Easy way to fight back against Dobson Campaign

[Maraya1969]

Dr. Dobson and Focus on the Family is asking his followers to write to a group of news persons, (including Keith Olberman - my fave), and express their DISAPPROVAL of the way they handled the Sponge Bob case. He has received quite a bit of flack because of his bigoted and hateful message that he is trying to send via cartoons. Well here is a way you can all support the journalists that he wants to vilify. Just click on the link and it will take you to the Focus on the Family site where they have it all set up for you to write to several people at a time.

It's nice that they provide us with a vehicle to show our support for true equality.


http://capwiz.com/fof/issues/alert/?alertid=6852451&type=CU

[BayCityProgressive]

1. DONE!

HAHA THAT WAS KIND OF FUNNY.

[okoboji]

2. sweet

thanks for posting this .... I just sent off an e-mail thanking the whole bunch for sticking up for Spongebob


and it really is nice of them to make it easier on us to contact our media

[PennyK]

3. I love it!

I got to thank MoDo, Keef, and James Carville in one easy shot!

[EFerrari]

4. Done. That was hilarious. lol

[EFerrari]

9. Gotta a reply from KO's people.

I titled my note "Save Bob!" and made it an appreciation of comments in support. They wrote back "thank you". Hmmmmmmmmm. Do we have KO staffers here? Hope so. :hi:

[Wapsie B]

5. Ya know,

Dobson had better learn here and now there are people like me out there who are dying to cut off a big source of his group's funding. Don't come into my church little Jimmy and pitch your wares under the guise of religion. Lucifer is waiting for you and all blasphemers.

[oxymoron]

6. Oh, that was fun.

Thanks for posting this.

[Petrushka]

7. Felt kinda [er, uh] "wicked" doin' that. [heh-heh-heh]

:evilgrin:

[stranger_with_candy]

8. how nice of them to make it so easy

that was fun and thanks for posting the info.

[lady lib]

10. That was just too easy. Thx!

eom

[EFerrari]

11. I think Olbermann is reading these

because I used to email his blog all the time and sometimes got generic responses.

This time I got a "thank you" from an addy I've never seen and it wasn't dressed up as a whole note, it was just a "thank you".

[pacalo]

12. Gladly done!

How wonderful -- The message was sent directly to the media targets! No screening by Dobson's group beforehand, unfortunately for these Dobson crackpots.

And it's great to see that they're picking on the media. Maybe the media will focus more on exposing their deranged views. Their distortion has to be stopped.

[ezee]

13. Just sent mine, boy thats fun!

[radfringe]

14. OHHH WOW -- deja vu all over again

remember the flap with Dan Quayle and Murphy Brown? and who can forget Tinkie-wink?

Which fictional/cartoon character with the Christian Inquisition target next? Squidward, Winnie the Pooh and Porky Pig for not wearing pants? And what about Peppermint Patty and Marcy? Garfield epitomizes sloth and gluttony. The moral values of Cartoons are going down the tubes!

[Lexingtonian]

15. check out this reply!

From : Olbermann, Keith (NBC Universal, MSNBC) <xxxxxxxx@xxxxx>
Sent : Monday, January 31, 2005 1:25 AM
To : 'John Straitfaycette-Lee' <[e-mail]>
Subject : RE: Good God I'm shocked and appalled!

Praise the lord...


-----Original Message-----
From: John Straitfaycette-Lee
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 1:16 AM
To: Keith Olbermann
Subject: Good God I'm shocked and appalled!

John Straitfaycette-Lee
1065 Marcionite Boulevard #28A
Pasadena, California 91101

January 31, 2005

 Keith Olbermann:

I was utterly horrified to find out about your attempt to speak truth to
power.  Have you no shame, voicing such reasonable and wise opposition to
our esteemed paragon of all foolish virtues, James Hypocrisy Dobson?  How
dare you believe that all the homophobic crusading done by Focus On The
Family is just projection of the abject failure of "family values"
patriarchalist paganistic non-morality!

I will have to keep a sharper eye on your efforts to keep cartoon
characters of effete and laviscious kinds legal and otherwise the way my
fellow Christians indulge in gay pornography on their office computers.

With great Severity and Sincerity

John Straitfaycette-Lee


Wow, less than ten minutes for me to get a reply!
And yes, I did it all most straightfacedly.

[Maraya1969]

17. He's a HOOT! Check out this one

Their heads explode when confronted with such a puzzler.



