Posted on 10/25/2010 12:30:00 PM PDT by rxsid
"The Daily Kos, Twittergate & Obama's Birth Certificate Controversy
Posted by Erica
The Zapem blog has produced a video, Twittergate - The Democrats Hire A Twitter-Thug, which details how the Democrats hired Neal Rauhauser, a Daily Kos blogger, to paint the tea party movement as racist, homophobic, extremist and every other pejorative you can imagine. Rauhauser owns a company co-founded with Beth Becker called Progressive PST.
Zapem says,"The evidence submitted demonstrates the systematic and deliberate provocation towards people in an attempt to elicit unfavorable responses after a series of malicious and vile attacks. The idea was to antagonize, collect and present selected responses as proof of "extremism" within the Tea Party."
The means by which the Twitter-Thugs hoped to do this was by retweeting hateful comments, which they assumed would be made in response to vitriolic and vulgar comments made by the thugs. To further guarantee their mission, they employed someone to assume a false tea party identity. This very disgusting person called himself "WingNutWatch" and claimed in his Twitter profile that he hated blacks.
Any "useful" tweets that could be elicted from the thugs' victims were to be streamed to #teapartytracker on Twitter. TeaPartyTracker.org is a domain registered by Blue State Digital, LLC, the same company that helped create MyBarackObama.com. TeaPartyTracker was funded by George Soros. The site was created for the purpose of "proving" that tea partiers are extremists. Dana Loesch, the new editor-in-chief of Breitbart's BigJournalism.com, did a follow-up story on this story on PJTV. (Also listen to this blogtalkradio interview with Dana Loesch.)
Zapem also believes that this isn't the first time leaders at the Daily Kos have strategized against conservatives with a devious plan. Markos Moulitsas Zúniga stated unequivocally in an Olbermann interview (05:10) that Sen. John McCain was not a U.S. citizen because he was born in Panama. This means Moulitsas has known all along that both candidates had issues regarding their qualifications as natural-born citizens and that this could be a problem. Since our founders intended that only children born of two citizen parents on U.S. soil could be defined as natural-born citizens, the public had to be distracted. If McCain had won the presidency, the leftwing would have used this information to destroy him. Instead, they kept quiet to protect their man, Obama, who had a similar problem.
If all this is true, the worst thing Barack Obama, Moulitsas et al. had to worry about was for the public to raise questions about constitutional definitions. Thus, Zapem is convinced that Obama arranged for Moulitsas to plant a Certification of Live Birth on the internet, knowing full well that conspiracy theories would blossom in response.
Think of it this way: If everyone is arguing about whether or not Obama was born in the U.S. and/or that the Certification is a forgery, no one is paying attention to the constitutional definition of the term. Furthermore, it was and continues to be an effective way to label conservatives with the pejorative "birthers". And, of course, the media played along. I would argue that some journalists may even have been strategic collaborators. The scheme was a red herring, and it worked.
Here are some of Zapem's recent tweets on the birth certificate plot. (Click to enlarge)
So, what else do we know about Moulitsas and his pals?
According to SourceWatch.org, Moulitsas claimed to have been trained by the CIA. What better way to hone your skills in skullduggery? Wonder how he got that internship. Is a FOIA request in order?
In a June 6, 2006 speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Zúniga stated that he had spent between six months and two years training at the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, DC. In this speech Kos said began in 2001, before he started DailyKos,[5] and continued until the beginning of his involvement with the Howard Dean presidential campaign (late 2003/early 2004), which would mean that Zúniga was in training with the US CIA for as much as two years.[6]Can (Political) Blogs Be Trusted?
Elite Liberal Bloggers to Themselves: Shhh!
By Chris Suellentrop
The New York Times
Blogger to Pay $30,000 in S.E.C. Case
By Chris Suellentrop
The New York Times
Enough said as far as I'm concerned.
[Note: Based on recommendations from Steve at the UndeadRevolution, I have made a few alterations in the above article to better clarify the story.]"
http://jeffersonsrebels.blogspot.com/2010/10/daily-kos-twittergate-obamas-birth.html
This is the actual quote:
"Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
Some people have tweaked the wording to make it look like he is saying something he's not. I've never agreed with this tactic, but whatever. All's fair in love and war.
So you think she’s sane and competent?
Why else would you be so scared of her? Or maybe it's just that you are a gutless little coward?
So you can’t answer the question, you just call names like a third grader?
Impressive.
It’s interesting that Obama would want to talk about Japanese internments during WWII, but the sad truth is that such internments, if they existed for certain ethnic groups, could have theoretically thwarted the 9/11 attacks. But, the reality is that Obama is making what is essentially a strawman argument. ‘Hard stares’ from neighbors is a poor comparison with Japanese internment. What ugly direction does Obama suppose the political winds could shift to in which he thinks he needs to stand with Arab and Pakastani Americans?? IOW, he’s drawing a line over a nonexistent problem.
Pretty sure that humblegunner has a tiny lower horn.
Thanks, mills044. Someone had frmailed me the list, and FReeper tutstar was kind enough to locate the exact quote. Check out # 22:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2614263/posts?page=22#22
Why do you bother?
Thank you for doing the truth telling, but when you’re dealing with defectors like Ms. WKA” you got to wonder, or rather you got to NO wonder why our beloved nation is sliding down the shoot to Marxism!!!
Anyone who think this possible is a worse nutcase than Orly Taiz. YOU ARE NEVER GOING TO REMOVED YOUR DEAR LEADER, THE USURPER, UNLESS WE HAVE A HONDURAS "REVIVAL"!!!
But guys we all know that HG, the chief nutcaser is banned, right, LOL???
It works every-time someone needs attention or counseling!!
It's like a secret signal for the Prairie Dogs to come out of the holes and being ready for the attack mode, never fails!!!
What’s odd to me is that he and others seem to think no one can multi-task. The red flag goes up.
She’s the “face” of the birthers?
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Generalize much?
I just really think this birther stuff is going nowhere and efforts are best made elsewhere.
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Many people can multi task you know. I guess we will never know how many minds were swayed by bringing all of the inconsistencies to light, will we? The last poll I saw showed that around 70% had questions about his birth certificate and thought he was hiding things.
Don't be a dickhead, we all saw what the dems did to pass their health care bill.
Your method is not working.
I hope so, I doubt it.
We might not Orly our way out of it but when the evidence mounts to the point where it can no longer be ignored, we can SCOTUS our way out of it.
Vote Him Out.
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Can you go over to places like DU and Kos and tell them to do that. Let me know how that works out for you.
I am???
WTF? How dare you say that Lucy took it out of context. Why don’t you post the entire quote? It’s even more damning. Now go find it and post it to back up your snotty post.
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