Posted on 09/11/2009 9:50:22 PM PDT by PhilipK9
Howdy, fellow freepers!
I've looked at the HTML code at that horrible "smear Glenn Beck" web site and found something interesting.
It appears that this is not a bunch of jovial Internet pranksters suddenly becoming socialists and deciding to do a character assassination of Glenn Beck.
This is what got my attention:
From the "Glenn Beck slander web site"
<!--meta name="keywords" content="social justice organization,low income family,anti-war,paid sick days, predatory lending,katrina relief,osi-new york,minimum wage,afl-cio,living wage,new orleans, urban education,urban schools, heath care,political,civic engagement,hurricane katrina, political prisoners, gulf coast,rebuilding,rebuild america" /-->
Now compare this with acorn.org's meta-tags:
<meta name="keywords" content="acorn,social justice organization,acrn,acorns,acron,low income family,moderate income family,paid sick days,predatory lending,katrina relief,acorn voter registration,maude hurd,minimum wage,living wage,new orleans,urban education,urban schools,wade rathe,heath care,foreclosure,affordable housing,voter registration,registering voters,voter fraud,voter suppression,political,civic engagement,voter engagement,hurricane katrina,gulf coast,rebuilding,rebuild new orleans,rebuild america" />
In both of them health care is misspelled as "heath care" and a lot of the tags are similar...
Hmmm...
From the donkey excrements a mighty ACORN slander campaign grows!
MICHELLE: do NOT uncomment these keywords again! -Kelly 9/12/09 meta name="keywords" content="social justice organization,low income family,anti-war,paid sick days, predatory lending,katrina relief,osi-new york,minimum wage,afl-cio,living wage,new orleans, urban education,urban schools, heath care,political,civic engagement,hurricane katrina, political prisoners, gulf coast,rebuilding,rebuild america"
Genius..doing the job journalists, refuse to do.
If the past year (especially the past 8 weeks) has not proven how useless the media is, I don’t know what could possibly prove it.
The “media” has become nothing more than a hard core group of political activists. There is no such thing as news to them. There is information that must be slanted, used, or ignored to promote their political ideology and agenda.
Anything not in line with their agenda must be destroyed and discredited. They are furious that they do not have an all out monopoly...FOX News and the internet are the only sources available to people to find any truth.
BUCKHEAD award! I was thinking the same thing.
#1 is the most visited site on the internet. Usually that is google.com. From there, the higher the number, the fewer people who visit the site (and possibly the shorter their time at the site).
So, at the time those numbers were given, whitehouse.gov was the 3,444th most popular site on the internet, freerepublic.com was the 4,056th most popular site, glennbeck.com was the 8,890th most popular site, and so on.
If you look at the rankings next week, or next month, you'll might see acorn.org and the glennbeckrape... jump significantly. Just the traffic from people on this thread checking those pages will probably boost them by thousands of positions (lowering their ranking number).
does not seem to archive commented-out HTML code, so, WE DO NOT SEE the second commented out set of meta name "keywords".
I refer you know to a post of mine that has both sets of keywords captured:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2337877/posts?page=51#51
So, nice that you could throw something in, but, I think we both learned something here: comment HTML code is stripped out of Bing archives.
Also, the GB parody/smear website would seem to have been modified today, with an additional note to Michelle from Kelly and dated "9/12/09" as shown below:
meta name="keywords" content="glenn,beck,rape,murder,1990,raped,glen,raped,murdered,really,did,glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990,glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com
-- MICHELLE: do NOT uncomment these keywords again! -Kelly 9/12/09 --meta name="keywords" content="social justice organization,low income family,anti-war,paid sick days, predatory lending,katrina relief,osi-new york,minimum wage,afl-cio,living wage,new orleans, urban education,urban schools, heath care,political,civic engagement,hurricane katrina, political prisoners, gulf coast,rebuilding,rebuild america
Note: Delimiting angle brackets removed so I don't comment-out my own HTML code!
<!— MICHELLE: do NOT uncomment these keywords again! -Kelly 9/12/09 —>I see you captured the update they added this morning; I think they may have meant to remove those keywords, and perhaps they thought by simply commenting them out, those keywords would not appear in finished product (the publicly accessable website), since the high-level tool they use probebly does not automatically display the HTML it creates (too much information!) ...
Another thought is that they would use meta tags that would draw in a certain personality type and the specific type they would be looking for would be “Acorn” type personalities.Good thoguht, but the keywords that match are in HTML 'code' that is obstensibly "commented out"; this subtlty seems to have been missed.
That tabel of alexa rankings is measures how popular sites are.Isn't that traffic ranking a bit deceiving/a bit deceptive?
Just asking, but I seem to remember a discussion on this before.
acorn.org has one main entry point whereas FR page 'hits' look to be via several different entry points so acorn.org would show many more main page hits by Alexa ...
Looks like someone tried to delete the original tags and someone else got pissed about it!Sure looks that way; quite possibly an 'artifact' of their HTML authorship software, editting the code and commenting out sections does not remove it before posting onto the public web server ...
wow! good observation!!!!!
God protect Glenn Beck and those standing for integrity and truth!
“Something fishy here. Welcome to FR? Sniff.”
This bears repeating. Why would someone sign on to FR on Thursday and just stumble on to something like this. Looks like a setup to me.
Wrong. The links work. They were smart enough to not slander or libel Beck by having many disclaimers, only thing is, they start the rumor, that gets picked up by other sources which don’t have the disclaimers.
Looks like someone tried to delete the original tags and someone else got pissed about it!
!— MICHELLE: do NOT uncomment these keywords again! -Kelly 9/12/09 —> !—meta name=”keywords” content=”social justice organization,low income family,anti-war,paid sick days, predatory lending,katrina relief,osi-new york,minimum wage,afl-cio,living wage,new orleans, urban education,urban schools, heath care,political,civic engagement,hurricane katrina, political prisoners, gulf coast,rebuilding,rebuild america” /—>
Using ACORN tags could be a set-up, given the fact the poster is a noob.
I miss Howlin too. Where is she now? There is no doubt that she is posting on some site right now.
Here’s what I just found (I deleted the <>... theMichelle/Kelly stuff is directly from the site):
MICHELLE: do NOT uncomment these keywords again! -Kelly 9/12/09
—meta name=”keywords” content=”social justice organization,low income family,anti-war,paid sick days,
predatory lending,katrina relief,osi-new york,minimum wage,afl-cio,living wage,new orleans, urban education,urban schools,
heath care,political,civic engagement,hurricane katrina, political prisoners, gulf coast,rebuilding,rebuild america”
OK, THAT response is too eager and fishy. It doesn’t feel right. I think you’re up to something no good, possibly just getting the links here so they’re in one more heavily-trafficked place.
I was trying to figure out why someone who is not an acorn employee would copy tags
from a low traffic site like acorn instead of just using the one at Glenn Beck's site:
<meta name="keywords" content="Glenn Beck" />It's a mystery, and for some reason it reminds me of the helicopter paranoia song
This bears repeating. Why would someone sign on to FR on Thursday and just stumble on to something like this. Looks like a setup to me.Gee, people *do* lurk for awhile, and, at some point they are pushed over the edge by something they see or read or find ... and they register ...
Pretty nefarious ... huh
Of course the smear campaign is linked to ACORN.
Did anyone think otherwise?
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