There is a name for the marketing technique....I’m going to link material that was on one of the links Maggie posted on the other thread. SInce there is a name for it, the method is taught. Is it in an ACORN manuel? Or something the WH has distributed?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2435826/posts?page=87#87
meme or memering
marketing of a meme/as a way to introduce an ideal to the public, create a ground swell of “grass root” support
Manufactured Consent, or covert propaganda
I’ll follow that branch and see where it goes.
It’s not a grass roots campaign. It is been called an astro-turfing campaign. Mostly, the left has accused Tea Party folk of astro-turfing.
It seems, the leftists have been masters of this for years.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/how-obamas-internet-campaign-changed-politics/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/us/politics/04memo.html
http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2009/world_wide_webbed_12862
http://www.tapmag.net/wordpress/2008/10/08/politics-2-0-how-the-obama-campaign-won-the-internet/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2308332/posts?page=9#9