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EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« on: December 29, 2010, 09:24:25 PM »
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EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corporate propaganda   Updated at 8:48 PM
   
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EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corporate propaganda
by MinistryOfTruth
Wed Dec 29, 2010 at 09:50:53 AM PST

There is a reason Markos Moulitsas is not allowed on MSNBC but Pat Buchanan is.

This is from an amazing article on the corporatist astroturfing ingrained in our media and politics that I found on Alternet. It details current Chinese and Western Neo-Corporate paid astroturfed trolling online.

*****For his film (Astro)Turf Wars, Taki Oldham secretly recorded a training session organized by a rightwing libertarian group called American Majority. The trainer, Austin James, was instructing Tea Party members on how to "manipulate the medium". This is what he told them:

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http://www.alternet.org/media/149197/are_right-wing_lib...


. . . The trainer, Austin James, was instructing Tea Party members on how to "manipulate the medium". This is what he told them:

"Here’s what I do. I get on Amazon; I type in "Liberal Books". I go through and I say "one star, one star, one star". The flipside is you go to a conservative/ libertarian whatever, go to their products and give them five stars. ... This is where your kids get information: Rotten Tomatoes, Flixster. These are places where you can rate movies. So when you type in "Movies on Healthcare", I don’t want Michael Moore’s to come up, so I always give it bad ratings. I spend about 30 minutes a day, just click, click, click, click. ... If there’s a place to comment, a place to rate, a place to share information, you have to do it. That’s how you control the online dialogue and give our ideas a fighting chance."

Over 75% of the funding for American Majority, which hosted this training session, comes from the Sam Adams Alliance. In 2008, the year in which American Majority was founded, 88% of the alliance’s money came from a single donation, of $3.7m(13). A group which trains rightwing libertarians to distort online democratic processes, in other words, was set up with funding from a person or company with a very large wallet.


To find out more, go to:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/12/29/932182/-EX...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x88100

Damn they are onto us. I have been trolling DU since 2001 and getting paid a hefty fee by Karl Rove.
Of course Karl is a cheap bastard and I don't get 200 vacation days and free health care though.
He also makes me take a drug test every 3 months to make sure the DUmmies haven't rubbed off on me.

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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2010, 09:26:49 PM »
Interesting...Trolls are such a nuisance...Especially ones paid/trained by teabaggers...  :thatsright:
« Last Edit: December 29, 2010, 09:29:39 PM by compaqxp »
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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2010, 09:27:58 PM »
I didn't see any mention of the posters being paid, merely that they were being trained.
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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2010, 09:30:53 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on December 29, 2010, 09:26:49 PM
Interesting...Trolls are such a nuisance...Especially ones paid by teabaggers...  :thatsright:

Yeah you are a nuisance is the Democrat party paying you?
Or is it just the GOP who pays us to troll your boards?
I tell you it's a sweet gig getting paid to troll at DU. It sure beats working for a living.
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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2010, 09:33:22 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on December 29, 2010, 09:27:58 PM
I didn't see any mention of the posters being paid, merely that they were being trained.

It's paid training of course.
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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2010, 09:34:07 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on December 29, 2010, 09:26:49 PM
Interesting...Trolls are such a nuisance...Especially ones paid/trained by teabaggers...  :thatsright:

Shut up, ****face.
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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2010, 09:54:58 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on December 29, 2010, 09:26:49 PM
Interesting...Trolls are such a nuisance...Especially ones paid/trained by teabaggers...  :thatsright:

I can tell you about worse ones...
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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2010, 10:08:19 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on December 29, 2010, 09:34:07 PM
Shut up, ****face.

