BREITBART: Online activists on the right, unite!

washingtontimes.com ^ | March 30, 2009 | Andrew Breitbart

[Free ThinkerNY]

A digital war has broken out, and the conservative movement is losing. Read the comment sections of right-leaning blogs, news sites and social forums, and the evidence is there in ugly abundance. Internet hooligans are spewing their talking points to thwart the dissent of the newly-out-of-power.

We must not let that go unanswered.

Uninvited Democratic activists are on a mission to demoralize the enemy - us. They want to ensure that President Obama is not subject to the same coordinated, facts-be-damned, multimedia takedown they employed over eight long years to destroy the presidency - and the humanity - of George W. Bush.

Political leftists play for keeps. They are willing to lie, perform deceptive acts in a coordinated fashion and do so in a wicked way - all in the pursuit of victory. Moral relativism is alive and well in the land of Hope and Change and its Web-savvy youth brigade expresses its "idealism" in a most cynical fashion.

The ends justify the means for them - now more than ever.

Much of Mr. Obama's vaunted online strategy involved utilizing "Internet trolls" to invade enemy lines under false names and trying to derail discussion. In the real world, that's called "vandalism." But in a political movement that embraces "graffiti" as avant-garde art , that's business as usual. It relishes the ability to destroy other people's property in pursuit of electoral victory.

[IrishMike]

Trolls taste tasty raw !

[Woebama]

Trolls usually get chewed up here. Viking Kitties and all that.

[cbkaty]

"Internet trolls"

Why....that can't be....these good-hearted American "Internet troll" citzens would never be deceptive.....would they?

[mentor2k]

B*STARDS!!!!

[subterfuge]

And we’ve got a few of them on this forum too. I don’t hesitate on calling them out and most are a bit obvious. They are here.

[Judith Anne]

I agree.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Much of Mr. Obama’s vaunted online strategy involved utilizing “Internet trolls” to invade enemy lines under false names and trying to derail discussion....

Go ahead and try...trolls will get slaughtered here because we all think independently and can spot them a mile away!

[gibsosa]

bump

[Canedawg]

“Political leftists play for keeps. They are willing to lie, perform deceptive acts in a coordinated fashion and do so in a wicked way - all in the pursuit of victory. Moral relativism is alive and well in the land of Hope and Change”
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Truth.

[fightinbluhen51]

ZOT!

[antonico]

