This probably started the same time as the Democrat "seminar caller" phenomenon on talk radio.
In a way it is sort of like spam, and no more effective in the long run. Its like those PETA people who lurk outside theaters in which The Nutcracker is playing and try to hand out scary literature to children. Really a pathetic desperation play, more a signal of how close to madness the swing of history's pendulum is driving these folks.
As has been said so many times by so many people, the internet is huge. It is changing everything, including the terms of the deal the left made with the media long ago.
Think about it. Liberalism is based on a fantasy view of the world, of reality. It really exists only in the world of words and pictures and ideas. The media consists entirely of words, pictures, and ideas, and therefore is the only place that liberalism can really take root. Which it has.
The internet is an antidote to this.
I wonder if the left will figure out a way to take over and subvert the internet the way they have with the old media. They're thinking about it; you can take that to the bank.
(steely)