Fellow web-wise wonks, fellow netroots nerds, Barack Obama has something that Bill Clinton did not: you. You know whats coming; Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Matt Drudge will attempt to drive the media narrative with attacks on President Obama and Congressional Democrats. They will seek destroy the majority and presidency we have worked so hard to regain with falsehoods about our policies and our motives, character attacks, and false scandals.
This Presidency will be the true test of the netroots mettle. To this date, the Democrats have built a cyber-army capable of raising vast sums of money, created a new home for a liberal narrative, and contributed to electoral landslides in the last two elections. But this is nothing compared to what we must do now.
Everytime they come at us with an unfair attack about healthcare reform that begins to gain traction in the media, any and every healthcare savvy netroots nerd must blog on TPM, write a diary on KOS, comment on news articles, and link to reputable sources on their facebook page.
Everytime they unfairly attack our character or our President's character through the media, we need you to calmly present the facts.
Everytime drudge invents a scandal that Wolf Blitzer decides to run with, we need you out there disseminating truth.
Don't sit on the sidelines, if we fight the smears and work for our policies we may actually get something out of this Presidency. I am determined to prevent this Presidency from going the way of Bill Clinton, which left us unsatisfied as the policies we cared about never got anything more than lip service due to the fact that republicans dominated the media narrative (and the fact that Bill Clinton cared more about his approval ratings than using his political capital to win some policy fights). In order to do this, we need you to enlist.