re: #923 ShanghaiEd

The DNC has been paying bloggers (and blog readers) since at least 2004. That’s not really a secret and links to such are rather easy to find with a simple Google search.

ojr.org

“I read blogs from time to time,” (Howard) Dean said. “Not because I sit down and intend to, because I don’t have that much time, but because supporters send me e-mails with various blogs that they read…We have two people that we pay to read blogs, 25 or whatever it is per day.”

“So even Dean, a politician out of the running who made a name for himself via the blogosphere — and who was speaking to a room full of bloggers — still admits he has to pay staffers to read them for him.”

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People who knowingly and maliciously print or otherwise publish lies about other people, public persona’s or not, should be punished for their lack of basic human decency. At the very least they should be publicly exposed and held up to widespread ridicule.

But I’m one of those who thinks that Fred Phelps and his cult of lunatics should be viciously attacked with baseball bats every time they show their putrid faces in public…

SO
THERE,
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