The Obama Justice Department's Secret Blogging Team... Is it Illegal?

Publius Forum ^ | 10/07/09 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, has apparently hired a cadre of left-wing, Democrat campaign bloggers to troll through the Internet looking for news stories and blog posts that denigrate the Obama agenda. After such websites are found it is the job of these secret lefty bloggers to leave comments that come to the support of Obamaism in the comments sections. It seems that Eric Holder has created his own little propaganda unit in a valiant effort to become the Bloggi Riefenstahl of the Obama era.

As reported at The Muffled Oar, a blog that first broke the story of Holder's secretive blogging unit -- dubbed the "Blog Squad" by blogger Isaac Muzzey -- Holder has housed this unit in the Office of Public Affairs at the Department of Justice. It also appears that former John Edwards staffer Tracy Russo is part of this special unit.

A site called whorunsgov.com reported back in May that DOJ hired Russo to do "media outreach for the whole department." It is, according to whorunsgov.com, the first time such an effort has been made at DOJ.

Of Russo's duties, The Muffled Oar says:

Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...

[ROTB]

This administration scares me to death and I feel helpless to stop it.

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1) Fight them on the internet, just 20 minutes a day.
2) Believe in Jesus:

Everyone has lied, coveted, stolen, lusted, blasphemed, and
idolized, so righteous God must execute justice and punish all with eternal hellfire. The good news is, JESUS WANTS TO FORGIVE, KNOW, CHANGE, AND LOVE YOU. So He took your punishment on the cross, resurrected, and rules in heaven now. Believe in and follow Jesus, and thus be a new creature, and under grace and not law, and love people the way Jesus has loved you. When you are mature in the faith and hear the calling, reach out to those who don’t know Christ, and thus are lost.

[Candor7]

Your Welcome Jim. And good luck with the current dynamic. It is not an easy environment in which to work but I believe very firmly that “ As goes FR, so will go the nation.”The battle involves all venues of social discourse, including those right here on FR.

Also the dynamic will become more pronounced as the process of polarizing American Society plays out in microcosm right here. Part of that is also dividing FR into camps of people who disfavor patriotic initiatives such as Taitz’s
and others.( Who does she think she is anyway? LOL)

It is surprising that all genuine FReepers do not honor Taitz, but understandable in the herd of cats we have here.Hopefully we can unite to help take back the Republican party as Reagan accomplished, but that cannot happen with the unwarranted personal denigration of patriots like Taitz.Sorry to be impatient about it.

Thank you for all you do. You are truly one of my personal heroes, and of course I am not alone in that. I look forward to following your continued leadership as we move towards the election of 2010.

[Candor7]

Innteresting nerves are being struck. Thank you very much/ I love you unrequitedly. LOL.

[Candor7]

You and I have the same game plan. LOL.

I live with about 40 miles of contiuous forest at my back, and the mountains are quite wonderful.

[americanophile]

...in the old days, before outrage died and the media was replaced with one-party propaganda, this would have been a firestorm. The Attorney general running a pro-administration propaganda unit? Now, no one even cares.

[FormerACLUmember]

Holder & Obama: Worst AJ and President in American history. Two sociopaths in $3000 silk suits. Evil, evil monsters.

[mojitojoe]

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/how-obamas-internet-campaign-changed-politics/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/us/politics/04memo.html

http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2009/world_wide_webbed_12862

http://www.tapmag.net/wordpress/2008/10/08/politics-2-0-how-the-obama-campaign-won-the-internet/

[mojitojoe]

Who in the hell is Frank Schaeffer? What a little weenie he is. FUFS

[mojitojoe]

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/how-obamas-internet-campaign-changed-politics/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/us/politics/04memo.html

http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2009/world_wide_webbed_12862

http://www.tapmag.net/wordpress/2008/10/08/politics-2-0-how-the-obama-campaign-won-the-internet/

[mojitojoe]

YES, it is. You are wrong.

[Uncle Miltie]

See tagline.

[Rapscallion]

Wow. If this is true it is very, very interesting, indeed.

Back in the Nazi days, Hitler used Joseph Goebbles for this kind of manipulation of public opinion.

Let's see now. We have: the propaganda, the messianic egotistical leader, the fifth column (Czars), the hype-inflation (on the way), and HIS own security police...well on the way, IMHO.

Where does the Second Amendment come into play?

[stayathomemom]

This administration scares me to death and I feel helpless to stop it.

This is not just Big Government, this is malignant Big Government on steroids that has invasively metastasized it's wormy tentacles into every aspect of our lives. I think that's why we feel helpless. It's not easily excised, because it seems to be EVERYWHERE.

[GOPJ]

The Obama Justice Department's Secret Blogging Team... Is it Illegal?

Obama taught us something important when he went after CIA agents who had worked under President Bush - that the next President can "see things differently"... those bloggers better keep good notes...

[mojitojoe]

No, they are both idiots. NS is a master at copy and paste.

[GOPJ]

Also, a loyality statement might be in order. Jim has the right to ask people who want to post on his site if they are in fact conservatives.

[Candor7]

Agreed, but then there is a necessity to include as many as possible so we can run this show. LOL.

[astounded]

FUBO and FUDOJ

[mojitojoe]

LOl, he does look like a weasel doesn't he. He's really fugly. He acts girly too.

[mojitojoe]

PO