Posted on 11/01/2008 9:35:05 AM PDT by quesney
Pyschological-ops have been and continue to be employed against us...From another forum:
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You know who they are...
http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/that-is-what-change-means-for-barack-the-redistributor-it-means-taking-your-money-and-giving-it-to-someone-else/#comment-13554
http://news.yahoo.com/page/election-2008-political-pulse-voter-emotions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations
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Excerpt from first link: The internal campaign idea is to twist, distort, humiliate and finally dispirit you. We pay people and organize people to go to all the online sites and “play the part of a clinton or mccain supporter who just switched our support for Obama We do this to stifle your motivation and to destroy your confidence. We did this the whole primary and it worked. Sprinkle in mass vote confusion and it becomes bewildering. Most people lose patience and just give up on their support of a candidate and decide to just block out tv, news, websites, etc. This surprisingly has had a huge suppressing movement and vote turnout issues. Next, we infiltrate all the blogs and all the youtube videos and overwhelm the voting, the comments, etc. All to continue this appearance of overwhelming world support. People makes posts to the effect that the world has “gone mad” Thats the intention. To make you feel stressed and crazy and feel like the world is ending. We have also had quite a hand in skewing many many polls, some we couldn’t control as much as we would have liked. But many we have spoiled over. Just enough to make real clear politics look scarey to a mccain supporter. Its worked, alough the goal was to appear 13-15 points ahead. see, the results have been working. People tend to support a winner, go with the flow, become “sheeple”
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Don't let them get you down. Please vote.
And try to get at least five other McCain-Palin supporters to vote with you!
Paid shills are everywhere. Don’t be discouraged or dispirited. We’re going to win this thing!
I already voted, haven’t most politically aware people done the same? PsyOps are pissing in the wind at this point.
This was especially prevalent at FR during the primaries, where a certain candidate had different shifts of paid shills here 24/7.
The mods have been smacking down some of the ones during the GE, but there are still some that manage to stick around by maintaining the appearance of a normal posting history.
they seem to be assaulting FR without pause.
It’s so shamelessly obvious that some people are either paid to post or are sitting in their basement ‘volunteering’ for this effort.
When I see a mass of Obamabot nonsense, I just cheerfully post:
“Good to see the paid Obama posters are out. I hope you guys are getting paid overtime!”
Keep the response simple and short — also lets people who stumble upon these things know that there are shenanigans going on.
I heard this on Rush the other day, and it was fascinating. It definitely makes sense, and comports with David Axelrod’s style. Axelrod is a media guy, not a political guy. His expertise is in manipulating public perception and public opinion through creating the image of fake grassroots support - it’s called astroturfing, and Axelrod is one of the best.
There are many, many that remain in our midst.
Beware, it’s gonna get intense over the next 80 hours!
I’m ready for em. I actually feel pretty good about this election. Unbelievable, I know, considering the psy-ops.
I encountered one of these in 2004 on the American Idol message board. They are easy to FReep and we should all be battling them on the pop culture boards.
FReeping doesn’t always mean standing on a street corner with a sign. We should be in the off topic forums of AI, SYTYCD, Lost, DWTS, Television Without Pity, etc. Be polite but spank them with sources and facts. They are very scripted and easy to take out.
I don’t trust you or your alter ego, FloridaGOPvoter.
Why? Who is Fla GOP? Is he someone you’ve tagged as a “troll”?
The term “Psy-Ops” dignifies what is going on with some pretense of sophistication and rigor. It even lends it a sense of respectability.
Folks, what is going on is nothing more nor less than ham-handed Enemy Propaganda. Viewed from outside the United States (over here in New Zealand) it is so Hell-Funny in its lack of finesse it is risible: like a really bad “knock-knock” joke.
(And yes, our Media is doing it too, with our own Election. So we are experts at spotting Enemy Propaganda).
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE ENEMY PROPAGANDA. See it for what it is, laugh at it, make jokes about it, and even distort a few polls if you can to reflect an Obama landslide. It will make his defeat even more baffling to these buffoons.
Or if you can’t do that, spend as long with the pollster as you can: make a game out of wasting their time, turn it into a contest. Time is money to those folks, and to the folks who sponsor them: so help Obama spend a few more of his millions by taking 20 minutes with a pollster to cover a poll that should take no more than two minutes.
Use your imagination. Just don’t let the Enemy Propaganda (or “Psy-Ops” if you really must call it that) get you down.
Vote.
God Bless America
*DieHard*
LOL
I *heart* Cedric!
It's for being a MARXIST and SOCIALIST, STUPID!!!
Jedi mind tricks only work on weak-minded people.
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