[lbo-talk] Rightwingers posting as ultra-lefts

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Sat May 23 08:07:49 PDT 2015


On 5/23/15 10:46 AM, Charles Brown wrote:
> However, what is often ignored are right wing/corporate funded political operatives generating attacks on Democrats from the ‘left’ while giving Republicans a free pass. Of course, these operatives do not announce their intentions, but instead simply launch attacks on Democrats from the left while largely ignoring the far more extreme positions of Republicans or suggesting that there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans. However, occasionally, such operatives are caught engaging in these fraudulent acts.
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> http://newsin15.blogspot.com/2012/06/paid-right-wing-bloggers-posting-on.html?m=1
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The linked piece is very entertaining for its fervid, carpet-chewing rhetoric, but offers no evidence at all the the phenomenon alluded to actually occurs.

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