DU gets referenced in Raw Story article re: Santelli BS movement

[burythehatchet]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Tea_Party_protests_sees_as_corporate_0301.html

Bloggers charge 'Tea Party' anti-stimulus protests are corporate front

"What hasn’t been reported until now is evidence linking Santelli’s 'tea party' rant with some very familiar names in the Republican rightwing machine," they write, "from PR operatives who specialize in imitation-grassroots PR campaigns (called 'astroturfing') to bigwig politicians and notorious billionaire funders. As veteran Russia reporters, both of us spent years watching the Kremlin use fake grassroots movements to influence and control the political landscape. To us, the uncanny speed and direction the movement took and the players involved in promoting it had a strangely forced quality to it. If it seemed scripted, that's because it was."


Posters at Democratic Underground have found that a number of anti-bailout and anti-stimulus groups are hosted by the dedicated servers of Citizens for a Sound Economy. In addition to cse.org, empoweramerica.org, and freedomworks.com, those servers also host such domains as angryrenter.com (which was registered in March 2008 to oppose bailouts for mortgage holders), destimulus.com, earmarkpledge.com, nowallstreetbailout.com, and usteaparty.com.

[eleny]

1. some great research has been accomplished here at du over the years

k&r

:kick:

[liberalmuse]

2. You people make me proud.

God, the research some of you have done. This is incredible! My hats off to you in probably exposing the tactics the corporate oligarchy plans to use, hell IS using against President Obama.

[chill_wind]

3. DU, you DID do that! Kudos! K & R.

[annabanana]

4. Send the story around...

blog it up, guys..

Got to raise the profile above the MSM horizon...

[gratuitous]

5. Santelli busted on his prefabricated rant

I wonder if all those hatriots at the tea party gatherings like being little more than stooges for their corporate overlords. Unpaid stooges, at that.

[stillcool]

6. that was such a great story...

the writers really know their shit.

http://www.playboy.com/blog/2009/02/backstabber.html

[Hello_Kitty]

7. Yay for DU!!

[northofdenali]

8. Face it. DU'ers ROCK.

The amount of research and bullshit-opposition on this board, since its beginning, is a book all in itself. Not to mention the sheer activism of many members, the dedication to truth is all - and I am so grateful.

Without DU, Alaska would not have it's first Democratic Senator since 1968!!!

[FrenchieCat]

9. Excellent!

But it has to continue to be spread.....and talked about, or else it will become a non-story.

Here's a rich link thread that deserves Kudos!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5159165

[ReliantJ]

10. Make me want to do some

investigative reporting of my own.
*Picks up the Warren Commission*

[mzmolly]

11. BRAVO

to those involved in uncovering the truth! :toast:

[malaise]

12. I was very impressed with the research on that thread

DUers are the best. :grouphug:

[drm604]

13. Slight innacuracy.

The Rawstory article states that those sites are on a dedicated server. That is not correct. Rackspace.com is a large webhost and hosts many many different websites. My point in that thread was that there were coincidences that added up. The server coincidence isn't enough by itself. It's simply part of a larger picture.

Does anyone know why Playboy took down the article?

[rvablue]

14. Kick! n/t

[Kurovski]

15. K&R. (nt)