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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Atlanta Mayor’s Column Ripping Bernie Sanders Drafted by Lobbyist, Emails Show [View all]arcane1
(38,613 posts)27. They're even hiring actual politicians to be trolls.
I choose not to be on the same side as UnitedHealth, Honda, and MGM Resorts.
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NWCorona
May 2016
OP
The only comments on this (and this is not the first thread on the subject)...
Buzz Clik
May 2016
#3
I was not criticizing you for putting up another thread on this. That kind of thing happens.
Buzz Clik
May 2016
#10
I'm not a kill the messenger type of person but I do think the actual messenger should be known
NWCorona
May 2016
#14
And into la-la land we go! Kindly tell me where I defended this. Please use quotation marks.
Buzz Clik
May 2016
#8
No it does not. Plagiarism has a very specific definition that does NOT include...
Buzz Clik
May 2016
#12
No, I don't agree that the act of writing that piece is worst than the acts it speaks against.
Buzz Clik
May 2016
#24
Dude, every person in a position of authority with a public face has writers.
Buzz Clik
May 2016
#21
Well, duh. Usually they correspond to the message of the person of authority.
libdem4life
May 2016
#23
I wonder how many DU posters are paid astroturfers...it would only be logical.
JonLeibowitz
May 2016
#13
When Hillary says single-payer isn't feasible, we know who wrote her words for her n/t
arcane1
May 2016
#28
Down here in Florida, ALEC writes the bills. A GOP legislator accidentally submitted a bill with
djean111
May 2016
#29
Written with input and feedback by Reed. That "lobbyist" has worked for Obama, John Lewis, Reed and
Hoyt
May 2016
#30
It doesn't matter who you used to work for, it matters who you currently represent
JonLeibowitz
May 2016
#34
He represents Democrats, and most -- if not all -- of them have have endorsed Clinton.
Hoyt
May 2016
#35
Yes, that's fine. It's also perfectly fine, even expected, to encourage disclosure of possible
JonLeibowitz
May 2016
#37
He was Reed adviser at the time AND it was Reed's article, not Johnson's. You just don't like Reed,
Hoyt
May 2016
#38
You haven't shown that he was a Reed advisor at the time. In fact I don't think he was
JonLeibowitz
May 2016
#39