  If you're sick of the relentlessly tedious crap being peddled on 24 hour news channels about George W., why not check out these two sites: urlLink Punkvoter.com , founded by urlLink NoFX's Fat Mike, aims to remove the "idiot son of an asshole" (his words, not mine) from office ASAP. Backed by a bunch of bands (most, rather suspiciously, on his own Fat Wreck Chords label), Punkvoter's latest means of spreading the word is the Rock Against Bush compilation (pictured above), featuring 26 bands contributing (mostly) new material. The website itself is a rapidly expanding and fairly eye-opening read. Of particular note is the special guest columns, written by such luminaries as Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Billy Gould (Faith No More) and Jesse Michaels (Operation Ivy / Common Rider). On the other side of the coin, urlLink conservativepunk.com was founded as a direct response to punkvoter. "This site has been created to counteract the multiple liberal punk sites on the web, which are run by only a small number of punk artists who are choosing to make up the minds of thousands of voters. " Unsurprisingly, in it's early days the site was little more than an attack on Fat Mike's political views, without having a clear manifesto of its own. Recently, guest columns / interview from the likes of Dave Smalley (Dag Nasty / Down By Law), Michale Graves (Misfits) and Johnny Ramone (duh) have upped the credibilty (and quality) of the site, while a number of eye-opening pieces about John Kerry are available for your viewing pleasure.
The most entertaining story to emerge from either of these two sites concerns the Rock Against Bush comp. Originally, widely-outspoken "progressive thrash" band urlLink Propagandhi were asked by Mike to contribute to the comp, and so the band offered their song "Bullshit Politicians". Not a bad choice, you may think, but in the liner notes the band included " This message was not brought to you by George Soros ". In Fat Mike's words: George Soros is a Billionaire who got his money from exploiting the foreign currency exchange. He screwed a bunch of countries to make his money. It is also important to note that he is also a member of the Carlyle Group, which is a company that makes money from selling weapons. Okay, that sucks. Mike also points out that Soros donates to organisations that help support punkvoter. In other words, Soros is sponsoring punkvoter (indirectly maybe, but the fact remains). The upshot being, Mike asked Propagandhi to remove the comment, they told him to fuck off, he removed the song from the comp.
Cue dozens upon dozens of comments urlLink here and urlLink here criticizing Mike and punkvoter. The whole thing's like a mini soap opera based around a bigger soap opera. Of course, there's a lot of bullshit written by both sides (and an amazing amount of bullshit written on punknews, easily the biggest collection of morons ever gathered on the net, but hey, I don't go there for the message boards), but as Mole's A-MOL Files shows, apparently there's a shite load of bullshit being broadcast on the mainstream news.
I also think it's funny that someone who sings about having sex with a quadriplegic on his band's latest album has such grand aspirations of changing the voting habits of the youth of America. Having said that, our conservative friends are no better. This is the official conservativepunk.com mission: 1. To inform today's youth that identify themselves with the punk scene with the facts, rather than rumor and conspiracy theory. 2. To encourage today's youth to register to vote and become engaged in politics. 3. To encourage youth voters to draw there own conclusions rather than indoctrinate them into a certain way of thinking. Presumably, 'to encourage today's youth to use correct spelling' is somewhere near the bottom of 'there' to-do list. 
