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EvilNight
11-05-2007, 01:15 PM
I was listening to some older records in my collection and something happened that took me completely by surprise. Just sitting there listening I found out one of those songs has become surprisingly relevant. The Moody Blues "Minstrel's Song" couldn't fit Ron Paul any better if they had written it directly for him. See for yourself, here are the lyrics.

Words - a simple song
A minstrel sings
A way of life - in his eyes
Hear - the morning call
of waking birds
When they are singing, bringing
Love - love.
Everywhere, love is all around,
Everywhere, love is all around.

Now - the winter's gone
Cold wind has blown
The endless stream, in our lives
Where the minstrel sings
This simple song
He's always bringing, singing,
Love - love.
Everywhere, love is all around,
Everywhere, love is all around.

Listen to the one
Who sings of love.
Follow our friend,
Our wandering friend,
Listen to the one,
Who sings of love.
Everywhere love is around,
Around, around.

Hear - the nation sing
Our minstrel's song
As he walks by, in their lives
Soon - the spring will come,
And everyone - will all be
singing, bringing
Love - love.
Everywhere, love is all around,
Everywhere, love is all around.

Listen to the one
Who sings of love.
Follow our friend,
Our wandering friend,
Listen to the one,
Who sings of love.
Everywhere love is around,
Around, around.

I know it sounds a bit cheesy - don't knock it until you've heard it, this is the Moody Blues and they know what they are doing. There are clips on Amazon for the "Question of Balance" album. Just click this link for samples in WMV or Real.
http://www.amazon.com/Question-Balance-Moody-Blues/dp/B000002GQJ/

It seems to me if we could get this song attached to Ron in the public consciousness it might do him some good, get him a bit more noticed. The song is damn near as polite and subtle a revolution song as it is possible to write, and it just happens to sum things up well and match the campaign slogan perfectly. It is also from an era of music that will appeal greatly to folks in between 30-50, many of them will remember it. It also very, very seldom played on the radio any longer even on classic rock stations, so it would stand out. Most stations should have it.

Is there any reason we can't start calling up local radio stations (respectfully, not like a flash mob with 100 requests a day), and asking them to play this song, and dedicating it to Ron Paul? It's not like we're part of his campaign under any laws - any of us can call and request a song for any reason we want, so maybe a better set of questions are, 1) are radio stations allowed to do that, 2) how can they tell anyway, and 3) how long can we get away with it before they notice if it is actually a problem?

If we do call them we should almost certainly avoid mentioning anything about Ron other than his name, just a simple request/dedication from one person to another. Ron can promote himself, we just need to get his name out there. No point in taking up drive-time radio with politics, that's what radio talk shows are for anyway.

There are probably a lot of other songs we could use to get on hip-hop, alternative, etc stations, so if anyone has suggestions for similarly-themed songs that would be helpful. I don't know if one pervasive song is more useful than a variety of them, though. I would think a single song would be easier for people to notice if they kept hearing it now and then. On the other hand, multiple songs will probably be easier to slip through whatever filters there may be, and could reach more diverse stations. If we could keep this sort of thing running quietly, smoothly, and steadily for some time it should help to get some people to type his name into Google, and that's how we all got here so that's all we need to do.

Thoughts? Think we can start calling him "The Minstrel" soon? :)

Derek Johnson
11-05-2007, 04:46 PM
I promoted the show w/Mark last Friday on WBAP 820 AM Dallas/North TExas 8-11 am. Of all the pro war radio personalities, Mark is very fair, and speaks positively (by MSM Ron Paul standards) of Ron and this campaign, although he sometimes casts a sophomoric and somewhat juvenile image of us Paulite Spammers (even though we are engineers, stay at home moms, IT techs, doctors, blue collar workers, small business owners and so forth). And I called again today at about 10:20 CST to update Mark on this drive.

Anyway, I hadn't checked the numbers when I was on the air promoting the event and told his audience that today will be a 2-3 million dollar in one day drive, and I kept HAMMERING away at how the founding fathers would handle the "global war on terror" if they were with us today. This was my lead in from the topic du jour. I kept emphasizing how precious the constitution and bill of rights is, and the magnanimous amount of time proven wisdom that is contained in this precious constitution document that I and many others have sworn to God to defend.

