McCain's Internet Troll Jill Hazelbaker leads online censorship campaign

[Ichingcarpenter]

Jill Hazelbaker is currently the national communications director for John McCain's presidential campaign, and has been profiled in several recent news articles discussing her missteps as a campaign press aide. However, Hazelbaker has a disturbing past as an Internet Troll and is now believed to be behind the McCain bury brigade that suppresses negative online stories regarding the candidate.

Two weeks ago Hazelbaker became famous when McCain publicly disagreed with her line of attack against Barack Obama on his foreign trip. Hazelbaker raced out of the Virginia campaign headquarters crying and refused to take McCain’s calls of apology, aides said.

Hazelbaker served as the campaign spokeswoman for the 2006 New Jersey Senate campaign of Republican Thomas Kean Jr., who was easily defeated by Democrat Robert Menendez.

New Jersey grad student Juan Melli, founder of the blog Blue Jersey, noticed that between July and September one IP address had registered four different accounts, each one claiming to be a Democrat but posting multiple anti-Menendez comments using pseudonyms like usedtobeblue and cleanupnj. This IP address had also been used to send emails signed by Hazelbaker to other correspondents, according to the New York Times.

It appears the Internet Troll Hazelbaker is at it again. It has been reported that there is an orchestrated online campaign to bury and suppress negative stories about John McCain. The activities are happening on popular information and news sharing websites like digg.com and reddit.com.>>>snip

http://www.bluetidalwave.com/2008/08/mccains-internet-troll-jill-hazelbaker.html

Digg the story:
http://digg.com/politics/McCain_s_Internet_Troll_leads_online_censorship_campaign

[eleny]

1. Good luck at DU Jill

:kick:

[AllieB]

2. I was just going to post something similar.

I wonder if she's here, on Kos, etc.

[eleny]

3. Well, if we smell the fragrance of pizza, that'll be a clue

:evilgrin:

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. She has a small army from the reports I've seen

Digg and readit are where she operates which gets millions of hits a day
and generate web news.

[AllieB]

5. The DNC and Obama campaign should hire trolls

seriously, in some cases, we have to stoop to their level, especially to get the mindshare of the younger generation.

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. Ours is a grassroots effort

that is not paid...... we find the trolls all the time on those sites
but it takes an informal non paying network to organize, which is what we have
and we are beating them.

The more that join and help the better it will be.

[crimsonblue]

10. thanks

I hope I'm welcome. Oops! :yoiks:

[redstate_democrat]

7. Kick

and R

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. Picture of her maybe you can add her to your list and story

[MadMaddie]

9. She ran out crying throwing a temper tantrum

ha...ha..ha typical Republican who can't take the heat.

We need to crush these type of Republicans....ane we should enjoy every minute of it.

[blondeatlast]

11. What a stellar campaign staff! "Ran out crying..." because she didn't get her way?

I do so hope she tries to work her stuff here... :rofl: