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...

[okie01]

No excuse for NOT finding out all the ins and outs of any candidate. The truth was out there. One just had to look for it.

You can't teach somebody what they don't want to know.

[azkathy]

Yea, in hindsight it probably set the stage.

They knew who I was and what I was about for a long time. I had worked there for 6 years. I am the same person I always was, they went more wacky liberal over the years.

The rocks sit with Budha on the front desk. They have gone the spritual healer route, read alot of the New Age books, but have no integrity. Part of the problem with that movement is “just do what you feel good about.” No concept of Right and Wrong, Moral and Imoral.

[Candor7]

Well, if you want sink or swim in your relationship with her?

Tell her to read this thoroughly:

http://www.TheObamaFile.com

Even Obots go into tantrum mode after they read it, Bizarro!

One of the only places where the full spectrum of Obama’s truth is factually and actually set out.

[XenaLee]

"They have gone the spritual healer route, read alot of the New Age books, but have no integrity. Part of the problem with that movement is “just do what you feel good about.” No concept of Right and Wrong, Moral and Imoral."

You mean.....like the 60's? They probably thought they were being all original and NEW NEW Age....when all they were doing is the same ole same ole hippy schtick. ROFLMAO! I'm sorry, but I would have HAD to say 'like, far out man' about a dozen times before I left! hehe

[XenaLee]

Yeah, I just might email her the link. It’s up to her if she wants to read it or not. Won’t be a comfy feeling any more tho if she does read it. That ignorance is bliss feeling will be gone forever!

Thanks for the link.

[XenaLee]

Just heard on the news that Houston Fluor Daniel is laying off 500 out of 3500 employees. That’s just ONE company.

And the leftist media and their bosses in the WH are pretending that we’re recovering and the stimulus is working???

[Jet Jaguar]

North Carolina Dell Computer axing 900 jobs this week.

[XenaLee]

Hey Jet. How about starting a thread on companies that are laying off? It would be one that everyone can add to as news comes out. Whatcha think?

[Jet Jaguar]

You want to start it? I bet it would be popular. Or, do you want me to do it?

[XenaLee]

I prefer that you do it. Or someone else if you don’t want to. But I think it would be valuable and eye-opening.

[digital-olive]

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

Do not be scared. You, and the People have more power than they would like. They just don’t know it yet. In 2010 they will get the hint, and in 2012 it will be slapped upside their heads.

This country belongs to the People, and they can not and will not take it from Us.

[444Flyer]

E.H.:"Mr. Obama, these are exactly the kind of secret & series basement blogger recruits I'm looking to for my Cyberwar with the patriots."

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping me the link. I will start a thread. I searched, and could not easily find one.

[RummyChick]

the post is still there. that poster sent me a couple of PMs. He was trying to sound lawyer like in that #199 post and putting forth an idea that was flat out wrong..I guess expecting no one to check

[DirtyDawg]

Them eh? Is this a trick question Rock?

[XenaLee]

What link?

[444Flyer]

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

Alice, they want to scare you. That is all they have. If they don't scare you they will be revealed as the obvious hacks and incompetents that they are. They want to be the Boogeyman but they are really the child under the sheet at Halloween. You are not helpless. You posted on this thread today and that is standing up to these butt-heads. Good job!

[thulldud]

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

I checked the link...it turns out he is THE Frank Schaeffer, son of the late Francis A. Schaeffer of L'Abri Fellowship. Dead giveaway is his presentation of himself as an "architect of the Religious Right."

Frank Schaeffer directed the documentary "How Shall We Then Live?" which was a summary of his father's critique of modern culture, made in 1977, iirc. He seems to think that the showing of his magnum opus in church basements in the 80's is the single most important factor in creating the herd of knuckle-dragging, mouthbreathing, sister-marrying, Reagan-electing Neanderthals which am us, thankyouverymuch.

He's been backpedaling since the 90's about it; probably because some elitist sneered at him and blackballed him from the club. (Where reason fails, use snobbery.) Apparently he has decided that he can redeem himself from the opprobrium of his iniquitous rightwing past by claiming a much larger role in it than he had in fact, and then claiming to have "seen the light." Sad, if true.

But he's not the first nor the last to pay an overly high price for the approval of people who 1) aren't worth the trouble, and 2) can't be trusted to deliver the purchase anyway.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

I marched in DC on 9-12 and I felt energized by doing so. There must be more that we can do, before Nov. 2010.

Between Health care Reform, Illegal Immigration, Fairness Doctrine, the ineptness in fighting the war and just plain egotistical naivete, this administration is driving me nuts and must be stopped before it's too late.

[HollyB]

They banned him.