Posted on 09/23/2014 3:57:12 PM PDT by iowamark
The Rush Limbaugh Show Exposes the Stop Rush Conspiracy
September 23, 2014- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s newest email spam, asking their recipients to sign a petition calling for sponsors to end their relationship with The Rush Limbaugh Show, is based on the two-year-old Stop Rush political protest as it’s inspiration. After an investigation, The Rush Limbaugh Show has discovered a far darker story to Stop Rush, and is today releasing the hidden story of the people and motives behind the Stop Rush conspiracy.
The Stop Rush group claims to be made up of ordinary consumers unhappy with Rush Limbaugh’s comments. The group claims to be “grassroots,” just concerned consumers who won’t shop at businesses that advertise with Rush Limbaugh. In truth, however, there are no potential customers here, just a small number of hardcore political activists founded by Angelo Carusone, EVP of Media Matters for America.
It’s remarkably tiny. Only 10 Twitter users account for almost 70% of all StopRush tweets to advertisers, amplified by illicit software. In addition, almost every communication from a StopRush activist originates from outside the State of the advertiser. Thus, these activists are not and never would have been customers… their only role is to harass small businesses in an attempt to interfere with their operations, as long as they are advertising with Rush.
“A small number of politically motivated out of-state activists are distributing target lists indiscriminately, and annoying small businesses until they give up the advertising deals that help them grow, or risk being unable to conduct business at all. It’s not even activism… it’s blackmail,” according to Brian Glicklich, Rush Limbaugh Show spokesperson.
How does this small group make themselves look so much bigger than they actually are? Stop Rush has deployed custom automated tweeting software, in violation of Twitter’s rules, that lets their activists send tweets at a rate far faster than any unassisted person could do manually. They send barrages of thousands of messages through this software until advertisers are bullied and harassed into cancellation.
These activists have long operated in secret and anonymously. But now, The Rush Limbaugh Show has the results of an investigation that names the people tweeting, facebooking, and emailing small businesses with harassing and bullying messages over and over until they surrender. These names are surprising, and include a tenured professor at Kent State University using her official email account to badger advertisers.
Meet The Top Members of The Stop Rush Conspiracy
This list was developed so that advertisers and others can judge the credibility and motives of the activist bullies anonymously behind Stop Rush. Any other use is not endorsed.
Name: Matthew Mitchell
Location: Altamonte Springs, FL
ID: Captain Murdock/@CaptMurdock
Name: Nancy Padak
Location: Kent State University
ID: npadak@kent.edu, facebook.com/nancy.padak
Fun Fact: Emails advertisers with harassment from her official Kent State email address. Gives businesses she has no relationship with 1 star ratings if they advertise on Rush. Friend of Cherie Richards
Name: Jason Rey
Location: Georgia
ID: Frantic Quark/@FranticQuark
Name: Lauren Reynolds
Location: Los Angeles, CA
ID: Lauren Reynolds/@chloesty, lonelydays46@gmail.com, facebook.com/lauren.reynolds.946179
Fun Fact: Gives businesses she has no relationship with 1 star ratings if they advertise on Rush
Name: Cherie Richards
Location: Powell, Ohio
ID: Kitty Fitzgerald/@KittyFitz50 kittyfitzgerald@gmail.com, facebook.com/cherier1
Fun Fact: Regularly changes online identity to hide anonymously, gives businesses she has no relationship with 1 star ratings if they advertise on Rush
Name: Sarah Smyea Rivers
Location: Whittier, CA
ID: SueBryce/@eurekasue49
Fun Fact: Changes ID frequently with different numbers to remain anonymous, has sent over 96,000 tweets
Name: Dennis William Rohner
Location: Gainesville, FL
ID: Shawtoo@Shawtoo
Name: Linda Kotsenburg Swanholm
Location: Covina, CA
ID: CMMorgan/@socallks, lswanholm@aol.com
Fun Fact: Develops, administers, and distributes target lists indiscriminately, gives businesses she has no relationship with 1 star ratings if they advertise on Rush
Name: Carol Kernahan Wallin
Location: Anaheim, CA
ID: Uses @Flushfools and @hrhprincess, facebook.com/carol.kernahan.7, flushfools@gmail.com
Fun Fact: Writes for DailyKos under both identities, long bullying/harassing pieces about political opponents.
#StopRush is not a grassroots consumer movement. It was created and developed by left wing political organization Media Matters for America Executive Vice President Angelo Carusone.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/03/angelo_carusone_stop_rush_limbaugh.php
Most #StopRush members are politically-motivated activists who send out tens of thousands of bullying tweets and Facebook posts.
#StopRush leaders develop and indiscriminately publish targeting lists for bullying and harassment by computer and phone, but hide in anonymity themselves. They even target charities and public service organizations for bullying.
