Should Left Wing groups be paying people to spread Liberal Ideas on message boards?

[el_bryanto]

I mean we have read the news about Fox and others doing this - is this a tactic we should be using as well?

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[zipplewrath]

1. I presume you mean sock puppets

If someone wants to self identify as a professional poster, I have no problem with it. It's the sock puppets that I think undermine the message.

[el_bryanto]

2. What about other types of puppets? Muppets for example? Or squirrel puppets? nt

[zipplewrath]

4. It's the hand inside

All I care about is knowing who's hand is inside.

[Nay]

3. Great idea. As long as the average human being is so susceptible to

herd mentality, it's time to put a herd of liberals out there so the baggers don't look so numerous. After we win the contest, we can try education to keep liberal ideas going.

[Zorra]

5. Why? All the left has to do is have fact based, sincere, well reasoned discussions among ourselves.

We don't need to pay anyone to do promote our agenda, which is in the interests of the the overwhelming majority of people on the planet.

The work of the conservative propagandist is to deceive people into thinking and acting against their own interests for the material profit of a few.

[pscot]

6. What left wing groups?

[el_bryanto]

7. Take your pick I guess.

I am assuming for the purpose of this pull that we are talking about generally good groups that have some money.

[pscot]

9. I can't think of any monied left wing groups

analogous to Freedom Works, for example. Left wing groups exist mainly in the conspiracy crazed minds of people like Jim DeMint and the Koch brothers.

[el_bryanto]

10. they don't have the money of the Koch Brothers

But there are a few think tanks / former campaigns that could probably afford to pay a few sock puppet interns or students. Obama for America for example.

Bryant

[pscot]

13. I take for granted

the Obama for America is trolling DU, but this place is way left of OFA. Left wing billionaires are hard to imagine. The left in this country have been pretty much wiped out.

[el_bryanto]

14. I guess it depends on what you mean by left wing

or how left is left?

[Marr]

8. If you have to pay people to espouse your ideas in political forums...

...your ideas probably only benefit people with money.

[lumberjack_jeff]

11. Where should I send a resume? n/t

[NuclearDem]

16. Wherever michigandem58 sent his.

[Rex]

19. Bahahahahaha!!!!

Probably trying to find new ways to hate on Obama and liberals! That one is a true snake in the grass.

[Skittles]

26. you want I should kick some sock-puppeting ass, NuclearDem?

LEMME AT THEM!!!

[NuclearDem]

27. Scheduling sock puppets for an asskicking!

[Blue_Tires]

12. You mean I could have been getting PAID all these years?

[leeroysphitz]

15. We don't need to. Our ideas tend to stand up by themselves. n/t

[RedCappedBandit]

17. ++

[Southside]

18. They should get the talking points out there

Sometimes it is hard to articulate why you are for or against something. After reading the comments on a website you might build your arsenal for debating and possibly changing opinions. I assume the "professionals" would do a good job at getting a clear message out. I vote yes

[Rex]

20. You mean like the Third Way types? No thanks.

Liberals have the truth on their side, which eventually does get out.

[Trailrider1951]

21. Nope, I like spreading the truth for free!

[bigwillq]

22. No (nt)

[bemildred]

23. Wer're doing it for free now, what's the problem? nt

[el_bryanto]

24. Made me think of something

TAWNY
Sam, have you heard of Andrew Hawkins?

SAM
No.

TAWNY
You funded his performance piece recently, which involved him destroying all his belongings outside a Starbucks in Haight-Ashbury.

SAM
I've done that a couple of times. But I didn't know there was funding available.
- The West Wing "Gone Quiet"

Bryant

[bemildred]

25. Exactly, why interfere?

We aren't the ones that need help with the project, they are.

[Quantess]

28. Yes, I would like to get paid to do this.