![]() Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat SpyĬhanges to Make Christianity More "Inclusive" Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care AnymoreĮxamples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' MindĪll-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?" Signs That You, Geroge Michael, Should Probably Just Give It Up ![]() Nicknames for Potatoes, By People Who Really Hate Potatoes Lame illusions, too, like transforming frothy-happy Palin supporters into Obama voters, and conjuring "Concerned Christian Conservatives conservatively concerned in a Christian way about McCain and Palin" out of mere pixels. I've heard so much about this "Right Wing Smear Machine" - transmitting memes from "hate blogs" to "hate radio" and thence to "Faux News" until it finally gets picked up by the real media - and I'd just be as thrilled as the dickens to see it actually happen.Įvery Great Illusion Has Three Parts: The Pledge, the Turn, and the Prestige: And of course Jim Treacher for sounding the alarm on this first. So this ties directly into a major presidential campaign.Īnd if you do push it to El Rushbo - mention Patterico's "Wasilla Resident" offering derogatory information about Palin, strangely doing so from a computer that traced to Waukegon, IL, just outside of Chicago. Only this time, we know that David Axelrod is the god-damned "Master of Astroturfing," according to no lesser source than Business Week. And Limbaugh himself knows well all about "seminar callers" who call his show with a similar script. It's a straight-up shot of 200 proof mendacity, with a kicker of contempt for the intelligence of conservatives. (Mentions on the radio do not translate into traffic spikes - which I learned to my disappointment when El Rushbo mentioned me twice with no discernible impact.)īut this seems to be kind of a good story. tip him about this? I'm not traffic whoring. Honestly, FoxNews, are you going to do anything with this? All you have to do is scan your own comment threads (O'Reilly has them, doesn't he?) and look for "different" posters with different names but the same IPs posting comments that follow this three-point script.Ĭan Anyone Who Tips Limbaugh on Occasion. The Prestige: I hear all these great things about Obama and/or did you hear this horrible stuff about Palin?Īnd of course the simple whitebread, just-plain-folks psuedonym. The Turn: My heart is with you guys, really. The Pledge: I'm a conservative/I'm a Christian/I'm a conservative ChristianĢ. Just plain folks, you see, like the good people in your small towns you might see outside the feed store, bitterly clinging to their guns and religion.ġ. (If they don't tell you first.)Īs Treacher pointed out, "Conservative Concern Trolls" always seem to have simple first names as psuedonyms, which is relatively rare on the internet. ![]() Of course our new Concern Troll is a Christian. "Of course"? Why would it be "of course"? That sounds like the sort of answer a liberal who doesn't understand Christians would provide - believing, mistakenly, that stupid Christians labor under the erroneous belief that only their fellow Christians are gifted by Jesus with internet service providers.Ī more likely answer is "Why does that matter?" or "Yes, but why are you asking?" Or of course, "No" - conservative Jews and agnostics are overrepresented in the blogosphere. Later in the thread, someone asked him if he was a Christian (referencing the Conservative Christian Concern troll model), and "jim" answered: Of course. I have always voted for the person that will extort less taxes out of me, this time it looks like it is going to be Obama.ġ) "Friends"/"I make 140,000 per year."Ģ) "My heart is with my fellow conservatives." As far as I can tell I will actually get a larger tax cut under Obama? What gives? I've researched this over and over again and I keep finding the same data. While my heart is with my fellow conservatives I have been doing some research. ![]() Or else they'd know that, having been alerted to this by Jim Treacher, I'm now as obsessive about Astroturfing as a Chicago abortionist is about caring for a born-alive aborted baby. Which is doubly insulting - because they're obviously not reading my blog. The new legions of Concerned Christian Conservative Commenters who are - inexplicably - suddenly coming out of the woodwork to slam McCain/Palin despite the ticket now having the enthusiastic support of nearly 90% of Republicans are now infesting my blog, too. SeptemAnd the Conservative Blogs Get "Conservative Tax Concerns" Astroturfing ![]()
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