A lot of what Breitbart wrote here reminded me of a Blog Post last fall just before the election, which I saved, and then posted below. It echoes exactly what Breitbart claims, and this post ostensibly came from someone working inside the Obama campaign. Rush Limbaugh mentioned this post on his show way back then, and so I thought it was worth keeping. I cleaned it up a little with grammar, and the parenthetical notations are mine for syntax. But you'll get the idea that this "inside look" has been in operation for a LONG time, and echoed by the Breitbart piece. "Ok, I want to clear my conscious a little. Hopefully you could make a blog post to help some fellow (Hillary) Clinton supporters.
 I work for a campaign and can’t wait for this week to be over. 
I was doing it for a job. I was not a fan of any candidate but over time grew to love HRC.
The internal (Obama) campaign idea is to twist, distort, humiliate and finally dispirit you (Republicans).
We pay people and organize people to go to all the online sites and “play the part of a Clinton or McCain supporter who just switched our support for Obama”.
 We do this to stifle your motivation and to destroy your confidence. 
We did this the whole primary and it worked.
 Sprinkle in mass vote confusion and it becomes bewildering. Most people lose patience and just give up on their support of a candidate and decide to just block out TV, News, Websites, etc.
 This surprisingly has had a huge suppressing (effect on) movement and vote turnout issues.
 Next, we infiltrate all the blogs and all the Youtube.com videos and overwhelm the voting, the comments, etc. All to continue this appearance of (manufacturing) overwhelming world support.
 People make posts to the effect that the world has “gone mad”.
 Thats the intention. To make you feel stressed and crazy and feel like the world is ending.
 We have also had quite a hand in skewing many many polls, some (polls) we couldn’t control as much as we would have liked. But many we have spoiled over, just enough to make Real Clear Politics look scary to a McCain supporter. It worked, although the goal was to appear 13-15 points ahead.
 See, the results have been working. People tend to support a winner, go with the flow, become “sheeple”. The polls are roughly 3-5 points in favor of Barack. That’s due to our inflation of the polls and pulling in the sheeple.
 Our donors are the same people who finance the MSM. Their interests are tied (and) Barack then tends to come across as teflon. Nothing sticks. And trust (me), there were meetings with Fox News. The goal was to blunt them as much as possible. Watch Bill O’reilly. He has become much more diplomatic and “fair and balanced” and soft. Its because he wants to retain the #1 spot on cable news and to do that he has to have access to the Obama campaign and we worked hard at stringing him a long and keeping him soft for an interview swap. It worked and now he is anticipating more access. So he is playing it still soft.
 This is why nothing sticks.
 The operation is massive, the goal is to paint a picture that is that of a winner, regardless of the results.
 There is no true inauguration draft or true Grant Park construction going on. There will be a party, but we are boasting beyond the truth to make it seem like the election is wrapped up.
 Our goal is to continue to make you lose your morale. We worked hard at persuasion and paying off and timing and playing the right political numbers to get key Republican endorsements to make it seem even more like it was over and the world was coming to an end for you all.
 There is a huge staff of people working around the clock, watching every site, blogs, etc. We flood these sites. We have had a goal to overwhelm.
 The truth is here. I could go on and on, but you get the picture.
I am saying this because I know HRC was better for the country, and now realize this. I was too late by the time I connected to her. To me Barack was just a cool young dude that seemed like a star. I didn’t know him or his policies, but now I understand more than I care to and I realize his interests are more for him, and the DNC and all working like puppets with Dean. I always thought a President wanted the better good for the country. The end result I see is everyone dependent on the government, this means more and more people voting for the DNC. This means the future is forever altered. I don’t see this as America, so I am now supporting John Mccain.
 Sarah Palin is a huge threat, and our campaign has feared her like you can’t imagine. If it seems unfair how she has been treated, well its because she has had a team working round the clock to make her look like a fool.
 This is a big conspiracy and I am so shocked that its not realized.
 We released a little blurb the other day that the Obama campaign was already working on reelection and now putting our efforts towards 2012. This was to make it seem like it was above us to continue caring about 2008. Trust me, it’s a lie. David (Axelrod) is very smart, but it’s a sticky, ugly, not very truthful kind of intelligence.
It’s not over yet, but I think the machine is working. And its a hill to climb.
I will be quitting my post on November 5th and my vote will be for John McCain. Fortunately, my position has been a marketing position and I don’t feel I had any part of anything I would feel guilty for. But I look forward to getting out of this as the negativity and environment upsets me.
I wish you all well, and good luck.
PS: my name is not really Sarah. But I am a female and I understand your plight.”

[jnsun]

A digital war has broken out, and the conservative movement is losing.

We disagree that the conservative movement is necessarily "losing" on the internet.

Consider Thomas Jefferson delivering the preamble of the Declaration of Independence on horseback from Charlottesville, VA to Philadelphia, PA (or some similar pathway).

The bit rate was pretty down low, maybe .00079 bytes/sec. Unlike the bit rate (MB/sec) over this forum to which we all subscribe, or that which the leftist zero's blast their ignorance.

But it seems that his delivery was far more effective and meaningful than any here or blogwise. No?

The higher numerical occupation of bandwidth by nihilism is meaningless, possibly only an indication of desperation. But that is IF, and only IF, the real message is properly articulated.

The Suntrade Institute

[OB1kNOb]

PAYF

[antidisestablishment]

Paragraphs are your friends.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Just check out the comments sections for any Palin story at news sites, both large and small, and one can truly see how bad it is.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep. They’re TOTALLY deranged. I swear, they act like demons when exposed to the scripture (like what you see in the movies).

[Irish Eyes]

Paragraphs are your friends.

Paragraphs maybe our friends but this message is too important to quibble about.

Anyone that does not understand what is going on has their head in the sand. The obama minions are using the Internet and all technology like the army they are, Successfully too.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Sarah Palin is a huge threat, and our campaign has feared her like you can’t imagine. If it seems unfair how she has been treated, well its because she has had a team working round the clock to make her look like a fool.


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