Yeah, standard stuff - urgent crisis, have to act, can't wait, don't listen to the other side, blah, blah, blah. Preformated talking points sent out based on topic you chose from their web comments page.

Just a suggestion for dealing with flag@whitehouse.gov. I feel it is proper for the White House to investigate mis-information that is being put out about the healthcare bill. I recently emailed my Senators, Bob Casey and Arlen Specter, and got loads of mis-information. So I am going to forward those emails to flag@whitehouse.gov. I encourage all the rest of you to do the same. If we email our senators and congressmen and even the white house about this issue and get a bunch of tripe, we must forward those emails to flag@whitehouse.gov. If your older like me and you get the mis-information that the AARP is putting out, you must let them know at flag@whitehouse.gov. If you find yourself on an email list where you get updates on the healthcare debate from the Democratic National committee, you must forward those to flag@whitehouse.gov. The President's staff has asked our help in rooting out mis-information on the healthcare bill and we, as citizens, must respond to this call. heheheheh.

bobalink, don't think those posts don't make a difference. With a government as poll driven as this one is, you have to know that there are people monitoring these posts and reporting back. Not just here but elsewhere. But I agree - it can't be all vent, vent vent and it shouldn't LOOK like vent, vent, vent either. Nothing scares the those congressmen and women who are going along with the neo-facist agenda than to see that there is reasoned debate going on in forums like this, expressing solid ways to remove them from power. One key is to not let ourselves look like a bunch of no-neck goons and loons. And the other is to get local. Grudginly we have to grant that Obama, to his credit, started out in the grassroots and rose up while others slept. As for retaking Washington and waiting for 2010, we need to remind our House representatives that for them (and for us), 2010 came on the day after the elections in November, 2008 because that was when THEIR next election campaign started. We are seeing some of this in the waivering support for the President's health care reform. Keep up the good fight and God Bless!

The website is http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm

Here are the commisioners emails
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Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein: Jonathan.Adelstein@fcc.gov
Commissioner Robert McDowell: Robert.McDowell@fcc.gov

Mailing address is:
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I just saw on Drudge that ABC is going to let the white house take over the airwaves and air a segment put together by the White House promoting Pres. Obama's health plan and they won't allow responses. We can't do anything about ABC because they don't hold licenses. However we can effect change locally. If this goes through as reported, I personally plan on filing an FCC complaint against my local ABC affiliate for airing it. Anyone with me?

The thing that worries me that strikes me is that this just gives newspapers that take this option a way to endorse candidates the way they do already, and then claim that they aren't doing it. The current way they support candidates is via a daily stream of slanted news reporting. The only thing that would be missing is the op eds.

And what else does this do? Well, when the Fairness Doctrine or "local content" or what ever they call the move to stifle the new media winds up being called, the newspapers can say, "Oh, that doesn't apply to us - we are forbidden by law to take a side."