Posted on 07/23/2015 6:40:42 AM PDT by saminfl
Rush Limbaugh states that he has discovered that only 12 to 15 liberals have developed a way to make them look like thousands of posters on social sites and emailers to companies. Is this possible and if so, why can't our side do the same thing?
It wouldn’t, because the MSM would be told of the scheme and trumpet it loudly as proof that conservatism has to create “astroturf” to cover the “fact” that it has no grass roots. Just as, e.g., yesterday’s 10,000 in Times Square to protest the Iran deal will receive less air time from the MSM than 10 protestors of Donald Trump.
How do you know they don’t?.......................
What would the response be if/when it was discovered that all the posters were fake? Liberals can get away with it, conservatives can’t.
Why not? Because it is very likely not strictly legal.
I know I may sound naive, but I think deceit and fraudulent practices are the specialty of liberals. Conservatives lean more toward honesty, at least that’s what I find.
Do you really believe winning by any means, legal or illegal, is worth it?
I do not.
I have to be able to look in the mirror with my value system still intact.
Would we want to play the game with liberal methods like lying, deceit and phony numbers?
“Why not? Because it is very likely not strictly legal.”
Yes, it’s strictly against Twitter and FaceBook policy. Yet the policy is not enforced...
It is a powerful tool. Astroturfing. Takes a bit of hardware, so as to make communications appear to come from different places (if the communications is via computer network); but some of that hardware is generally available to the public anyway. Snail mail can be used the same way, “personalized mass mailing,” but in reverse with the recipient being the same person, and the sender creating what looks like different authors. “Mail merge” function in your word processor.
Why? Because we have real jobs.
Fraud is “their thing”.
I don’t believe there is any crime involved. Posts are to open venues, newspapers, polls, social media, etc. There is absolutely no requirement to be honest or truthful in those venues.
Stand on truth or don’t stand at all.
LOL! The policy would be enforced if a conservative group were to try the same thing once some whiney ass lib discovered it. The libs, business as usual.
Yep. The mass and social media "peer pressure" tools are regulated by liberals, so (even credible) accusations of wrongdoing by liberals are suppressed, and accusations of (even imaginary) wrongdoing by their opponents are amplified. It is a rigged playing field, and the best antidote is to teach people to think for themselves.
Of my 380+ twitter followers 97% are real.
I reach some 380 people which isn’t half bad for a nobody like me. I’ve got some quality followers like Michelle Malkin.
It’s mainly designed to work on mindless idiots that don’t think for themselves and jump on the latest bandwagon that’s passing by.
Phony group think, while it has some success, doesn’t have a lot of success with the thinking class because someone will point out the flaw in the thinking.
Many/most Facebook and Twitter pages that deal with politics, celebrities, and commercial products are fake. This has long been known. Who knows how many Free Republic posters are fake?
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