I was cruising a few diaries yesterday, and read
Hey, Yearly Kos Troll Hunters by filmgeek83. (S)He reported that trolls were infiltrating Ykos and posting to Wrong-wing websites what was going on.
I went to Michelle Malkin's
website, and read the story, then followed the link to
Hotair.com and read the comments.
Know your enemy.
The majority of the comments were the typical mouth-breather, basement dweller, cheeto-breathed natherings that you would expect from this crowd.
But then, at the end of the thread, came this-(italics and bolding -moi)
This may be the conference which is supposed to kick off the Internet grassroots of 2006, much like Dr. Dean's support in the last election. Mock them at will, but the Left is trying to organize, and we should be ready to meet their hysteria with facts and reason. 2006 is important-though Republicans have been stinky lately, I much prefer a Republican led Congress to a Democratic one. Keep busy, never give ground, turn Blue states Red this year, work as if your way of life depends on the Democrats losing. Bring up Intelligent Design any time they start hammering President Bush in conversation.
Or Abortion. Or the Democrat's racist history, as they opposed the Civil Rights movement of the 1950's and 60's.
Or just tell them how much you admire Ann Coulter. They are trying to organize and act respectable. As this is Michelle's site, I should say, "Unhinge them." Picture me smiling.
Doug on June 10, 2006 at 1:31 AM
Ah ha, the wheat from the chaff. this "Doug" acknowledges that the strategy is to make our heads explode with these talking points. Doesn't matter if they believe them, because everytime one of these issues comes up, we rise like fish to the bait.
Knee-jerk response is no way to win a war. The next time one of these scumbags hits you with a talking point, answer them with New Orleans. Or Social Security, or any of a hundred conservative failures to govern.
Sun-Tzu said in The Art of War
So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
Correct answer for when a Repug asks you "what about Intelligent Design?"-(Hat tip to Blue Shark)
- Tillman cover-up
- ~Schiavo
- ~How many people affected in Hurricane Katrina
- ~Lack of the use of swift boats in the Katrina Rescue effort
- ~No air drops to Superdome
- ~Orders to shoot people over a loaf of bread that was taken from a store
- ~Explosion heard 2 days after the storm passed and THEN the levees gave way
- ~GOP holding votes open
- ~Last throes comment
- ~Stuff happens comment
- ~Mission accomplished (100 dead at the time)
- ~Medicare reform Bill
- ~Class-Action Reform Bill
- ~Medicare not allowed to broker prices for prescription drugs
- ~Drownie
- ~Condi shoe shopping
- ~We don't torture, we send detainees to other countries to not be tortured
- ~Democrats are muzzled on all legislation
- ~Lobbying is well out of control
- ~Abramoff
- ~DeLay
- ~Diebold
- ~Ohio elections
- ~Katherine Harris
- ~Journalists targeted in Iraq
- ~Oil not paying for the war
- ~Not being treated as liberators
- ~Patrick McHenry claiming we hate America (Schiavo case)
- ~Ethics committee gutted
- ~FDA will approve anything (except emergency birth control)
- ~Attack on Social Security
- ~President flipping off the camera
- ~No child left behind is not paid for
- ~Refusing aid after Katrina
- ~Red Cross not allowed to assist after Katrina
- ~Fema is way too bloated and does nothing that the DHS can't do
- ~Cutting aid to NYPD and FDNY that are affected form the cleanup effort when they were told that the air was safe to breathe
- ~Tax cuts to those that don't trickle it down
- ~3 Trillion Dollars more in debt
- ~No help in NOLA until Bush arrived (then it stopped again when he left)
- ~Abu Ghraib
- ~Gitmo
- ~Italian reporter shot up
- ~Bolton recess appointment
- ~No legislation passed that big money hasn't backed
- ~Documented reports of Bush's Grandfather (Prescott Bush) bankrolling Adolf Hitler
- ~Buying the Iraqi press
- ~Wanted to bomb Al-Jazeera
- ~No water or electricity in Iraq
- ~Cindy Sheehan shunted
- ~Harriet Miers
- ~Jessica Lynch
- ~Soldiers serving well after their agreed enlistment time
- ~President won't hold press conferences
- ~President only speaks to cherry-picked audiences
- ~Plame Outing
- ~Scooter Libby
- ~Spy in Cheney's office
- ~Jean Schmidt
- ~Wage stagnation
- ~Halliburton in New Orleans and Iraq
- ~Outsourcing of jobs
- ~Money printed in Iraq
- ~NO WMD
- ~Yellow Cake
- ~Rove
- ~No victory gauge
- ~No armor for soldiers either Iraqi or American
- ~Outsourcing the building of Marine 1 Helicopters
- ~Fighter jets sold to Pakistan by W...on a Saturday
- ~No accuracy in unemployment rate reporting
- ~SEC has become a joke
- ~Hedge funds aren't regulated
- ~No war strategy
- ~Downing Street Memos
- ~Borrowing from the communists
- ~$330,000 a month to Chalabi
- ~Bush housing Saudis
- ~Where's UBL
- ~Flew UBL's family out of the country after he bombed us
- ~No border security
- ~Gas prices
- ~Home heating prices higher than ever in history
- ~IRS auditing churches
- ~Price of war way underestimated
- ~Bayoil
- ~Closed session of Senate accomplished nothing the GOP said it would
- ~Pre-war intel was/is fixed
- ~Alabama voted for Jeff Sessions (how can that be?)
