Posted on 10/11/2016 7:44:10 AM PDT by T Ruth
A significant portion of online support for Hillary Clinton is manufactured by paid astroturf trolls: a large team of supporters who spends long hours responding to negative news on the internet about her. The Clinton SuperPAC Correct the Record, which is affiliated with her campaign, acknowledged in an April press release that it was spending $1 million on project Breaking Barriers to pay people to respond to negative information about Clinton on social media sites like Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and Twitter. That amount has since increased to over $6 million. The trolls create a false impression that Clinton has more support than she really does, because one supporter will frequently create multiple anonymous accounts.
Libby Watson of The Sunlight Foundation observed that the astroturf effort goes far beyond merely defending Clinton, to targeting and intimidating those who criticize her. She told The Daily Beast, This seems to be going after essentially random individuals online.
Brian Donahue, chief executive of the consulting firm Craft Media/Digital, explained the troll operation to The Los Angeles Times, It is meant to appear to be coming organically from people and their social media networks in a groundswell of activism, when in fact it is highly paid and highly tactical. He went on, That is what the Clinton campaign has always been about. It runs the risk of being exactly what their opponents accuse them of being: a campaign that appears to be populist but is a smokescreen that is paid and brought to you by lifetime political operatives and high-level consultants.
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Clinton hired a campaign manager this election cycle known for his scorched earth tactics. . . . By choosing Mook, Clinton reveals the type of campaign she wants, Alinskyite tactics of do anything to win.
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not necessarily. it is always good to know what the enemy is saying about you and to be able to defend against it. sorry on my tablet and cap key not working.
with the inevitable Optus thrown in for good measure
Lame.
I seriously believe her campaign strategy was to strictly avoid, as much as possible, interacting with the real voters — because of the potential for uncertainty and lack of control they might have that goes along with that. They know she’s not a good people person..horrible at it. Instead they focused completely on fundraising, and let the machine do the work! Now the machine does cost A LOT of money, somewhere north of a half a billion dollars, but they thought hey ‘it’s waaay less risky’ then real campaigning with “everyday americans”!
Now is the time for the American people to toss their sabots into the globalist machine and wreak it.
Ash was polite compared to this new crowd.
It’s the Globalists vs the Hegemonists (is that a word??). Hence the new tensions between our ruling political class here in the US and Russia. They reminisce for the old days 2 world powers . I noticed that over the last week the administration, pissed about WikiLeaks dump, is trying to making the case for going after Russia. I think one thing they will try to do is shut down WikiLeaks. I don’t know how they have their operation set up, servers and locations etc. But it wouldn’t surprise me if the goal would be to shut Wikileaks down so the more damaging dirt doesn’t get out before the election, which in this way would be “for the sake of National Security” of course. They need to protect Clinton (and possibly also protect their own as$). Already there is news out there about major news outlet reporters sending the administration drafts of their articles for seeking Whitehouse approval, and apology messages. That does not make the administration look good. I think odds are somewhat high now there may be a huge WikiLeak Dump soon to get most of its information out before possible shut down. We will see, eh?
I admit I’ve seen the very small Hillary bumper stickers (the small ones you can barely read), and always on a Toyota Prius. I’m sure they’re also on Subaru outbacks etc somewhere, but I have only see three Hillary stickers so far in all my driving both in- and out of state, ironically all on Prius.
Already there is news out there about major news outlet reporters sending the administration drafts of their articles for seeking Whitehouse approval, and apology messages. That does not make the administration look good.
Jeff Kuhner Show today was talking about those emails where the MSM was coordinating with the Clinton campaign: basically to get their approval. The level of collusion is sickening.
Meant to add u to post #46
I mean post #49
She is nothing more than "manufactured bull$hit."
Trump's momentum will carry him to victory on Nov 8th.
Hillary's "manufactured bull$hit" will leave her by the side of the road.
The VOTERS know the difference.
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