Posted on 03/30/2009 9:37:35 AM PDT by American Dream 246
Andrew Breitbart of Breitbart.com and The Drudge Report nailed the abusive Obama internet trolls and goons today in his article at The Washington Times.
Leftist trolls have been vandalizing the conservative blogosphere since conservatives started blogging but actually coordinated their attacks during the last election cycle. This same internet goon squad has persisted past Election Day. The Other McCain pointed out that in January, they were even caught trying to plant "hate" memes at Team Sarah in an effort to discredit Palin. And, of course they are willing to lie and perform deceptive acts all in the pursuit of victory and power. This was a terrific article:
Uninvited Democratic activists are on a mission to demoralize the enemy - us. They want to ensure that President Obama is not subject to the same coordinated, facts-be-damned, multimedia takedown they employed over eight long years to destroy the presidency - and the humanity - of George W. Bush.
Political leftists play for keeps. They are willing to lie, perform deceptive acts in a coordinated fashion and do so in a wicked way - all in the pursuit of victory. Moral relativism is alive and well in the land of Hope and Change and its Web-savvy youth brigade expresses its "idealism" in a most cynical fashion.
The ends justify the means for them - now more than ever...
So now that the right is vanquished and thoroughly out of power, why doesn't it learn from its conquerors and employ similar tactics?
The answer is obvious. The right, for the most part, embraces basic Judeo-Christian ideals and would not promote nor defend the propaganda techniques that were perfected in godless communist and socialist regimes. The current political and media environment crafted by supposedly idealistic Mr. Obama resembles Hugo Chavez's Venezuela more than John F. Kennedy's America.
The Huffington Post, Daily Kos and other left-leaning sites benefit from the right's belief that there are rules and decorum in political debate and civic engagement. Of course, every now and then, a curious right-winger will go in and engage in discussion at a left-wing site, but rarely under purely disingenuous and mass coordinated means.
David Brock, John Podesta, am I missing something?
...The American right is in a heap of trouble in a media age that doesn't shun the goons and liars that have poisoned the political process and won the American presidency by breaking the rules of fair play. It is time to fight back, but it won't be easy. The enemy is willing to do and say anything in order to win.
What say you, trolls?
If you are going to talk about calcowgirl, please ping her.
This is not the first time that you have been reminded by others of proper Freeper etiquette. Either you are slow and stupid or just plain rude.
LOL. That’s proof that I said you were trolls for opposing McCain? No, that’s proof that I think you are trolls for your obsessive posting. If it wasn’t about McCain it would be something else used to divide. McCain, LOL, that fight is over, and all it does now is serve to split reasonable people like me from those like you. What about that do you not understand? His daughter is getting more attention from you than anyone. Why? She’s a flash in the pan, but you seek to keep her in the limelight. Any exposure is good exposure somewhere. If you really want to further the cause, you’d ignore her.
“Either you are slow and stupid or just plain rude.”
Sending this comment to all your friends isn’t? Or is it just hypocritical?
“Political leftists play for keeps. They are willing to lie, perform deceptive acts in a coordinated fashion and do so in a wicked way - all in the pursuit of victory...
The right, for the most part, embraces basic Judeo-Christian ideals and would not promote nor defend the propaganda techniques that were perfected in godless communist and socialist regimes.”
Like, as if using “Judeo-Christian ideals” in the bloodsport of politics will work. And these are the same people who decry the use of “soft power” in Iraq and Afghanistan saying we should kill every living person or thing associated with AQ.
The “Right’s” new slogan — “Still Stupid After All Of These Elections”
How conservative of you /s. Reagan would be proud. NOT
You so conveniently overlook the facts that the left have captured the media, the education system, entertainment industry, and both political parties. We lose an election by 3% margin and all of a sudden we're stupid not eschew and cast off our Judeo Christian principles.
Move the goal post left! That's the ticket! /s
It’s about tactics. As I recall Lee Atwater was an attack dog, par excellence.
