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13. Investigative journalism.

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199 replies	Author	Time	Post
DU Exclusive: Gravis Marketing exposed as a fraud Part I [View all]	grantcart	Oct 2012	OP
You did your homework my friend. Good for you and great post.	hrmjustin	Oct 2012	#1
Thank you	BumRushDaShow	Oct 2012	#2
Get thee to the greatest page	malaise	Oct 2012	#3
Do I Get A Shout Out For Smoking Him Out?	DemocratSinceBirth	Oct 2012	#7
Indeed!	LiberalAndProud	Oct 2012	#44
LOL	malaise	Oct 2012	#45
It was your "clown" label and his idiotic response that got my interest.	grantcart	Oct 2012	#50
And you really went to town with your research.	Indpndnt	Oct 2012	#108
it was just going to be a little funny thread in Meta	grantcart	Oct 2012	#140
Yes, you do sweetie!	Cha	Oct 2012	#78
You sure do! And I see the clown's account is still active here.	Indpndnt	Oct 2012	#107
Shout out!	tavalon	Oct 2012	#133
Indeed. Impressive work.	freshwest	Oct 2012	#179
Great work.	jsr	Oct 2012	#4
I can forward this to some people	jsmirman	Oct 2012	#5
The First Photo Is Stock Art.	DemocratSinceBirth	Oct 2012	#6
An analogy comes to mind	Cha	Oct 2012	#82
Thanks. And welcome to Arizona.	frazee	Oct 2012	#8
welcome to DU!	renate	Oct 2012	#15
Thank you.	frazee	Oct 2012	#40
Great job, grantcart!	janx	Oct 2012	#9
I did a Google search on 'Mr. Kaplan' (first photo) and it appears to be a stock image.	CurtEastPoint	Oct 2012	#10
Using Stock Art On A Web Page Is Pretty Amateurish	DemocratSinceBirth	Oct 2012	#20
Well done, grantcart.	speedoo	Oct 2012	#11
too damn funny	rufus dog	Oct 2012	#12
Investigative journalism.	LiberalAndProud	Oct 2012	#13
Fabulous sleuthing!	lunatica	Oct 2012	#14
well done!	renate	Oct 2012	#16
One Small Point. He's Allegedly A Robocaller So He Wouldn't Need Callers	DemocratSinceBirth	Oct 2012	#17
He claims to have a call center for hire too:	beac	Oct 2012	#26
They employ a special	Aerows	Oct 2012	#67
still need a call center to listen to the reponses, tabulate, etc	grantcart	Oct 2012	#71
Maybe he hires prisoners--twelve cents an hour! nt	MADem	Oct 2012	#183
EPIC reasearching	tarheelsunc	Oct 2012	#18
Great work! BTW, did you notice their "WHY US" page	beac	Oct 2012	#19
"Why us?" I already know the	Cha	Oct 2012	#83
top tears...	oldsmoboi	Oct 2012	#197
shaking head	bigtree	Oct 2012	#21
Just wow! DU is awesome!	longship	Oct 2012	#22
Nice work	titaniumsalute	Oct 2012	#23
I expected to see a pic of Jeff Gannon there.	grasswire	Oct 2012	#24
I thought that's who Mike HARDin was	alcibiades_mystery	Oct 2012	#57
Excellent research.	Grateful for Hope	Oct 2012	#25
Oops... n/t	porphyrian	Oct 2012	#27
Nice work, grantcart. I'm wondering now if the dude is posting here on DU. Hmmm.	lamp_shade	Oct 2012	#28
fantastic	flamingdem	Oct 2012	#29
K & R !!!	WillyT	Oct 2012	#30
Link to first arrival at DU on Sept. 4th of "Gravismarketing"	DURHAM D	Oct 2012	#31
I remember being in that thread	Aerows	Oct 2012	#68
He got on that thread too..defending donations	Cha	Oct 2012	#85
Good job, figured as much.	Ikonoklast	Oct 2012	#32
