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Vice President Joe Biden had his “oops” moment Wednesday speaking in a 49er-crazed SF when he told a crowd at a city political fundraiser that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl.” - SF Chronicle, 1-18-12
Astroturfing campaign underway by Team Obama?
Read this post from Patterico on the issue of what is clearly evidence of some type of coordinated campaign to have people write letters and submit them to different papers across the country either using the same message and name for each letter, or the same message and different names.
Who is behind these campaigns? My money’s on Axelrod – longtime king of Astroturfing. Question is: Considering how Democrats were quick to level charges of town hall Astroturfing over the summer regarding the issue of the growing opposition to ObamaCare, think these same lefties will be as quick to make the same accusation towards the planners behind this campaign – an accusation which this time would be legitimate? I won’t hold my breath, because this Astroturfing campaign “supports” the left’s agenda. The other “Astroturfing campaign” from last summer – which wasn’t Astroturfing at all – did not.
The digging as to who is behind this campaign is a job for conservative bloggers, and fair and balanced journalists like Jake Tapper and Major Garrett. Hope to see some concrete evidence soon.
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Immoral and unethical can’t begin to define this practice…It is weird, scary stuff…the most base and dishonest idea only practicable for a neo-marxist campaign…the worst of ” fool the people ” politics.
considering everything else going on, i’m neither surprised or shocked by this.
it’s just the kind of thing that goes on in any marxist country.
I’ve recently come to the conclusion that the best thing to happen to the GOP last year was Arlen Specter switching parties, thus convincing the Dems that they could do whatever they wanted with the 60-vote majority. But the Second Best, I think, was the willful blindness on the part of the left to see first the tea parties and then the town halls as what they were, a genuine populist surge in anger, rather than the Astroturfing they were claiming.
They placed their heads firmly in the sand. They convinced themselves they had “The People” on their side, as though the proletariat was about to rise up and herd all the nation’s filthy property owners into the camps, or some such, and only needed Obamandias’ commands to do so.
Please, PLEASE go ahead and do this “Astroturfing,” guys. You just make yourselves even more deluded.
Just when I think the Democrats have been handed a “get out of jail card” they seem to find ways of ignoring the obvious and continue the “lemmings” death march that should end with a mass extinction in November.
I’m now stumped as to whether this is merely denial or a political death cult going about it’s business.
Pelosi was right about astrotufing,she just got the parties mixed up.Must be all that botox going to her head.
Ah, the Ellie Light Orchestration…same tune, different city!
Deceptive, dishonest, and Democrat all start with “D”.
Coincidence???
Specter’s jump to the jackass party hurt them a whole lot more than if he had stayed a “republican” – it denied Obama the chance to crow that his socialist agenda was a “bipartisan” deal. As brilliant as most the vestigial-brained voters are, there would have been a significant portion of them (mostly mush-brained “independents”) who would have swallowed that line hook, line and tackle box.
Those are the voters who read the LTTOs and think, “Gosh, if that’s the way this one thinks, there must be thousands more like him. I’d better jump on that turnip cart before it really gets moving!”
I expect this administration and its Alinskyite allies to be dishonest and deceptive. My question is this: is it pure coincidence that the same “letter” is published by so many newspapers? We know that the MSM is Obama’s obedient lapdog – are they complicit here, or just woefully inept?
Here in the local Philadelphia outlet, the same “Ellie Light” letter appeared twice, here in the “Community” section on 1/13, and here in the Philadelphia Daily News on 1/19. And these are run by the same leftist media conglomerate here. The only thing that’s different between the letters is the town where “Ellie” supposedly lives.
It shouldn’t take an even marginally functional staff long to check whether a certain letter has already appeared within the last month or so – in your own paper – before publishing it.
So my question is: are they incompetent, or in on it?
“So my question is: are they incompetent, or in on it?”
I’m guessing the press wants to print & read positive Obama comments because it supports their pov. Maybe they are also lazy, but I doubt it’s collusion. Just the ‘same old same old’ MSM – Anything to support President Obama.
Ellie Light, the Deep Throat of the Obama regime? When you’re sinking faster than the Titanic even among some Dems now, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to spread the manure around in an effort to grow some sort of crop.