UPDATE: bruin-something was right. I don't know how facebook url's work. The group labeling itself as a "nationwide network of Democrats" was just a nameless, anonymous conservative group intent on punking the left into holding dumb signs. Apparently NOT the YR's, despite url's and whatnot. Apologies to Starkman and YR's. Screengrabs still apply. Not sure why "Young Republicans" was part of the URL. The Audra Shay jokes will have to live to see another day.
I'll be updating the info. If anyone has any links to who the actual fake-Democrats are, please post it. Apologies to anyone who got excited. They were just regular, old-school, trolling conservatives.
Thanks for the comments!
This diary refers only to the facebook front-group "Crash the Tea Party" and not the Jason Levin/Portland,OR/website thing, which is unrelated.
UPDATE:
An internet conservative group has been caught waging a dirty campaign to slander Democrats. (It's not the Young Republicans as earlier thought. My apologies to them, they can go back to their shuffleboard now.) This shadowy group of conservative trolls created a Facebook group entitled "Crash the Tea Party” and falsely attributed its creation and administration to a “a Nationwide Network of Democrats.”
Check out this screen grab I pulled on Friday, April 16 from the “Crash the Tea Party” Facebook group:
from Penny Hollaway at not so fresh feelings
As you can see, there is no mention of right-wing affiliation and a bald-faced lie about ”who we are.”
The administrators of the Facebook page have since removed the false affiliation, but continue to manage the group, tacitly acknowledging their involvement.
You can check their Mission Accomplished page here as it currently appears.
Can’t you just imagine the soliloquy that gave rise to this great idea:
“Those fascist Liberals! When they are not busy Hating the Troops™ by fussing about all that Halliburton nonsense and yellowcake uranium eggtimer props made from Wet n' Wild, they are Crashing on Real Americans' God-Given Right to protest the Tyranny of Free & Open Landslide Elections!”
So what’s with these two-faced Right Wingers?
Those Winguts! Looks like they loved Amarica enough to plop down at the AOL-machine and fashion a Troll Page to end all Troll Pages. Bravo!
The first page has since been scrubbed but a cached page is still available.
That's meta. Trolls, trolled.
by Penny Hollaway
Also on Twitter: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's JOWLS
UPDATE: The "Crash the Tea Party" group later admitted that they were conservatives but only after 1000+ people joined the facebook page under the banner of them being Democrats. That page is only available in the cache, but anyone can see it is the same group by doing a google search like this:
LINKS:
Cached page of right-wing facebook group purporting to be Democrats
Conservative trolls mission accomplished page