Illinois Tea Forum

[Robert Moon]

Cap-and-Tax Economic Suicide Plan Moving Through Senate

Click here to contact your Senator.

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[Robert Moon]

Writing Effective Letters

I’ve been published all over the country for years, and I have discovered that there are 4 guidelines one must follow in order to get published:

1) Keep it less than 100 words if possible.

2) Write about timely things; things other people aren't likely to have been able to write about yet. This means keeping up with the news and identifying opportunities to get published quickly.

3) Write about things that are relevant to current events. You are much less likely to get published if you randomly write letters about your views rather than waiting for issues to come up in the news that make your views on the matter relevant.

4) Always include your first and last name, your address (make one up if that's uncomfortable to you, but it you do, just remember to keep using the same one), and your phone number. If you are published, a staffer from the paper will contact you.

Reaching the news media

-Here are all the email addresses/contact pages of the major news media in Illinois (don’t email more than five of these outlets at a time or they will start discarding what you send):

letters@suntimes.com
http://www.chicagotribune.com/new...rtotheeditor,0,3578487.customform
letters@pantagraph.com
http://service.sj-r.com/forms/letters.asp

-In case these Illinois media aren’t what you need, here is an exhaustive list of Illinois news media links:

http://www.usnpl.com/ilnews.php

-And here is an exhaustive list of Chicago Tribune contacts.

If you are not from Illinois, disregard this and see below.

-Here are all the email addresses of the major news media in this country that will publish out-of state letters (don’t email more than five of these outlets at a time or they will start discarding what you send):

cpotter@steelcitymedia.com
dailycourier@tribweb.com
editor@tribmail.com
inquirer.letters@phillynews.com
letters@dispatch.com
letters@post-gazette.com
letters@sfchronicle.com
newstribune@ultraweb.net
opinion@tribweb.com
tribletter@tribune.com

-Here are all the email addresses/contact pages of the major national papers (email one at a time or they WILL reject your letter automatically):

editor@usatoday.com
wsj.ltrs@wsj.com
letters@latimes.com
letters@time.com
letters@washpost.com
oreilly@foxnews.com
letters@nytimes.com
letters@nypost.com

Here are the email addresses of influential national media personalities and shows:

elrushbo@eibnet.com
hannity@foxnews.com
marklevin.show@citcomm.com
huckmail@foxnews.com
glennbeck@foxnews.com
americasnewsroom@foxnews.com
cavuto@foxnews.com
special@foxnews.com
studiob@foxnews.com
http://video1.washingtontimes.com/contact-us/contact_us.php
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10285339/
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/cnntv/

Five Examples of My Letters That Were Published:

• No matter how many times Barack Obama repeats this rhetoric about corporate greed and lack of oversight, it will still be Democrats who blocked John McCain's reform bill in 2006, Democrats who denied President Bush's increased oversight in 2003, Democrats who pressured banks to give loans to people who could not afford them, and Democrats, especially Barack Obama, who took huge campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on their way down. Government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) created this mess. More government control is not the solution; it's the problem.

Herald-Dispatch 9-29-08

• As Democrats resort to the tired, cheap tactic of smearing John McCain's refusal to abandon our allies and surrender Iraq to terrorists as a lack of concern for the troops, who apparently can never be sent anywhere for any reason other than to hunt Osama bin Laden without being “squandered,” the point remains that as long as we have a need to maintain our strategic presence in the region and can do so safely, as McCain claims, it makes every bit as much sense to stay positioned there as it did for us to stay in South Korea.

Chicago Sun-Times 6-15-08

• As refreshing as it would be to have a candidate who actually transcends partisan politics, I find it hard to believe that someone with such extreme liberal positions on the issues as Barack Obama, bought and paid for by left-wing labor unions, would be any less divisive than Hillary Clinton. The difference is that he would do it with his radical policies, whereas she would do it with her frightening appetite for power.

Chicago Tribune 1-17-08

• I cannot buy for one second that Nancy Pelosi traveled to Syria to parrot her chief opponent's positions on foreign policy — especially since the visit itself totally contradicted President Bush's policy toward Syria. The United States does not negotiate with Syria's terror-sponsoring regime.

By visiting Syria, Pelosi has undermined the U.S. policy toward Syria. This undoing will make it easier for Syria to continue sponsoring attacks on U.S. troops. Pelosi needs to be held accountable for whatever happens as a result of her visit.

USA Today 4-11-07

• Democrats have yet to reconcile their primary argument against liberating Iraq, that 15 years of failed multilateral diplomacy weren’t enough, with their current argument, that President Bush’s insistence on multilateral diplomacy with a nuclear North Korea is unacceptable. Democrats also might want to explain how it is Mr. Bush who has made us vulnerable to North Korean nukes when Kim Jong Il admitted to pursuing such weapons while the Democrats who appeased him were still in office, and when it is Democrats who staunchly oppose missile defense systems.

Washington Post 11-6-06

Calling, Writing Letters to Elected Officials

Go to the link below to get any contact information for any elected official. There is no need to worry about wording because elected officials are just interested in how many voters from their districts are supporting or opposing what.

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml


Tips for Calling Talk Radio

-Call Early: Call early in the show so you can be sure to be included in the program.

