Tag: Astroturfing
Was Fox In On The Scam?
The “grassroots” groups that grew up around the tea party movement were generally funded by industry-backed groups. The tea parties were heavily promoted by Fox News with some of their biggest stars, like Glenn Beck, reporting from the protests. One of the PACs raised money from the tea party protestors, but most of the money […]
Coalition Of The Bribed
The Republicans must be having a hard time building a real grassroots movement. Their anti-health care reform die in was a bust yesterday when only 60 people showed up and none of them actually pretended to die. They are sending anti-reform form letters to Congress through Facebook games. Now, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is […]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-BILL ‘This Is A Stupid Country’ MAHER Edition
The Beast Who Despairs of His Country’s Future is inspired this week by a classic rant from Bill Maher in the Huffington Post. Based on the mouthbreathers who have migrated here seemingly (could CRI or those phony industry health reform people have sent them?) to intentionally dumb down the quality of the discourse, El Somnambulo agrees […]
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