Posted on 10/12/2007 4:27:43 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
A CANDIDATE for the US presidency is being buoyed by a huge online campaign that may be a fake a grassroots movement organised by party staff.
YouTube footage of Texan Republican Senator Ron Paul, whose candidacy has been overshadowed in the media by competitors Rudi Giuliani, Fred Thompson and John McCain, has been viewed by tens of thousands of people in the last week.
As of 11am AEST today, a compilation of different clips of Senator Paul was the top rated video of the past 24 hours.
The clip had been viewed nearly 60,000 times since it was uploaded yesterday.
But it was not the only clip of the senator receiving kudos from YouTube users, with another 10 videos appearing in today’s list of the site’s 100 top rated recordings.
Of the 11 featured clips of Senator Paul, only one user uploaded more than one of them in the last 24 hours.
Head of Flinders University’s Department of American Studies Don De Bots told NEWS.com.au that it “sounded like” an astroturfing campaign.
Astroturfing is the term used to describe a fake grassroots campaign, in which members of an organisation create the illusion that “ordinary people” are behind the movement.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
http://fredthompsonforum.com/showthread.php?p=15046
FredThompsonForums was created by Paultards to mock his campaign (as have several other similar competitor sites.) They are saying that they created the fake story. They are attempting to make it look like this was a fake story floated by the Thompson campaign to those who don’t realize that FredThompsonForums is actually a Ron Paul campaign creation.
Fake, Emporer Paul, can’t be anything fake about Ron Paul and his supporters, can there?
If they can’t get his office correct, they didn’t do a lot of background work.
see post #21
He has almost 32,000 subscribers on Youtube and who knows how many people have book marked his channel.
We’ll know for sure when the first couple of primaries take place.
He’ll either get the votes indicated in the online polls, or he’ll be the 2008 version of Howard Dean.
I strongly suspect the latter.
See post #21
Gee, ya think?
< Cartman> "Lame." < /Cartman> ;)
What they really like is Ron Paul's blame America first message.
I’d be happy if Paul equals Dean’s vote. That would be a dramatic success and a confirmation that he was right to run. Paul started from the premise that this was an educational campaign to advance a set of principles. Only recently (with his unanticipated success in fund-raising, online support) have people considered that he might actually pull off an electoral miracle.
*****It’s titled “Party Affiliation change DEADLINES!” and gives these for several states. Its intent is clearly to get non-republicans to change party affiliation to sabotage Republican primaries for this fraud of a candidate.*****
I live in WV and the republican primary used to be open to Republicans and Independents. Now it is closed. I don’t know when the change was made, but Republicans used to brag that the Republican party was more open than the Democratic party as it reached out to independents.
‘I’d be happy if Paul equals Dean’s vote. That would be a dramatic success and a confirmation that he was right to run.’
Yes, it would be.
I don’t see it happening, but I do agree with what you are saying here.
I hate making prediction, especially political ones, but being a Texan, I can accurately predict that Prawn Paul would never be elected a US Senator of our great State of Texas.
Seeing as the author doesn’t even know what office he holds, I think I can safely call B.S. on this one.
Don DeBats is head of the Flinders University Dept. of American Studies.
Head of Flinders University’s Department of American Studies Don De Bots [sic] told NEWS.com.au that it “sounded like” an astroturfing campaign.
In other words, contradicting the claim of “I love Hannity,” the paper didn’t pick it up from a press release.
Ron Paul’s supporters are the strangest little characters.
Is there anyone on the internet that would not recognize this as a spoof?
It was probably created by Ron Paul Supporters (a big mistake if so) or by people wanting to give Ron Paul a bad name (the later being much more likely). As you can see people on here are using it against Ron Paul. One thing is for sure is that in no way did the official Ron Paul campaign have anything to do with it.
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