They got more than they asked for

So MoveOn.org asked me, late one night:
"How do you think we should use social-networking sites to make sure everyone is registered, and everyone gets out to vote?"

And my answer was:
"To be honest, I kind of wish Facebook had stayed out of political networking/work networking/all those 'networking's which preclude the fundamental nature of Facebook, that is: "largely a waste of time for a lot of people". If I had to say - an I'm not actually joking here - make a silly flash plugin/minigame for Facebook in which players expose right-wing lies and hypocrisy in some non-heavy handed way. Actually that's a great idea - maybe you could even have a more intense version of that where people take quizzes to see how well they score on things like "Republican lie detection". How bout a flash game that's a set of "Fox News" scales (balanced from fair and balanced, get it?). Then the player has to do various humorous things to try and keep the "liberal media bias" from unbalancing the scales like slander democratic candidates/politicians, cut people off mid-interview, make up facts, ceaselessly flatter a Republican politician/candidate, etc. Each round of the game, that is each round trying to keep the scales balanced, could be an election from a different year; this way you could include real facts about what Fox did. So, for instance, one round might be the 2004 election, and one thing the player can do to balance the scales is use "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth". Or whatever."

I guess it goes without saying that I've got too many words; I thought starting a blog was bad enough, but typing essays into 1-character x 15-character text boxes seems worse.