I'll try to get on the [Karl] Marxist Levin show tonight on the way home from work, but I can't promise too much. I'll hit the screener with the 'ol reformed liberal who now sees the light because of Marx Levin and his brand of American empire communism, ahem, I mean conservatism, and see where we go from there. Oh yeah, I'm about to donate $125, another later, and then match the same on 11-11, our next big push to constitutional freedom and liberty. Remember 11-11-07. Over 2,500 troops bled and spilled their guts all over Normandy beach for us in a matter of a few hours, let’s pay them back for their ultimate sacrifice, and the sacrifices of all other service men and women before and since by raising 5 million or so today, and the SAME AMOUNT ON 11-11, and the SAME AMOUNT on a couple of big drive days in December, WHO’S IN?!

God bless!

Oh, here you go, now these numbers are your target, and the US constitution what your're defending, and truth is your weapon. Good luck! See you on the AIRWAVES!!!!!!!!

The Rush Limbaugh Show Rush Limbaugh 1-800-282-2882
Sean Hannity Show Sean Hannity 1-800-941-7326
The Laura Ingraham Show Laura Ingraham 1-800-449-8255
Hugh Hewitt Show Hugh Hewitt 1-800-520-1234
The Mike Gallagher Show Mike Gallagher 1-800-655-MIKE
Michael Reagan Show Michael Reagan 1-800-468-MIKE
G. Gordon Liddy Show G. Gordon Liddy 1-800-GG-LIDDY
The Michael Medved Show Michael Medved 1-800-955-1776
The Lars Larson Show Lars Larson 1-866-509-LARS
Neal Boortz Show Neal Boortz 1-877-310-2100
Glenn Beck Show Glenn Beck 1-888-727-BECK
Rusty Humphries Show Rusty Humphries 1-800-449-8255
Bill Bennett's Morning in America Bill Bennett 1-866-680-6464
The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly Bill O'Reilly 1-877-9-NO-SPIN
The Jim Bohannon Show Jim Bohannon 1-866-505- 4626
Dr. Laura Laura Schlessing 1-800-DR-LAURA
Janet Parshall's America Janet Parshall 1-800-343-9282
Michael Savage Show Michael Savage 1-800-449-8255
The Larry Elder Show Larry Elder 1-800-222-5222
The Dennis Prager Show Dennis Prager 1-877-243-7776
Dateline Washington with Greg Corombus Greg Corombus 1-800-510-TALK
Battle Line with Alan Nathan Alan Nathan 1-800-510-TALK
Hot Talk with Scott Hennen Scott Hennen 1-800-279- 9329
The Bob Grant Show Bob Grant 1-800-321- 8828
The Dolans Show 1-800-321- 0710
Common Sense Radio With Ollie North Ollie North 1-888-99-NORTH
Good Day USA Doug Stephan 1-877-541-5250
Point of View Marlin Maddoux 1-800-351-1212
The Don Kroah Show Don Kroah 1-888-293-9282
The Mark Levin Show Mark Levin 1-877-381-3811


The media isn't going to call you, please call them, I've loaded your gun, aimed at the target, NOW PULL THE F$%KING TRIGGER!

God bless!

Derek Johnson
11-05-2007, 08:24 PM
I haven't called the Marx Levin show since Oct 11th, but when I did tonight, I was going to go into a story about my 2 dogs: Ron and Paul...but the weird thing is that his screener dumped me immediately after answering the phone with "Mark Levin"....I think they are on to me....this happened the same way a few more times before I gave up!

But I did get on the neocon loving, fiat money defending John David Wells FOX KLIF 570 AM around 6 central. I went briefly over Bilderberg Gov Rick Perry's desire to maximize The Merck Corporation's shareholder profits and cut straight to Ron Paul and this 11-5 fundraiser. I asked Mr. Wells if he was going to donate $100 to Ron Paul today, and he said he just donated $5000 by letting me say what I said on air. Well, thank you Mr. Wells, but please donate $100 anyway, you have until midnight, REMEMBER REMEMBER!!!!