Excellent work, which	ProSense	Oct 2012	#33
Real poll: Post-Debate Colorado Polls Shows 4-Point Obama Lead	ProSense	Oct 2012	#39
HA! nm	Cha	Oct 2012	#88
Excellent question, ProSense.. If grantcart can	Cha	Oct 2012	#87
Great piece, thanks	AnnieK401	Oct 2012	#34
What an impressive report, grantcart!!	Control-Z	Oct 2012	#35
Busted! Bwahahaha!!!	PotatoChip	Oct 2012	#36
You are a hero sir!	berni_mccoy	Oct 2012	#37
They donated to the Romney campaign	Aerows	Oct 2012	#38
Excellent detective work Grantcart	Generic Other	Oct 2012	#41
Nice Work.... what kills me is he uses the photo you posted on his website (the one of him)...	trailmonkee	Oct 2012	#42
Is it un-Democratic to want to punch his lights out?	superpatriotman	Oct 2012	#43
Thank you, grandcart.	gademocrat7	Oct 2012	#46
Sorry, grantcart	gademocrat7	Oct 2012	#49
I found a blog with Kaplan trying to defend himself in the comments	starroute	Oct 2012	#47
You are so right about Kaplan's 'semi-literate' responses.	PotatoChip	Oct 2012	#77
Anonymous posted that there is a money trail / Republican paid operative.	LiberalAndProud	Oct 2012	#86
If he was being paid for campaign services	starroute	Oct 2012	#110
I just did the google street view thingie for	DURHAM D	Oct 2012	#48
Cross-posted at DKos here	berni_mccoy	Oct 2012	#51
I see it now has 52 comments. nt	DURHAM D	Oct 2012	#127
Yeah, it was easy to see when he posted here.	JNelson6563	Oct 2012	#52
Dude is still a member...	trumad	Oct 2012	#53
Well, the next time he shows up on a thread	Cha	Oct 2012	#89
wow....+1,000,000	SoapBox	Oct 2012	#54
Fans of Gravis on DU often say "We know it leans GOP, but we need the full data set..."	alcibiades_mystery	Oct 2012	#55
From his website in 2010....	pkdu	Oct 2012	#56
A "freelance professional"	alcibiades_mystery	Oct 2012	#58
My Fave line too!.....he left out " I had also graduated from Crayola University" nt	pkdu	Oct 2012	#64
I know.. I had to read that	Cha	Oct 2012	#91
"By the age of 14, I had read several books."	mrs_p	Oct 2012	#100
gravismarketing.com is hiding behind a Domain Privacy Service	IDemo	Oct 2012	#59
Hmmmm.....	Aerows	Oct 2012	#74
Hmmmm ..... indeed n/t	dmr	Oct 2012	#128
Excellent work. Is there a way to send this to Rachel, Al Sharpton, Big Ed or even to the	sabrina 1	Oct 2012	#60
stopped for gas. I waive all copyright. any use OK.	grantcart	Oct 2012	#65
Thanks extremely, grantcart et DU al, for this case study on a vital topic, polling as a business,	patrice	Oct 2012	#61
Great work!	budkin	Oct 2012	#62
Wow! Thanks for all You did!!	hue	Oct 2012	#63
good work	blogslut	Oct 2012	#66
One of my brother's fraternity brothers	LiberalAndProud	Oct 2012	#69
thanks for ferreting out this loser and.....	madrchsod	Oct 2012	#70
If you have a journal, please save it there so it will be easy to find	eridani	Oct 2012	#72
Bravo. You do the DU proud grantcart.	great white snark	Oct 2012	#73
Well done!	Whovian	Oct 2012	#75
Doug Kaplan sounds Romneyesque.. no wonder he's	Cha	Oct 2012	#76
Bravo!!!! K&R n/t	OneGrassRoot	Oct 2012	#79
Wow. Just wow.	greatauntoftriplets	Oct 2012	#80
