Part of the appeal of the movie Cloverfield was the interactive storyline that preceded the movie’s release. This storyline was supported by accompanying side plots that capitalized on the interactive nature of the internet. Viral Smear Attacks parlay this same method. The immediacy of the net enables smear attacks to appear and spread pretty much at the speed of a mouse click. Blogs links to other blogs, and pretty soon...lies are reported as gospel.
Newest smear campaigns are those purporting Sen. Obama has claiming Israel to be an "infection." Sen Kerry has written about this in an excellent post http://www.dailykos.com/...
Similar to the Stephanopolous/Carville viral video scam, I'm thinking "infection" is a code word for its perpetrators to gauge the speed and virulence of an internet smear campaign. This is from the conservative American Thinker site: http://www.americanthinker.com/...
Available at the link below is a 50 page PDF file about Obama with comments from various conservative commentators like pat buchanan, amanda carpenter, etc., upon SUBSCRIPTION! (I still have a hard time believing people actually pay for this mess).
http://www.humanevents.com/...
And how about Evelyn Pringle? At this site http://www.countercurrents.org/...
it states "Evelyn Pringle is an investigative journalist focused on exposing corruption in government and corporate America." She really needs to learn how to edit her work. Pringle reports about "Operation Board Games" here:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/...
And here:
http://smirkingchimp.com/...
I’m not vouching for Pringle's integrity (smile) but I’m thinking this may be used in the next in-coming smear.
And let us not overlook the "hamas endorsement"
http://www.powerlineblog.com/...
And the sad attempts at sliming with the gay pastor/church member/ Larry Sinclair mess:
http://bigheaddc.com/...
It’s a damn shame that libelous mess like this exists, but this is what passes for politics. I totally understood Michelle Obama’s concern when her husband talked with her about going into politics. Your every word, movement, and fart is analyzed, psychoanalyzed, discussed and assessed. Your words are taken out of context and then derided. Yes, there will more lies, damned lies, and f*****g damned lies. We need to be educated and educate others about these and forthcoming vile rumors. We need to educate by word of mouth, internet and by emailing letters to the editors of the nation’s newspapers. Nothing can defeat slanderous lies except repeated applications of the bright light of truth.