- ~Environmental laws absolutely gutted
- ~Middle class forgotten all-together
- ~Redistricting to rig elections
- ~Patriot Act
- ~Civil rights eroded/gutted
- ~Treatment of Michael Schiavo
- ~GOP votes against EVERY inquiry of wrong-doing
- ~9/11 commission ignored completely
- ~Programs for the neediest gutted
- ~Education budged harshly slashed
- ~Terror alerts subsided after Keith Olbermann finally exposes the coincidences
- ~Every document is classified
- ~Most secretive president ever
- ~Curveball
- ~Interstates inadequate for mass evacuations
- ~What was the Noble cause
- ~Everyone in NOLA have life insurance(?)
- ~Blaming Tenet for the "slam dunk" comment and then awarding Medal of Freedom
- ~Elderly deaths went way up during the Social Security Savagery
- ~Dems can't add amendments to legislation
- ~Over 60% of elections won by less than 4%
- ~Sensenbrenner walked off with the gavel during Patriot Act hearing
- ~Tax cuts to ship jobs away
- ~Soldiers getting Purple Heart collections
- ~Fox News isn't biased
- ~Veterans benefits cut
- ~No exception for soldiers in the Bankruptcy Reform Bill
- ~Internet threatened with regulation
- ~Every shopping bag at Wal-Mart is made in Singapore
- ~Bianca
- ~Still ignoring NOLA
- ~Creating immigration laws that take affect in 5 years
- ~Pat Robertson and James Dobson tell their congregation how they should vote
- ~Jerry Falwell too
- ~Corruption is the norm
- ~No timetable for when the debt will be paid
- ~DOW was at 11,770 when Bush took office 5 years ago
- ~Dollar is losing value
- ~Haven't defined what is/isn't torture for all to hear
- ~Trade agreements are not even close to fair
- ~Ports left unprotected
- ~Definition of a terrorist is ever so vague
- ~GOP claims to have different degrees of Neo-Cons (but they all vote exactly the same)
- ~Swift-Boating John Kerry
- ~What is the Skull and Bones Society?
- ~Drownie was kept on the payroll
- ~Drownie was never fired
- ~Newt touring with Hillary
- ~How many soldiers in an Iraqi Batallion?
- ~Max Cleland was treated like a piece of shit
- ~Why were helicopters used to find the people, trying to escape the rising waters, pounding on their roofs from inside their attics?
- ~5 deferments
- ~Nuclear option
- ~Ethics committee couldn't get Cunningham 2 years after it was known that his house was sold to a defense contractor for $700,000 over it's value as he lived on that contractor's yacht
- ~20% tax on land phone lines
- ~12% on cell towers
- ~Diesel fuel is 50 cents higher than gasoline
- ~Home by Christmas
- ~Establishing a democracy and not a Republic?
- ~Jeb doesn't have FEMA woes
- ~War profiteering
- ~Health care
- ~Armstrong Williams
- ~Sure quote Lieberman a lot
- ~Caspian Sea pipeline
- ~If it's a Reform Bill or Deregulation Bill the result is never better quality or more affordability
- ~Cheney said he was glued to the TV all week like everyone else
- ~Christian values never reflected in legislation
- ~Jeff Gannon
- ~Nobody accountable for anything
- ~Smoking in the rotunda
- ~Loaded SCOTUS
- ~MZM
- ~Chuck Hagel was CEO of ES&S
- ~Offshore accounts of members
- ~No mistakes come to mind
- ~Niger
- ~Haley Barbour told us FEMA was there on Tuesday
- ~No scandals given credence
- ~Math is spun (math don't lie)
- ~Government is largest in over 200 years
- ~Looking under a desk for WMD's
- ~Non-combative protestors arrested
- ~Soviet Gulags
- ~Superdome
- ~Opium export in Afghanistan up 2000%
- ~Hannity is a Pussy
- ~Ready for a Category 6?
- ~Global warming ignored
- ~Hans Blix
- ~Pakistan earthquake money
- ~Private prison stockholders
- ~George H W Bush runs Pharma
- ~Ambassador to the Vatican?
- ~Rush never busted on possession charges
- ~Bill Bennett
- ~Joe Wilson
- ~Indian Casino lobbying for how much?
- ~We aren't safer
- ~Wire-taps BEFORE 9/11
- ~SCOTUS chose our President
- ~Carnival cruise line contract after Katrina
- ~Able Danger
- ~Ken Lay
- ~Harken Energy
- ~Rupert Murdoch
- ~Blatant over-charges in Iraq and NOLA
- ~Bird Flu vaccine for only 20 million
- ~10% of needed flu vaccine 2002-2003
- ~CHENEY'S GOTTA GUN
- ~Dubai Ports World