Too lazy to go further but 6 out of 6 pages on Gravis were all updated same day (JUNE 3,2012)	Progressive dog	Oct 2012	#81
keep kicking this nt	grasswire	Oct 2012	#84
K&R	classof56	Oct 2012	#90
There's a trail that seems to lead to I Marketing Co.	starroute	Oct 2012	#92
Kaplan and his pal Jake Wood were in the junk fax business	starroute	Oct 2012	#94
Wow. n/t	janx	Oct 2012	#96
LOL - what a group	DURHAM D	Oct 2012	#98
I love "Tony Arrigoni"	alcibiades_mystery	Oct 2012	#101
Complaints about Kaplan at Rifoff Report	starroute	Oct 2012	#99
Oh -- Kaplan also has his very own PAC	starroute	Oct 2012	#95
Here are links for that Disney case	starroute	Oct 2012	#109
Brilliant work	muriel_volestrangler	Oct 2012	#118
Kaplan seems to have a lot more ventures	starroute	Oct 2012	#114
It just get better and better.	DURHAM D	Oct 2012	#115
Discovery Marketing was also in the fax spam business	starroute	Oct 2012	#117
And here's an FCC warning about the spam faxes	starroute	Oct 2012	#121
kick	janx	Oct 2012	#93
So - Doug Kaplan =	dchill	Oct 2012	#97
Great job on this...thank you.	AikidoSoul	Oct 2012	#102
Good luck. I used to live on Craycroft and Broadway in Tucson	Panasonic	Oct 2012	#103
I'm forwarding this to a friend at the NYT	jsmirman	Oct 2012	#104
If the Internet had been around in 1968, world history would have been changed for the better!	hedgehog	Oct 2012	#105
Patting myself on the back for seeing this early	alcibiades_mystery	Oct 2012	#106
Wow. Good work.	woo me with science	Oct 2012	#111
Kicked and Recommended	rury	Oct 2012	#112
On 2nd viewing I realize he looks like John Lovitz, Jr.	Whovian	Oct 2012	#113
Impressive ferreting!	Plucketeer	Oct 2012	#116
Very well done!	Denzil_DC	Oct 2012	#119
Thank you Grantcart.	Kurovski	Oct 2012	#120
Great job, another GOTCHA!	BrainMann1	Oct 2012	#122
k&r for exposure. Nicely done. n/t	Laelth	Oct 2012	#123
Sent to Sam Wang - along with some math	fiorello	Oct 2012	#124
Nice analysis. I get similar	frazee	Oct 2012	#135
A more appropriate test than my earlier one is probably a simple	frazee	Oct 2012	#137
Great work, all Americans are indebted to you.	Scuba	Oct 2012	#125
You never know something until you "know it"	reflection	Oct 2012	#126
knew gravis was fraud	outsideworld	Oct 2012	#129
I Am Impressed With The Speed This Clown Made Himself A Player	DemocratSinceBirth	Oct 2012	#130
K&R ...	Trajan	Oct 2012	#131
Doug Kaplan can't be doing very well	formercia	Oct 2012	#132
Okay, someone has to be shallow.	Ruby the Liberal	Oct 2012	#134
LOL	cyberswede	Oct 2012	#175
You too!	Ruby the Liberal	Oct 2012	#176
Action required:	reflection	Oct 2012	#136
On second thought: let them waste their money!	fiorello	Oct 2012	#143
Well done.	Moondog	Oct 2012	#138
Very impressive, grantcart, thank you so much	Samantha	Oct 2012	#139
Silver cited Gravis in an article on Saturday as evidence of the Romney "bump"	Denzil_DC	Oct 2012	#142
Thank you so much Denzil_DC	Samantha	Oct 2012	#146
You're welcome, Samantha	Denzil_DC	Oct 2012	#147
This is getting good. Good work, fiorello.	LiberalAndProud	Oct 2012	#160
You outdid yourself, my friend!	thevoiceofreason	Oct 2012	#141
