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11.03.09 - 1:54 PM
Follow the Money
With so-called right-wing AstroTurfers more visible - if spelling-challenged - than ever, Media Matters Action Network is launching a new database to expose the links between that so-called grassroots movement and the well-organized corporations, lobbying firms, conservative groups and think tanks that in reality fund them. See ConservativeTransparency.org for a wealth of information on the money behind the movement.
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Show AllCool. I've only really seen Maddow expose this stuff before.
Looks like a Special Ed field trip.
Maybe they can take some of that corporate money and buy a spell-checker? Or get an freakin education.
"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts." - John Keats
"we don't need no education; we just need our thoughts controlled."
(apologies to Mr. Pink)
A relevant side question: how many of the deluded demonstrators would still turn up in they knew where the money for their stupidity came from?
It sort of begs this semi-rhetorical question: whom is scarier, the honestly deluded, the ones who know they're being hustled but go along anyway, or those orchestrating it?
WHO is scarier.
What is scary is that we know who these ass holes are, but they are still alive!
And postings as yours are the scariest thing in here.
Tell me, you wanna change the world ... by using the very
same techniques that didnt work for the last 1000 years?
You know, like going out and randomly murder people you
THINK of being this or that (in this case: people
being 'responsible' for right wing propaganda).
Wow. I am impressed.
so can we expose it on the left too? WWP and InternationalANSWER funded that fake anti-war movement of the Bush years. Who is funding the pro-Obama care movement? I know unions bus people in. ACORN pays "volunteer" protestors. Expose it on both sides.
Just because the right is dead wrong, doesn't CHANGE the fact that Baroke Obama's morally, legally, intellectually and fiscally bankrupting US like the 7 Bushist presidents before him.
Are the mis-spelling intentional? One of the usual hallmarks of sponsored demonstrations is printed signs. These people are not using them. The spelling may be screwy to keep people from suspecting, no? Is this just too paranoid?
Not that I'd claim that these folks are some kind of brain trust, but the mis-spellings have been so widespread and collected up and laughed at so thoroughly that this article barely even mentions them, it's old news. You'd think that people would be a little more careful.