After what has repeatedly been called the best speech -- nay, best ORATION -- of the last decade, Al Gore's speech at Constitution Hall has been virtually shut out of the mainstream media.
Following a list of action items, Gore called on Americans to fix the mess our country is now in. That means fixing a broken media as well as demanding rigorous accountability through current representatives and at the ballot box.
FIX THE MEDIA. GET AL GORE'S SPEECH OUT THERE. Use these tools after the jump to get started.
ACTION ITEM 1 -- SPREAD THE SPEECH
Send links to the speech to everyone you know, right and left of the aisle. If it was good enough for Bob Barr to plan to introduce it, it's good enough for other Republicans:
C-SPAN link to speech:
rtsp:/video.c-span.org/project/ter ter011606_gore.rm?mode=compact
RawStory link to text of speech:
http://rawstory.com/...
ACTION ITEM 2 -- RATE UP THE ARTICLE
Yahoo carried an AP story which as of 2:45 EST still had not made it to Yahoo's front splash page. Rate it up now!
http://news.yahoo.com/...
ACTION ITEM 3 -- CALL IT IN ON YOUR OWN
Are there any call-in programs you know of? List them here in advance in comments if you can -- we need to dial in and tell people to find the Gore speech.
ACTION ITEM 4 -- BLOG ABOUT IT
Got blog? we need to blog about the speech. Need help starting to blog? Go to http://www.blogspot.com, register for an account and get started. It's easy.
ACTION ITEM 5 -- LINKY-LINKY-LINK
Anybody got links to articles with ratings or polls related to the speech? Post them here.
ACTION ITEM 6 -- WRITE A DIARY ABOUT IT
DailyKos Diarists: write about this speech, include links to the text and to the video. What made this the best speech in your opinion? Cover some other angle if you want. But write about, give it the flood-the-zone treatment.
ACTION ITEM 7 -- DISTLIST IT
Got an email distlist? be sure to tell all your peeps about this speech, include the links. Wallpaper the world with it. Remember all the emails that the SwiftBoatLiars sent out? I know YOU can do better.
ACTION ITEM 8 -- GET ON CONGRESS' BUTT ABOUT IT
Send an email to your Congress person and Senators, include links to the speech -- and ask them to filibuster Alito while you're at it. Make sure they know that you heard Gore's call to action, that Gore demanded they be the co-equal branch of government and do something NOW about the "unilateral executive" in office.
ACTION ITEM 9 -- BUST MEDIA'S CHOPS
Get after the media for the blackout of coverage. Protest their appalling lack of coverage and charge them with complicity in aiding a "unilateral executive" in contravention of the Constitution. And share links to the media here in comments for everyone to use.
ACTION ITEM 10 -- SHARE THE LOVE
Anybody else got a suggestion to break through to media? We're all ears.
Coming soon: PHASE II - COUNTERATTACKING THE RIGHT-WING SMEAR MACHINE
I'll post it tomorrow after I finish my work above. Got any suggestions on this? Share them in comments, too.