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We've all heard the old saw about how it's better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. The idea is, in terms of lasting impact, helping someone do something for himself trumps making him rely on you to do it for him.

It's a principle that applies to what we do here at CitizenLink, too, when we ask you to e-mail policymakers and opinion-shapers to make your views known on the issues you care about. Our philosophy has always been to help you catch your own fish — i.e., to write your message in your own words, with just a little guidance from us on the kinds of points you might want to make. Many other groups, on both sides of the ideological aisle, choose to prepare canned messages that require only that you type your name into a form and click your mouse to send an e-mail. That's not just giving you fish — it's catching them, cleaning them, cooking them, cutting them, stabbing pieces of them with a fork, putting those pieces in your mouth and helping you work your jaws up and down so you can swallow.

The kindest thing that may be said about Schneeberger's editorial is that he's being, ohhhh, disingenuous.

Or maybe that he has the memory of a puppy.

After all, it was only last July that Schneeberger was defending Focus' "letter-writing wizard" because the Canton, Ohio Repository refused to publish the thousands of heartfelt, spontaneous, indignant and nearly-identical letters it generated.

The moral of the story is this: the Righteous Right is as dishonest and manipulative as everybody else.

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