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Helga Scow Stern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 04:51 PM
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Paddy Maynooth's Advice for MSM in Europe.
Thought this deserved its own thread. It's the first post here of Coilín ÓhAiseadha,(pronounced koh-LEEN oh-HASH-oo), from Ireland.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x184702

He is a friend of Danish Reporter.

From Paddy (Coilín):
Hi, all y'all.

I've been puzzling over this abbreviation MSM. As somebody who sometimes translates stuff to do with sexually transmitted diseases, I know it for "Men who have Sex with Men". And in that case, I've gotta tell ya: Coilín does NOT want MSM exposure anywhere, UK, Ireland, Denmark, nowhere! You got that? Expose me to women any day. :)

Alternatively, I suppose MSM could stand for "media sadomasochists", and in that case maybe I know what you're getting at. People like Skipper (Danish Reporter) work their butts off, staying up all night to kick the butts of people like the lying, grovelling Danish government that sent innocent Danish boys and girls to join a new British invasion of Mesopotamia, so that Danish companies could win contracts on the Joint Strike Fighter.

All joking aside, I rank myself somewhere alongside Skipper for media sadomasochism - creating major nuisance to myself and significant embarrassment to the Danish war ministers through my activist work with the Danish media. Skipper's research into the lies about Iraq for his newspaper last year was world-class. On the other hand, I was the one who informed the media that the Danish Foreign Minister got it assways when he said that UNSCOM "found large quantities of biological and chemical WMD in Iraq, particularly from 1995 (navnlig fra 1995)." He later said this was a typo: He meant to write "particularly before 1995 (navnlig før 1995)" !! His peers in the Danish parliament are still laughing at that one. Denmark went to war because of a typo?

But let me get to the point: You don't have to wait for me to get the BBC to cover this story. You can do it yourself. Just do as follows:

1. Prepare a very simple summary of four key points about the election fraud.

2. Go to www.bbc.co.uk and pick a programme, any radio or TV programme. Find the contact telephone number - try the "Contact" links.

3. Telephone the programme and tell them you would like them to please cover the most important story of the year, about election fraud in the United States. You must be able to summarise the story in one sentence, e.g. "Exit polls show that Kerry won the election in Ohio, but Bush won the count." Be very polite, but make it plain that they are missing a BIG, BIG scoop.
Offer to send them some information by e-mail, and ask for the appropriate e-mail address.

4. Send the information to them in an e-mail with a very simple, specific heading. The contents of the e-mail subject line should resemble a newspaper headline, e.g. "US: Ohio election fraud - exit polls do not lie" or "US: Exit polls show Bush cheated in Ohio" or something like that. Variety is good.

BTW, don't let the contact person tell you they won't cover it because it's Christmas and they've got a skeleton staff. After all, in the UK, Christmas is high season for roasting turkeys and when this story is all over, you would like to see some skeletons yourself! :)

Maybe I have already managed to get through to one or two programmes today, but I can't do it all myself. Please do your bit for a cause that is more yours than mine.

Good luck.
Coilín.
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nine23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 04:59 PM
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1. "Denmark went to war because of a typo?"
Hilarious!
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 05:19 PM
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2. Great post
Maybe you want to post a duplicate in the Voting Issues forum.

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