Showing posts with label Astroturf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Astroturf. Show all posts

Sunday, March 4, 2018

Why Did It Take Two Weeks To Discover Parkland Students’ Astroturfing?





The response was professionalized. That’s not surprising, because this is what organization that gets results actually looks like. It’s not a bunch of magical kids in somebody’s living room.

“Can you believe these kids?” It’s been a recurring theme of the coverage of the Parkland school shooting: the remarkable effectiveness of the high school students who created a gun control organization in the wake of the massacre. In seemingly no time, the magical kids had organized events ranging from a national march to a mass school walkout, and they’d brought in a million dollars in donations from Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney....

On February 28, BuzzFeed came out with the actual story: Rep. Debbie Wassermann Schultz aiding in the lobbying in Tallahassee, a teacher’s union organizing the buses that got the kids there, Michael Bloomberg’s groups and the Women’s March working on the upcoming March For Our Lives, MoveOn.org doing social media promotion and (potentially) march logistics, and training for student activists provided by federally funded Planned Parenthood.

The president of the American Federation of Teachers told BuzzFeed they’re also behind the national school walkout, which journalists had previously assured the public was the sole work of a teenager....

The real tip-off should have been the $500,000 donations from Winfrey and Clooney. Big celebrities don’t give huge money to strangers on a whim....

For two weeks, journalists abjectly failed in their jobs, which is to tell the public what’s going on....



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Monday, April 17, 2017

Nothing says “organic” and “grassroots” like being partnered with MoveOn and CAP





The progressive left’s grudging admiration for the Tea Party is evidenced in their intense efforts to recreate our successes. I thoroughly enjoyed watching their various manifestations of “leftist Tea Parties” implode and sink into obscurity. From the “coffee party” and “no labels party” to Occupy and Black Lives Matter, the progressive left has tried again and again to manufacture its own Tea Party equivalent.


The irony, of course, is that their current efforts are transparently astroturfed, while ours had/has truly grassroots origins. Their first mistake is in believing their own press about us back in ’09 and ’10. Headline after headline bleated desolately and desperately that the Tea Party was “bogus astroturf,” that it was the brainchild of the Koch brothers and/or Rupert Murdock (and even Jim DeMint), that protesters were paid, that it was neither spontaneous nor grassroots, and on. And on.

Because they didn’t understand or believe that the Tea Party movement was very real, their attempts at recreating its power are focused first on outside organizers and massive funding rather than on tapping into something that will actually speak to a large enough base to inspire a true grassroots movement.

Their second problem is a lack of focus. Instead of focusing on one issue and clear messaging, the progressive left simply can’t pull its disparate demographic segments together....







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Monday, March 20, 2017

NEW ANTI-TRUMP GROUPS BOW BEFORE SOROS...



...Any decision by the alliance to recommend financial backing for anti-Trump groups likely will spark conservative outcry.

In a recent Fox News interview, for instance, White House spokesman Sean Spicer called the liberal activism at sometimes rowdy congressional town halls a “very paid, Astroturf-type movement.” Trump himself tweeted that many of the “so-called angry crowds” confronting Republicans were “planned out by liberal activists.”...
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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Who's controlling info you see? 60% of online Obamacare defenders 'paid to post' hits on critics







...A majority of online and social media defenders of Obamacare are professionals who are "paid to post," according to a digital expert.

"Sixty percent of all the posts were made from 100 profiles, posting between the hours of 9 and 5 Pacific Time," said Michael Brown. "They were paid to post."

His shocking analysis was revealed on this weekend's Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson, broadcast on Sinclair stations and streamed live Sunday at 9:30 a.m. Her upcoming show focuses on information wars and Brown was describing what happened when he had a problem with Obamacare and complained online.

Brown said that social media is used to manipulate opinion, proven in the last presidential election....



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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Leaked Audio Reveals Anti-Trump Forces Manufacturing Hostile Town Hall



The audio, obtained by local radio station KPEL, reveals a coordinated effort to create the public impression that Cassidy’s support for Trump is unpopular with his constituents. The activists, who describe themselves as liberals in the audio, can be heard strategizing how to best turn a local town hall into a political victory....

The activists split up into an “inside team” — tasked with occupying “as many seats as we can” and an “outside team,” whose job was to “give [the media] the coverage they want” before joining the others inside. Activists were instructed to dress like conservatives and leave at home “any signifier that you’re a liberal” in order to blend in with constituents.

The leftist activists strategized how best to “dominate” the question-and-answer section of the town hall and keep anyone “sympathetic” to Cassidy from asking a question....

