Posted on 01/24/2010 2:45:52 PM PST by Painesright
Now that people are paying attention, the Astroturfers are coming out of the woodwork:
Jan Chen of Seattle writes to the Northwest Asian Weekly (a small Asian paper serving the Seattle area):
As one listens to the Republican anger over health care reform, one can imagine an anti-government protester cheerfully paying premiums on insurance policies that drop you after you make a claim, or happily sauntering out of an emergency room that denied them treatment because of a coverage problem. One can imagine a town hall sign-waver enthusiastically forking over most of their pay to bill collectors after suffering a catastrophic injury, thinking, “Wow, the free market system is great.”
Meanwhile, Gloria Elle writes to the Baltimore Chronicle — on the same page as Mark Spivey and Ellie Light:
As one listens to the Republican anger over health care reform, one can imagine an anti-government protester cheerfully paying premiums on insurance policies that cancel you for making a claim, or happily sauntering out of an emergency room that denied them treatment because of a coverage problem. One can imagine a town-hall sign-waver enthusiastically forking over most of their pay to bill collectors after suffering a catastrophic injury, thinking, “Wow, the free market system is great.”
Jan Chen and Gloria Elle certainly have a similar writing style, don’t they?
To the word. Thanks to liberrocky on Twitter for the find.
Freepers discovered another one: Janet Leigh. (Cute.) This one is explained here. [UPDATE: To make it clear and explicit, the link shows that the very same pro-Obama letter was written by Janet Leigh to NewburgGraphic.com, and by Earnest Gardner to the Memphis Flyer. She also finds Janet Leigh next to Mark Spivey in the Santa Barbara Independent.]
The story is exploding. There is Astroturf everywhere...
(Excerpt) Read more at patterico.com ...
Will the true Astroturfers please stand up?
Wonder who they will sacrifice/throw under the bus for this one??
It’s kind of stupid.
“Jan Chen”
Celebrate “Diversity”
Next, look for letters from Washington, Jackson, and Flores.
bookmark.
I think the name of the author who originated this letter was Anel Fisher... butt I could be mistaken.
I just had a letter to editor published today which pointed out that this past tuesday, two different writers advocating govt healthcare asserted that it should be paid for by “a small surcharge on the wealthiest Americans”, and two other talking points were practically identical re insurance companies.
BTTT
Once this is exposed where even my dad and his prayer group knows about it fur will fly. They caught on the BC thing last week even though the MSM never touched it.
I live in this little town with a little local newspaper and I swear that I read that very same letter early last week! The writer was a local true believer democrat/socialist!
So someone is providing the text of these letters - most likely coming from the DNC?
This is rather interesting.
I guess we’re seeing the Plouffe influence now.
I would not be surprised if the WH sends dozens of astroturfed letters. The problem is that the papers are likely to choose the same ones.
As a Meta-Proctologist, I know eggs ackley what you’re referring to. Unpleasant!
Good lord these people are morons.
“Plouffters”?
ping.
It's a pretty common liberal tactic. They use a lot of blogs, too, as main sources and just push more lies. Been fighting animal rights idiots over this for years.
“Plouffters”?
YES!! Excellent!
Wonder how much of the porkulus package was paid to the author of this little diddy?
The reason the Dems are having such a difficult time dealing with the Tea Party movement is that they’re so accustomed to faking this sort of populism that they don’t recognize the real thing when it’s staring them in the face.
Has anyone been tracking how many of the publications are legit media? The couple I have checked out seem to be on-line only, with a decidedly leftist bent. They reminded me of those free left-wing weeklies found in most cities.
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