**PROPOSED BUDGET - ACTION ALERT**

[FrenchieCat]

We, who comprise 98% of the population (i.e., the working stiffs and the unemployed) need to Counteract the 2 Percenters current assault on President Obama's budget proposal via their Paid-for Media's apparent disinformation campaign by contacting your congresscritters, the White House, the Media, and your local Paper NOW!


We all need to be sick of this obvious shit!

Contact your congresscritter using this tool: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

The White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Also, contact the various medias and tell them you aren't taking this anymore!

Phone Numbers:

CNN-

(404) 827 – 1500
Comment line: (404) 827 - 0234
(From grasswire
fax: [phone].
CNN NEWS DIRECTOR Kim Bondy. 404 827 1500. fax. [phone]
CNN NEWSROOM 404.827.1500 . 404.827.1500. [e-mail]
Call Anderson Cooper at 1-866-NY-AC360

Everyone at CNN is listed individually on this page: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/cnntv /

MSNBC

- Phone: [phone] EMAIL: [e-mail]

CBS

-Phone: [phone]

ABC-

ABC NEW YORK NEWSROOM: [phone] [e-mail] Newsroom Fax Machine 212.456.5150

Peter Salinger (THE MAN IN CHARGE OF ELECTION COVERAGE) Director, Special Events & Sports 212.456.5105 [e-mail]

Cristi Landes, Manager, Programming 212.456.5107 [e-mail]

Wayne Fisk Director, Programming 212.456.5327 [e-mail]

Jeff Fitzgerald Executive Director, Operations 212.456.5554 [e-mail]

Heidi Oringer Executive Director, Entertainment 212.456.5541 [e-mail]

Jon Newman News Coverage 212.456.5100 [e-mail]

Joyce Alcantara Assignment Manager 212.456.5106 [e-mail]

Jim Kane Deputy D.C. Bureau Chief 212.222. 6604 [e-mail]

Andrew Kalb Executive Director, Programming 05.567.2269 [e-mail]

Robert Garcia Executive Director, News & Sports 212.456.5103 [e-mail]

C-SPAN

Contacting C-SPAN's Washington Journal:
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ASSOCIATED PRESS OFFICES:

212-621-1500
http://www.ap.org/pages/contact/contact.html

NEW YORK TIMES NEWS DEPARTMENT

To send comments and suggestions (about news coverage only) or to report errors that call for correction, e-mail [e-mail] or leave a message at 1-888-NYT-NEWS. To contact a reporter, click on the byline of one of his or her articles to access the reader e-mail form. You can also find any reporter's archive here (alphabetized by last name; reporters' names are italicized): Times Topics: People – http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/index.html

The Editors
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The Newsroom
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FOX NEWS

1-888-369-4762 general number

1-877-9-NO-SPIN (877-966-7746) O'reilly

EMAILS FOR FOX [e-mail] , [e-mail] , [e-mail] , [e-mail] , [e-mail] , [e-mail] , [e-mail] , [e-mail]

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PERTINENT EMAIL ADDRESSES:

Jim Lehrer [e-mail]
Andrea Mitchell [e-mail]
Andrew Sullivan [e-mail]
Bob Herbert [e-mail]
Chris Matthews [e-mail]
Chuck Todd [e-mail]
Clarence Page [e-mail]
Cynthia Tucker [e-mail]
David Remnick (the New Yorker) [e-mail]
Donna Brazile [e-mail]
E.J. Dionne [e-mail]
Ed Schultz [e-mail]
Eugene Robinson [e-mail]

Howard Fineman [e-mail]
Jim Lehrer [e-mail]

Joe Klein http://www.time.com/time/letters/email_letter.html
Josh Marshall [e-mail]
Keith Olberman [e-mail]
Mark Ambinder [e-mail]
Mark Halperin (no direct, but address him and use [e-mail] )
Mike Malloy [e-mail]
Morning Joe - Feedback page-very bottom right column http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/
1600 Pennsylvannia Ave/Bob Shuster- Feedback page-very bottom right column http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23580538/
Rachel Maddow [e-mail]
Stephanie Miller [e-mail]
Steve Clemons [e-mail]
The New York Times Editors [e-mail]
The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com
Thom Hartmann [e-mail]
Tom BrokeJaw http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6872152 /
Steve Capus [e-mail]
Phil Griffin [e-mail]

