I'm havin' a BALL! BigBearJohn posted earlier tonight

[nickyt]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5259739
and I've been emailing Christian radio stations "The Truth" about DeLay ex-aide Scanlon's explanation of how the repugs use the "whackos" to do their bidding. I'm focussing on Texas stations to start, and I'm fanning out from there. Yee hawwww!

[Hissyspit]

1. Keep up the good work! nt

[babylonsister]

2. BigBearJohn is a DU icon-I'm glad you're listening to him! nt

[BigBearJohn]

19. Can I be your bestest friend?

:pals:

[babylonsister]

22. Hey, my buddy, of course!

:hi: :hug: And I meant every word!

[spindrifter]

3. Is there a list of Xian radio stations?

And other fundie/freeper mouthpieces?

[Pirate Smile]

5. If they take calls maybe we should give them a ring, just in case they

forget to mention it on air.

[spindrifter]

6. It's far better to get on the air!

Then we can be really informative--and representative. Gee I betterr practice my best talk radio voice and sound effects.

[Pirate Smile]

11. Mike Stark on Daily Kos spends a lot of time getting through to

Hannity, Rush, O'Reilly.

I hope he gets on this and starts spreading the news.

[nickyt]

9. I googled "xian radio stations tx" & I'm just going down the list

(damn I'm slow, only 12 in an hour?)(creaky old computer). Also just sent one to a country station, cuz hey, why not...I'm going to do this indefinately, as I have the time and the (hugh) motivation!

[redacted]

12. What about Salem Networks?

[Burried News]

4. This one would tickle em.

[Frustratedlady]

7. Isn't Georgie at the wrong end of the line? n/t

[Burried News]

10. I think Paul can read from right to left - remember it is his opinion

not ours.

[chimppyhater]

27. Wrong title

It should be the ass end of man...

[JohnnyCougar]

8. Also, someone with an account please post this on Free republic.

And take a screen shot of it!!!!

[JJackFlash]

13. Good work!

That could really have an impact.
I'm pretty jaded, but I couldn't believe what Scanlon wrote.
These evil fuckers know exactly what they're doing.

[BigBearJohn]

14. Girl, you are too much! You have motivated me too! This is FUN!

FINALLY -- something to send all those self-righteous "righties"

"How does it feel to do the devil's bidding?"

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Great find!

"whackos"

LOL :rofl:

[Dunvegan]

16. Help me jog my memory: Someone has been telling the RWackos...

...that their "heros" wouldn't give them the time of day, or even whiz on them if they were on fire.

Now...*scratches head*...just who was it that has been telling the freepies this since...oh, um...forever?

Oh yes...now I remember...

It was US...!

[K8-EEE]

17. That's....TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT!

Predicted lame-o excuse, LOL!! I've been telling certain people for 5 years, YOU GUYS ARE GETTING PLAYED ON ALL THIS CHRISTIAN VOTING CRAP! I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!
:woohoo:

[DearAbby]

18. I am sitting here ROFLMAO

you guys are the greatest, :::wipes tear from eyes:::


:thumbsup:

[Roxy66]

20. O.k. who is BigBearJohn...someone we should all know?

sorry for the ignorance

[BigBearJohn]

21. Moi? I'm nobody. Just a loyal DUer with a mind of his own.

Hi! :hi:

[Roxy66]

26. Hi, it's a pleasure to meet you. It sounds like you are one special person

:hi:

[babylonsister]

24. He is a stellar DUer who has enlightened and

encouraged many a person on this forum, Roxy66. Take my word, he's a peach!

[BigBearJohn]

23. Hey Nickyt, this is the preface to the emails I am sending out to RWers

My dear Christian friends... for years now, I've
been telling you how you have been "used" by the
evil leaders of the Republican Party.

No one would listen to me. Little did you know that
your cherished leaders only think of you as religious "whackos" --
gullible pawns to be used and manipulated by the power
elite of the Republican party.

Come home. It's not too late.

(then I quote the Salon article)

[nickyt]

28. Hi BigBear & JohnnyC & fellow DU compatriots! (anybody here?):

I've had a bit of sleep and lots of coffee and I'm ready to push that "send" button all day long!
Ha ha, let's "send" Abramoff and his goons back to the hell from which they came, and PERHAPS nudge some fundies into a reality check along the way??

[JohnnyCougar]

25. *****LINKS TO ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS HERE******

http://indian.senate.gov/2005hrgs/110205hrg/110205exhibits.pdf

Check out page 119!

It's a whole list full of scandalous e-mails.

