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Congressman @SteveStockmanUS Exposes Obama’s Anti-Gun Spambots

Posted on | February 25, 2013 | 16 Comments

Finally, at least one Republican is getting tech-savvy:

A Texas Republican on Monday said President Obama’s gun control campaign is a fraud based on fake messages over Twitter.
Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) accused Obama of trying to make support for his position look stronger than it really is by flooding Twitter with messages from people who don’t exist. . . .
Stockman said that in response to Obama’s call for people to tweet their congressman in support of gun control legislation, he received just 16 tweets. But he said all of these messages were identical, and that a closer look at them revealed that only six were from real people.
“The other 10 are fake, computer-generated spambots,” his office said in a press release. As evidence, he said these 10 tweets use default graphics and names, and have not engaged in any interaction with other people. Two of the tweets were sent at nearly the same time, and both follow just one person: Brad Schenck, Obama’s former digital strategist.

A huge hat-tip to @DefendWallSt, who spotted the fake Twitter accounts on the #DemandAVote hashtag Saturday. Friends pointed it out to me, so I blogged about it, and apparently someone in Congressman Stockman’s office was actually paying attention.

National Review reports that Republican Reps. Michael Grimm and Adam Kinzinger have also been “flooded” with messages from the Obama anti-gun spambot campaign.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Republicans, Texas

Comments

16 Responses to “Congressman @SteveStockmanUS Exposes Obama’s Anti-Gun Spambots”

  1. Cube
    February 25th, 2013 @ 6:07 pm

    Resorting to fraud is an admission that Obama can’t win the argument. And he’s desperate.

  2. jsn2
    February 25th, 2013 @ 6:29 pm

    Astro turfing is all the libs have. If it wasn’t for George Soros money they might not be able to astroturf as much as they do.

  3. Ernie Kaputnik
    February 25th, 2013 @ 8:42 pm

    Agreed, but then again, most members of Congress are spineless turds that could care less about what their constituency wants.

  4. George Boykin
    February 25th, 2013 @ 9:40 pm

    Methinks those involved in the Obama regime who hatched this scam must be indicted for conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Congress.

  5. Adjoran
    February 25th, 2013 @ 11:44 pm

    They didn’t even really try to organize a legitimate protest, they must have known by polling it wouldn’t fly. But it is shocking how blatant they are now. So transparent, so easily discovered.

    America has proven itself a big fat sucker, willing to believe the full gamut of Obama lies. The media seconds the lies, and 40 years of federal control of public education and the university have resulted in an electorate too stupid to think for themselves.

    The coalition of the gullible, the parasites, the corrupt, and the anti-American ideologues now constitutes a working majority.

  6. crosshr
    February 26th, 2013 @ 1:34 am

    surprise ! thought that’s this admin’s normalcy ! cheat their way out.

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