by AnnaLivia » Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:30 pm
Hey? Let’s “play a game”…a game that is really a dead-serious democratic exercise. C’mon, it’ll be good practice! I want your help, fellow posters. I want you to provide all the improvements to this letter I’ve been writing to Mr. Tucker Carlson, that you can come up with. I believe that, together, we might create a final version that makes a very strong statement. Not to Mr. Tucker Carlson, who I am fully aware won’t listen (though we’ll send him a few hundred copies anyway?), but to the larger audience of the American voting public.<br><br>Note the strategy and tactics I am trying to use here. I want to turn the tables on this schmuck. I want to steal the very kind of rhetoric and symbolism his type has been trained to use…about America the great, values, patriotism, strength, etc… and use it against him. This is about nabbing his own playbook, and using it to shove his own words right up his ass.<br><br>One place I fall down badly in my writing is getting the cadence just right, so that it rolls off the tongue. And I tend to switch “voices”. (I’ve been told I am the idea person, and should leave the execution to those better inclined to it!) If it reads right through easily, it will be picked up and repeated by others. I want all the words and thoughts that oughta be in it, but no more. The repetition of certain terms and phrases is a tactic used by savvy lawyers, to make a memorable impact. Drive it home to the jury, who is only paying half-attention, via repetition. The proximity of his name to other key snippets of phrases is very purposeful. Connect him to the bad stuff! Put him on the other side of the fence from the people. I mean, he’s already there, but expose this to folks. I even remind everyone of just who owns the airwaves in my letter, and who uses them to gain profit.<br><br>PLEASE, ignore my ego! (although ya’s don’t gots to be unkind.) Parse every word. I want this puppy maximum bulletproof and maximum effective. I would like to see something like this, when perfected, go right ‘round the internet. I want you to help me MAKE ammunition. I want to take his very name, and turn it into an EPITHET to be used against him. I want to pin his own name and his own words on him like a scarlet letter, and make him wear it. If done right, we could possibly make such stupid statements in the future, become known in common lingo as “committing a Mr. Tucker Carlson”. Maybe we can even help this sniveling snot get himself fired, as he deserves.<br><br>This is how the war of ideas is won, friends. Please offer any critique and suggestions you have that could make this really good?? On my original and on each other’s suggestions, too. Don’t even offer if your ego can’t take the heat that might come. If you can steel yourself, don’t hold back suggestions. What’s been left out? Maybe we can reach some general consensus? The end product will belong to all of us. It must be publishable; no swearing. There’s an art to gleefully ripping him a new one, whilst appearing to be calm and collected. C’mon, you artists! Here’s the seed to start with:<br><br><br><br><br>Hello, Mr. Tucker Carlson,<br><br>I write in response to a statement that you, Mr. Tucker Carlson, made recently. Your prosperous corporate employer, MSNBC, broadcast the statement I refer to over the airwaves - airwaves that belong to the American people - on November 15th, 2005.<br><br>You, Mr. Tucker Carlson, said that American Citizens who believe that there are high-level employees in American government who are complicit in the horrific murders perpetrated on September 11, 2001, should, in your words, Mr. Tucker Carlson, "leave the country". <br><br>Perhaps it is your own recall of the America that once was, that has blinded you, Mr. Tucker Carlson, to an undeniable fact. The fact I refer to is the fact that there is absolutely nothing new about corrupt governors desiring, abetting, or even manufacturing an event designed to terrorize their own nation's people so profoundly, that those good Citizens will then support any measures proposed by the bad governors to retaliate against those labeled as the guilty party by the aforementioned bad, corrupt governors.<br><br>Such deceit, Mr. Tucker Carlson, far from being new or unbelievable, is the oldest trick in the book. Those governors lacking a moral scruple, Mr. Tucker Carlson, who crave immense power unto themselves, often to enrich themselves and the financial backers who have invested in them, use such deceit. The only surprising thing about this strategy, Mr. Tucker Carlson, is that good Citizens continue to fall for this cruel ruse, like Charlie Brown falls for Lucy's football.