Send the collection to every Christian conservative you know!!!!

[myrna minx]

30. I sent this stuff to Randi Rhodes.

This is the stuff she loves...to have the actual documents! Thank you for finding this. :bounce:

[BigBearJohn]

32. YOU ROCK! Thanks for this!!!!

[lonestarnot]

29. Yeah for you!

:applause: :woohoo:

[FizzFuzz]

31. I LOVE YOU!

*jumping up and down, kissing your face, I love you! I LOFF you! I luv you! kiss kiss I looove you!*

-------------that was an imitation of our pug, Pugsley-------------

I'm saving this for later, when I have time to forward some stuff myself!

K & R

[BigBearJohn]

33. I called radio KLSD this morning; told whole story ON-AIR to Stacey Taylor

He said he would definitely look it up online and report what he finds on the air. WE ARE GETTING THE WORD OUT.
(MAN, did he ever get excited to hear this news!)

[lonestarnot]

34. Are you still at it?

[nickyt]

35. I am! I virtually cannot stop - 'I'M ON A MISSION FROM GOD", eh?!

Do you think the MSM will pick up on this tasty morsel of truth? SOON? I'm pretty new here...could it take years?
Well I don't care.
Moving on the KS stations now...
Keep the faith DU's!!

[lonestarnot]

36. Oh this is pleasing to my eyes! Keep going!

[BigBearJohn]

42. I am so darn proud of you. My buttons are bursting!!!!

:applause: :woohoo:

[JohnnyCougar]

37. *****TEXAS CONSERVATIVE CHURCH LIST*****

http://fishthe.net/pages/Churches/Texas/index.html

[JohnnyCougar]

38. LOCATE CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN RADIO HERE!!!

http://www.ontheradio.net/Stations.aspx

You can do it locally. Let them know POLITELY that they are the victim of political manipulation!!!

[BigBearJohn]

43. YES! I agree. Very respectfully, but succinctly to the point.

[bleedingheart]

39. I sent it on to a radio personality here in Pittsburgh...

I am eager to see what she thinks.

[JohnnyCougar]

40. ***MORE CONSERVATIVE CHURCH PHONE #s and FAXES***

http://ccccusa.ccccsitelaunch.com/index.cfm/method/content.9C1BA958-5D0D-4C7A-B614656D074C84EF

[BigBearJohn]

44. GO! Johnny GO! GO! GO!

(from an ex-Chicagoan)

[JohnnyCougar]

45. My Kos diary on this has been "Reccomended" for almost 24 hours now.

There are a bunch of people from there on the case, too!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/11/3/21544/6648

[BigBearJohn]

46. That's HUGE! I love their idea of making flyers for church PARKING LOTS

And it is important that we be courteous and respectful.
But that shouldn't stop us for exposing this fraud.
We could always use a few more friends!!

[BigBearJohn]

48. More clarification (spelled a-m-m-o)

Scanlon was the press secretary to Tom DeLay while DeLay was still the majority whip.

[JohnnyCougar]

41. Kick!!

I know the riots are cool, but this is important!!

[JohnnyCougar]

47. ****CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN INTERNET FORUMS LIST****

http://search.crossdaily.com/list.php3?cat=171

Time to invade their forums!!

[nickyt]

49. this just in: the first reference I've seen on this:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/144/55.0.html

Christianity Today, Week of October 31

Weblog: Former DeLay Aide: 'Wacko' Christians Will Believe Anything
Plus: Baylor's new president, comparing pastors to the KKK, and other stories from online stories around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 11/04/2005 04:15 p.m.


• Related articles and links



Michael Scanlon: How to "bring out the wackos"
Here's something that should at least temporarily replace "poor, uneducated, and easy to command" as the most outrageous characterization of conservative Christians.

Salon.com reports from the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearings on the practices of lobbyists Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed, and Michael Scanlon.

Weblog doesn't have time to go into all the details of the investigation here. If you need a background briefing, Wikipedia has a pretty good one. What Weblog is more interested in is how sure Scanlon (and presumably the others, including former Christian Coalition president Reed) were that they could convince conservative Christians that they were opposing gambling by protecting gambling interests.

Indian tribes wanted their casinos protected from competition, such as state lotteries and casinos on other tribes' land. So the lobbyists decided to mobilize Christians against the proposals to expand local gambling.

