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The Age of Trolling - How a small band of conservatives generated half of the DNC's headlines
The Slate ^ | September 7, 2012 | David Weigel

Posted on 09/09/2012 8:27:55 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Calvin Locke

Yes but they insinuate that someone has played a little trick when in fact outside their little world is a much bigger one where people DO care what’s on their platform. Yes, they are shocked but not for the reason they should be.


21 posted on 09/09/2012 9:36:27 AM PDT by poobear (Socialism, in the minds of the elites, is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Dems hate it when the MSM loses control of the spin. Suddenly, they don’t get to be the only ones who have control of the podium. Hurray for the Rush Limbaugh (and others on talk radio) and the internet and, in this case, a BIG hurray for Fox News and Brett Bauer for pounding on this point.


22 posted on 09/09/2012 9:39:19 AM PDT by onevoter
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To: mylife

May the force be with us - Always!


23 posted on 09/09/2012 9:40:03 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
It could have ended there. But within a few hours, CNN and Fox News were browbeating Democrats to ask why they’d changed the platform...

Slate lexicographical reference for "Browbeat."

Asking a democrat a question it doesn't want to answer....

24 posted on 09/09/2012 9:44:42 AM PDT by papertyger (Representation without taxation is tyranny! NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION!)
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To: justlurking
...something that Schultz did out of sheer stupidity, ignorance, or incompetence.

That's the beauty of using the term literally... Schultz didn't lie out of stupidity or ignorance - she lied because she thought she could get away with it. Even a year ago the press would NOT have called her on the lie. Conservatives are starting to influence journalists - they're almost ashamed of covering for blatant liberal lies... it's happening.

25 posted on 09/09/2012 9:46:42 AM PDT by GOPJ (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T. Jefferson)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
some time ago there was a FReeper that posted quite a bit from YidWithALid but i don't know if it was their blog, haven't seen it in quite a long time now
26 posted on 09/09/2012 9:51:11 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
................who thought, just 11 months after the launch of the Occupy movement, that 99 percenters would have less influence on the platform than conservative media?...............

Only anyone with a functioning brain who could see that the Occupy movement was a complete fraud and a joke.

27 posted on 09/09/2012 9:51:11 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt one has for others.-Tocqueville)
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As usual, the leftists at Slate don't quite get it. A "Platform" states, for the record, what the President's administration's view will be, as well as the political and legislative agenda.

Democrats did not expect to spend Wednesday arguing about the capital of Israel and the appearance of the word “God” in their platform. There were, reportedly, 15,000 members of the media in Charlotte, of whom maybe 14,980 could have given a damn about the party platform.

First off, Slate claims that nobody really cares about what's in the "platform," sort of like when SanFranNan stated that Obamacare needed to be passed and made law before we could know what was in it.

Secondly, and more importantly, the last time I checked, Israelis and the Nation of Israel "believe" that Jerusalem, the "City of David, is the capital of the country. Silly them, as the DNC's Presidential Platform (approved by Obama beforehand), as well as the Obama regime has now decided that the capital of Israel will be up for discussion by Israel's enemies. When that came out and was made public, the SHTF, and the establishment DNC realized that they had pushed the leftist line just a bit too far, realizing that Speilberg, Katzenberg, and most of the big money, far left Jewish financiers of the Dems just weren't quite ready for that step, the total abandonment of Israel to her enemies. Maybe in the next election cycle, but not quite yet.

Mark

28 posted on 09/09/2012 9:54:32 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
It comes not from Grimm literature, but from a fishing technique in which multiple lines are baited and dragged to haul in the maximum amount of cold-bloods.

This reads like it was written by a stereotyped exaggeration of a pasty nebbish who has never seen the sun or dated a girl.

29 posted on 09/09/2012 9:56:10 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: justlurking; GOPJ
I interpreted "unforced error" in this context to be like the baseball term -- something that Schultz did out of sheer stupidity, ignorance, or incompetence.

You're right about the definition, but it's not a baseball term that I know of. It's a tennis term.

30 posted on 09/09/2012 10:00:01 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: rockrr
Again with Slate.com going off the liberal reservation.

Sorry, but I disagree. Slate didn't go "off the reservation." They were chiding the leftists, letting them know where they screwed up, and telling them they need to do a better job of covering their trails.

Mark

31 posted on 09/09/2012 10:06:29 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Chode; All

http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/


32 posted on 09/09/2012 10:08:51 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Who's the troll here?

Mark Siegel resigned Friday from his post in the Palm Beach County Democratic Party, according to the communications director of the state's Democratic Party, Brannon Jordan.

Siegel, speaking to a conservative journalist in Charlotte, NC, said he wasn't a fan of Christianity because "the Christians just want [Jews] to be there so we can be slaughtered and converted and bring on the second coming of Jesus Christ."

Bringing this kind of rehetoric to light isn't trolling...it's actual reporting that the msm won't report if it comes from a dem.

33 posted on 09/09/2012 10:10:27 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Liberty Valance

Yes.

It’s the reporting they can’t stand.


34 posted on 09/09/2012 10:12:02 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
thx...
35 posted on 09/09/2012 10:14:02 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: MarkL

Good point. It reminds me of a technique that Rush employs on occasion. He will start to say something and stop, asking himself (rhetorically) if he really wants to impart this important information that the enemy could use. Then he proclaims, “No - it’s OK - they’d never take advice from me, no matter how much it would help them!”

I’m just amused that another one of the Øbozo Propaganda Centers is scolding their own.


36 posted on 09/09/2012 10:16:38 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
After another longer hesitation, the speaker then called for a third voice vote of the “Ayes” and the “Nays”. The speaker then announced that the motion was passed , despite the obvious excess of “Nay” voice votes.

The chair was Antonio Villaraigosa, mayor of Los Angeles and an alleged rising star in the Democrat Party. At our house, Villaraigosa is known as El Burrito, which apparently can also be translated as the little ass.

The ole boy looked totally confused and poor when he was calling for these votes. He honestly didn't know what to do when the voice vote didn't appear to have the required two-thirds support.

If that's the kind of rising star the collective asses in the Democrat Party want, then let them have him.

Abajo! Abajo! El Burrito!
37 posted on 09/09/2012 10:59:15 AM PDT by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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To: mylife
The internet has become a force.

Yep, but it is being bridled by Akaima via java on Twitter and other sites. I have effectively been frozen out until I closed my browser and re-logged on many many times.

38 posted on 09/09/2012 11:11:59 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Here's the money quote

Any comment made online, if it’s given the right forum, is as relevant as any comment made by some media gatekeeper

They can't stand it that holes have been cut in their media fence, and that wild and dangerous facts have escaped their media zoo

39 posted on 09/09/2012 11:26:45 AM PDT by chesley (God's chosen instrument - the trumpet)
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To: smoothsailing; Cincinatus' Wife

Dave Weigel was/is a member of journ-o-list. He’s about as “conservative” as Van Jones.


40 posted on 09/09/2012 11:32:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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