See Compad, I told you you have no friends here.  :rotf:
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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2010, 10:27:05 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on December 29, 2010, 09:26:49 PM
Interesting...Trolls are such a nuisance...Especially ones paid/trained by teabaggers...  :thatsright:

Teabagger: is that what yer boyfriend likes the most about you?  :foff:

Those of us who affiliate with the TEA Party Patriots know you are so concerned about your health that you wouldn't dream of using that kind of language to refer to US, now would you... :therock:
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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2010, 11:07:39 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on December 29, 2010, 09:26:49 PM
Interesting...Trolls are such a nuisance...Especially ones paid/trained by teabaggers...
The ones we get here are almost always dimebaggers.
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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2010, 04:07:55 AM »
  WANTED
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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #11 on: December 30, 2010, 06:23:45 AM »
Right-wing libertarian?    No such thing. 

The loony libertarians are one of your own leftists.

The media is astroturfed?   Lord what a joke this article is.
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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #12 on: December 30, 2010, 08:48:45 AM »
Complaints from the same group that says "DU this poll" and hides conservative books in bookstores doesn't really mean a lot.

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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #13 on: December 30, 2010, 09:06:27 AM »
Right wing "trolls" have to get their "work" done after a full day of earning wages.  Left wing trolls live in their mother's basements and collect government checks, so have far more time to devote to their "causes."

Of course, as specified in the OP, ("I spend about 30 minutes a day..."), being sober and focused, the conservatives can get done in 30 minutes a day.  The lefties, however, being naturally lazy, disorganized, unable to focus and normally using either legal or illegal drugs, need the whole day to get anywhere.   :lmao:
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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #14 on: December 30, 2010, 09:57:16 AM »
I wish they would get their memes straight.

Are we fanatic zealot teabaggers or are we insincere mercenary trolls?
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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #15 on: December 30, 2010, 09:59:48 AM »
We're supposed to be getting PAID for this shit?

Where's my check?
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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #16 on: December 30, 2010, 12:56:17 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on December 30, 2010, 09:59:48 AM
We're supposed to be getting PAID for this shit?

Where's my check?

It's in the mail.............where did you think it was?
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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #17 on: December 30, 2010, 01:05:38 PM »
In my 2 years of Tea Party affiliation I completely missed this training!  I want my dues back  :rotf:
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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #18 on: December 30, 2010, 01:08:26 PM »
WTF is this?  I went to the link to read this crap for myself and the following popped up:

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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #19 on: December 31, 2010, 06:41:56 AM »
Quote from: compaqxp on December 29, 2010, 09:26:49 PM
Interesting...Trolls are such a nuisance...Especially ones paid/trained by teabaggers...  :thatsright:

This coming from the Libtard troll to a Conservative website who hides behind a program that masks his real IP address.

Liberals and places like Media Matters have been training "seminar callers" for a decade now.  Instructing them how to get past call screeners on Conservative talk shows.

It's incredible disingenuious for the left to act shocked at something they themselves do.

What the alternet article unsurprisingly ignores is the fact that KOS is on MSNBC all the time.  He's a favorite of people like Ed Schultz and Keith Olbermann.  David Schuster used to have him on all the time too.

Has he been on recently?  No.  Why? Becuase he got caught posting and promoting a blatantly false poll.

Oh and it's TEA Party not "teabaggers".  That's a term for a homsexual act.  Commonly used by leftists and trolls.
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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #20 on: December 31, 2010, 06:53:02 AM »
Quote from: txradioguy on December 31, 2010, 06:41:56 AM
Oh and it's TEA Party not "teabaggers".  That's a term for a homsexual act.  Commonly used by performed on leftists and trolls.

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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #21 on: December 31, 2010, 07:40:12 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on December 30, 2010, 09:59:48 AM
We're supposed to be getting PAID for this shit?

Where's my check?

Now Sparky.

You know we have so much fun doing this, we'd do it for free, even if we were supposed to be paid.

Right?
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Re: EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corpora
« Reply #22 on: December 31, 2010, 02:01:40 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on December 29, 2010, 09:26:49 PM
Interesting...Trolls are such a nuisance...Especially ones paid/trained by teabaggers...  :thatsright:
You're so DUmb. You know that DUchebag?
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