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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-12-06 08:21 AM
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20. I Want To Find Out Whose Astroturfing This
Slowly, the blogs are starting to shed some light on what Hillary Clinton so aptly described as the Right Wing Conspiracy. It's a group of "invisible" people like Barbara Comstock, Morton Blackwell and other "black-op" operators who plant these stories that then are played up on hate radio and onto the wingnut TV talk shows....creating a controversy where it didn't exist and completing the smear...turning it from a "rumor" to "news/fact". This crap has to stop and has to be called out when it's seen and those who are directing it have to be exposed.

It's one thing if this article appeared in the Moonie times and only circulated inside the Beltway. It's another thing having this story pass across AP wires that is then used in hundreds of small papers across the country...many editing down the article to just the "juicy" parts and readers then assuming this is a real scandal rather than an astroturfed one.

If Democrats or just plain democracy is to advance, this machine must be exposed and destroyed.

Cheers...
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