Direct mail has been a money- and rage-raising medium for the right wing for more than 50 years. And unlike RW radio, TV or social media, direct mail mostly flies under the radar, because most of the millions who get it rarely share it, and when they do, it’s only with those who they’re sure agree with them.
My mom is still on their lists, more than five years after she died, and since I own her home and longtime address, this liberal still gets a trickle of RW mail (down from daily five years ago, more than a year after they last got a response).
So now that the Republicans have a national trifecta, and Muslim/commie/terrorist/Antichrist Barack Hussein Obama is no longer the go-to boogeyman for the direct mail grifters, I wondered what they would come up with to rouse their rabble.
Rick Santorum’s Patriot Voices grift had one improbable, and naturally fact-free, answer this week — “Stop the War on Fox” by signing two meaningless petitions and sending Santorum money (which he asks for five times).
Scary lies, below.