I have been an avid reader/lurker of DailyKos since 2004. Like many others, today I am posting my first diary, and it was "Blog for Gore Day" which finally motivated me to "take the plunge".
Like many of you, I often spend hours searching for, and reading, diaries about Al Gore on DailyKos (he is obviously my preferred candidate, and has been since at least the 2004 election). In an earlier blog today, there was a link to this blog about Gore on another website. This blog entry had some associated comments from the "koolaid drinking wackos" crowd, who were spouting off various lies/distortions about Al Gore, Global Warming, and everything in between. It looked to me like there were probably ~5 negative comments for every positive comment, and I had to question why more people were not posting rebuttals to the 'wingnuts'. I finally got angry enough myself to post a comment in response, and this got me to thinking...
How can we best organize a "rapid response" team, to defend Al Gore in the MSM, blogs, and anywhere else we come across these types of lies and distortions?
I find it very difficult to read these types of "Goron" comments from the right-wing nutjobs and FAUX news crowd (my blood pressure goes thru the roof), but think we should all start to make a much bigger effort to respond to such things, in part, to help convince Al that this time, we REALLY do "have his back"...and will respond in overwelming force to ANY distortions or lies printed in the MSM or elsewhere...
I decided to respond to the "wingnut" comments in the blog above with the following, even though I've normally ignored such comments in the past, as I've felt responding to such 'wackos' are "not worth wasting my breath to dignify them with a response" (but I've come to the conclusion that I must put aside these feelings, and response back loudly and strongly...)
Kimberly- Draft Gore 2008 said...
Unfortunately for "lifebeginsat200mph" and some others, Vice President Gore has been proven again and again to have been right on ALL the issues...My guess is that "lifebegins" (and other koolaid drinkers like him) must be getting very nervious at the thought that Al Gore is going to jump into the Race (and when he does, he is going to win the primary and the general election in the greatest landslide since Reagan)...for the rest of us, who do believe in reason, analysis and logic based on actual, peer-reviewed FACTS (I myself happen to have a PhD in Chemical Engineering), it is BEYOND OBVIOUS that global warming is happening, and is getting rapidly worse - just look at what's happened to the artic ice sheets this summer alone)...and as for FAUX News, Rush and the like, I am SO SICK AND TIRED of hearing the LIES and DISTORTED truth they are spreading about Al Gore - it is truly a JOKE (No, Al does NOT own a private plane, and YES, he does always try to fly commercial as much as he can, and YES, he did install a huge solar panel system on the roof of his house (after he was instrumental in changing the local laws which previously had banned them), and YES, he drives a Hybrid, and YES, he is looking into also installing some type of geo-thermal style system on his property, and YES, he retro-fitted a very OLD house, to make it more environmentally friendly, and YES, he purchases carbon offsets, and is 'carbon neutral' (and has been so for quite some time), and I could go on and on...Oh, while I am at it, NO, Al Gore NEVER actually said that he "invented the internet", and nor did he ever state that "I was the one that started it all" (regarding Love Canal) - his ACTUAL words about Love Canal were "THAT was the one that started it all", but by the time the media actually printed a retraction about it (~1 week later, in the back pages of the paper), the damage had already been done - AMERICA, PLEASE WAKE UP, and stop believing all the mis-information (and distorted lies) that you are being fed by the so called "fair and balanced" mainstream media !!!!! Koolaid drinkers aside, everyone else, PLEASE join the Draft Gore movement (which is now growing exponentially !!!)
I think that it might be worthwhile to spend some of our own time looking for such lies/distortions, and then as soon as we find them, report them back here, so our 'rapid response team' can get to work?
How can we best organize a strong, effective 'Rapid Response Team' this time around? Ideas?
- Do you know of any good 'fact checking' websites about Al Gore, so that we can access 'the true facts' very quickly, and respond immediately?