Reply #87: The Clark Boiler-Room Operation [View All]

[JasonBerry]

"This is about the 10th person so far I have seem puking up this meme in the last two days. There is no way this is a coincidence... the same talking points are being discriminated almost instantly on message boards and blogs."

You noticed that? Actually, look through the Clark threads and you'll see when the boiler-room kicks into full-gear. There are some Clark defenders here who are genuine DUers (meaning they have been a part of the community, as opposed to come here as a job) who like Wesley Clark. They are influenced as well by the boiler-roomers. They pick up on their talking-points and regurgitate the same denials. It's nothing more than the old "phone bank" operation modified for the web. Some of these people, fearful of being "outed" and having it on record as denying it, will not even give a simple yes/no as to whether they are actually "at work" while posting here at DU and other boards of grassroots discussion. The aim of the operation is to distribute propaganda throughout boards of influence in the Democratic primaries. As one poster adeptly said, their MO is simple: Deny and Attack. I'll take it a step further....it really goes more like attack, attack, attack, attack, deny, deny, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack. And the attacks? They're all the same: "Karl Rove thanks you"..."Far left wing crazies who hate the military"..."That never happened - that's a lie." This whole Clark campaign - from the "draft" movement to the ardent defenders using the same language (and writing style!) - is not what it appears to be.