<br><br>I find it hard to comprehend that you, Mr. Tucker Carlson, an educated man, are unaware of this fact, when history is full of examples of such vile and despicable treachery being carried out the world over. Perhaps your history teachers were incompetent, Mr. Tucker Carlson?<br><br>The official version of the events that occurred on September 11, 2001, as explained to Her Citizens by those governing America then and now, and repeated by persons such as yourself, Mr. Tucker Carlson, does not hold up to a rigorous and unbiased scrutiny. It has been proven beyond a shadow of doubt that lies have been told to America's citizens, Mr. Tucker Carlson, and we, as our beloved Constitution of the United States of America states clearly, have not only the right but the duty, Mr. Tucker Carlson, to demand an impartial and thorough investigation into the lies, if we do indeed love and intend to restore our abused America.<br><br>Perhaps you are unaware, Mr. Tucker Carlson, that it was Working Americans who built this country, and She is the greatest ongoing experiment in Democratic Rule and the Rule of Law, that the world has ever seen. No less a man than Thomas Jefferson spent his talents and energies to guarantee that it is from the people of this nation that her governors, Mr. Tucker Carlson, shall always derive their authority to govern. It is the sons and daughters of hardworking Americans whom the governors who sport America’s flag as lapel pins and occupy the seats of power, Mr. Tucker Carlson, have sent to make war and to their deaths. It is they who are shipped to foreign lands to battle those who the governors tell us are the enemy, Mr. Tucker Carlson.<br><br>Many of those good, hardworking American Citizens are clamoring for answers, Mr. Tucker Carlson, and many have attempted to examine the evidences surrounding the horrific deaths and destruction that took place in their country on September 11, 2001. It is my opinion and my conviction that you, Mr. Tucker Carlson, have committed a most grave, harmful, and serious act of injustice against the brave people of America who seek answers, by suggesting as you did, Mr. Tucker Carlson, that those who suspect the complicity of high-level government personnel in the brutal attack on America on September 11, 2001, should, again in your words, Mr. Tucker Carlson, “leave the country” that they and their ancestors have sacrificed their very blood, sweat, and tears for. <br><br>You, Mr. Tucker Carlson, should be deeply ashamed of yourself for your comment, which has served only to spotlight your own ignorance, Mr. Tucker Carlson, of historical fact, and your eagerness, Mr. Tucker Carlson, to help prevent rigorous investigation and replace it with a perverted form of truly blind, frightfully lazy "patriotism". This is not, Mr. Tucker Carlson, the strenuous patriotism of a Thomas Jefferson, nor the heartfelt patriotism of the Citizens who truly cherish America and will protect Her from all enemies, no matter who they are; no matter what office they may be occupying. Indeed, I find your proclamation, Mr. Tucker Carlson, to be far more akin to cowardice and betrayal of any true American values, and devoid of any virtuous American ethic. <br><br>It makes a good citizen of America wonder just what you, Mr. Tucker Carlson, are afraid would be discovered if the truth of what happened on September 11, 2001 on American soil, were to be pursued with a level of devotion to justice commensurate with the extreme horror of that day.<br><br>Your "professional journalism", Mr. Tucker Carlson, is nothing more in this case, than sorry apologias for domestic criminality, pompous and arrogant self-righteousness, and a pathetic attempt by you, Mr. Tucker Carlson, to aid perpetrators in covering their tracks as they subvert truth, justice, and the American way.<br><br>I wonder if your conscience plagues you, Mr. Tucker Carlson. It certainly should.<br><br>But then again, perhaps you, Mr. Tucker Carlson, and your prosperous corporate employer, MSNBC, are not responsible for your statement. Perhaps it is your history and journalism professors, Mr. Tucker Carlson, who should be told they should "leave the country".<br><br><br>Sincerely, and yes, Mr. Tucker Carlson, with revulsion and anger for your despicable remark,<br><br>I am (name here), Working American Citizen, who is no longer a viewer of MSNBC while you, Mr. Tucker Carlson, cling onto a job there.<br><br><br><br> <br>(Example of improvement: would simply changing the comma to a period after the “greeting” make it sound more like Jerry Seinfeld greeting Newman? Hello, Newman. We want an “undercurrent of contempt”, don’t we? The public likes to watch someone willing to throw a good hit on the football field, after all.)<br><br>(another example: should ‘I write’ be ‘I am writing’, instead?) <br> <p></p><i></i>
