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In reply to the discussion: Goodbye Will Twain: A ratfucker unmasked [View all]NanceGreggs
(27,835 posts)... he attributed "quotes" to - and then refused to post links to their actual words.
He did the same with politicians and union spokespeople - posted statements in "quotes" and swore they were verbatim. And yet a quick Google search revealed that said "quotes" were never uttered.
I'm glad he finally got busted, too. But it's telling how many DUers got sucked into his RW propaganda and insisted his was yet another "progressive voice" that was being silenced by those who challenged him.
Just another case of "Better-Believe-It Derangement Syndrome", where anyone who posts anti-Dem/anti-Obama/anti-HRC talking points is immediately embraced as a True Progressive (TM) by the self-styled True Progressives (TM).
You'd think they'd be more cautious in their quickness to accept anyone as "one of their own" after the BBI debacle - but apparently, they're not.
I suspect we'll be seeing a lot more "outings" of RW trolls in the coming months - and those who defended them as comrades-in-arms will deny ever having noticed them in the first place, despite having "rec'd" their every OP.
I remember challenging BBI on a particular post, and being vehemently admonished by a DUer for trying to silence a "well respected poster" who represented all that was important about the progressive movement. BBI was tomb-stoned a few days later - and when I mentioned his name to said poster who'd defended him, their response was that they "didn't even remember a poster by that name".
And so it goes.