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Posted on 04/04/2010 11:08:56 PM PDT by machogirl
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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.
I don’t think he’s a DOJ Russo Blog Squad Troll either. I don’t he’s a troll period. I think he likes to fine point issues and that makes a lot of his comments appear to make him seem to take the other side even when he’s not.
True enough, the birthers have the run of the place for the time being, but things change. I predict the insanity will eventually hit critical mass and they will get the Lew Rockwell/Ron Paul boot in the bottom. I will just hibernate until then.
parsy, who is zzzzzzz’ing
haha, no way. I think you are one of the good guys and if you’re not, you deserve and Oscar.
You left out Scooter Libby who was Marc Rich’s attorney.
So your butt-in on 90, was that just a “trial run”???
Parsnip outed me. I’m actually a troll from KOS. My career as a pretend wingnut to make FR look bad is over. Sniff.
??? Please Explain.
parsy, who isn’t good at code-speak
[· In January 2001, Libby was the lawyer for millionaire financier Marc Rich, whom President Bill Clinton pardoned shortly before leaving office. Fitzgerald, who was then an assistant U.S. attorney in the southern district of New York, and U.S. Attorney James Comey spearheaded the criminal investigation of that pardon. . .]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021601705.html
Self-explanatory for kindergarten kids an up!!!
muffled pulled the blog post. wonder why?
For the record, I am not a DOJ troll. I haven’t the foggiest idea who Tracy Russo is, I don’t work for the DOJ, (and, frankly, would NEVER work for this administration’s DOJ), and I am not a news reporter (for what it’s worth, I am a lawyer in private practice in New York).
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How long did your nose grow when you wrote that? I don’t believe you are a DOJ troll, I think you’re from KOS or DU but who knows?....I searched your past posts. One thing is CERTAIN.... read my lips... CERTAIN, you are no conservative and your goal on FR is be a concern troll and to defend and run interference for Obongo and the Dimocraps. Everyone that has called you a troll has been right on the money.
What “Obama DoJ viewpoints” am I “well-versed in”
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Still trolling I see and still flying a little below the radar but fooling only fools.
Yes, HOUSTON, we have a real STINKER of a Troll!!
Yes, HOUSTON, we have a real STINKER of a Troll!!
I’ve noticed his posts previously. Clearly a lawyer, rather than journalist, type. And an Obamabot.
Ah, I remember this article! And noticed this “C of C” lately, too.
Thank you for bringing this out of the shadows into the light.
I just scanned down one page of his comments; he doesn’t post often, but when he does, it’s pure “concern” (hey, he’s got a Conscience, not like us rubes/ignoramous extremists!) and invariably, 180 degrees on the Wrong side.
CofC thinks 0hbummer is eligible, and that “gay” marriage gives more rights to normal people since they would also be allowed to marry people of the same sex!! And there’s more of us, so it would benefit us more!!
Why has he not been zotted??
Yes, I do. Not being a birther does not mean I'm a troll
...and that “gay” marriage gives more rights to normal people since they would also be allowed to marry people of the same sex!! And there’s more of us, so it would benefit us more!!
When did I ever say anything like that? Looking back through my own comments, the only thing I've posted about re: same sex "marriage" was about some town clerk in NY who was refusing to sign same sex "marriage" certificates. All I said was that same-sex "marraige" is (unfortunately) the law of the state of New York, and that, as an officer of the state, the town clerk had an obligation to uphold the laws of the state, even those with which she (rightfully) disagreed.
ROTFLOL!
You’re just betting on no one bothering to read your posting history.
You’re funny.
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