I have a list of twenty one accounts that are leaders within @UniteBlue, at least in terms of Twitter conversations. … I extracted 53,000 [of their] tweets. …
UniteBlue Leaders & Hashtags
The @UniteBlue operation is the work of @140elect, who were taking funding from Sheldon Adelson for campaigns on behalf of Tea Party candidates recently … Their Democratic front man and initial source of [Democratic/liberal] legitimacy was William Talley, who … [has] a conviction for child pornography possession…
[Talley] paid … for a video of a preschooler being sexually assaulted, and this was just one of a great number of of such things found on his computers.
The owners of @140elect have no Democratic cred of their own and having used Talley’s network to start the operation I do not see how they can possibly continue in any sort of credible fashion. The masses who signed up for this are clearly actual Democrats and others familiar with the situation have summed [these actual Dems] up as “Hillary’s primary voters” – more female than male, closer to retirement…
[For] the defense of Talley and [UniteBlue,] a number of the large-volume [of tweets, etc.]/large-follower-count actors have applied tactics right out of the Tea Party playbook. … I’d be curious to see what their voter registrations look like over the last twelve years.
You know, if an unstable mind wanted to highjack, spin, and dominate a topic, the most likely procedure would probably be old-school Alinsky tactics as reinterpreted by current Tea Partiers, even though the perpetrator of said tactics might identify themselves as a “progressive” (like @perpostericity & Dreamsend333), which in reality would probably translate to something like “C-a-s-s S-u-n-s-t-e-i-n O-p-e-r-a-t-i-v-e”.
First, the projection of your own agenda upon your targeted Straw Man, who is to be accused of exactly what you are really doing.
Best Straw Man is someone tangental to the case being damage controlled, about whom the least is known, so you can pretty much make anything up about them, and then demand that they identify themselves to prove their non-involvement in the activities of which you have accused them.
Lots of luck on that.
This is parallel to the Tea-Bagger tactic of finding a Straw Man like oh, say Brett Kimberlin, or Neal Rauhauser, to be built up as a boogey-man by sheer repetition of The Big Lie.
I’ll be back to finish this up after I return from a chic and totally hip dinner at Musso & Frank’s. The Lasagna Milano there is unspeakbly toothsome.
OK, we’re back! The Rigatoni Tuscanique was awesome, and not nearly as overpriced as you might think. Alright, maybe it was a tad uberpricen, but it was on somebody else’s expense account. As a result, the basic cost of Fine Literature may upspike just a little, but it should soon correct itself, and smooth out just fine.
Now where were we?
Oh yes, once having established your erzatz nemisis Straw Man, the next step – and this is so very, VERY crucial – is to position yourself as The VICTIM.
This is the preferred procedure making the rounds in the Tea-Bagger twitter wars. Various Tea-Baggers like Aaron Worthing, Lee Stranahan, E.W. Erickson, R.S. McCain, Patterico and probably others too grotesque to remember, have built a flimsy little Urban Myth around Brett Kimberlin, with Neal Rauhauser as an alternate, to be used as a boogieman to shake down their Depends wearing, Rascal riding readership for donations:
“OMG!! Kimbelin has my address!! He’ll come and blow me up!! I have to move NOW!!” etc etc blah-blah-blah
Of course nobody moves anywhere or gets blown up. Just pocket the $$$, and oooze on out to the next C-PAC boozefest (oh, by jingo what fun too! Steve Crowder will be there! He’s soooo funny! tee-hee! Greg Gutfield too!! Ooooh!)
Someone posing as a “progressive” would probably skip the donation part, their audience not nearly as moronic as Tea-Baggers, and be content merely with damage control, spin, and very, very muddy water.
Never mind that there are real-people-who-have-died-under-at-best-dubious-circumstances, make it all about YOU and your tragic Victimhood.
Yeah, sure these other people died on terms of fear and anguish, but how trivial and self-indulgent that all is compared with the terrifying experience of being sent hostile and incoherent emails causing a total psychological meltdown!
Oh, the humanity!
Tears well in my eye at the sheer relentless torment some individuals suffer from the brutal effects of The Holy Toenail Law, and the silly incoherent mentally incapacitating emails with which it is enforced! *sob*
Well, keep those waters muddied Ty, and tell Cass I sez hai!
By the way, did you notice that that Rosamond guy is head of the Knights Templar or som–GAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
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