Posted on 04/04/2010 11:08:56 PM PDT by machogirl
Remember Ellie Light?
The Obama Blog Squad has been active on a number of high profile conservative webpages in the last month. The Muffled Oar broke the story in October of Administration-wide coordination between agency public affairs offices and left wing bloggers to attack news stories critical of Obama, post anonymous comments and seed the Internet with unofficial official Obama spin. As part of this effort, the Justice Department Office of Public Affairs works closely with left wing bloggers to distribute administration spin. The OPA unit is headed by a former John Edwards campaign staffer who conducted this type of operation for his now-disgraced Presidential campaign.
Recently, a so-called reporter for a left wing blog that covers the Justice Department was caught participating on conservative blogs as a member of the blog squad working with the Justice Department Office of Public Affairs. Administrators of conservative blogs have been alerted of suspected blog squad trolls and are monitoring their posting activity. The anonymous troll blogger in his real life job has done interviews with senior Justice Department officials and political appointees, and regularly parrots the Obama Administration line in his stories. You can see the work of some of these secret blog squad activities, where blog squaders serve as an partisan advocate for General Holder after they put on their Internet disguise. Note carefully the very informed pro-DOJ positions the anonymous troll blogger posts, defending Holder and the administration by attacking critics. Occasionally this blog squadder will post something critical of Obama or Holder, but it is always an aside, part of the disguise, while he plays the role of anonymous critic. Without these asides, he would be booted from the Free Republic as a left wing troll.
Here is the most important part of this story: this anonymous blogger is getting information directly from Tracy Russo or the others at the DOJ office of public affairs. This is the undeniable fact, and the most disgusting one. The blog squadder cites detailed and informed rebuttals about Justice policy provided by Justice officials. Whether these details were acquired from their pseudo-legitimate role as a pseudo-reporter, or their illegitimate role in the blog squad is unknown. Various conservative blogs have begun to harvest Internet addressees of these trolls and are patching together together the pattern.
The anonymous blog squader "Conscience of a Conservative," knows who he is. Stranger still, many people think he is a legitimate news reporter covering the Department of Justice for a media outlet. How many more reporters have this cozy and cooperative relationship with the Office of Public Affairs? Perhaps he will own up to his anonymous trolling before he is outed and brings great shame to his purportedly objective publication that employs him. We doubt it.
interesting. i wonder what “news agency” he works for?
I don’t know. Plenty of lefty news organs out there.
sure are, wonder if it’s “Politico”?
That just means he is a good troll. As well all know, recently we have seen some banned that signed up in 1998. The best troll is one that signs up and lets it slow cook, then flies well below the radar.
He posted semi regularly but not that much. Almost 3 years and only 3 pages of past posts. I checked him out before because he was defending the BC issue. In fact, I took screen shots of his past posts months ago. I admit I wasn’t sure if he was or not, but I was leaning toward yes.
Funny thing is Jeremiah is that a long time ago I suspected him from the BC threads. I saved screen shots of his past posts a long time ago. He will be back, with one of his many other names .
LOL, I never last either but a friend of mine has had a DU account for years. He donates a few bucks too, just to appear legit. He regularly pisses them off over there then sends me the link so I can watch their heads explode. He’s very subtle and very good.
that is funny
Is there a way to get rid of them? Why tolerate them and their "counter propaganda" operation as free speech? It is not.
Is it not time to fight Alinsky with Alinsky?
Thanks. C7
Don’t miss this piece- a sleeper troll has been found. Reading over his/her posts they are well-informed and always have the DOJ answers at the ready.
Pls have a look..if you visit the site posted and click..link..it takes you to FR..if you are logged in to FR..it goes to your free republic on line page.
The reason i am asking...can they get our IP numbers when this happens?
Obama is leading this country down a path that has already caused great harm, and will cause grave harm if we do not take back Congress in 2010 (to de-fund his current initiatives and stall future ones) and kick him out in 2012. I do not "defend" Obama's legislation, the "Ready Reserve Corps," or the student loan takeover. Pointing out that certain aspects of Obama's program are nothing new (i.e., that they are part of a creeping socialism that has been going on for decades) is not "defending" them.
For the record, I am not a DOJ troll. I haven’t the foggiest idea who Tracy Russo is, I don’t work for the DOJ, (and, frankly, would NEVER work for this administration’s DOJ), and I am not a news reporter (for what it’s worth, I am a lawyer in private practice in New York).
Looking back, it looks like I disagreed with MuffledOar’s interpretation of a specific provision in ObamaCare, in a thread a couple of weeks ago. I was immediately caled a troll in that thread (by the person who posted the thread), so I can only imagine that MuffledOar assumed I was some sort of troll based on that thread, and simply made the rest up.
Not buying into the birth certificate stuff does not make me a pro-Obama troll.
I believe that Obama is an awful President who is causing grave harm to this country.
I do NOT believe that Obama is ineligible to be President, and I think that pushing the issue harms our side, not Obama.
BYE BYE
Stop fretting about this.
hmmmmm..I always wondered if COC was really David Frum....lol.
HAh! Interesting- though CoC seems well-versed in the Obama DoJ viewpoints- not sure if Frum would know all that- unless he was being fed.
I read all his/her posts- very careful to toss in plenty of disclaimers while giving us the administration’s talking points.
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