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Blue_Tires

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2. I caught the NRA doing this once

Reply to Triana (Original post)

Fri Nov 15, 2013, 09:49 AM

Nov 2013

with a pro-"guns on campus" LTTE, except there was no record that the "student" had ever been enrolled at the university I was working for at the time...

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Astroturf “Fix the Debt” Caught Ghostwriting for College Students [View all] Triana Nov 2013 OP

These jackasses are everywhere. DirkGently Nov 2013 #1

I caught the NRA doing this once Blue_Tires Nov 2013 #2

This sort of thing has been around for a while starroute Nov 2013 #3

Good find! Triana Nov 2013 #4

Ah, yes -- it was Jim Dyke who pioneered astroturf letter to the editor starroute Nov 2013 #5

Not the first time 'astroturf' and 'fix the debt' have appeared together muriel_volestrangler Nov 2013 #6