Right-winged email spam.... One of our downfalls? [View All]

[johnnie]

Like me, I'm sure most of you are tired of opening up your email and finding a load of these emails that are written by right wingers, fundies and conservatives that, nine times out of ten, prove to be either a very twisted view of a story or a complete fabrication of something that is meant to rile up the reader. Even after repeated attempts by me to stop people I know from sending these to me, or at least check the validity of them before sending them, I still get them in my inbox here and there.
I wondered why I never receive any liberal emails of this type and it got me to start thinking about it. There seems to be a hell of a lot of those emails floating around and from my observations most people read them as if they are 100% accurate. In the last few years the Internet has become a main source of information to a lot of people and I am thinking that these emails have played a part in "educating" a lot of those people. How come we don't have so many of these things? Hell, we don't even have to make shit up like they have, all we have to do is put together a load of emails with pictures and true stories and we could jump on the spam bandwagon. I have a feeling that the spamming that has been going on for the last few years has made an impact on a lot of people who actually believe everything they read in an email.
It was just something I was thinking about and wondered about your opinions on this. Those emails have been discussion on here before and they are always shrugged of as crap and we move on. I am starting to think that liberal spam might be a good tool in us getting the word out. Some creative and intelligent people could probably come up with some good ones that we can use and send to everyone on our email lists.
Any thoughts?


On edit:
I didn't use the term spam correctly it appears. I am referring to creating the type of emails you get from people like family members and friends that have a conservative message in them. It is a tool that I think the right has used to their advantage and we haven't.