“Game plan number one is to fill as many seats as we can, right? If it’s all of us in there and the poor people of Breaux Bridge are sitting behind us, well then tough luck for them,” said one organizer, identified by KPEL as James Proctor. His “poor people” comment drew laughs from the other activists.

“If we can arrange it so he doesn’t hear one sympathetic question–great. That only magnifies our impact,” Proctor said....
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Sunday, February 26, 2017

Sorry Liberals, But Your 'Resistance' Is Nothing Like Us



...“Today, a new movement—loosely dubbed ‘the resistance’—has suddenly arisen in visceral reaction to Donald Trump’s election as president, with thousands taking to the streets,” Ball writes, before hilariously adding: “For those who remember the Tea Party, it feels like deja vu.”

For those who remember it? I’ve got news for you, Molly. We’re still here and not anything like your various movements. No matter what shiny name leftists slap on themselves from day to day – Antifa, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Women's March, Indivisible, etc. – we’re not you, and you can never be us.

Here are just seven reasons why:

1. The Tea Party challenges the Republican Party to become better; the Resistance is all about partisanship....
2. The Tea Party Movement is grassroots; the “Resistance” is Astroturf....

When I joined the Tea Party movement and helped create Tea Party Patriots, I knew just about nothing about politics. I joined with other people sick of the status quo and tried to make our country better. The new Resistance is made of professional protestors (as embarrassingly demonstrated when Craig’s List ads offered money to show up to protest).

Also, the Resistance has published and distributed manuals, scripts, playbooks for their professional agitators according to the New York Post:

The manual, published with OFA partner “Indivisible,” advises protesters to go into halls quietly so as not to raise alarms, and “grab seats at the front of the room but do not all sit together.” Rather, spread out in pairs to make it seem like the whole room opposes the Republican host’s positions. “This will help reinforce the impression of broad consensus.” It also urges them to ask “hostile” questions — while keeping “a firm hold on the mic” — and loudly boo the GOP politician if he isn’t “giving you real answers.”

Anyone who’s spent ten minutes at a Tea Party rally knows this is never how we’d conduct ourselves. Which brings me to…

3. The Tea Party is not violent....

Far from being similar, these two groups show just how distant from each other Americans have actually grown.
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Friday, February 24, 2017

Organized, Not Organic: Astroturfing Republican Town Halls

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Sunday, February 19, 2017

Obama-linked activists have a 'training manual' for protesting Trump



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Saturday, January 14, 2017

Agitprop: George Soros Gave Nearly $90 Million to @womensmarch Partners

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Monday, December 12, 2016

The People's Cube Guide to #FakeNews

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Friday, December 9, 2016

"#FakeNews’ the latest ploy from the left

























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Sharyl Attkisson's new book available for preorder: The Smear

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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Craigslist Ad Offers Money To Protest Dakota Access Pipeline



The poster of the ad offers $1,000 to “anyone who proves they quit their job to protest full time” with the ad poster. Additionally the poster offers to cover travel and food expenses, and any adult who shows up on the first night will be given $50 in cash and $20 for each child brought with any protester to the demonstration.
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Majority Of Anti-Trump Protesters Arrested In Portland Weren't Registered Or Didn't Vote.





Most of the 112 protesters arrested in Portland last week didn’t vote in Oregon, according to state election records. Approximately 30 percent did cast a ballot in Oregon or in another state.

At least seventy-nine demonstrators either didn’t turn in a ballot or weren’t registered to vote in the state.

Following Tuesday's presidential election of Donald Trump, thousands of people took to the streets in downtown Portland for five straight nights. The activity included at least one night that the police declared to be a riot, with more than $1 million in property damage.























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Sunday, November 13, 2016

Finally---MSM FOX now covering who is behind the astro-turf protests:









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Saturday, October 29, 2016

Man who fell asleep during Hillary sleep talk is Grego Haynes, a paid actor who received $1200 to wave sign.



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"Give 'em a taste of blood:" The life-long radical operative featured in the O'Keefe videos, Robert Creamer, was found to have visited the White House 340 times during the Obama administration according to the White House Visitor Log

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Monday, October 24, 2016

James O’Keefe releases BOMBSHELL video linking Hillary DIRECTLY to FEC violations











Last week, Hillary DENIED her connection to Creamer. Stay tuned, there's more to come.





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"The group should be branded separately from the campaign so people who engage with it feel like they created and own it as opposed to feeling swallowed by an organization that defeated them"

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Friday, October 21, 2016

Woman (hired by Hillary's ppl) who accused Trump supporter of punching her at rally, changed story after being implicated in #Veritas tape!













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