ReSelect Campaign of * Has Astroturf site for Letters to Editors

[RamboLiberal]

http://irregulartimes.com/astroturf3.html

Wrong. The Republican Party engaged in the same campaign three months later, and despite considerable efforts to let papers across the country know that this junk was headed their way, a significant number of plagiarized letters to the editor made their way onto newsprint.

Now that the election 2004 season has started, the official campaign of George W. Bush has endorsed plagiarism as an acceptable political tactic, too. Apparently not confident in the ability of Bush's supporters to complete their own thoughts, much less their own sentences, the Bush-Cheney campaign offers snippets of text for people to appropriate, then sign their name to as authors. The fabrication technology employed by the Republican ticket then permits the Bush supporter to send the Bush campaign staffers' text to dozens of newspapers and specialty newsletters at a time automatically, with each letter claiming individual authorship and not disclosing the true authorship of the text.

How do I know how this works? I used the system myself to send a letter containing the Bush staffers' text to dozens of newspapers and newsletters near Durham, North Carolina, where I live. Don't fret: I haven't turned to the dark side, and I made sure to let the papers know who really wrote those words. In fact, that's kind of the idea. Read my letter below and you'll see what I mean.

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BUSH ASTROTURF TEXT SNIPPET #3:
President Bush understands that we must save Social Security for seniors and for generations to come. His approach preserves the current Social Security system for those at or near retirement while providing new options for young people.

BUSH ASTROTURF TEXT SNIPPET #4:
The President’s plan puts money back into the pockets of working Americans. Accelerating already enacted tax cuts will encourage consumer spending by giving 91 million taxpayers an average $1,126 in tax relief this year, immediately injecting billions into the economy. This issue is just one more example of how our President is providing the courageous leadership America needs.

[realFedUp]

1. Creative thinking is necessary to find something good the Bushies

have done to this country.