TagsTagsThe right wing astroturfers are calling in their markers. After defeating Feingold, Johnson himself has turned to K Street for help - hiring homeland security lobbyist Donald H. Kent Jr. as his chief of staff. Johnson is not alone: Many incoming GOP lawmakers have hired registered lobbyists as senior aides. Several ...
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, it ...
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 largest ...
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