More repube lies. More repube fraud. More repube cheating. More repube democracy-trashing	NBachers	Oct 2012	#144
Absolutely outstanding stuff, grantcart! ... Thank you.	Bozita	Oct 2012	#145
This is real investigative journalism...	Science Geek	Oct 2012	#148
Nice work...btw	Ken Burch	Oct 2012	#149
He is a model. He might not even be American.	MADem	Oct 2012	#184
Great work! Thank you!	highplainsdem	Oct 2012	#150
Awesome work! Is this being sent to HuffPo? and Silver?	progressivebydesign	Oct 2012	#151
yes, this is awesome. I really hope this has been sent to CNN and everywhere else	anneboleyn	Oct 2012	#152
The idea that one jerk could depress votes or otherwise impact the election	anneboleyn	Oct 2012	#153
What about "We Ask America"	AnnieK401	Oct 2012	#154
That one is run by the right wing Illinois Manufacturers Association	MessiahRp	Oct 2012	#155
Thanks!	AnnieK401	Oct 2012	#167
I did some research based on your post:	Raine1967	Oct 2012	#181
Sweet, get the word out!	MessiahRp	Oct 2012	#186
I've been trying!	Raine1967	Oct 2012	#187
Holy Crap. I knew that asswipe was a liar.	Jennicut	Oct 2012	#156
This Colorado poll, however, is NOT "total crap"!	Moses2SandyKoufax	Oct 2012	#157
WEASKAMERICA.	A-Schwarzenegger	Oct 2012	#158
That is one...	Vestigial_Sister	Oct 2012	#159
I first noticed Gravis when suddenly Allen was up by 5 or 7 against Kaine	underpants	Oct 2012	#161
Yep.	myrna minx	Oct 2012	#162
I LOVE detective work such as yours!	WinkyDink	Oct 2012	#163
I Was Part Of This Great Unraveling So I Would Like To Add One Caveat	DemocratSinceBirth	Oct 2012	#164
Agreed - I think it's his competence and methods that are open to question	muriel_volestrangler	Oct 2012	#166
Small Correction	DemocratSinceBirth	Oct 2012	#171
Yes we can until he proves otherwise.	grantcart	Oct 2012	#174
what a low state "media" has fallen to	Maeve	Oct 2012	#177
Do they have a "polling" major at Devry? I think not.	MADem	Oct 2012	#185
dKos has it	Coyotl	Oct 2012	#165
k & r.	TxVietVet	Oct 2012	#168
Meet Chris Young - Rhode Island	chemp	Oct 2012	#169
Bookmarking for GOOD future reference.	Sheepshank	Oct 2012	#170
K & R	Scurrilous	Oct 2012	#172
I was trying to do that google image search thingy	Historic NY	Oct 2012	#173
Kicking in case anyone has missed it. nt	Ilsa	Oct 2012	#178
Wow, excellent work!	Spazito	Oct 2012	#180
REC 348--if I could rec it a thousand times I would.	MADem	Oct 2012	#182
Possible proof	dawolf	Oct 2012	#188
Nice work!	Indpndnt	Oct 2012	#189
Well, well, well... I do believe we discussed this a month ago!	Raster	Oct 2012	#190
Thanks for that, hadn't seen it at the time	grantcart	Oct 2012	#191
I had my suspicions. Your research and tenacity do us PROUD!	Raster	Oct 2012	#192
That and not having a TV after a move gave me a lot of time with nothing to do	grantcart	Oct 2012	#193
Move to Tucson?	Raster	Oct 2012	#195
Yep	grantcart	Oct 2012	#198
Love Tucson. I have family there and go back a couple times a year.	Raster	Oct 2012	#199
And people, don't miss part 2 of this story!!!!	Maeve	Oct 2012	#194
Kick	Lucy Fer	Oct 2012	#196

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