Here's Salon's Michael Scherer:

Consider one memo highlighted in a Capitol Hill hearing Wednesday that Scanlon, a former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, sent the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana to describe his strategy for protecting the tribe's gambling business. In plain terms, Scanlon confessed the source code of recent Republican electoral victories: Target religious conservatives, distract everyone else, and then railroad through complex initiatives. …
The brilliance of this strategy was twofold: Not only would most voters not know about an initiative to protect Coushatta gambling revenues, but religious "wackos" could be tricked into supporting gambling at the Coushatta casino even as they thought they were opposing it.
The use of the term "wackos" was Scanlon's, not Salon's. Here's what he wrote (it's on p. 119 of this massive file):

We plan to use three forms of communications to mobilize and win these battles. … Our mission is to get specifically selected groups of individuals to the polls to speak out AGAINST something. To that end, your money is best spent finding them and communicating with them on using the modes that they are most likely to respond to. Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them. The wackos get their information form the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet, and telephone trees.
That's not the only interesting document in that huge file released by the Indian Affairs Committee. The e-mails from Reed to Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are interesting, too.

What's particularly interesting about all this is that Christian voters probably could have been mobilized against expanding gambling in the South without all the deception that these records detail. There's a long tradition of opposing expansion of problematic businesses while not getting too upset over existing businesses. They might have even been happy to make common cause with the Coushatta Tribe against the expansion. Certainly they would have mobilized to oppose the expansion of gambling without the use of all the gambling money that went into the Abramoff efforts.

But that's the whole point: For Abramoff, Scanlon, Reed, and the others involved, the intent apparently wasn't to fight off expanded gambling. It was to get as much money as they could from these tribes.

If you feel bad being called a wacko, remember: Abramoff called the Indians "monkeys," "troglodytes," and "idiots."

[blm]

50. EXCELLENT!

.

[JohnnyCougar]

52. Way to go!!!!

Keep this going!

[cally]

51. I'm in love

Thank you, thank you. I'll get on this tomorrow. :bounce:

[nickyt]

53. Whew, I'm all done in for the night. Feels like I've been on a long

strange trip, eh? Ran into the "GodHatesAmerica.com" site and it was some spooky spooky shit: they hate, let's see now, New Orleans, American troops, Chippy Von Pissypants, AND fags. I didn't visit long enough to figure out who they DO like? A real creep-fest.
Sent The Word to lots o' churches, radios, a few schools, Christian Science Monitor, Austin Chronicle, numerous evangelical sites ("Omega Letter", "Prophecy somethingorother" etc.), a couple of Christian bookstores (what the hell), the usual suspects (Falwell, TBN, Helms, Bakker, Robertson)...my favorite church down in Texas is headed up by "Pastor Bobby and his wife, Raylyn". I bet they're real sweet people!
G'night and thank you, DU friends, tomorrow is another day!

[JohnnyCougar]

54. Thank you SO MUCH!!

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an article about it here:

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/1105/02reed.html

The "wacko" part is at the very bottom, but it's a start.

[BigBearJohn]

55. I TRIPLE that motion!

[nickyt]

56. Hi BigBear & JohnnyC & fellow DUs - just checking in in case anyone's

here? just posted at the Operation Whacko checkin from tonight
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5277558

All best from me to thee!

[NAO]

57. Scanlon Memo OCR - entire memo as plain text. Cut, paste, email to xtians

For what it's worth, here is the "Scanlon Memo" as plain text. OK, then cut, paste, and email to every Christian person/group/pac/radio station you can think of.

******

The especially offensive remark that is derogatory to Christians:

Mobilization

We plan to use three forms of communications to mobilize and win these battles. Phones, mail and Christian radio. We believe that if you are on TV you are generally losing battles like this Our mission is to get specifically selected groups of individuals to the polls to speak out AGAINST something.

To that end, your money is best spent finding them and communicating with them on using the modes that they are most likely to respond to. Simply put we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them. The wackos get their information from the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees.

******

THE ENTIRE SCANLON MEMO

******


MEMORANDUM

TO: KATHY VANHOOF

FROM: MIKE SCANLON

SUBJECT: LOUSIANA POLITICAL BUDGET OUTLINE

DATE: 10/23/2001

CC: JACK ABRAMOFF

Kathy,

In today's meeting the council agreed to immediately move forward with the Louisiana program we proposed in August and to immediately launch a program to fight Delta Downs and Pinnacle.

We expressed repeatedly that when we say were going to move -- it meant today. To that end, we have already begun our operations on all fronts. As we expressed to the council two battles, plus implementing the already proposed program would be costly. Because we have already contracted our team members on a great deal of this we wanted to send his memo along immediately outlining the specific costs associated with all three efforts. We are calling the three cumulative efforts the "Battleground Program". The overall requested budget for the "Battleground Program" is $3,170,000.00.

