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Politico Notices: Hey, There Seems to be Some Light-to-Moderate Astroturfing Going on for ObamaAs has been endlessly documented, David Axelrod was the "gold standard of astroturf campaigns" for his many PR clients. Astroturf, in case you don't know, is "artificial grassroots" -- a paid consultant attempting to create the illusion of grassroots support. Readers of this site know we had a lot of "Concerned Christian Conservatives" who showed up in the months before an election to write the same script ten times a week: 1) I'm a Christan. 2) I'm a conservative. I voted for Regan and both Bushes! 3) But I have these concerns about McCain and Palin... like, did you know that Palin tried to ban all books about dinosaurs from public libraries? And that her daughter got knocked up and is, we can surmise, the victim of bad, slutty parenting? Google it! Anyway, this gives me concern as a Christian Conservative... I'm just saying, as a Christian Conservative, I want to vote for McCain/Palin, but all these concerns about them are making me consider Obama... and maybe you should too! This happened so often it was definitely organized. Perhaps not by Axelrod-- we could never prove that -- but somewhere out in lefty-land, on Organizing for America, a bunch of lefties got the idea to "Moby" (discojagoff Moby suggested this tactic in 2004) and write comments on rightwing blogs to depress the vote and encourage crossover voting for Obama. (This is why some of you are accused of being "concern trolls," which I think may have been a term created by 4chan to describe this (or a similar) sort of thing. We have, in fact, had this go on here -- and people are a little quick on the trigger to throw out the accusation. But it did really happen. Oddly, after the election, all these Concerned Christian Conservatives stopped posting on the blog. They no longer had any interest in sharing their concerns with us.) Whether Axelrod (did I mention? "the gold standard of astroturf campaigns") is behind any of this, I don't know (but he almost certainly is). In recent weeks, Light has published virtually identical “Letters to the Editor” in support of President Barack Obama in more than a dozen newspapers.Every letter claimed a different residence for Light that happened to be in the newspaper’s circulation area. Create the illusion of a inevitability. Make people think they are almost alone in disapproving of Obama, so that they self-censor and won't say they disapprove of Obama, and thereby make other people think they're alone in that too. PR, PR, PR. Spin, spin, spin. Alinsky, Alinsky, Alinsky. It was always dishonest. Now it's just pathetic. Thanks to AHFF Geoff. | Recent Comments
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