Posted on 04/04/2010 11:08:56 PM PDT by machogirl
Remember Ellie Light?
The Obama Blog Squad has been active on a number of high profile conservative webpages in the last month. The Muffled Oar broke the story in October of Administration-wide coordination between agency public affairs offices and left wing bloggers to attack news stories critical of Obama, post anonymous comments and seed the Internet with unofficial official Obama spin. As part of this effort, the Justice Department Office of Public Affairs works closely with left wing bloggers to distribute administration spin. The OPA unit is headed by a former John Edwards campaign staffer who conducted this type of operation for his now-disgraced Presidential campaign.
Recently, a so-called reporter for a left wing blog that covers the Justice Department was caught participating on conservative blogs as a member of the blog squad working with the Justice Department Office of Public Affairs. Administrators of conservative blogs have been alerted of suspected blog squad trolls and are monitoring their posting activity. The anonymous troll blogger in his real life job has done interviews with senior Justice Department officials and political appointees, and regularly parrots the Obama Administration line in his stories. You can see the work of some of these secret blog squad activities, where blog squaders serve as an partisan advocate for General Holder after they put on their Internet disguise. Note carefully the very informed pro-DOJ positions the anonymous troll blogger posts, defending Holder and the administration by attacking critics. Occasionally this blog squadder will post something critical of Obama or Holder, but it is always an aside, part of the disguise, while he plays the role of anonymous critic. Without these asides, he would be booted from the Free Republic as a left wing troll.
Here is the most important part of this story: this anonymous blogger is getting information directly from Tracy Russo or the others at the DOJ office of public affairs. This is the undeniable fact, and the most disgusting one. The blog squadder cites detailed and informed rebuttals about Justice policy provided by Justice officials. Whether these details were acquired from their pseudo-legitimate role as a pseudo-reporter, or their illegitimate role in the blog squad is unknown. Various conservative blogs have begun to harvest Internet addressees of these trolls and are patching together together the pattern.
The anonymous blog squader "Conscience of a Conservative," knows who he is. Stranger still, many people think he is a legitimate news reporter covering the Department of Justice for a media outlet. How many more reporters have this cozy and cooperative relationship with the Office of Public Affairs? Perhaps he will own up to his anonymous trolling before he is outed and brings great shame to his purportedly objective publication that employs him. We doubt it.
CoC doesn’t “buy in” the the “BC” stuff.
IMO anyone who minimizes the eligibility issue to a mere birth certificate, plus uses the belittling smarmy phrase “buy in” stinks. At this point no one has the excuse of being ill-informed.
You will be visited soon. :)
I can’t imagine if this were the
DOJ under Bush.
welcome. Usually, Muffled is a really good source for info. Sometimes before it hits the media. I can’t imagine why Muffled would call out C of C unless he had reliable info.
Firstly and Lastly, if you don’t see the seriousness of a man being a total FRAUD and a BLANK SLATE, being President of the United States, then we really don’t have anything to talk with you about. It IS the very issue that is core to everything. A systematic destruction of a wonderful country by a FRAUD? The systematic destruction of the Military by a FRAUD? Sending young men and women to their deaths in some cases by a FRAUD? And it’s not important? Sorry, Obama or whoever the hell he is, would simply provide ALL OF HIS RECORDS IF IT DIDN’T CONVICT HIM. Good day. CO
I’ve read the article, the comments and some of the older posts by Conscience of a Conservative and if CoaC is a sleeper troll, s/he isn’t a very good one.
If you are really a nyc attorney, post your name and number and we’ll check it on Martindale Hubbell and give you a call with some business.
My 2 cents... I do not think you are a troll.
IMHO, of course.
If CoC doesn’t buy into the birther crap, that means that he or she has a brain. Anybody who does buy into that stupid crap either lacks a brain, or is a troll. I am not at all apologetic about this.
Frankly, I think many of you birthers come here straight from DU and KOS to f*ck with Freeperdom, and you have done a damn good job of it. This idiocy does nothing but marginalize Free Republic and subject it to ridicule.
I suspect the powers that be will catch on to this sooner or later and either run you idiots off or tell you to shut up with the nonsense. In the meantime, it is hilarious to watch you stupid goobers make up all kinds of law trying to promote your nonsense.
I just wish I was reading it on a birther website, or DU, not here on Free Republic.
parsy, who can’t believe anybody takes you morons seriously
ESAD, fool.
To be fair,............ Obama was writing in response to a letter Chirac sent to Obama
THERE ARE SEVERAL MORE EXAMPLES, BUT I THINK YOU GET MY POINT.
What say you,CONSCIENCE OF A CONSERVATIVE?
What do I have to say in response to that? Well, I’ve already said (in this thread) that I think the most effective criticism of Obama and the ‘rats is criticism that is based in FACTS, and criticism that is ACCURATE. There is nothing wrong (or troll-like) in looking for accuracy, pointing out where statements are inaccurate, or using the phrase “to be fair.”
If you want to call me a troll, then please look at the list of quotes you just pulled from my posts, and tell me where I was wrong/inaccurate in my posts. Inserting facts into a discussion is not “trolling.”
What do I have to say in response to that? Well, I’ve already said (in this thread) that I think the most effective criticism of Obama and the ‘rats is criticism that is based in FACTS, and criticism that is ACCURATE. There is nothing wrong (or troll-like) in looking for accuracy, pointing out where statements are inaccurate, or using the phrase “to be fair.”
If you want to call me a troll, then please look at the list of quotes you just pulled from my posts, and tell me where I was wrong/inaccurate in my posts. Inserting facts into a discussion is not “trolling.”
I stopped looking at your older posts here, wherein you took up for Obama. *sigh*
The thought's crossed my mind that perhaps you're a lawyer, which would explain your interest in some of the subjects you've addressed and also your penchant for detail.
Now now parsy. Here's the recent scorecard of notable After-Birther zots and who got hammered being trolls . No one is getting fooled.
EnderWiggins zotted
Koyaan zotted
Michael Micheal zotted
MrRobertPlant2009 zotted
steve-b zotted
sickoflibs harshly warned as a troll
Sarah-bot harshly warned as a troll
The idiocy is buying into Obama that he has told you the truth about his origins from a guy that can be proven to be a constant liar about all his life. It is no leap in logic to figure out that Obama is also lying about his birth.
IPS means nothing. If I was inclined to do so, I could sit 4 laptops on my desk, beside my regular PS and post on FR from all 5 at the same time and they would all be in different places and have different IPs. Of course there is always the change their proxy drops off and their real IP is exposed but unless it’s a static IP it doesn’t make much difference. My real IP is dynamic, shared with thousands of others. I checked it today and it was showing I was in Kansas. A couple of days ago it showed Miami. Last week it showed somewhere closer to home so I reset it. You can check your IP at whatismyip.com.
Yeah, I’m from KOS, I admit it.
Yes, it is good to have a dynamic IP because of its advantages.
I emailed him, he answered, and I take him at his word; he’s not a DOJ Russo Blog Squad Troll. I am intrigued why Muffled would have outed him. I’d like to hear from Muffled.
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