The costs and their descriptions are as follows:

Louisiana Political Targeting Program

As we discussed, we are taking what you built for the compact fight and extend its reach even further. Our ultimate political objective is to control both houses of the state legislature and the governor's mansion. In order to do so, we need to modify your political database into a statewide format. But more importantly we need to do this to have the necessary troops to win the battles in Lake Charles and Delta Downs.

To that end, we will identify supporters and issue voters in every state legislative, state senate and municipal election district in the state (we may want to limit the municipal districts for clarity's sake). This will be done through the same methods that we used for our current database, but we will also identify and classify individuals who have no connection to the tribe. Again, our goal is to ID the requisite number of voters in each district to swing any election OR THE REFERENDUM APPROVING PINNACLE IN TWO MONTHS.

Again, this program will make you the dominant political force in every election district in the state. This is an extremely large task, but very achievable and when completed you will control the political playing field statewide.

Beginning Date: ASAP

Completion Deadline: November 15, 2001

Cost: $1,345,000.00.

Opposition Research

On the way to the airport we called 5 of the best oppo researchers in the business. We are conducting a full-blown oppo campaign including detailed O&S on a number of subjects. Outside of O&S we are conducting "standard" political opposition research on the tracks, their associates, families, and financial backers. The same program will be run on Pinnacle.

We are also conducting "political assessment" studies on the referendum campaigns waged by the tracks in previous years. We must know everything about how they turned the corner on a losing issue last time, including who ran their campaign, who they paid off, and who they are paying now.

Without this information our chances are greatly reduced. We actually have members of this team on their way to Lake Charles as I write this.

Cost $325,000.00

Third Party Allies Program

This part of the program deals primarily with solidifying the support of the Christian conservatives and the minority religious outlets in SW Louisiana. We will provide direct support to these entities.

Cost $575,000.00

Polling and Tracking Polls

We are conducting a series of polls starting on Wednesday in the targeted parishes to get an "honest read" on where both of the projects stand in the court of public opinion. It is imperative that we find out as much as we can about these two projects before any money is spent on either side. This will give us a "true" benchmark of where things stand.

Monday we will conduct strategic polls testing our lines of attack and theirs. The results of these polls will identify our best lines of attack and our vulnerabilities. Once

we have those results in hand we will conduct "messaging" polls. The strategic polls tell us where to attack, but the messaging polls tell us how to best to "phrase" or "package" our arguments for the electorate.

Once this process is complete we will track our progress with bi-weekly tracking polls and "benchmark polls which tell us if we are winning or if they are winning. The tracking and benchmark polls give us a chance to change course if need be, or to increase what we are doing.

Cost: $245,000.000

Mobilization

We plan to use three forms of communications to mobilize and win these battles. Phones, mail and Christian radio. We believe that if you are on TV you are generally losing battles like this Our mission is to get specifically selected groups of individuals to the polls to speak out AGAINST something.

To that end, your money is best spent finding them and communicating with them on using the modes that they are most likely to respond to. Simply put we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them. The wackos get their information form the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees.

Mail

We will communicate with our targeted voters 3 times with Christian alert mail pieces.

Cost: $150,000

Phones

We are going to wage several different phone campaigns in this fight First, we are going to conduct advocacy calls educating or target audience. We expect to complete 100,000 of these.

Next we intend to patch through our targeted voters to the appropriate decision makers and tie up their phone lines. We are going to start with the gaming

commissioners office next week voicing overwhelming opposition to the pinnacle license vote on the 20th. We will follow with a specialized list of targeted officials who we believe will move our way. This is a rather large campaign, we expect to have at least 10 individual patch through phone campaigns conducted alone.

We will also run GOTV (Get Out the Vote) phone calls leading up to the referendum date. These calls go to OUR voters and OUR voters only. We tell them when the polls are open — where they go to vote and how to get there. If they need a ride — we will have a van come and get them.

Cost $330,000.00

Christian Radio

Most likely we will need to create a broad buzz among our supporters, and a quick way to do this is by advertising on Christian Radio. We will produce and, air at least two radio ads that give biblical reasons why Pinnacle should be blocked and the tracks shut down. These will run at the appropriate times and exclusively on Christian radio.

Cost $200,000.00

Key Influential Support

We definitely expect the need to "bring some influential people/ decisions makers on to our team" as we go through this process.

Cost $150,000

[NAO]

58. Links to Top level grassroots conservative Christian websites

These are the people who should know about the Scanlon Memo:

http://www.renewamerica.us/commandments/links.htm