BREAKING: Dept. of Justice hired anonymous, partisan Democrat bloggers to bolster image [& troll FR]

Muffled Oar ^ | 10/2/09 | Isaac Muzzey

[mudblood]

The Department of Justice has hired a team of partisan Democrat campaign bloggers to work at the Department.....Tracy Russo is one such blogger from the campaign of John Edwards. The unit is housed in the Office of Public Affairs....They are also tasked with posting anonymous comments, or comments under pseudonyms, at newspaper websites with stories critical of the Department of Justice, Holder and President Obama....“There is clearly a designed effort to rebut stories that are exposing the Holder Justice Department as more political than the last. We’ve seen a change in the pattern of anonymous emails we receive and comments posted at our paper’s webpage.”

[pissant]

Anyone surprised?

[Jeff Head]

In 2010 a (hopefully) veto proof congress simply defunds it. Then in 2012, when we have a new executive in charge...he simply cuts that program.

[pissant]

Is that the fat chick from Wilson Phillips?

[GeronL]

After 1994 I thought we could defund Planned Parenthood and PBS too...

[null and void]

Should we ping the trolls?

[pissant]

You can bet your bottom dollar some after-birther freepers fall into this group.

[Linda Frances]

If Acorn is throughly investigated and obama is shown to have broke laws along with the democrats, I know the justice dept will not do anything, but isn’t there another way to get rit of him? We know that the dems won’t vote to impeach. Do we have to wait until 2010?

[combat_boots]

ping

[GOPJ]

The unit is housed in the Office of Public Affairs. Not only is the Department of Justice Blog Squad going to reach out to nontraditional media like TPM Muckraker or the Muffled Oar, but they are also tasked with placing anonymous comments at conservative leaning blogs such as the Free Republic.

These are the people who are here to make us look more extreme than we are. They are also the people who run so many articles that we can't communicate with each other. Jim should seriously consider suing the Federal Government about this - this is a private site...

[Jeff Head]

A different breed is coming in on this wave...not RINOs and not people who want to "get along." That HAS to be the focus of our efforts.

Not just getting rid of the dems, but putting people in there with spine, who are committed to American ideals and setting things aright.

[IrishPennant]

While I would not hit that, I actually pictured these cockroaches looking more like this:

[null and void]

Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

17. Flood the Internet with agents. This is the answer to the question, “What could possibly motivate a person to spend hour upon hour on Internet news groups defending the government and/or the press and harassing genuine critics?” Don't the authorities have defenders enough in all the newspapers, magazines, radio, and television? One would think refusing to print critical letters and screening out serious callers or dumping them from radio talk shows would be control enough, but, obviously, it is not.

[WellyP]

She may have been “OK” about 80-100 pounds lighter!

[cripplecreek]

A different breed is coming in on this wave...not RINOs and not people who want to "get along."

Tinky Winky Graham us unhappy that we're sending confrontational representatives to Washington.

[GeronL]

I can hope so. I can already see RINO’s siding with the Democrat minority though.

[mudblood]

Ya I don’t get it. They already have an entire media that’s all tingly all the time, why would they need paid bloggers? And how the hell did they do this without anyone knowing?

[GeronL]

Even if we get a GOP majority it doesn’t necessarily mean we get a conservative majority.

[Jeff Head]

He needs to go too, on his next cycle.

[BunnySlippers]

BUMP. I hope Breitbart picks this up. Does he have an email?

[IrishPennant]

Demrat professional blogger...even at a lighter weight, she would need some serious scrubbing: