Wingnuts are claiming "Appeal for Redress" is fake

[CatWoman]

http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/007574.html


This post originally appeared at MilBlogs in October, 2006. While some of the information uncovered herein has since made it's way into smaller media outlets, most major mainstream media sources are still reporting this effort as a "grass roots" campaign. Nothing could be further from the truth.


Astroturfing (via wikipedia):

In politics and advertising, the term astroturfing describes formal public relations (PR) campaigns which seek to create the impression of being a spontaneous, grassroots behavior. Hence the reference to the "AstroTurf" (artificial grass) is a metaphor to indicate "fake grassroots" support.

The goal of such campaign is to disguise the agenda of a political client as an independent public reaction to some political entity —a politician, political group, product, service, event. Astroturfers attempt to orchestrate the actions of apparently diverse and geographically distributed individuals, by both overt ("outreach," "awareness," etc.) and covert (disinformation) means. Astroturfing may be undertaken by anything from an individual pushing their own personal agenda through to highly organised professional groups with financial backing from large corporations.

And that's what's occurring with the "Appeal for Redress" web site.

[Chemical Bill]

1. The wingnuts I know...

love to say "I don't believe it" to anything that contradicts their twisted views.

Bill

[BOSSHOG]

2. But their outrage is as real as their patriotism

Trashing and swiftboating those who have served their country in combat is just so fucking "conservative" nowadays. Oh how they support the troops. Oh they are so proud they can't admit they are wrong, wrong, wrong.