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Were the Phony "Feel Good" Soldier Letters Spammed by the Bush Cartel to Newspapers the Brain Child of the RNC or of Karl Rove?

A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY

RE: "Newspapers Sent Same Letter Signed by Different Soldiers" [LINK]

Do you remember this?: "...Bush is delivering the right proposal at the right time..." [LINK]

If not, let me remind you: It is the subject line from an RNC generated a "form letter" praising Bush and his economic plan. Newspapers across the country printed them in January and it didn't take long before they figured out that they had been "spammed". Fast forward to October and suddenly newspapers are once again receiving form letters--this time allegedly from those serving in the military praising what is going on in and the American *accomplishments* in Iraq. [But the letters were never even written by the servicemen who allegedly sent them.

You could call it scamming and spamming our servicemen and the print media!

Undoubtedly, this is part of the grand plan the bushites have put into motion: sidestepping the *mainstream* media by having military personnel directly contacting their hometown newspapers. Who wouldn't print a letter from someone on the front lines? The second part of the plan has dubya giving interviews to smaller news outlets, sidestepping those nasty networks who might just show the other side of the story.

This has Rove's fingerprints all over it...

Liz

A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY

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Google hunts down "President Bush is demonstrating genuine leadership" [LINK]
New(s) clones of our time
By Mike Magee: Monday 20 January 2003, 15:04

UPDATE See Republican Party blank-emailed newspaper editors -- which includes a screen shot of the template letter used.

IF YOU DO A SEARCH on the truly marvellous Google on the phrase Bush "demonstrating genuine leadership", like the Three Bears song goes, you're in for a big surprise.

The search engine reveals three pages of results which list letters to the editors of august publications including the Boston Globe, the Star Press, the Suburban Chicago Courier News, and many many more.

They all have a similar form, starting: "WHEN IT COMES to the economy, President Bush is demonstrating genuine leadership. The growth package he has proposed takes us in the right direction by accelerating the...."

Not so surprising.

You might think one letter writer has got a bee in his bonnet and has decided to post off his or her thoughts to every paper in the US.

Except for one thing. They're all written by different people...

We learn that a similar letter has crossed the pond and been published in our very own Financial Times and the Paris based International Herald Tribune. And we also learn the Republican Party can automate letter writing, with this unique spam engine, here.

Meanwhile this blog, under the title Dittoheads Write Letters, indicates the same letter was published in even more newspapers.

What would a newspaper do without an editor?