Astroturf

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• Tea Partiers Call For National Boycott. Or Strike, Maybe.

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 431
  Who, exactly, is the "Tea Party," is the true question. Are they a grassroots bottom-up movement among like-minded individuals, or are they just crazy people waving hate-filled signs? Are they economic populists, or do they just want to see the president fail spectacularly? Are they a Republican fake-grassroots (or ...
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• The DLC Dem vs. The Batty Teabaggers

  
  BartBlog — Authority: 513
  
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• Year in Review: Top Texas Vox Stories of 2009

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 560
  Now that the ball’s dropped, toasts made, fireworks popped and black eyed peas consumed, we’re feeling reflective today.  Faced with that eternally annual question, “ Should Auld Aquaintance Be Forgot? “, I’m moved to such mental poetry as “Heck no, this year was too much fun!” We’ve had a hell of a ...
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• Moving in for the kill

  
  Corrente — Authority: 639
  Go read Susie.
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• Rachel Maddow:TRMS Investigates, on a mission (video)

  
  Past in Print Weblog — Authority: 117
  Maddow did some fantastic work in 2009.  Particularly compelling was her coverage exposing the PR mechanisms behind anti-health care reform astroturf. The below clip is from her final 2009 broadcast.  Within it, Maddow gives a fantastic explanation for why the shadowy fringe of right-wing politics should be ...
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• The teabagger takeover

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 520
  Remember Lloyd Marcus, the Black guy with the cowboy hat who sang an ode to Sarah Palin after the campaign and who was just so … darned … weird? Well turns out he’s not just some failed, makeshift Charlie Pride . He’s part of a shadowy — okay, not that shadowy, since they’re pretty open about it — ...
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• Plastic Front Group With Flexibility

  
  Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch — Authority: 548
  A member of the Helena, Montana, chapter of the Coalition for Chemical Safety , a chemical industry front group , has been disavowed for calling for an all-out ban of the use of BPA, an additive in many plastic products. Richard Denison, a senior scientist with Environmental Defense Fund, noted that the woman, who ...
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• Daily Links for December 28th

  
  Akkam's Razor — Authority: 129
  All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s). Social Media Today | How To: Hack like China’s Government – Fascinating study done by Northrup Grumman Corporation for the US government’s US-China Economic and Security Review Commission about the Chinese government’s Cyberwar capability. Majority ...
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• Happy Holidaze and Farewell for Now

  
  Action Factory DC Blog — Authority: 114
  Copenhagen has passed and the Action Factory has packed up, moved out, and dispersed. This just might be the last post on our blog for a while. In the end, we did not get nearly what we had hoped for — neither a US Senate climate bill, nor a binding international climate treaty. BUT… …perhaps we can claim ...
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• Franken & Klobuchar

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  QUESTION: What’s the difference between Sen. Franken and Sen. Klobuchar? ANSWER: Sen. Franken doesn’t pretend to be a centrist. The reality is that Amy Klobuchar, for all her rhetoric, isn’t a centrist. Remember the 2006 campaign? In one of Ms. Klobuchar’s shining moments , Ms. Klobuchar said this ...
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• Golf fanatic Timberlake converts room into putting green

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  London, Dec 25 (IANS) US pop star Justin Timberlake is letting his golf obsession take over his home as has installed a putting green in his house.The pop superstar has been an avid golfer for many years and even owns his own golf course near Memphis, Tennessee. He has reportedly spent $800,000 on converting the [...]
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• Patton Boggs Runs Pro-War Front Group for Hamed Wardak and NCL Holdings

  
  Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch — Authority: 548
  An insidious pro-war front group has been exposed, the Campaign for a U.S. - Afghanistan Partnership . Aram Roston reports in the The Nation magazine that "As President Obama prepares a massive military buildup in Afghanistan, a House subcommittee has launched an investigation into whether Defense ...
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• People vs. Polluters

  
  Action Factory DC Blog — Authority: 114
  There are more people to blame for failure in Copenhagen than… sensational cliches to start blog posts with.  Obama probably negotiated his ass off during his 9 hours in Denmark, but he didn’t do enough legwork beforehand to set himself up for success.  China blocked any sort of requirement, goal, target or ...
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• People vs. Polluters

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 662
  There are more people to blame for failure in Copenhagen than… sensational cliches to start blog posts with.  Obama probably negotiated his ass off during his 9 hours in Denmark, but he didn’t do enough legwork beforehand to set himself up for success.  China blocked any sort of requirement, goal, target or ...
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• How health and safety is killing Christmas

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 955
  Council killjoys have made this the most health and safety-conscious Christmas ever, says Alan Pearce
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• Monsanto Refuses Angry Mermaid Award

  
  Action Factory DC Blog — Authority: 114
  The seas are swirling with mermaids’ fury against Monsanto and the corporate criminals who sabotaged the Copenhagen climate process. Mermaids know no borders. They swam it all the way to DC Wednesday to share their anger with the 3 winners of the “ Angry Mermaid Awards “. We at the DC Climate Action Factory ...
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• American Seniors Association Accused Of Being A Conservative Front

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 770
  In August, the month the health care debate gave way to disrupted town hall meetings and “death panels,” the AARP dug its heels into the ground and refused to withdraw its support for the public option. At about that time, trend stories began to emerge from Fox , CBS , and others about how “thousands” were ...
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• Chamber Uses Virtual Astroturf, Food and Female Sexuality to Fight Health Care Reform

  
  Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch — Authority: 548
  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Chamber is sponsoring online pop-up ads to try and generate the appearance of " grassroots "opposition to health care reform. The ads tell readers that if they complete a survey and give their names and personal information, they will get a $150 American Express Gift Card for use at ...
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• How NOT to be a Corporate Shill

  
  The AnarchAngel — Authority: 485
  A couple days ago I wrote about how I had planned on switching from AT&T to Verizon, but decided against it because their monthly bill was going to be $80 more than from AT&T for the same service features (1200 minute family plan, two lines, 250 text each, unlimited data each). Now Ive got a "regular guy" ...
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• We Were Framed: Business Lobby Groups Claim Ignorance On Ads Offering Rewards For Political Action

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 766
  Forget those forged letters , and fake rallies . This week, weve been digging into it what may be the latest tool in the astroturf toolbox: incentivized online advertising. Thats when internet users are induced to take political action, on behalf of a lobbying group, through websites or online ads that offer ...
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