VIA Jay Bookman: McCain sending his cyber minions out to infiltrate liberal blogs

[CatWoman]

I can't pull up the McCain website, but hopefully someone here can:

From Bookman's blog:

Now this is an interesting approach….

John McCain has a page on his website encouraging supporters to become commenters at suggested blogs (this one not among them.)

“Select from the numerous web, blog and news sites listed here, go there, and make your opinions supporting John McCain known. Once you’ve commented on a post, video or news story, report the details of your comment by clicking the button below. After your comments are verified, you will be awarded points through the McCain Online Action Center.”

The site even offers Today’s Talking Points to help the would-be commenter keep in step with the campaign’s message. I’m not sure what you could do with the “points” you rack up by commenting and reporting back on your pro-McCain comments, so if anyone knows, drop a line.

Five liberal sites are listed, along with more than 70 sites listed as conservative, four as moderate and 14 as “other.”

Georgia-based PeachPundit makes the list as “other,” as does Instapundit, which strikes me as odd. If Glenn Reynolds doesn’t make the cut as conservative, what criteria are you using?

http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/bookman/entries/2008/07/15/mccain_recruiting_blog_comment.html#comments