When challenged, #StopRush leaders claim they have been threatened with violence as an excuse for using fake identities, but produce no evidence of that at all. And #StopRushexpresses no concern about the safety of those on the targeting lists they distribute themselves. They simply need anonymity to bully with impunity.
The simple fact that #StopRush activists refuse to provide their names is clear evidence of the deception at the core of the #StopRush intimidation effort. Real consumers tell you who they are.
In fact, 80% of all #StopRush attacks are from activists not even in the same state as their target.
As measured over a 24-day period,almost 70% of all targeted Twitter #StopRushmessages came from only 10 Twitter accounts.The #StopRush movement is simply a small number of extremists sending tens of thousands of tweets and other messages.
#StopRush members use automated Twitter software to send and retweet messages quickly and without any thought or effort. Users simply click on a tweet supplied by #StopRush, and it’s automatically sent to targeted sponsors.
And for fast retweeting of leadership “seed” posts, another piece of software is used, which allows users to retweet with just one click:
During a measured 24-day period, 88% of all tweets were identified as coming from Unite Blue member accounts.
#StopRush supporters use the email associated with their employment – without permission from their employer – to give added authority as they harass and bully targets from the published lists. Below is an email from a staff member at Kent University:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/scholasticprofessional/authors/list.asp?author=P
In summary, #StopRush is an organized effort by Media Matters for America to widely and indiscriminately distribute lists of targets, and harass and bully them, under cover of anonymity. It is not grassroots, but deployed by extremist activists using deception and automated software to appear bigger and more prevalent than they are.
The very same outfit financed by Soros, run by David Brock, and is tax-exempt?
Where is Lois Lerner?
Needs to go after these people and HARD.
It would PROVE she's "non-partisan".
They try this on other conservatives too. People like Scott Walker, Clarence Thomas and even people not so conservative like George Bush, Mitt Romney and Chris Christie. The first rule is to think anything the left says is probably a lie or manipulative propaganda.
Shes unemployed. She isn’t going after anyone anymore. Well, except behind the scenes and off the official books...
Mit and co. I see it as their own tactics coming back to bite them so I don’t shed lots of tears. But it is still wrong.
People have to get over the idea that the left are Americans just like them that happen to have a different view. The truth is that they are the same communists from the Soviet era. Names are different, faces are younger. But its the same people with the same mrntality that hates the idea of America. they are our enemy in every measure one can take.
They hate the country, their ethics are situational and they boo God at DNC conventions. People say ‘Oh they arent that bad”.
Really? Are all these things we see daily done by holograms of these people and the actual humans are just ‘funin’ us?
Yes. They are that bad. And as time passes, people will come to understand they are worse. Maybe they will understand it while ‘burning in the camps’, maybe with them burning in the camps. But eventually an understanding will be reached.
The way to stop Rush is to stop listening, then he can’t live inside your head. I stopped listening to MSNBCPMSABCNBSETC and I am happier for it. Perhaps these liberal excrement rejects could do the same and just turn the knob off. But they do not want to live Rush free, they want everyone else to live Rush free. Quite simply they want to restrict and monopolize thought because they cannot win the debate on logic, reason or principle so they will try by force. Wussies!!!!!!
I ditched TV entirely back in 2000 or so. And I cannot grasp how people can on one hand, bitch about the evil the msm and various shows promote, or the pro sports crap, then send them a tithe of $100 or so a month to pay them to do it.
But that aside yes, the left is entirely about ‘shut up’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWHgUE9AD4s
ping!
The fact the Media Matters is a tax free non-profit really boils me!
They are one of the most thinly veiled partisan organizations in the country, and they get and USE a non profit tax exemption? Seriously, they are more partisan than the Kos Kids, Huff and Puff Post and the DUmp combined.
There is no justice or sense what so ever in this! Can’t their status be contested in court? Perhaps Judicial Watch could take it on?
Interestingly, there is a Pia Carusone listed as Executive Director of Americans For Responsible Solutions. Looks like a family of lefty activists.
That’s some mighty fine sleuthing Rush’s people have accomplished here. It had to have cost him considerable time and money to uncover all of that. Makes me think that he’s planning to spend just a bit more to prosecute ALL of them. He certainly has the evidence and he has a cause of action.
Not only could Rush sue the above named individuals, but, in the case of those like the idiot prof from Kent State, they may be subject to termination of employment. It would be just.
I have a feeling these people aren’t sleeping very well tonight. I hope I’m right about that, because the thought of it makes me smile.
Pray that Rush goes after them HARD! Time to put this crap to bed......this is Banan Republic stuff.
So who is relevant in your mind?
And has 16-20 million listeners.
Bookmarked/StopRush
Stalinist scumbags that don’t much care for Liberty.
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