Posted on 10/02/2009 7:02:18 AM PDT by mudblood
The Department of Justice has hired a team of partisan Democrat campaign bloggers to work at the Department.....Tracy Russo is one such blogger from the campaign of John Edwards. The unit is housed in the Office of Public Affairs....They are also tasked with posting anonymous comments, or comments under pseudonyms, at newspaper websites with stories critical of the Department of Justice, Holder and President Obama....“There is clearly a designed effort to rebut stories that are exposing the Holder Justice Department as more political than the last. We’ve seen a change in the pattern of anonymous emails we receive and comments posted at our paper’s webpage.”
(Excerpt) Read more at muffledoar.blogspot.com ...
REVERSE in 2010...REJECT in 2012!
Because control has to be TOTAL for a TOTALitarian state.
Sounds good to me. Maybe these RINO’s and the Democrats who are shocked at what their own party is doing can form a Moderate Party for us to push around?
I just sent this to Drudge!
Well, I suppose there’s nothing illegal in Obama calling on his moonbat supporters to work for him by trolling in places like FR. That’s their right, and it’s FR’s right to give them the boot when they are caught.
But it’s something else when they are hired on by the Department of Justice. The DoJ is supposed to be about justice and law. It’s not the Department of Propaganda, and they have no business paying people federal salaries and perks to spread propaganda.
Yes, when Bush was in power the RNC sometimes fought the political game—rather fecklessly—but they did it on their own dime, not the taxpayers’ dime.
This is illegal. And evil. And not a surprise, coming from the Fraudmeister in Chief.
| > You can bet your bottom dollar some after-birther freepers fall > into this group. Yeah, I was just noting yesterday how the troll activity was increased and more sophisticated than I recall in the recent past, especially on the Eligibility threads — particularly about Donofrio’s case and Orly's Judge Carter case. The Justice Department is also filing responses to Orly's and other attorney's Eligibility cases. If this is true — that's a conflict of interest and may have some significant ramifications — if there's an organized propaganda campaign underway by the Justice Department ... |
I agree, but that doesn't matter to them...
> I just sent this to Drudge!
Thanks. I’m working on independent verification. Any others willing to lend a hand, please jump in and let’s rat these rats out!
In a report requested by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D- Mass.) and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D- N.J.), the GAO found that the payments to syndicated columnist and TV personality Williams violated a statutory ban on covert propaganda. The senators requested the investigation after it was revealed late last year that the department hired Williams to promote Bush's "No Child Left Behind" legislation.
The 1913 law, updated in 1966, prohibits such deals. "Appropriated funds may not be used to pay a publicity expert unless specifically appropriated for that purpose," a provision in the U.S. code reads. The GAO determined that the Bush administration violated this provision. The "publicity and propaganda" law was cited in May 2004 by Anthony H. Gamboa, GAO's general counsel, when he ruled that government videos disguised as news violate two other laws.
And of course there was the "outrage" by the Dems:
Congressman Miller has joined other House Democrats to introduce legislation that would help put a stop to the use of covert propaganda by the government. The lawmakers acted after a series of revelations over the last year that the Bush Administration has used taxpayer dollars to finance covert propaganda. In two instances, the Administration hired actors to pose as journalists in videos promoting its Medicare and drug control policies. The videos aired on television stations across the country, and viewers at home were never told that what they were seeing was paid for with their own tax dollars. More recent revelations have shown that the Administration paid one prominent media commentator $241,000 to promote the No Child Left Behind Law, and had two contracts – one for $20,000, the other for $20,000-plus – for advice on one of the Administration’s marriage initiatives at the same time that the commentator was promoting the initiative in her syndicated column. Congressman Miller and other lawmakers have asked the Bush Administration to fully disclose its use of covert propaganda. They have also requested investigations from the Government Accountability Office and the inspectors general at different federal agencies.
Read more at Exposing Government Propoganda
They issued 16 press releases on this issue, they are at the link. Wonder if the Dems will be outraged over this one? How much you want to bet we hear nothing from them but ...{crickets}. Although they may just do like they have done before..."But Bush did it!". How juvenile they are.
I love how they use liberal idiots like Factcheck, Media Matters, David Weigel etc as if these leftwing stooges are straight shooters interested only in the truth.
Many of us for over a decade have felt that the left has paid whom we refer to as trolls to post on FR and other conservative sites.
We have seen some sites fold under their attacks, or we have left the sites do to the outrageous control the trolls end up having.
I’m sure they are of the same ilk of those who write similiar letters to the editors of local rags defending Obamdinejad, his health sham and other shams.
This is just another example why every real Freeper should be contributing monthly to Free Republic to fight these bastards.
They can post here all they want. They become pretty damned obvious real quick.
I wonder how many FReeper handles she has.
I cannot wait for this administration to be just obliterated.
BUSH was as ethical as John the Baptist compared to Obama!
So was Carter...
Beck should be all over this. I don’t know how to send him a tip. Anyone?
This isn’t a joke or satire. If you feel compelled, you may want to ping your lists.
Almost any thread questioning the natal occurrence of Duh Won, calling for independent verification of unsubstantiated claims of his Natural Born Citizenship, tracking what information and disinformation there is out there, or cheerleading those who are in the legal contests to have that documentation revealed, is usually rife with posters (the usual suspects) antagonizing other posters who want to see the proof.
SOme of these posters have been around a while, some not, but for those who think something is a "distraction" from more seminal issues they sure spend a lot of time posting on the threads instead of dealing with more seminal issues.
One would suppose as well that any breaking ideas or inside information posted would be forwarded to the higher minions of duhwon.
One shivers at the thought of a team of Department of Justice Bloggers anonymously trolling the web to spin the message of a President.
I am less concerned by someone's snarky comments or Obama cheerleaders, than the thought of agents provacateur in the ranks, especially those who would call for illegal acts and then point the finger at the posts in the MSM.
Let's be careful out here, people.
Its at least as true as the last story I saw there - where the video of Holder testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee that whites and Christians weren’t protected under hate crime legislation. Also, someone earlier in this thread posted the picture of the named blogger in the story, along with a blurb about her working for the DOJ.
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