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leveymg

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3. We see a lot of it here on a wide range of issues. It's useful to have it aggregated

Reply to yurbud (Reply #2)

Sun Jun 17, 2012, 03:39 PM

Jun 2012

and distilled into nice, neat reliable propaganda line in one place. Always the same posters. Some of it is Blue Dog organization in origin, and some of it is freelance trolls.

Regardless of of the origins, it makes it easier to understand the general propaganda line in the MSM without having to go there. They're doing us a public service. Really, how many AP and CNN dispatches can you read each day without your head melting down into a puddle of American white cheese? (Wish we had that icon available)

Nachos, anyone?

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GREENWALD: The imperatives of political pressure [View all] yurbud Jun 2012 OP

GG gets it: if progressives don't push from the left, Obama just moves right. leveymg Jun 2012 #1

I think the problem is there's more than one kind of astroturf yurbud Jun 2012 #2

We see a lot of it here on a wide range of issues. It's useful to have it aggregated leveymg Jun 2012 #3

no shit. It must be tough to be a reporter, assigned and interesting beat, and then have to... yurbud Jun 2012 #4

that is a great point! so in a way, the establishment trolls are doing their patriotic duty yurbud Jun 2012 #5