Four Clinton campaign staffers were caught sockpuppeting Blue Hampshire

[ClarkUSA]

I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you... no, really. I am. Shocked, that is.

From the Blue Hampshire website:

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.

To be clear, and to reiterate what's stated in our Getting Started page: paid campaign staff are welcome in this community, but are asked to disclose
their affiliation to a campaign, either through their signature line, a disclosure statement on a diary, or even in the choosing of a username. The fact
that all the users mentioned above came from a Clinton campaign IP, but did not register with campaign email addresses, and avoided making
comments or diaries, instead only recommending pro-Clinton diaries, strikes us as gaming the system and a form of "recommend astroturf."
As a result, we have banned those accounts, and will do so again for undisclosed paid staffers of any campaign if need be.

We have spoken with Kathleen Strand, who assured us that this was not an orchestrated effort...

http://www.bluehampshire.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=1C83E9392B32451D6B26643B5830F9FE?diaryId=2700

Uh huh. Sure.

Strand is Hillary's NH spokeswoman, by the way. She's the same one who's been handling the 'Bill Shaheen "wondering" if Obama was a drug dealer'
implosion.

Just another busy day in Hillaryworld. :eyes:

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

1. Irony is dead!

[ClarkUSA]

2. Are you calling me a sockpuppet? Please call me a sockpuppet, Clintonian apologist.

Do it. C'mon. While you're screwing up the courage to do more than hit and run in true Clintonian fashion (see Bill Shaheen, Hillary's "Obama
Is A Dangerous Muslim" emailers, Novak's story about a "Clinton operative's whispering campaign"), please feel free to comment on the
moral and ethical bankruptcy of the Clinton campaign ethos.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. It's an ill-defined term, so, not knowing an agreed upon common definition, I'll withdraw it

[Make7]

13. I imagine you used the definition of sockpuppet that makes it a compliment. ( n/t )

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

4. LOL! You edited your post to be extra tough!!! Long overdue ignore for you.

[Joe the Revelator]

7. Its funny when people try to use the ignore button as a weapon

I mean really, are you that against people not agreeing with you?

[BeyondGeography]

8. That reminds me, am I still on ignore?

[ClarkUSA]

10. rofl

:toast:

[BeyondGeography]

11. I think my crime was defending Obama's record on gay rights during McClurkipalooza

[ClarkUSA]

14. Guess that makes us partners-in-crime

I'm on another terminally McJerkin's ignore list. :toast:

[ClarkUSA]

9. Nah, I edited my post to be more specific about whom I was speaking to.

Funny how you edited your post so fast. Could it be you were "alerted" you had broken DU rules? Hmmm?

[MadBadger]

6. FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT

Feel like Im back in school, hold on....gotta get something...



:popcorn:


Found it...continue

[ClarkUSA]

17. lol

Love that new NH poll thread, hmnnf. Obama is in a statistical dead heat in NH now, according to RCP Poll Averages. His trend lines in Iowa, NH, and SC look
the same: going up, up, up.... :party:

[liberalnurse]

18. You brought up the suggestion

so, sure...Your that and so much more actally.

[ClarkUSA]

19. WTH are you talking about? Kurt accused me of it before he edited his post.

Are you calling me a sockpuppet now? And how much more, am I, pray tell?

[Make7]

5. How difficult is it to mask your IP address online?

Answer: Not difficult at all.

- Make7

[ClarkUSA]

12. heh

Hillaryworld internet guru (he of the phony old poll data) Peter Daou's trained seals never learned that trick... yet. I bet they will now
that they finally got caught doing something they've been doing on many websites (cough, cough) for months. DKos' coordinated
swarm is something to behold, synchronized talking points and all. ;-)

[Make7]

15. I would be glad to sell them the information for $1,000. ( n/t )

[ClarkUSA]

16. Hope you make a million off those morons.

Thanks for the back-up.

[MattSh]

20. IF you know what an IP Address is.

Most people don't, you know.