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The Obama Justice Department's Secret Blogging Team... Is it Illegal?
Publius Forum ^
| 10/07/09
| Warner Todd Huston
Posted on 10/07/2009 9:23:26 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, has apparently hired a cadre of left-wing, Democrat campaign bloggers to troll through the Internet looking for news stories and blog posts that denigrate the Obama agenda. After such websites are found it is the job of these secret lefty bloggers to leave comments that come to the support of Obamaism in the comments sections. It seems that Eric Holder has created his own little propaganda unit in a valiant effort to become the Bloggi Riefenstahl of the Obama era.
As reported at The Muffled Oar, a blog that first broke the story of Holder's secretive blogging unit -- dubbed the "Blog Squad" by blogger Isaac Muzzey -- Holder has housed this unit in the Office of Public Affairs at the Department of Justice. It also appears that former John Edwards staffer Tracy Russo is part of this special unit.
A site called whorunsgov.com reported back in May that DOJ hired Russo to do "media outreach for the whole department." It is, according to whorunsgov.com, the first time such an effort has been made at DOJ.
Of Russo's duties, The Muffled Oar says:
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Wow. If this is true it is very, very interesting, indeed.
To: Mobile Vulgus
The Obama Justice Department’s Secret Blogging Team... Is it Illegal?
NO!
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posted on
10/07/2009 9:24:20 AM PDT
by
jessduntno
(Tell Obama to STFU - Stop The Federal Usurpation.)
To: Mobile Vulgus
Are the U.S. taxpayers paying for this nazi crap?
3
posted on
10/07/2009 9:25:21 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(America! We're spending our grandchildren's inheritance!)
To: Mobile Vulgus
DOJ is the marketing dept for Obama? I thought the DOJ had an entirely different mission - oh wait, I forgot, the adults are not in charge.
4
posted on
10/07/2009 9:25:29 AM PDT
by
Made In The USA
(Communists need not apply.)
To: jessduntno
Should it BE illegal? Yes!
Is this worthy of the DOJ? No!
It’s just one more sickening low-point for the White House and it’s lackeys?
5
posted on
10/07/2009 9:28:26 AM PDT
by
DJtex
To: Mobile Vulgus
This administration scares me to death and I feel helpless to stop it.
6
posted on
10/07/2009 9:31:44 AM PDT
by
alice_in_bubbaland
(Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Audit the FED NOW!)
To: Mobile Vulgus
Since when do democrats care about legal or illegal? Just look at Rangel as a current for instance...
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posted on
10/07/2009 9:32:24 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
To: Mobile Vulgus
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posted on
10/07/2009 9:32:53 AM PDT
by
A. Patriot
(CZ 52's ROCK)
To: alice_in_bubbaland
You and me both.
And the Republicans seem so limp, out of their league, and unresponsive.
10
posted on
10/07/2009 9:37:16 AM PDT
by
Freedom2specul8
(I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
To: 444Flyer; MestaMachine
FyI... Keeping eye on perimeter for newbies. :)
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posted on
10/07/2009 9:39:00 AM PDT
by
Freedom2specul8
(I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
To: Mobile Vulgus; Jim Robinson; kristinn
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 fostering anonymous comments at conservative leaning blogs such as the Free Republic. As we've all long suspected, this explains a lot of the ongoing troll activity here.
To: Mobile Vulgus
He’s most likely combing FR.
obamanate your obamanations.
13
posted on
10/07/2009 9:42:00 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Mobile Vulgus
So er yeah the Big O is a great guy and a wonderful President yeah that’s it he’s wonderful
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posted on
10/07/2009 9:42:08 AM PDT
by
DirtyDawg
(eat fruit)
To: Mobile Vulgus
The bureaucracy is now part of the Democrat Party campaign apparetus. The NEA to the DOJ.
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posted on
10/07/2009 9:42:32 AM PDT
by
GeronL
To: FlingWingFlyer
yep/
The National Endowment for the Arts, AmeriCorps and the DOJ have all been made into part of the Obama Campaign
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posted on
10/07/2009 9:43:53 AM PDT
by
GeronL
To: GeronL
Obozo is all about the big show.
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posted on
10/07/2009 9:45:24 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: DJtex
“Should it BE illegal? Yes!”
Is that you, Eric?
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posted on
10/07/2009 9:45:50 AM PDT
by
jessduntno
(Tell Obama to STFU - Stop The Federal Usurpation.)
To: Mobile Vulgus
1. I remember a Bush administration employee (possibly in the Department of Agriculture) getting into trouble for illegally trying to generate grassroots support for some project. I forget the details, but they crossed the line by using government money to garner support for a government project.
2. Would the new FTC rules that bloggers who review products being required to disclose if they received free products or other payments from the manufacturer apply to this? Would DoJ propagandists need a footnote saying *This opinion is paid for by the federal government?
3. Would Zotting a DoJ employee be a federal crime like taking a pot shot at FBI agents hanging around your land?
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posted on
10/07/2009 9:47:09 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Rio: Gold / Madrid: Silver / Tokyo: Bronze / Obama: Lead weight.)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner; ~Kim4VRWC's~
"...As we've all long suspected, this explains a lot of the ongoing troll activity here." As always people, we're dealing with Government employees here. Please, speak and type slowly when dealing with them as their comprehension may be lagging.
ZOTS to follow.
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posted on
10/07/2009 9:47:43 AM PDT
by
444Flyer
("Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."--Mignon McLaughlin)
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