-----Original Message-----
From: XXXXXXXX
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 12:31 AM
To: Keith Olbermann
Subject: Great Job all!



XXXXXXXXX



January 31, 2005

Keith Olbermann




Keith Olbermann:

Please ask Dr. Dobson and his followers how they can claim they believe in love and tolerance when they practice it only on a select few.

Keep up the great journalistic work.



Sincerely,



XXXXXXXX

[fishface]

16. LMAO..Here's a copy of the one I sent.

Will normal sponges make my kids gay too?
I have one I picked up in Tarpon Springs Florida while on vacation and it's starting to hum Lisa Minelli tunes when I'm not home.I'm concerned.

Mr Dobson neglected to include that information.

Thank you for your attention to this insideous infestation.

Praise the loot!..Err... I mean praise the Lord!

[Maraya1969]

18. OMG WHAT about those sponges that start out flat

And then grow big once you set them in water?????


Do you think there may be some Satanic message in them?

[Rowdyboy]

19. What fun!

To use their technology to slam them!

[DemDogs]

31. Absolutely -- Thanks

Are they censoring yet? Or will these really go out? If they are going on, we need to keep kicking this thread.

[cbear70]

20. thank you

That was great.. so tired of this agenda.

[in_cog_ni_to]

21. hehe

Thanks for this opportunity. I thanked them all for showing the world what a wacko nutjob Dobson is. That was fun! :bounce:

[holiday]

22. I did it too...that was fun. anything to get back at that child abuser

[mikeytherat]

23. More SpongeBob/Dobson Fun!

Slightly off-topic from the main discussion, but relevant and very funny. Check this out!

SpongeBob GayPants and the Fundamentalist Agenda

http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/spongebobgaypants.html

mikey_the_rat

[Joe Power]

24. NICE!

Gotta love using their resources to hit them right in their lying mouths.

[youthere]

25. hee hee

that was fun. I wonder if I should send FOF a thank you note for giving me the opportunity to applaud these fine members of the journalistic community?

[adigal]

26. Jiggly Pop from Pokemon

is gay, I think. I wrote to Dobson and told him I thinki Jiggly Pop is a male character disguised as a female and my child is being influenced by this cross-dressing transvestite. I received a form letter that they have received my concern, but because of a great number of emails, they cannot get back to me for a while.

TEEHEE!!

[i miss america]

27. Fight back against Dr. Dobson???

If it wasn't for his recent efforts I would not have known that SpongeBob was such a pervert.

You can imagine my horror and outrage when I walked into my son's room earlier and discovered he had a poster of the little gay yellow fellow on his closet - of all places!

Perhaps I should call our local priest today and see if he's able to provide some personalized attention.

I'm hoping there is still time for my son to absorb the teachings of the church and that this whole thing won't turn out to be entirely too much for him to swallow.

:silly:

[LostinRed]

42. sent n/t

[youthere]

28. Personally..

I thank Jaysus for mr. dobson because SOMEONE has to start outing the cartoon community. They've been getting away with their flagrant flamer-ism too long. And what about the children? My GOD WON"T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!

[Greybnk48]

29. done n/t

[youthere]

30. LMAO-I GOT A RESPONSE

WE KNOW WHERE ELMO LIVES

-----Original Message-----
From: XXXXX XXXXXXX Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 11:22 AM
To: Keith Olbermann
Subject: Way to Go!!



January 31, 2005

Keith Olbermann
,



Keith Olbermann:

Sure, attack Dobson because he outed SpongeBob, now you've done it. The
entire cartoon community is at risk now. It's like a witchhunt and this
time you know those wackjobs over there at christian taliban central won't
limit themselves to the pen and ink characters and muppets. This time it's
open season on all imaginary characters. The scuttlebut is that they are
planning on reporting the Sandman to the authorities because he goes
skulking around little boys bedrooms at night..and now the gang over at
PIXAR are paranoid as hell. Marlin (Nemo's dad) got a call from the FOF
Inquisition squad and they wanted to know why he hadn't remarried yet and
what EXACTLY was the nature of his relationship with that anemone (lot of
rubbing going on there...sends a bad message).

Piss off Dobson...Way to go guys. Keep it up.


Sincerely,



xxxxx xxxxxx

[Rowdyboy]

32. kick

[Kerrytravelers]

33. Here's mine

To Whom It May Concern;

It is truly telling in our society when I feel forced to write on such a topic.

