Who is to say FOX/Ailes/Rove didn't post on DU only to "quote" us later

[Bluebear]

How exactly is their "reporting" of anything said on a message board news? Why not quote Yahoo boards or graffiti while they are at it to "show" what liberals are saying on the web?

[tk2kewl]

1. good point

its the same as that "some people say" crap

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Quite honestly, any "news" organization that goes digging through a board.

Looking for odd/wacky stuff to report is bound to find it.

Reporting it as news is just stupid and silly.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Too much time on their hands. It must be "hard work" trying to look busy

while finding every excuse in the world to avoid their duty to work as "the public watchdog" during the most fiendish pResidency our country has ever experienced.

[indianablue]

3. what was the 'quote'

Whatever it was what about all the right wing kill them all racist sexist crap? You could quote unlimited amount of despicable right wing crap.

[KurtNYC]

7. Someone on Brit Hume's staff actually read the NY Times

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,143277,00.html

And right before their head exploded they decided to file a story stating what they had read in the Times. This is what Faux calls journalism.

[indianablue]

8. Thanks..

It was a silly post but not news worthy.

[flygal]

4. Sounds like irresponsible journalism

quoting from a fricken message board?!! It wasn't a blog - it was a random post.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Eyyyupppp. We've all seen strange posting here

which simply appears to look like calculated attempts to represent Democrats as complete loons. I've noticed it occurring sporadically from almost the first day I read posting here.

It would be risk-free placing outlandish raving and preposterous posturing here, then to have it reinforced by a second bogus DU'er, and a third, then call attention to it publically, pointing out "extremism" at D.U. which was never written by Democrats.

[Redneck Socialist]

9. Oh, I don't really think we need any of their help.

We've got plenty of home grown loons.

If every nutty thing on this board is planted by the pubs then they've got way too much time on their hands. You'd think world domination would keep them busier than that.

[mattclearing]

10. This occurred to me too. Talk about manufacturing consent.

Some of the freepier posts could have easily been a set-up to drive us all crazy, and there are a few posters who are repeat offenders on this.

I have been alerting on these, and I think everyone should try to keep an eye out for people who repeatedly ask probing questions with no discernable rationale or background.

[efhmc]

11. Please tell me why oh why anyone here cares what they report or think?

I am amzed that we have had so many threads on this.

[Bluebear]

14. Sorry for posting another thread....

I just think that people need to wake up to what their "journalists" are up to. They don't question this administration, they "report" things at face value.

[efhmc]

15. The problem is that those needing to know this are not reading DU.

[democracyindanger]

12. Because

there are multiple threads, some posted by long time DUers, that equal or surpass the tinfoil hattery by DUers with lower post counts. So they don't NEED to create a puppet to find something crazy to quote.

And because DU is one of the largest message boards for Democrats and liberals, it's a worthwhile avenue of attack for the right.

[mattclearing]

13. Freepers didn't give a shit when we called them crazy.

I don't think we should give a shit now.

[banana republican]

16. kick just for the hell of it

[Taxloss]

17. That way madness lies.

Plots, plots, I'm surrounded by plots.