Posted on 09/25/2014 7:24:57 AM PDT by xzins
You may have heard about the so-called “grassroots movement” to force local advertisers to stop advertising on the Rush Limbaugh program, allegedly because of consumer opposition to Rush’s conservative views.
It turns out that this so-called Stop Rush campaign isn’t a grassroots campaign at all, but a carefully crafted conspiracy of a small group of radical leftwing activists to bully advertisers into dropping Rush’s program and muffle one of the most effective conservative voices in America in the lead-up to the 2014 midterms and silence him permanently before the 2016 presidential election.
There is now stunning proof that only a small group of radical Leftists connected with Media Matters are involved in the "Stop Rush" campaign - NOT masses of Americans. Radical leftwing advocacy group Media Matters' disgusting attempts to silence our viewpoints are nothing new - but now the dirty tactics of Media Matters have been revealed, and they are more deceptive than you can imagine.
We don’t use the term “conspiracy” lightly, and we here at CHQ generally lean toward skepticism when friends bring us tales of unseen forces manipulating major events. But in this case the evidence (links below) proves that only a few radicals at leftwing advocacy organization Media Matters are running and participating in this effort to intimidate both local radio stations that carry Rush, and local "Mom-and-Pop" businesses that advertise on his show.
They have used technology to create tweets from people who don't exist, to use abuse accounts on Facebook, and to intimidate small businesses who advertise on conservative shows. Media Matters is vicious, and dangerous to your freedom as few other domestic threats have been.
Imagine if you are a small business owner and you started receiving a steady flow of negative emails and saw tweets and Facebook postings about how horrible you are - and that you thought they were coming from customers. It would scare you to death! The fact is, this is happening to businesses across the country who advertise during Rush's show on their local stations. But the fact is also that these are phantom customers - they do not exist!
This is really a form of economic terrorism. And it is fraud and in some cases might very well be actionable in a court of law, (here's an example) so let us explain exactly how this was put in motion and how it works.
On 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 its 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 leftwing political activists founded by Angelo Carusone, EVP of Media Matters for America.
And like Mr. Carusone, it’s remarkably tiny.
Only 10 Twitter users account for almost 70% of all StopRush tweets to advertisers, but their impact is amplified by illicit software.
In addition, almost every communication from a StopRush activist originates from outside the home 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.
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 even include a professor at Kent State University using her official email account to badger advertisers.
Here are the names and some information on some of the top terrorists:
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: 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: 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: Sarah Smyea Rivers Location: Whittier, CA ID: SueBryce/@eurekasue49 Fun Fact: Changes ID frequently with different numbers to remain anonymous
Name: Dennis William Rohner Location: Gainesville, FL ID: Shawtoo@Shawtoo has sent over 96,000 tweets
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.
What can you do to fight this vicious and dangerous conspiracy?
First of all, show them they are no longer anonymous and they can’t hide.
You can do that by calling Kent State University and demanding that the University sever its relationship with Nancy Padak for breach of the Kent State Code of Conduct, specifically its provisions requiring university faculty and staff to “Practice personal and professional integrity, and to discourage all forms of dishonesty, deceit…” The Kent State University Code of Conduct may be found here and Kent State University President, Dr. Beverly Warren’s office phone is 330-672-2210.
You can let Matthew Mitchell of Altamonte Springs, FL; Jason Rey down in Georgia, Lauren Reynolds of Los Angeles, CA; Cherie Richards of Powell, Ohio; Sarah Smyea Rivers of Whittier, CA; Dennis William Rohner of Gainesville, FL; Linda Kotsenburg Swanholm of Covina, CA and Carol Kernahan Wallin of Anaheim, CA that you are on to the game and want it to stop, their contact information is list above.
Finally, and most importantly, you can patronize Rush Limbaugh’s advertisers and tell them that you are there because you heard about them on the Rush Limbaugh program.
I have liked Rush Limbaugh from the first day I heard him, on AFN Europe in about 1997. He was on in the evening for about an hour. We didn’t get the entire program.
There was even an early attempt to blacklist him from AFN. One of my subordinates, a Benedictine nun, and a true liberal (who eventually forsook her vows), began a campaign to have him removed from AFN (Armed Forces Network). When she asked me about Rush — and I’d just discovered him — I sang his praise and his conservatism. She looked like I’d just urinated in her coffee. As I said, she went on to go back on her vows, her cohorts trying to rid AFN of Rush were not successful, and Rush went on to fame and fortune.
And it was about that same time that I discovered Free Republic. Been here ever since.
They will not succeed. The only way to stop Rush is to “Breitbart” him.
Is that old windbag still on the air?
The atheists and the LGBT mafia do this too.
This has been attempted many times before and Limbaugh just keeps getting stronger.
To borrow a phrase from ‘Platoon’, the only one who can stop Rush, is Rush.
The left knows EXACTLY what they are doing. Their horizon is longer than the middle of next week, too.
Too bad “our” side doesn’t have a clue.
The bastards record every word of his program and sift through it looking for something to get him on.
If they don’t find anything, they make it up.
This is why I really hope Rush Limbaugh has good security around him now—there are enough “crazies” out there willing to do something drastic against Limbaugh that his life is now in potential danger—and that applies to Sean Hannity, Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved, Matt Drudge, and so on.
Damn libtard nazis won’t be happy until they have full control and won’t allow anyone to speak out.
So, where does a person obtain this automatic tweeting software? I ask only out of curiosity.
You would think a pretty good lawsuit for tortious interference with contractual relations could be filed on this.
That actually happens for about 7 years sometime in the near future.
Nothing infuriates the delusional and the mendacious like truth. They will kill if it threatens their paradigms.
Man you gotta love investigations that exposé the truth about evildoers! I think that sense of justice / righting what’s wrong / fighting against evil / shedding light on their deception and evil methods exists in most investigators I know and it’s probably one of the main reasons I became one. Now I think I need to look up some info on these people...: )
I take comfort in knowing that the left does not have anyone close to rivaling Rush Limbaugh. Their answer to his conservative arguments is to make underhanded attacks because they have no other answers.
It would be briefly entertaining to let one of these fools get on the air and spout their leftist garbage or better yet, defend their dirty deeds.
“tell them that you are there because you heard about them on the Rush Limbaugh program.”
I’ll tell ‘em that even though they don’t!
“This account has been suspended or banned.”
Serves you right for that comment.
Yes it does. And no one will be able to hide then.
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