they would not be endorsing such a candidate. This forces them to either condone or repudiate her now before even more embarrassing poo poo comes up.

This won't work unless the story already has decent media traction. If no one knows she's a crazy freeper bigot, the GOP surely won't make noise about it.

I have the feeling that the next step is to contact organizations that represent groups she's slandered (primarily muslims and gays). I'll contact every gay rights group in the Fifth tomorrow.

Adar
Jul 27, 2001

ChlamydiaJones posted:

I'm fairly certain that this isn't over. She's just to loving stupid to drop out so, money or no money, she'll be giving interviews right up till the very end.
True believers never drop out, because ridicule = first they laugh at you then they fear you, spreading the message, etc. etc. Being crushed and mocked isn't a problem for her anyway because you can guess what her social circle looks like.

But hey, free comedy!

octobernight
Nov 25, 2004
High Priest of the Christian-Atheist Church

Happylisk posted:

This won't work unless the story already has decent media traction. If no one knows she's a crazy freeper bigot, the GOP surely won't make noise about it.

I have the feeling that the next step is to contact organizations that represent groups she's slandered (primarily muslims and gays). I'll contact every gay rights group in the Fifth tomorrow.

Well, my spring break is coming up, so I'll try to do something revolutionary. I'll get in contact with the local GOP and let them know about this. Hopefully, I will get some kind of response. If the response is that they don't care/ignore it, it'll help add fuel to the fire if this story breaks out and they try to feign ignorance. Thanks to all those that are collecting all this information.

Whilst farting I
Apr 25, 2006

:neckbeard: good job goons

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

domn posted:

thats exactly what you should want

i thought that given she has virtually no chance of winning, her becoming the next joe the plumber means that she would have far more media exposure than she might otherwise and actually become noteworthy

so that's a pretty bad thing

Winston
Sep 20, 2005
smiling obediently

Stymie posted:

i thought that given she has virtually no chance of winning, her becoming the next joe the plumber means that she would have far more media exposure than she might otherwise and actually become noteworthy

so that's a pretty bad thing

Retarded people in the Republican party becoming noteworthy is a good thing if you're not a Republican.

Winston fucked around with this message at 09:49 on Mar 8, 2009

Secular Regressive
Jul 28, 2006

by Y Kant Ozma Post
Not every republican has realized they need to moderate their platform to stay relevant yet :ssh:

Saki
Jan 9, 2008

Can't you feel the knife?
haha this rules, well done

Strawman
Feb 9, 2008

Tortuga means turtle, and that's me. I take my time but I always win.


Secular Regressive posted:

Not every republican has realized they need to moderate their platform to stay relevant yet :ssh:

Well, most of the republicans in areas where moderating their message would help are currently out of power. A lot of republicans currently in office are from pretty conservative places. Hopefully this leads to the party getting further to the right and going into a death spiral. This is already what a significant proportion of the grassroots is calling for.

Strawman fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Mar 8, 2009

Azram Legion
Jan 23, 2005

Drunken Poet Glory
gently caress me I'd love to see the republicans get defeated by their own ideals. not compared to democrats, just compared to reality and common human decency and thought.

Dr.Zeppelin
Dec 5, 2003

Stymie posted:

i thought that given she has virtually no chance of winning, her becoming the next joe the plumber means that she would have far more media exposure than she might otherwise and actually become noteworthy

so that's a pretty bad thing

any short-term boost to the GOP joe the plumber may have been is completely erased now that he's basically a national punch line

Foggy
May 17, 2004

Azram Legion posted:

gently caress me I'd love to see the republicans get defeated by their own ideals. not compared to democrats, just compared to reality and common human decency and thought.

she would have been defeated anyway this is just for fun

Azram Legion
Jan 23, 2005

Drunken Poet Glory

Foggy posted:

she would have been defeated anyway this is just for fun

yeah I get that, I'm talking in general. I want to see their own stupidity and disregard for everything good collapse the party. rush and this woman are great examples of just that happening and it brings a huge loving smile to my face every time news about it rolls into lf.

Duckbox
Sep 7, 2007

Strawman posted:

Well, most of the republicans in areas where moderating their message would help are currently out of power.

this is true in the house, but there are still some republicans in the senate from blue states that have to be moderate to stay in power (these are the ones the freepers want lynched)

there are still gains to be made, even if the dems will likely lose seats in the house

more falafel please
Feb 26, 2005

forums poster

Happylisk posted:

This won't work unless the story already has decent media traction. If no one knows she's a crazy freeper bigot, the GOP surely won't make noise about it.

