Posted on 09/17/2008 10:28:43 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
This is what the Nut Roots are doing to WGN-AM in Chicago:
Obama vs. WGN-AMIf you guys in the Robinson family don't get your act together, and get it together soon, then the Nut Roots are going to take down this site, and take it down hard, for the next two months.
The station is coming under attack for offering airtime to controversial author.
by John McCormick and Steven Schmadeke | Tribune staff reporters
September 16, 2008
chicagotribune.comChicago radio station WGN-AM is again coming under attack from the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama for offering airtime to a controversial author. It is the second time in recent weeks the station has been the target of an "Obama Action Wire" alert to supporters of the Illinois Democrat.
Monday night's target was David Freddoso, who the campaign said was scheduled to be on the station from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Chicago time.
Obama mobilizes rapid response on Web
Campaign targets media when attacks aired By John McCormick | Chicago Tribune reporter
12:32 AM CDT, September 17, 2008
chicagotribune.comMuch of Barack Obama's political success can be traced to a database listing contact information for millions of people, a tool that has proved invaluable in raising record sums of money and organizing a national volunteer network.
Now Obama's presidential campaign is increasingly using the list to beat back media messages it does not like, calling on supporters to flood radio and television stations when those opposed to him run anti-Obama ads or appear on talk shows.
It did so as recently as Monday night, when it orchestrated a massive stream of complaints on the phone lines of Tribune Co.-owned WGN-AM in Chicago when the radio station hosted author David Freddoso, who has written a controversial book about the Illinois Democrat.
You need to do several things to the Free Republic infrastructure and have them in place no later than about October 1; among them:
1) Mirror Free Republic to at least two other physical locations around the country - one on the east coast [Washington/NYC/Atlanta], and the other maybe more central [Texas has some large colo's with backbone connectivity].
Right now, I am seeing only two IP resolutions for "www.freerepublic.com" - 209.147.64.200 & 209.147.64.201 - and traceroutes have them [predictably] on the same physical network [I imagine that they are sitting right next to one another in the same server rack]:
2) Turn off as much of the relational structure at Free Republic as is possible, and return to a strictly flat file structure for as much of the content at Free Republic as is possible.[n - 2] mg-1.a01.mlpsca01.us.da.verio.net [n - 1] 128.242.105.82 [n] 209.147.64.200 The current relational structure is hopelessly broken, and the negotiations between the caching frontend and the relational backend are breaking down multiple times a day.
Again: THE RELATION STRUCTURE MUST BE DISCARDED - THIS IS IMPERATIVE.
[Furthermore, it is vastly easier to propagate a flat file structure to multiple physical sites around the country; trying to propagate a relational structure, in real time, with relatively limited funds for bandwidth, is essentially impossible.]
3) As things really heat up in October & November, I'd consider banning [temporarily] all non-political content, and instituting an aggressive policy of putting on probation the accounts of users who post lengthy, inane, unfocused, meandering, off-topic soliloquies - concentrating instead on promoting the work of people [like Kristinn] who are doing original investigative reporting and who are presenting their results in simple, straightforward, declarative arguments.
Along those lines, I'd move aggressively to upgrade the quality of the moderators who are policing the content at Free Republic - the quality of the moderation is utterly unpredictable from hour to hour - one hour there will seem to be a moderator who "gets it", and the next hour, it's as if that moderator's shift suddenly ended, and we have an utterly clueless moderator in charge of things.
I don't care if you're worried about hurting Granny's feelings if you tell her that she can't moderate for the next two months - we have to get some moderators in here who are up-to-date on current events and who understand the difference between original investigative reporting [regarding e.g. DEM/Obama treason & Bolshevik/Gramscian subterfuge] and the kinds of "Pray for my Kitty who is having feline leukemia chemotherapy tomorrow morning" threads which seem to waste so much CPU time & bandwidth at this site.
Are you nuts? Apple servers are NOT among the best. Desktops are fine, but not servers.
Not a counterattack, just a point that we shouldn’t assume things like this aren’t already happening.
I am aware of through a close personal contact that the planning for shutting down anti Obama web sites like FRee Republic has been discussed and will be implemented if Obama falls much further behind in their internal polling.
Right now as I write this, new trolls are being recruited to disrupt Conservative web sites.
My very high level source laughingly said that these people mean business and they do have the financial backing to cause havoc with anyone who crosses Senator Obama.
As for those polls people ask us to FReep, well these are being manipulated to Obama’s advantage.
Also be aware that these folks are trying to figure out who is making adverse comments and seeking to identify their true identity.
Just some interesting information from a high level source.
I’ve seen the “John McCain sings Streisand” thread at least 4 times since yesterday. It was funny when he did it a decade ago and it was funny to watch again yesterday but it ceased to be funny after that.
Ahhhh
Above the Mason Dixon line . . .
would that . . . uhhh . . . be about at her . . . uhhhh navel?
[yes, I know what the Mason/Dixon line is/was]
I have noticed a growing amount of poop in the pool.
The problem is real, pervasive and will only get worse.
No one is suggesting the Robinsons are inept, it may be simply that they are doing the best they can with resources they have.
If additional funds are necessary to protect the smooth functioning of the site for the next two months, most of us FR diehards are more than willing to fund the creation of additional backup. There are even helpers lining up to volunteer.
Desperate times, etc....
I'm not sure I understand this. I know lib sites have an equivalent to Freeping polls, but do you mean something else?
I'm not sure I understand this. I know lib sites have an equivalent to Freeping polls, but do you mean something else?
Thereabouts. And that's why "hugh manatee" is below the Mason-Dixon line...
You might want to be careful and speak a bit more gently about people you don't know. There are many reasons people who have been signed up for years might not have been on for a while. The site could have had, for a time, an over run of rudely arrogant posters that drove them off for a while. People could have experienced illness and/or deaths of loved ones and didn't have the heart to participate for a while. Some could have lost their computer and couldn't afford to replace it for a while. Take your choice of any or all of the above...until you know for sure, you should remember that the strength of FReepers is their community and support of one another.
STRONGLY AGREE:
No one is suggesting the Robinsons are inept, it may be simply that they are doing the best they can with resources they have.
If additional funds are necessary to protect the smooth functioning of the site for the next two months, most of us FR diehards are more than willing to fund the creation of additional backup. There are even helpers lining up to volunteer.
Desperate times, etc....
Ever think that a shout-out like this might actually energize checkbooks? The ultimate solution to just about anything.
Just ask Obama...
“I agree. Now is as good a time as any to pony up a little cash.”
We can thank of if as a non tax deductable campaign donation.
“And the hardware for a local cache of a flat file structure shouldn’t cost more than $1000 or so [and that’s for new equipment - used equipment would be essentially costless]. “
let me get this striaght... you want to handel teh volume of post on FR with flat files? are you insane?
Above or below her bed bunny’s bite m . . . well anyway . . . gotta go wash my imaginator out with soap.
Hey Jim, athough you'd have to be a gigantic dolt to implement this, please get rid of your database and implement some sort of file I/O to run FR.
the old HSW tactics. Maybe call it Obama’s Secret Warriors (OSW)?
Bump Bill, you are right. Some of us remember the HSW attacks and the Islamic attacks.
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