Our own response machine

This is encouraging:

[W]hen the right-wing smears against Barack Obama began to paint him as unpatriotic, The AP’s Nedra Pickler was happy to oblige by running an article whose third paragraph literally begins “conservative consultants say…” and goes on to quote disgraced right-wing smear merchant Roger Stone as an expert. [...] What the right-wing message machine and its enablers in the media didn’t count on this time was that now there’s a left-wing message machine.

Cue Jane Hamsher:

The AP probably doesn’t care a whole lot about what you think, but it does care what the papers who subscribe to their wire service think. So we’ve set up a page where you can plug in your zip code and automatically send an email to the papers in your area who syndicate the AP and let them know this is beneath what you expect their coverage to be — for this election cycle and beyond.

Especially if you live in some state that’s less likely to get a lot of attention like New York or California, please take time to send an email. We want to blanket the country as broadly as possible and let every paper know that this kind of journalism is unacceptable — and that you’re watching.

I’m just happy to see that, after years of complaining, progressives may be seeing the start of our own organized response machine to act as a counterweight to right-wing noise machine that has dominated our national discourse for years.