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I used the MoveOn site to create a letter to congresspeople once. It was something that mattered to me and I used the convenience of their mechanism to write my own comments in place of the form letter I was offered. What was awkward about it afterwards was that I had no record of my words and didn't have the connection that I get if I communicate directly to representatives of my elected governments.

Then I started receiving many e-mail requests for this or that action, and the part that threw me was they were asking me to follow, not to think. I was given answers and not evidence. It was just more adversarial hooey.

Now they are in my spam filter, along with the similar letters from Robert Redford. I think I requested removal, but it must not have worked [;

Move On is a great concept, but this latest effort sounds about as fair and balanced as Fox's efforts to muzzle Franken. Can't we all just agree that everyone is unfair and unbalanced enough to think that they're the opposite and then ... move on?

Ron