When Clinton Sock Puppets Attack
On the Progressive blog Blue Hampshire: Site Note on Campaign Disclosure
Recently, we admins noticed this comment thread on a recommended diary, and the oddities it posed made us look a little deeper than we normally would.
As the comment thread revealed, users pinballwizard, elf, shley24, MTAY all registered in succession to recommend the diary. A further look by us revealed that:
* they had registered within minutes of each other, including another user a bit later, janbaby, who was not among the recommenders,
* the same IP address was used by all of them, and is registered to the Clinton campaign,
* two other recommenders, blues and kmeisje, also registered from the same IP address.
So, what happens when Clinton Sock Puppets Attack? As usual, their inept, ham-handed, web-illiterate tactics backfire. “Experience” and “Electability” in action. Will a planned apology follow?
I am waiting for the Clintonistas to suggest that Barack Obama fathered two black children.
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Mr. Peacock, in the Library, with the Laptop
Now that’s sock-puppetry
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