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Confirmation of Paid Democrat Trolls?
American Thinker ^ | 5 Oct 13 | Randy Fardal

Posted on 10/05/2013 10:17:26 AM PDT by xzins

On Thursday, Democrat tool Chad Henderson claimed to have enrolled in ObamaCare while most others' attempts failed. News organizations eagerly lapped up his story. Apparently, though, the story was "too good to check," because when someone finally did, it fell apart, discrediting Big Media, the Democrats, and ObamaCare.

Conservative and libertarian websites now are reporting the corrected story, and even some Big Media outlets reluctantly are reporting it. But almost as devastating to the left is Mr. Henderson's confession that he is being paid to post pro-Democrat propaganda on the internet:

Secondly, I work for an organization that pays me quarterly to posts [sic] the political stuff as "advocacy" (so it's kind of my job).

He claims to be employed as a "Volunteer at Organizing for America." Does that mean the president's OFA fundraising machine actually has to pay people to post Democrat talking points on other websites?

Does it also pay "trolls" to disrupt civil debate in the comment sections of conservative websites?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; astroturf; chadhenderson; corruption; deathpanels; dncbrownshirts; fraud; mediabias; obama; obamacare; ofa; orwelliannightmare; paidshill; paidtrolls; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; trolling; vikingkitties; zerocare
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1 posted on 10/05/2013 10:17:26 AM PDT by xzins
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from the article: Does it also pay "trolls" to disrupt civil debate in the comment sections of conservative websites?
2 posted on 10/05/2013 10:18:29 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins
Does it also pay "trolls" to disrupt civil debate in the comment sections of conservative websites?

Of course they do. They generally don't last long around here.
3 posted on 10/05/2013 10:19:01 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: xzins

There was a thread on FR Just before the last election about this. Don’t have any idea how to find it.


4 posted on 10/05/2013 10:20:16 AM PDT by raybbr (I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
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To: xzins
discrediting Big Media, the Democrats, and ObamaCare.

How does it discredit them? It really defines them.

5 posted on 10/05/2013 10:21:53 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: xzins

It’s certainly possible.

I’ve been accused of doing so myself.


6 posted on 10/05/2013 10:22:29 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: xzins

What’s that going on there in the woods???


7 posted on 10/05/2013 10:22:31 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
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To: raybbr

I agree. I’ve read something like this on FR before but I can’t find it.


8 posted on 10/05/2013 10:22:41 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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After what happens every time someone supports personal freedom and really limiting government to its constitutional duties around here, I would have to say yes.

Strangely, many of the disrupters fighting the hardest claim to be social conservatives! They are either statists, or socialist conservatives.


9 posted on 10/05/2013 10:24:33 AM PDT by noprogs (Borders, Language, Culture)
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To: raybbr
"There was a thread on FR Just before the last election about this. Don’t have any idea how to find it"

Was it one of these, maybe?

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2939749/posts

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2963060/posts

10 posted on 10/05/2013 10:25:23 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))))
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To: xzins

My local paper (CourierPress, Evansville, Indiana) has had paid trolls for years. It’s obvious when they have names that include clues like “Kstreet” etc. This is smart, but evil, and it needs to be exposed, destroyed, and buried.


11 posted on 10/05/2013 10:25:30 AM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell)
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To: raybbr

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2939749/posts

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2963060/posts


12 posted on 10/05/2013 10:26:01 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))))
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To: xzins

from one main media website I make comments on
it has become clear to me this past year that the
Obama WH has an entire army of media trolls
working every media form and forum possible

they can be detectable and often are

because their indovtrination and training
results in a common form, style and key-word-set
of political speach with the Obama WH policy
position clearly less than one-degree of separation
between its official language and theirs


13 posted on 10/05/2013 10:26:02 AM PDT by Wuli
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Confirmation of Paid Democrat Trolls?

Yep, they been around since Satan started to lie.

14 posted on 10/05/2013 10:27:06 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: xzins

Check out this face book page!!! It is not going well for Obamacare!!!

https://www.facebook.com/Healthcare.gov


15 posted on 10/05/2013 10:35:26 AM PDT by tallyhoe
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RE “Does it also pay “trolls” to disrupt civil debate in the comment sections of conservative websites?”

Something about that phrase makes me think of the 2012 GOP primary here LOL


16 posted on 10/05/2013 10:37:06 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: xzins
I agree with 99% of what Randy Fardal says here, but there is one sentence that is like fingers nails scraping on a blackboard to me.

“We already know that Democrat activists illegally censor constitutionally protected free speech by pulling fire alarms when conservatives speak on college campuses; are they using similar stunts on the internet?”

One more time.
Only government(s) can CENSOR.
These little pukes can illegally disrupt the speeches, but they cannot censor.

17 posted on 10/05/2013 10:40:16 AM PDT by Tupelo (Snatching Defeat from the jaws of Victory, an old Republican Tradition.)
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To: xzins

Fake phoney fraud like the rest of the democrat party.


18 posted on 10/05/2013 10:42:16 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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Secondly, I work for an organization that pays me quarterly to posts [sic] the political stuff as "advocacy" (so it's kind of my job).

Well, well, well. What do we have here?

If you go to the Healthcare.gov Facebook page, you can tell who the paid trolls are. But they're out-numbered 1000-1.

19 posted on 10/05/2013 10:45:35 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: tallyhoe
Paid Amateur Face Trolls say "we LURVE Bronco Bama!!"

the President people have tolt me they WILL pay my rent Until my baby daddy is paroled.


20 posted on 10/05/2013 10:48:29 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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