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The dirtiest kind of dirty politics: Report: Records search on Joe the Plumber improper. TOLEDO, Ohio – An agency director improperly used state computers to find personal information on “Joe the Plumber,” a government watchdog said in a report released Thursday. There was no legitimate business purpose for the ...
The State of Hawaii has released a statement verifying that they have Barack Obama’s official birth certificate on record. HONOLULU — The state’s Department of Health director on Friday released a statement verifying the legitimacy of Sen. Barack Obama birth certificate. The state has received multiple requests for a ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rumors, Dirty Tricks, birth certificate
Philip Berg appeared on the Michael Savage radio show yesterday, talking about his frivolous and unfounded lawsuit against Barack Obama to force him to disclose his birth certificate. Yes, this again. Following Berg’s radio appearance, we’ve received half a dozen angry emails blasting us for our position against repeating this ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rumors, Dirty Tricks, birth certificate
This is what we posted back on August 11th: Obama ‘Birth Certificate’ Links Not Welcome. This is a public notice that I’m going to be deleting any posted spinoff links that try to promote the “Obama birth certificate” nonsense. I’ve mentioned this several times in comments, but it apparently ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Africa, Rumors, Dirty Tricks, birth certificate
Jake Tapper at ABC News says “conservative blogs were all atwitter” about that silly rumor that Michelle Obama called an African media organization and ranted about racism. The conservative blogs are all atwitter about a bizarre interview allegedly with Michelle Obama on a Web site called “African Press International.” ...
You’ve probably seen a story floating around that Michelle Obama telephoned an African media organization and made some outrageous statements. It smelled like seafood to us, and sure enough, Byron York has the official word at The Corner. I’m sure a lot of you have seen references this morning ...
If you got some strange results trying to load LGF a few minutes ago, don’t panic. We’re just tweaking some server settings, and we all know how painful that can be. Meanwhile, here’s an interesting podcast from Shire Network News, featuring Dr. Rusty: Podcast explains Astroturfing For Fun and Profit. ...
Election 2008, Politics, astroturf, Dirty Tricks, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin
Now someone at Daily Kos is going through the site and deleting diaries that advocate “astroturfing.”
Election 2008, Politics, astroturf, Dirty Tricks, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin
The Jawa Report seems to have gotten someone’s attention. UPDATE: Within an hour of this post going up, YouTube videos implicating Ethan Winner were yanked, sockpuppet accounts deleted, and more importantly, the Wikipedia entry on David Axelrod began to edit out mentions of his well known astroturfing campaigns. Hmmm, ...
Election 2008, Politics, astroturf, Dirty Tricks, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin
In a monumental post, Rusty Shackleford traces one of the sources of the smears against Sarah Palin and finds some not-too-surprising connections: The Jawa Report: Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated ‘Grassroots’ Smear Campaigns & the People that Run Them. Our research suggests that a subdivision of one of the ...
Election 2008, Politics, astroturf, Dirty Tricks, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin
Psst. Keep your eye on Jawa Report tonight. Rusty’s breaking a story that might be big. Ace is dropping hints.
Election 2008, Politics, astroturf, Dirty Tricks, Barack Obama
Suddenly appearing among the Google search results for “sarah palin gay,” a web site titled: Sarah Palin Supports Gay Rights. Sarah Palin (GOV-Alaska-Republican), supports gay rights, says Anchorage Daily News. Quote “Gov. Sarah Palin vetoed a bill Thursday that sought to block the state from giving public employee benefits ...
LGF, Election 2008, John McCain, Vice President, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Dirty Tricks
Another MoveOn.org offshoot group is employing a bizarre, thuggish tactic to try to intimidate Republican voters out of donating money to conservative groups: Group Plans Campaign Against G.O.P. Donors. Nearly 10,000 of the biggest donors to Republican candidates and causes across the country will probably receive a foreboding “warning” ...
LGF, MoveOn.org, Leftists, Progressives, Intimidation, Dirty Tricks
The ‘noquarter’ blog run by Larry Johnson has been added to the blacklist for spinoff links; I won’t allow any more links to that site because it’s been proven many times over to be dishonest and untrustworthy. Unfortunately there are quite a few people who apparently have not gotten the ...
If you haven’t already, go read the debunking of that doctored video clip featuring a Clinton operative saying nasty things about Indianans. (Before you email asking why I haven’t posted the video...) I suspect that in this election season we’re going to see a lot more of this stuff, and ...
LGF, Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Indiana, Dirty Tricks, Politics