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Paragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-04 05:24 AM
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Margaret Cho plugs DU in her newsletter!
I (and probably more of you) sent her a letter of support after her recent brush with the freepers (http://www.margaretcho.com/attacks_from_the_right.htm). Her manager replied with a letter of thanks and sent Margaret's newsletter along, which contains this:


To all the new and supportive fans who have sent us many energetic and heartwarming emails after learning of the right wing debacle from the American Politics Journal (http://www.americanpolitics.com), Atrios (http://atrios.blogspot.com), the Democratic Underground (http://www.democraticunderground.com) and other sources: Thank You!

If you have not signed up for our mailing list then this is the only time we will send you the Margaret Cho Newsletter, so sign up if you're interested, at: http://www.margaretcho.com/mailing_list_form.htm

We appreciate all of your support and know that together, we can take our country back this year!

-Team Cho



Are you there, Margaret? It's me, Paragon. ;)


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Piperay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-04 05:32 AM
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1. Cho is a
very classy lady! :-) :thumbsup:
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-04 05:40 AM
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2. outstanding, i llike this quote:

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I'm so lucky to have grown up in a magnificent age of activism and my favorite activist group started in the eighties. They're called Act Up, and they have a great slogan: "Silence Equals Death," which means if we don't talk about AIDS, we will die of AIDS, and I adopt my slogan from theirs: "Silence Equals Nonexistence." If I don't consistently give too much information, if I don't always "go there," it was as if I was never there in the first place. (applause) And I noticed this most of all right after 9-11, when all of the news channels were talking about what was happening and you never saw lesbians and gays invited to come on the channels to speak their opinion. You never saw feminists coming on to speak their opinion about what was going on. You very rarely saw people of color invited, and if they were they were usually Muslim Americans and Arab Americans talking about the violence that they had experienced just because they share the same skin color as the terrorists, which is heinous and dumb. That's like arresting Emmanuel Lewis because Gary Coleman punched that woman. (laughter)

I mean, I'm afraid of terrorism, but I'm more afraid of the Patriot Act. (applause) I'm afraid that my reproductive rights might be taken away from me. I'm afraid that people are getting arrested by the FBI and the INS for having the wrong last name. I am afraid. I am afraid that gay people won't get to be married. I'm afraid. And I'm afraid that somewhere out there somebody just got called a faggot or a dyke or a homo or a pansy or a nigger or a chink or a wetback or an injun or a cracker or a bitch or a whore or a cunt, and unless to you that's a term of endearment, because for me sometimes it is, (laughter) that person is suffering just because of who they are and that is not the kind of America I want to live in. So if we all actively just go there, if we all consistently give too much information, (applause) imagine what power that would be. What an amazing collective voice that would be, which is an example of tonight: the collective voices of so many Americans. Imagine that strength, that power, how loud we would be. That would truly be a Revolution. (applause) Thank you so much everybody. Thanks for being here. Goodnight. (applause)


http://www.margaretcho.com/moveon_jokes.htm

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RBHam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-04 05:40 AM
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3. And the Underground grows again...
There's gonna be a groundswell soon!

How will Bushco and their Corporate Pravda keep the uninformed, the deceived and the willfully ignorant distracted?

DON'T STAY TUNED!
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prolesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-04 08:48 AM
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4. Very cool!
Thanks for sharing this? I love your reference at the end. :-)
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Paragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-04 09:50 AM
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6. Was wondering if anyone would get that
:yourock:
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prolesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-04 12:59 PM
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11. Judy Blume, of course
:-)
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-04 09:12 AM
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5. Go CHO! ........"The Times They Are A-Changen"

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'
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TheDonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-04 11:09 AM
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7. I dreamnt that FAUX news did a story abotu DU !
Having Ms Cho mention us is MUCH better!
She's great.
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Johnyawl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-04 11:14 AM
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8. If you're here, Margaret...

...I love you, and I'll see you friday! (Geniph & I have tickets to her show this Friday in Seattle.)
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-04 02:08 PM
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12. Saturday, hon
...our tickets are for Saturday. ;-)
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bloom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-04 12:17 PM
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9. I have the right-wing nuts and DU to thank
for my recent acquaintance with Margaret Cho.

She had a great response to their insanity on her Blog.



:yourock:
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-04 12:36 PM
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10. Margaret's webmaster is a DU lurker
:hi:

I sent a note to her either Tues or Monday last week inviting any of team Cho to come post here and the webmaster sent me a lovely reply. She does read DU.

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