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Category Archives: astroturf politics
Not Your Personal Army: How Unite Blue Ignited A War With Anonymous And Then Tried To Blame Their Critics
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Share the post “Not Your Personal Army: How Unite Blue Ignited A War With Anonymous And Then Tried To Blame Their Critics”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The Anonymous hacktivist collective likes to say they are Not Your Personal Army (NYPA), meaning they do not … Continue reading
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Tagged @EdieVP, @ibub2, @Janeal Eller, @PapiTerra, @SDzzz, @ziletrezo, anonymous, flame war, pedophile, Steven Hatlestad, Unite Blue, William Talley, Zach Green
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(CORRECTION) @UniteBlue Did Not Receive a Stolen Twitter Account
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Share the post “(CORRECTION) @UniteBlue Did Not Receive a Stolen Twitter Account”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailMar 4 – CORRECTION: In attempting to prove his ownership of the @ConnectTheLeft Twitter account, Simon @SimonSayeth published the incorrect email from Twitter. Below is a bumped, amended slideshow … Continue reading
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Naked Astroturf on Twitter (UPDATE: “Tea Party For Mitt” Bot Still Tweeting)
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Share the post “Naked Astroturf on Twitter (UPDATE: “Tea Party For Mitt” Bot Still Tweeting)”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail This week, a hashtag meant to embarrass liberalism wound up inadvertently revealing that Twitter tea party activism is mostly just technology. Below is a Chirpstory … Continue reading
BREAKING: Romney’s Social Media Director Involved With Collapsing National Bloggers Club
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Share the post “BREAKING: Romney’s Social Media Director Involved With Collapsing National Bloggers Club”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailLast Friday, Alex Brant-Zawadzki blogged that Bill Murphy (right), the Social Media Director for the Romney campaign, is an associate of Ali Akbar, disgraced President of the … Continue reading
Colonel Mustard Pets a Troll
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Share the post “Colonel Mustard Pets a Troll”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Like the President, William A. Jacobson, Esq. (pictured) has been the Senior Editor of a Harvard legal publication, the International Law Journal. From 1984 to 2007 he maintained a successful private practice … Continue reading
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Rush Limbaugh Uses Actual, Real, Not-Imaginary Astroturfers
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Share the post “Rush Limbaugh Uses Actual, Real, Not-Imaginary Astroturfers”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe story Rush Limbaugh’s comeback management wants you to believe is that #stoprush is astroturf, whereas he is really extraordinarily popular and an entertainer. Actually, there’s nothing entertaining about Rush Limbaugh … Continue reading
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Rush Limbaugh Wouldn’t Recognize Real Activism if it Smacked Him in the Head with an “Occupy” Sign
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Share the post “Rush Limbaugh Wouldn’t Recognize Real Activism if it Smacked Him in the Head with an “Occupy” Sign”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail When porcine hate-radio host Rush Limbaugh finished calling Sandra Fluke a “slut” for nine hours, he discovered that two hundred … Continue reading
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Movement Failures and the Debt Ceiling Crisis
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Share the post “Movement Failures and the Debt Ceiling Crisis”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailSo far, Common Cause is the only liberal organization that has brought the power of civil disobedience to bear on the 112th Congress in this time of manufactured debt limit crisis. … Continue reading
Posted in astroturf politics, Austerity, Kulturkampf, progressives, The Teabagger Fail
Tagged crisis, dan choi, debt limit, deficit, gary johnson, movements, tea party
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Morning Awful: National Right To Starve Committee
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Share the post “Morning Awful: National Right To Starve Committee”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThere ought to be truth-in-political advertising laws. I spotted an ad on my site last night for this bunch (link is wearing a condom): With new pro-Right to Work Congressmen and … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Koch’s Suckers
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Share the post “Morning Awful: Koch’s Suckers”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailVia Digby, the circle closes. The Kochs can no longer pretend they’re not behind the tea party “phenomenon.”
Posted in astroturf politics, Morning Awful, Teabaggers
Tagged americans for prosperity, astroturfing, billionaire, koch, tea party
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American Seniors Association Update
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Share the post “American Seniors Association Update”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Remember that barely-disguised Republican Party front group that managed to grab some network airtime during the health care debate last year? Befitting the zeitgeist of monetized revolution, the American Seniors Association has transitioned … Continue reading