-Keep Calling: If the call-in line is busy, just keep redialing the number. You will get through, especially on a local program.

-Plan What You Are Going to Say: Print or write out your talking points to help you plan what you are going to say before you are on the air.

-Know the Single Point You Want to Make: When you get through, be prepared to give the call screener a quick one-sentence summary of what you will say. The more clear and to-the-point you are, the better your chances of getting on air.

-Be Clear and Concise: When you get on the air, sound upbeat and excited to be on the program. Get to your point quickly. If you are referring to something another person has said, be sure to quickly summarize it for listeners who may not have heard it.

Phone Numbers for All the Major Radio Shows:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1508307/posts
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[de3man]

All coordinators/organizers should have this information at the tips of their fingers for future use (and yes, there will most definitely be future use if we are to do our jobs).  Thank you !!
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Constantly strive to work toward the next elections, be they local, county, state or federal if you have any hope of bringing about change.  To do otherwise just ensures more of the same.

[sktcommensense]

I have this information saved from when you posted it at the hoi912 site. ;o) I refer to it frequently.

Don't forget to sign our state and federal petitions demanding an investigation into ACORN.

Suzan
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[shane ferral]

Hi Robert,
I like your work, and I look forward to getting your book.
I signed your petition because I also do not like what ABC and the Mainstream media is doing. However, I sometimes appreciate the information and perspective that I get on Fox News. Even 60 Minutes sometimes does some good things that I appreciate.
I have often heard the criticism that boycotts do not work. I think that this is mainly true. They are generally short-lived and barely pick up enough steam to make an impact. Furthermore, you are picking a huge target, ABC. Yet I believe that at this time, we could have a tremendous impact, but you have to be very smart about it.
Here is my idea: Gather lists of all sponsors organized by individual news programs. Put these in a database were users can easily see who is sponsoring what. If you like most of what they sponsor, buy more, if not, buy less. I also think that people need an easy way to pick products that are produced by Companies that support more news with a liberty-loving perspective. At the very least news that is fair and balanced and not corrupt.
It should become the civic duty of everyone to promote Liberty in every word and in every deed. After all, many Americans have given their very lives for Liberty. What say you?  I am going to start a website (MONEYISSPEECH.COM?) I want to figure out a way to get detailed sponsor lists either from the networks or from the sponsors themselves. If this is not possible, then perhaps I could start by asking people to post the names of companies that they know are sponsoring these shows. However, I do not want to tell anyone what is good or what is bad speech. I am wise enough to realize that I do not have all of the answers. I just want others to have a way to know who is sponsoring what. For example, you might consider it fair an balanced that GE also sponsors programming on Fox and Rush Limbaugh. However, they probably do not sponsor enough to compensate for MSNBC. People should be able to see the weighting and decide for themselves. Also, campaign contributions and charitable giving (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/).
I think that people need a tool to logically weigh all of this and decide for themselves.
If I actually get some interest in this project, there is a company in Springfield that sells a search engine service for closed captioning. With service, I could track every commercial on every program on Network and Cable television. Anyway, I am way ahead of myself.
If you would like, I can post info here on sponsors as I get it, maybe even create a little thread of my own.
Any interest out there?

The company that has the closed captioning is at:
http://www.sitedesign217.com/soft...e_publishers_t/tvsearchguide.html

[shane ferral]

No. I am afraid I am already stuck with it. I am really just in the brainstorming phase. I am not sure how to proceed. It really depends on potential interest, and on what is actually possible.I just want to do something that will have a large impact. I could be that people are not yet to the point where they want to declare war on sponsors of liberal propaganda. I may start by looking for and posting anything sponsor-related that I find, but where to post it?


You are actually trying to promote boycotts of corrupt and irresponsible news companies. My approach is more subtle, but more strategic. This idea is for more of a tool that boycotters can use. I just want to do something that will have a large impact. I could be that people are not yet to the point where they want to declare war on sponsors of liberal propaganda. Perhaps most feel that these sponsors are just trying to reach people with a message about their product.

[Robert Moon]

[shane ferral]

Thanks for the feedback. Of course you are right about sifting through the information. My goal is to eliminate the need to do this. One should simply need to type in the name of a show or an episode of a show to see all of the sponsors.
Now, I think it would be better to also give each sponsor a rating. If they also sponsor a lot of right-wing stuff I hate to see them punished too much. After all, you risk having the perverse effect of de-funding controversial political speech altogether, left and right.
Still, if there were one place that people knew that they could go to QUICKLY find a list of sponsors for some offensive show that they just saw, I think the impact would be faster, and larger. This would be a tool to make boycotts easier.


"I don't think people are going to want to sift through data to decide who to boycott on a regular basis (some will, but not most). I think you have to follow individual cases of public outrage and ride it in like a wave, over things like ABC's socialized medicine Obamathon, for instance.

GE is an exception to all this though, of course. They are hellbent on a hard left agenda all the time, so in a case that extreme, yes, I'm totally willing to and interested in basing it on how many left-wing things an individual company endorses.[/quote]"

[shane ferral]

Here is a good resource if you want to write letters to sponsors. It has the names and contact info. for most major advertisers.

http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/advertisers/main.asp

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