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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Why have I never heard of this stuff?  Who/what is grassfire?  What sites 
does a person visit to find out about this stuff? 

I would like to join 'a' resistance.  It sounds like this one you mention 
wouldn't want 'me'.  But, I am always interested in knwing about 
anti-establishment movements....bobford


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--- On Sat, 11/8/08, Rebecca Lewinski <rebas_own AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Rebecca Lewinski <rebas_own AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] politics of personal destruction...
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 1:31 PM
> Marie writes:
> > The ads were effective in one respect. Threats against
> the Obamas
> > increased as the ads got more vitriolic. Maybe now
> that the ads are
> > off the air, people will calm down.
> 
> One can hope, but I'm not hopeful... "Impeach
> Obama!" groups were in place on the social networking
> sites on election night, and then you've got groups like
> Grassfire placing ads around the net in an attempt to fire
> up the fear that's out there and drum up membership. 
> Grassfire is particularly interesting in its choice of
> phrasing,  exhorting people to "Join the
> Resistance".  The language used in their website and in
> describing their talking points almost sounds like it was
> lifted from a Left Behind novel.  
> 
> I like to check on the backgrounds of groups and blogs
> I'm encouraged to read.  I check on 'em so I can
> calculate the amount of "spin" and which direction
> the spin is going on the information presented.  Keeping in
> mind that most people are open-minded about ideas they
> already agree with, one should still be careful about the
> source of even agreeable ideas.  Grassfire (my rant for
> today, as I had to deal with one of their converts at the
> counter yesterday) is a good example of why a person should
> see who's behind the curtain pulling the strings.  It
> took a little digging, but it isn't the "grassroots
> movement" from Iowa it styles itself as.  The Iowa
> office reports to a head office in Bethesda MD, which is
> closely affiliated with SBPA, an ad agency that's
> conducted several scathing conservative ad campaigns over
> the years.  Grassfire also manages a number of conservative
> online petition movements on subjects people tend to get hot
> and bothered about, like traditional marriage
>  , the Pledge of Allegiance, etc--you know, things that
> aren't about good governance, but are more societal and
> cultural in nature.  Makes me wonder what entity is footing
> the bill for all this and what the entity hopes to gain from
> it.
> 
> Carry on, folks. 
> -Rebecca in the great Northwest
> (by the way, I found that spiced crabapple sauce is wayyyyy
> better than regular apple sauce! The crabapple butter was
> good, but the crabapple sauce was heaven in a spoon.  Thanks
> to the folks who suggested making sauce and butter with my
> bounty of crabapples.  Vinegar is next--if I don't use
> them all in sauce...).
> 
> 
> 
> 
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