Who did he work for? Bush 41 and Reagan. Obviously, they were both proud.
The left “captured” the media? Nope the right has acted with there useal namby-pamby self-fulfilling Judeo-Christian acquiesence.
Yep. “Still Stupid After AlL Of These Elections”
Yep. I'm hoping for another big scotus smackdown of CFR. Issue by issue, we may rid ourselves of McCain-Feingold altogether. Now, if we could just rid ourselves of its authors. :-)
Rabs, I have finally been outed by Melinda.
I am a troll with a dull sword, and I am definitely your ilk.
I have managed to stay under the radar here for over a decade, but now I don’t have to try so hard to let the true exit82 be seen.
But you, calcowgirl, since you have not been rated as high as rabs on the trolling scale, will just have to try harder, since you are at #2. ;)
I am free! So free! I’m freer than ShamWow Vince!
But hey, we can’t do this all day, you know.
I’ve ordered “Trolling for Dummies” for all of you. /huge s
I liked the old exit82 -- hopefully the new "true" exit82 won't be too different. :-)
But you, calcowgirl, since you have not been rated as high as rabs on the trolling scale, will just have to try harder, since you are at #2. ;)
I'm still trying to figure out how I made it to #2! I don't hold a candle to some of y'all.
I am free! So free! I’m freer than ShamWow Vince!
I'm not even gonna ask...
I’ve ordered “Trolling for Dummies” for all of you. /huge s
ROFL!
I'm still trying to get past the "reasonable people like me" assertion.
Also waiting for you to "name names" of those you paint with a broad brush.
AND MANY, MANY OTHERS! The silent majority LOL. Watch your back Rabs, they are lurking, they are growing.
Here’s a motive: Being sick to death of McCain and his silver-spooned airhead spawn
using the Media to paint them as speakers of or for the Republican Party.
Who needs enemies when you have these folks stabbing you in the back, daily?
What is the point of destroying democrats if the alternative is Washington/Wall Street establishment republicans that have many of the same bad policies as them but put the R brand name on them? You seemed convinced that McCain has seen the light. What makes you think that this is more than his standard opportunism? Meaning that he is not acting more conservative BECAUSE many like rabs are on his case? Sen Spector is a great example of a liberal changing his tune because of a primary challenge
Last, if he is irelevent why would ripping him here help democrats?
It doesn't. It just makes the road easier to hoe for the next RINO that gets pushed into the limelight as the Republican Party's next great hope.
I was called a "troll" before -- for daring to speak out against Schwarzenegger's liberal policies (years ago). Those who couldn't look past the "R" next to his name did everything possible to silence dissent. If we can't identify and defeat the enemy within, we'll never defeat the liberals.
I dont know what their point is. McCain lost, in a way so did GWB. The R party was successful in 1994 because it cleaned house after 1992 losses. So why would we be happy with the same losers and losing strategy of past 4 years?
I wouldnt worry too much about them. Sticks and Stones
Sure the have. Look how they trashed Palin. All we have left is Rush Limbaugh. Your Liberal Rino Mclame threw my Pastor under the bus and refused to say a damn thing about Obam's leftest anti American reverend wright.
The leftist rino party will never get elected without the Christian vote.
The Christians are staying home on election day.
People ping interested people to things. This is a public forum.
“McCain is a hasbeen, but still effective for the Dims because you let him be”
That is nonsensical. He’s “effective for the Dims” because he sponsors statist laws with them. And he’s not going away, he’s running for reelection. We’d like to see a primary challenge.
Whine whine whine....
If we don’t have operatives who are willing to fight fire with fire and go all the way down to the bottom of the toilet to fight the scumbags where they live, then we deserve to lose.
“Bashing is when you dare to admit that Ashley Biden is better looking than Meghan McCain...but then again, that’s not exactly a challenging feat to accomplish.”
ROTF!
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