"Unmasking The Source of an Internet Rumor" [FR is hurting the Obama campaign!]

Obama for America ^ | Jun 28th, 2008

[beckysueb]

Obama was vulnerable, Dezenhall said, because of his unusual name, his childhood in Indonesia, a foreign-born father, and his sudden arrival on the national stage without a fully fleshed-out biography. "All of these things gave it merchandising legs," Dezenhall said

Well gee, imagine that. How would anyone get such an idea about him based on this flimsy evidence? (sarc) They think the American people are so stupid that they can't put two and two together without someone telling them what to think.

[Spiff]

For goodness sakes, someone needs to learn to spell.

And to compare Obama (as much as I detest him) to Osama bin Laden is way over the top. This isn't DU or KOS.

[Gator113]

Well then, we better not talk about the October Surprise on FR, and save that discussion for our super top secret cone of silence site.

[DBrow]

Bingo!

Woudn’t the Crown have liked to get their hands on the author of that little tract!

The Federalist papers were anonymous, too.

We should keep Web anonymity.

[caseinpoint]

LOL

[Rebelbase]

At least this douche didn’t discover the secret decoder rings we all use...Oh, Damn!

[HereInTheHeartland]

Is he referring to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18VOGykrgHo

[DBrow]

“Well then, we better not talk about the October Surprise on FR,”

We’re not going to release it here anyway, we’re going to use that other site we went over at the meeting, plus one more new one. Then we’ll link to it here, and cross post it.

[arrogantsob]

Hmmm, Free Republic vs some Affirmative Action babe at Princeton who will win this is a hard one.

[WakeUpAndVote]

Silly me, MARY Mapes. My apologies to The Donald.

[Myrddin]

It also aggressively disregards the fundamental principle of free societies that one be able to debate one's accusers.

Is this woman offering to put Obama in a real debate format? Be careful what you ask for...you might get it. Barry would be genuinely screwed as he hems and haws without a teleprompter to read.

[redstateconfidential]

[Wuli]

"What I've come to realize is, the labor of generating an e-mail smear is divided and distributed amongst parties whose identities are secret even to each other," she says. A first group of people published articles that created the basis for the attack. A second group recirculated the claims from those articles without ever having been asked to do so. "No one coordinates the roles," Allen said. Instead the participants swim toward their goal like a school of fish -- moving on their own, but also in unison."

What a hypocritical phony. He did not just "come to realize" how the Internet smears work. He is very familiar with how "Daily KOS", "MoveOn" and other left-wing groups have perfected the technique over the years.

[bert]

I remember the posts that advised Moria Liason, the NPR Whtehouse correspondent had Bubba’s baaby

[Winged Hussar]

Re: “How do you get more than one post in before you are zapped?”

At My.barackobama.com? I WAS zapped within 36 hours of creating an account and then posting negative (but referenced) material. Unfortunately for Barry, this is proof of “exercise of editorial control,” and this makes him at least morally responsible for every piece of hate speech on his site—the same issue that forced MoveOn.org to disable its Action Forum in 2006.

[nkycincinnatikid]

Thank you Sobieski, People of Vienna, Prince Eugene and Don John of Austria. Thank You ,Thank You!
france you stfu.

[kittymyrib]

No more Uncle Walter or Dandy Dan to smother the truth before it can draw its first breath.
There are several thousand very clever FReepers scattered throughout the country that can do their own research on Barry Soetero. And obviously, the truth hurts.

[Rudder]

"This kind of misinformation campaign short-circuits judgment. It also aggressively disregards the fundamental principle of free societies that one be able to debate one's accusers."

What she is saying its that rumor-mongering and deceit didn't exist before the internet (and FreeRepublic.)

[Yollopoliuhqui]

Now yer talkin. We need to become an army.

[DBrow]

We’ve heard from Allen before, I think, she uses government funds to campaign for Obama, I believe, writing such analyses of how the evil right wingers spread terrible lies while her friends struggle to make the truth known from her post at Princeton.

“What I’ve come to realize is, the labor of generating an e-mail smear is divided and distributed amongst parties whose identities are secret even to each other,” she says. A first group of people published articles that created the basis for the attack. A second group recirculated the claims from those articles without ever having been asked to do so. “No one coordinates the roles,”

When everyone was chanting POWER TO THE PEOPLE, I doubt they realized it would take the form of the Web and Internet and yes, Wikipedia and FR. It’s here if we can keep it.

Power To The People!