Tag: "AstroTurfing"
David Axelrod, Corporate Shill
If you don’t read anything else today (though I hope you do, and hit the tip jar, too!), you should read Michelle Malkin’s column on the King of AstroTurf, David Axelrod. It appears that he’s been using his position in the White House to ensure himself a big, fat payout from a couple companies he [...]
Left Wing Thuggery Deserves Nelson Muntz Reaction
It’s a pretty darned good day when a left-wing attempt to stifle a man’s First Amendment rights fizzle out into a faint puff of nothingness. It’s even better when that attempt blows up in their faces. Look, when you gin up a boycott against someone’s sponsors, demanding they pull their advertising as a direct attack [...]
Dissed by the Times and Instapundit. Again.
Hey New York Times, you’re four-days late on that editorial. I covered the same subject, and did a better job of it, frankly, on Sunday. Ryan Sager, who for all I know is a fine upstanding person, never makes it clear in his editorial that the distinctive characteristic of Astroturfing is dishonesty. Without that central [...]
AstroTurfing: What It Is and What It Isn’t.
I’ve noticed there seems to be some confusion in the MSM and elsewhere about the meaning of the word “AstroTurf” when used to describe the town hall meeting protests we’ve been seeing the past couple weeks. I’ve seen the word used to describe everything from bussed-in ACORN members to ad-hoc gathering organized by ordinary folks [...]
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