JOURNALISM WATCHDOG AGENCIES TO CONTACT

FACTCHECK [e-mail] - Drop them some facts; They need them
POLIFACT [e-mail] - Drop them some Facts; they need them
American Journalism Review [e-mail] -
Columbia journalism Review [e-mail] - Drop them a Tip. They are looking for them
Committee of Concerned Journalists [e-mail]
FAIR [e-mail] - Drop them a tip - They are looking for them
Institute for Public Accuracy [e-mail]
media matters [e-mail] - Drop them a Tip. They are looking for them

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR TOOLS

http://www.democrats.org/page/speakout/letterstoeditors
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/

[Dollface]

1. Thanks for the great list. I will use it for more than just the budget issue.

[FrenchieCat]

2. Great!

They need to hear from us!

We can't sit on our laurels and think that President Obama can do what needs to be done on his lonesome! :patriot:

[gademocrat7]

3. K & R, Frenchie

Thank you. Let's all get work.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. I just emailed

has anyone got a site where you can fire off the emails to every medium on one go?

[FrenchieCat]

7. The link I provided.....

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/

Allows for 5 recipients at a time from one go....
but your email can be copied and pasted and then can go to 5 more....

so actually, you can reach quite a few easily.

Remember that you can choose national or local media.....
learn to use this tool...as it is quite efficient!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. Many thanks!!!

[loudsue]

5. I haven't had time to check on what the media is saying.....and what to say to my

congresscritters. Could you please give a quick summary of our talking points, and I'll make some calls later this afternoon.

:hi:

Thanks & a kick & r

:kick:

[FrenchieCat]

8. you want to point out that you support the Obama Admin's proposed budget

because it is time that 98% of the citizentry finally benefit from government taxing policies, as opposed to the 2% who benefitted under the Bush Administration.

You also want to point out that even of the top 2%, 52% of them supported the election of Barack Obama, and that only 2% of small businesses who file schedule "C"s earn net profits that are over $250,000 per year.

Here's the money quote:
the aftermath of the 2008 presidential election, exit polls showed that 52 percent of voters who make $250,000 a year or more voted for Barack Obama.

In a recent article for Slate and Newsweek, Daniel Gross pointed out that in doing so, those affluent voters went against their economic self-interest, since Mr. Obama is likely to raise their taxes.

This is unusual. As Paul Krugman argued in a blog post last year — contrary to popular belief — the wealthy do not always vote against their economic interests. In fact, far from it.

Yet there is a strange paradox. In response to Mr. Krugman’s post, a reader pointed out that when you look at the data on the state level, wealthy states do tend to vote for the Democratic Party, which has the reputation of raising taxes on the wealthy.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/how-did-rich-people-vote-and-why/

[warpigs]

9. Long term interest

From the article:

Here are two other possibilities: 1.) A higher percentage of wealthy, liberal voters came to the polls this year and a higher percentage of their conservative counterparts stayed home; 2.) In an election in which most voters said the economy was the most important issue, some wealthy individuals who tend to vote with their wallets, saw an Obama presidency as better for their long-term financial interests — and America’s — and were willing to overlook the immediate tax increase that is coming their way.

People realized the bubble economy wasn't going to last and that Supply Side Economics failed.

[uponit7771]

6. Where in the FUCK are the democrats!?!?!? Where in the FUCK is the DNC?!?!? Why are they NOT out in

...FRONT of this with THEIR talking points...

Why are a bunch of people on BLOGS further ahead on the talking points than the DNC?!?!!?>?

I am VERY disappointed in the DNC leadership when it comes to message discipline, they leave it up to Obama himself to counter punch and he's just ONE person!!!

[FrenchieCat]

10. Where in the Fuck are WE, The People?

[MessiahRp]

13. This isn't Howard Dean's DNC anymore unfortunately.

You replace intelligent fire with milquetoast and this is what you get.

Rp

[SemiCharmedQuark]

11. Kick!