Puppets of the Clinton Campaign

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Puppets of the Clinton Campaign


By Katharine Q. Seelye

December 13, 2007, 12:28 pm

More about “over-eager” young pups at the Clinton campaign.

BlueHampshire.com, a progressive site in the Granite State, has found that several Clinton staff members slipped into sock-puppet mode to beef up the pro-Clinton diary recommendations on its site.

The Caucus learned of this through techpresident.com, which is surprised that anybody still uses sock puppets.

“I’m still amazed that anyone with a basic knowledge of computers would think that they operate anonymously from a campaign office,” Joshua Levy writes. “Haven’t we learned anything from Wikipedia?”

The Caucus too is shocked — shocked! — at the use of sock puppets. We have nothing like that on our site, right readers? We thought sock puppets were “in” for about as long as Paris Hilton’s stay in jail.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/13/puppets-of-the-clinton-campaign/

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

1. Since DU is overrun with Obama sock puppets, this is a pretty comical "scandal"

[Windy]

6. You really are kidding me right?

I'm undecided and the imbalance between Hillary sock puppets and Obama sock puppets on DU is more than a little noticeable, not to mention the maturity level dichotomy.

[Scriptor Ignotus]

7. we're all too real, I'm afraid...nt

[MethuenProgressive]

8. It's the Obama Paid Posters that really stick out.

Good thing there are none of them on DU, eh? :rofl:

[Donnachaidh]

10. they just follow the lead of the Hillbots

The Hillaroid swarms have been working a lot longer. :rofl:

[MethuenProgressive]

11. How much did you get for posting that?

Man, I wish Richardson could afford to pay me :O)

[proudmoddemo]

2. Gives soft support a whole new meaning n/t

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[Kurt_and_Hunter]

4. Irony is long dead around here

[Adelante]

5. Eh, nothing to get worked up about

Pretty ordinary stuff. That particular site has rules about it, so they object, but every campaign is surely doing the same.

[kenfrequed]

9. Doesn't surprise me in the least

I think I ran into an anti-kucinich sock puppet here.

It was sort of a matched pair with one talking like an Iowa insider and a more seasoned poster claiming to vouch for the brand new posters commentary.