Do not forget “provenance”, which is really a section of southern France.

Can we add “hero” to that list? Being inept enough to crash-land a plane doesn’t make you a hero. Getting the chance to do it five times ’cause your dad was an admiral might qualify you as a “legacy” admission to flight school, though.

http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=1zxw8za&s=4

David Axelrod phished Palin’s yahoo e-mail address, then tried to shiftthe blame onto some student who’s since been exonerated!

Really there is no end to the man’s Jedi mind tricks.

“Yes it is”

Then my name is Rusty Shackleford

I chanced upon Jonah Goldberg at lunch this afternoon…apparently, he had just swallowed a ship in the Sea of Galillee…and asked him this very question and his response was “Errrrrrrrrrm oh look! A chicken!”

But heck, who can blame poor old Wet-Start … the guy’s gotta drum up some sort of enthusiasm SOMEHOW, even if it means buying it outright. I mean, it’s not like he can draw a big crowd without setting himself on fire first.

Good point, MzNicky. Even if this guy had done exactly what they’re saying he’d done, it would still not be astroturf so much as “couple of pieces of green yarn on the lawn”. Not so much a well-orchestrated campaign of deception as “kind of a combover on this one guy at work everybody laughs at”.

Fuck me. As wingnuts go, Ray Robison was one of the dumbest. A few years ago, he was trying to allege Saddam denotated a nuke in 1989. I’m not making this up.

“scandal”
“methodology”

Seriously — “methodology”?! Well then, I demand they reveal whether this study was qualitative or quantitative, its theoretical underpinnings, and a complete list of the proposed hypotheses.

Well played, Gunner *polite golf clap*

Whatever it is? WHATEVER IT IS? Why it’s a party of treasonous kooks who want to break up the union and Sarah Palin was totally not a member even though she married that party member and hung around the conventions and the AIP thinks she’s the bee’s knees.

The story is that the pro-Obama video said MEAN THINGS about Gov. Lipstick! A veritable SMEAR against her fine character that implied she was a member of the Alaskan Separatist Movement or whatever it is. (I didn’t see the vid myself; this is the best I can determine from the shrieking monkey sites.) In reality a perfectly plausible PR release appeared on that movement’s site shortly after the group bragged that she was a member, saying oh no no no she never ever was, we totally forgot! She only spoke to their group when campaigning for governor and sent them a welcoming DVD a few months ago under the auspices of the governor’s office, and her First Dude was a member but just for like a day and a half, so SMEAR!!

BTW, “astroturfing” is more precisely used to describe a PR campaign that involves widespread advertising and handy-dandy, ready-for-prime-time “news” videos featuring a fake industry-generated “grassroots movement.” For ex., Philip-Morris’s PR team once created the National Smokers Alliance to lobby for smokers’ rights. The whole idea is that they operate via deception, hoping no one will discover who they really are.