I have the feeling that the next step is to contact organizations that represent groups she's slandered (primarily muslims and gays). I'll contact every gay rights group in the Fifth tomorrow.

hmm i wonder if anyone in the 5th will care about gay rights oh wait that's where boystown is

WayneCampbell
Oct 7, 2005
You got me a gunrack?!? I don't even own a gun, let alone alone enough to nessecitate an entire rack.

more falafel please posted:

oberweis is a racist rear end in a top hat who wants IMMIGRANTS OUT but hired illegal immigrants for $3 an hour

His ice cream and milk are all so good, though. He also comes out to anti abortion protest in front of planned parenthood.

Kajookey
Aug 23, 2003
party in a can
Ahhh this rules, but do we know to what extent the RINOS in the mainstream GOP are distancing themselves from her RE that NBC Chicago link? Like, has there been any sort of pronounced-however minor-opposition to her or is this just the ~Liberal Media~ going out on a limb here?

I mean, even if not politically significant, really anything that fans the flames or widens the chasm between the Freeper-Limbaugh types and the GOP is at the very least amusing as all gently caress. :allears:

Strawman
Feb 9, 2008

Tortuga means turtle, and that's me. I take my time but I always win.


Duckbag posted:

this is true in the house, but there are still some republicans in the senate from blue states that have to be moderate to stay in power (these are the ones the freepers want lynched)

there are still gains to be made, even if the dems will likely lose seats in the house

Spector, Snowe and Collins could all leave the party if pushed

Focus on the Faggot
Dec 14, 2008

by Tiny Fistpump

Strawman posted:

Spector

he was the author of a bill to build a wall of sound on the mexican border

Petey
Nov 26, 2005

For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?
what is going on itt

Petey
Nov 26, 2005

For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?
k. read the thread. it was good.

Oculus
Jun 19, 2001

bagong show

Whilst farting I posted:

well gee what's there
el milagro is just a block south of there. this bitch wants to take all the tamales!!!!!!!!! for her fat self!!!!!

Zwabu
Aug 7, 2006

B. HUSSEIN OBAMA posted:

how many republicans has obliviousness to the internet taken out in the past few months? there was that guy with twitter, then mccain i guess, now here, the teamsarah guy, jindal maybe, anybody else?

The most notable examples in the last couple of years would be George Allen (he didn't really post anything, but didn't figure out that his boorish redneckery would be a huge hit on YouTube and lead to a narrow defeat, else he would likely have been the GOP nominee instead of McCain and possibly president) and Mark Foley, the Congressman who was instant messaging the underage congressional page boys ("you mean they can keep a log of these? Who knew?") and had to leave his seat when word got out.

Yeah she comes across like the ethnic minority who probably has only white friends and is filled with racial self loathing. It could be an act to fit in with the freeper types, but it's probable she feels it inside too. :(

G. Hosafat
Apr 16, 2003

:m10:

Focus on the human being posted:

he was the author of a bill to build a wall of sound on the mexican border

POTUShead
Sep 23, 2006

I had insomnia and no one else did it yet: http://rosannapulidoisafreeper.wordpress.com

I didn't put nearly everything in because there wasn't a link to the original post or it was just redundant, if there's something you want added post it here with the link to the original, if you're really cool you'll do the screenshot and put it on tinypics too

Triumph of the ill
Mar 4, 2004

you gotta fight for your right to party

POTUShead posted:

I had insomnia and no one else did it yet: http://rosannapulidoisafreeper.wordpress.com

I didn't put nearly everything in because there wasn't a link to the original post or it was just redundant, if there's something you want added post it here with the link to the original, if you're really cool you'll do the screenshot and put it on tinypics too

you are a god among insects

edit: sent your page to Equality Illinois. I couldn't send it to Gay Liberation Network because work blocks it as porn. http://www.gayliberation.net/. The name sounds deliciously militant. Also sent it to boing boing, pushing the crowd sourcing angle.

Triumph of the ill fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Mar 10, 2009

G. Hosafat
Apr 16, 2003

:m10:
somebody needs to gay liberate my dick from these jeans. this demands immediate militant action

Megajesus
Nov 2, 2005
Bonecrusher

G. Hosafat posted:

somebody needs to gay liberate my dick from these jeans. this demands immediate militant action

am i militant enough for you, honey?

Whilst farting I
Apr 25, 2006

POTUShead posted:

I had insomnia and no one else did it yet: http://rosannapulidoisafreeper.wordpress.com

I didn't put nearly everything in because there wasn't a link to the original post or it was just redundant, if there's something you want added post it here with the link to the original, if you're really cool you'll do the screenshot and put it on tinypics too

hoooooly poo poo nice presentation and categorization :kiddo:

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POTUShead
Sep 23, 2006

Whilst farting I posted:

hoooooly poo poo nice presentation and categorization :kiddo:

haha its the most bare bones boring presentation I could find but maybe that'll give it some weight, also I hadn't slept for almost 24 hours and I didn't trust my judgment

if there's suggestions to make it better let me know, I need the help