Putting out fire (with gasoline)

The posts reprinted here represent a cross-section of the on-line response to Dole's initiative. Most of them were cross-posted among alt.music.nin, alt.music.nin.creative, and the alt.rush-limbaugh, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.usa.republican, alt.politics.elections, talk.politics.guns, and rec.music.industrial newsgroups, among others.

Some posts in this and other sections have been edited for spelling and grammar (for which some of the original authors really ought to thank me someday). In some cases, the posting order was rearranged slightly to preserve the clarity and flow of a subject thread. No posts were edited on the basis of the opinion or ideology expressed therein, nor of the form that expression took.

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death

• the backstory, courtesy of the washington post
• time's up
• newsweek is next

• rush says ditto
• readers respond
• wall street gets nervous
• the suits strike back
• the money thing
• the inevitable pmrc parallels
• time warner drops interscope?
• interscope drops a bomb
• twinterscope 2: fate accomplished

pestilence

• the voice of reason?
• the roar of the crowd
• the organized counterattack (and how you can do some)

• meanwhile, six weeks earlier....