Posted by
Board Certified M.D. on Monday, September 22, 2008 10:48:55 PM
I know the Wikipedia stuff I posted on is laborious to get thru. Here is the key.....David Axelrod's use of Astroturfing is the common denominator to the "Viral" like approach to Barack 0bama's campaign. Basically these NetR00Tnuts are 0bama's Jihadists like Suicide Bombers...Case in Point is David Kernell the Palin Yahoo Email Hacker!
The goal of such a campaign is to disguise the efforts of a political or commercial entity as an independent public reaction to some political entity—a politician, political group, product, service or event. Astroturfers attempt to orchestrate the actions of apparently diverse and geographically distributed individuals, by both overt ("outreach", "awareness", etc.) and covert (disinformation) means. Astroturfing may be undertaken by an individual pushing a personal agenda or highly organized professional groups with financial backing from large corporations, non-profits, or activist organizations. Very often the efforts are conducted by political consultants who also specialize in opposition research.