Feeling the concern, I turned on my television and there it was- the horrors of all horros, a sponge.

Not just any sponge, mind you, but the greatest evil of all sponges. SpongeBob SquarePants. How could I have missed it all this time, I wondered to myself, while closing the wondows and shutting the blinds, lest my neighbors think I may have tolerance for those different than me.

Please, Maureen Dowd, understand that just like questionably elected presidents who destroy the English language as we know it, sponges also have a dark side.

Mr. Lauer, don't question Focus on the Family. They are trying to save us from all those gay-loving, Jew-tolerant liberal pansies who want equality and peace in our world. They don't beleive in Jesus (at least the way they shuld- fire and brimstone.)

Mr. Michael Ventre, who called fundamentalists fruitcakes by the acronym CRACKPOT, we're giving Jesus a great name. Even a better name than he had made for himself. We might have to do a bit of revisionist hstory to erase the whores and the poor whom he shared company with, but with our PR, and the Second Coming of the Savior in the Oval Office, things will be fine.

James Carville, who said: "How stupid am I? I thought these (tolerance and diversity) were actual virtues." Love and compassion are no virtures. Once we get rid of these anti-Christian liberals and these gays, then we can go back to love and compassion.

And finally, Keith Olbermann. Mr. Olberman and his Count Down show that dare suggest that "the folks at Focus on the Family are right, it could make you, your children or maybe your furniture gay. Or tolerant." I say... who needs tolerance. We have a second term of Bush.


Please continue to laugh at those who need to be laughed at. It's the only thing that may save our sanity.

Sincerly,
One of the 59 Million who voted for true Democracy and no more tyranny.

XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

[Shredr]

34. Done

Great idea!

[Jane Austin]

35. Thanks for the link.

That was fun. :)

[Jacobin]

36. Very handy!!!

Done!!!

[Missy Vixen]

37. Bwa-ha-ha-ha!

I just sent my e-mail to Keith Olbermann. Wait till my husband discovers I've sent another love note to my favorite journalist. (Jon Stewart, of course, is my favorite "fake news" man.)

It's a beautiful day, isn't it?

Julie

[Missy Vixen]

38. I got a response!

:swoon:

I'll be tuned in with the rest of the KOEB's for the update this evening...

Julie

[Avalux]

39. I got a response from Keith (or his people) -

"more tonite at 8 pm"

Cool!

[WolverineDG]

40. here's mine (w/response from KO)

Dear Mr. Olbermann, I seem to recall back in the 80's that there was a
furor over a vast conspiracy to turn kids into Satan-worshippers. Of
course the right-wing kooks played tons of records backwards & found all
kinds of "Satanic verses," but they also branched out into cartoons
(Rainbow Brite, He-Man & My Little Pony, if I recall correctly, were all
branded "Satanic" for one reason or another.) I think the capper of it all
was when some right-wing fundie preacher who had nothing better to do with
his time than listen to songs backwards came out & said in all sincerity
that the theme song to "Mr. Ed" was satanic. Considering "Mr. Ed" is still
in re-runs, I guess we can say that particular campaign was a success.
Not.

I suppose the fundies have given up on Satan now & have moved on to gay
people. But why SpongeBob & why now? What about Peppermint Patty & Marcie?
I heard they were lesbians & they've been gracing the funny pages &
kiddie Christmas shows for decades!! And what about Schroeder? What
straight kid in his right mind sits around all day playing Beethoven on a
toy piano?

And for all the ruckus over Scooby Doo being some sort of "gay term," they
sure missed the really big target in that cartoon--Velma.

Ooh, almost forgot that gender-bending, cross-dressing rabbit, Bugs Bunny,
but then I suppose the fundies give him a pass because he fell in with the
gun-toting Elmer Fudd?? Well, I guess portraying a "gay lifestyle" is ok
when you're armed with a double-barrel shot-gun.

Sincerely,
dg

Response from KO (rather fast i might add):
Mutt and Jeff (as Bart Simpson says: "I get it. They're GAY.")

More on this tonight on the show

[youngdem]

41. fun, fun,fun!!!

I hope they don't shut it down, I am passing this link to everyone I know.

[liberaltrucker]

43. Thanks for the link

The fight to take back our country and religion has begun:nuke:

[RetroLounge]

44. That was fun! THanks.

Whatta bunch of asshats,those Dobson cultists...

RL